Questions tagged [laptop-repair]
Questions about performing repairs on your mobile computer
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Why is my laptop not charging? The led indicater does not light up but the laptop thinks it plugged in
I have a Elitebook 820 G3 laptop.
As far as I could tell the battery held charge well until it suddenly stopped charging. When plugged in the led charging indicator does not light up. However the ...
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Laptop hinge flat angle fatigue
My laptop is placed in front of my secondary monitor and so I use the laptop's screen in about 30 - 45° angle (0° meaning flat open, 180° closed).
Since now the hinge has to support more weight not ...
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Changing key mapping of wrong model keyboard
The keyboard of my laptop broke recently so I ordered a new one and managed to swap it out, but when I turned the laptop on I noticed that a lot of keys were wrongly assigned or not even assigned at ...
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Physical Laptop Issues
I have been experiencing some physical issues with my MSI laptop. Firstly, the bottom-left corner of the frame has separated from the screen.
This seemed to be the result of an increasingly loud ...
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My laptop screen has patches all over it
The screen of my laptop has this cloud like shapes covering all over it horizontally. As you can see in the attached photo it's not on the panel but inside the screen. I don't know how it happened. It ...
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Using an External monitor with my Laptop with a broken builtin screen
The builtin screen of my laptop recently stopped working. I connected an external monitor to my laptop and I received a signal. So it seems to be an issue with my built in laptop itself or the ...
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There is a small white line in the edge of the screen. What must I do to repair it?
Recently I came across seeing a small white patch in the right corner of my laptop screen. What must can I do? Will this spread across over time? Will this be covered by the warranty?
Brand: Acer ...
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Will this laptop LCD missing one of the connector pads work?
I removed the broken display connector from an LED screen. As can be seen in the following image, the pad for pin 27 is removed from the PCB due to an accident. I've marked it with red color in the ...
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Greasy water in laptop's DIMM slot
I have a laptop that got some soup spilled onto it between the space bar and the touchpad. Almost all of the soup ended up in the upper DIMM slot which sits underneath the keyboard.
I took the laptop ...
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20 Million Raw_Read_Error_Rate per minute
I decided to check the SMART status of my hard drive, and I saw it had 125239624 raw read errors. Just a minute later I checked again for comparison and it was up to 127315512 raw read errors.
Should ...
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Thinkpad T450s with USB and 3mm connection problems
I have a Thinkpad T450s with two problems that may or may not be related.
Problem 1: Audio through the 3mm jack is patchy. I know it's not the headphones because they work fine on other devices. I get ...
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Elite book 840 G2 [duplicate]
Please help me. I noticed that my laptop was on a spilled water on the table over night. I dismantled it and cleaned it up, dried it as much as I could from a warm temperature viz rays on the sun for ...
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How can i fix a broken hinge on my laptop case lenovo ideapad?
I have a crack on my hinge and its really bad. Whenever I open it, it keeps making a cracking sound and the crack opens and you can see the inside. Can someone tell me how to fix this?
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threadlocker destroyed laptop screw holes
Not long ago I decided to use some loctite 222 on the bottom screws of my laptop to keep them from falling out. This was supposed to be a low-strength threadlocker, but yesterday when I tried to open ...
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How to fix an overheating laptop issue?
Whenever i try to export my video in HitFilm express my laptop shutdown automatically with a fan noise.
I bring it to a mechanic who change the thermal paste and add a cooling pad. I resett my pc and ...
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