Questions tagged [laptop-repair]
Questions about performing repairs on your mobile computer
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What can be a reason of jumping purple stripes on MSI laptop display?
A few days ago just suddenly there appeared purple stripes on display. They are visible once laptop is turned on, including bios menu, and get much worse when changing refresh rate from 240hz to 60hz. ...
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Laptop screen resolution limited after dropping laptop
An HP Pavilion 17 laptop was dropped from a low height onto a carpet. It mostly still works, but the display resolution is very bad, almost as though the text is pixelated. It's readable, but with ...
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Power button not working and power light not lighting up after Lenovo Yoga 730 13IKB reassembly
I bought a iFixit computer repair kit and opened up my old Lenovo Yoga 730 13IKB. I had intended to replace the battery until I realized that I had bought the wrong battery. But I was still curious, ...
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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?
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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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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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Laptop booting only while plugged and keyboard doesn't work either after HDD replacement
Recently I had problems with a laptop (tried to solve them in a previous thread). I managed to remove HDD and replace it with another one from another old laptop.
While trying to put in the last screw ...
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Windows 10 logging in to black screen
A few days back, my laptop started doing something weird on (some) restarts. The laptop seems to turn on properly, I am able to log in using my username and pin, but when it logs in, all I see is a ...
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Some keys on laptop keyboard stick on prt sc when pressed. Why?
If I press G H delete and probably some other keys I haven't discovered yet, it's similar to pressing and holding the prt sc key to take a screenshot, although they do their core function also. E.g. ...
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Sony Vaio not working after reassembly
So I have an old Sony SVE14A290X Vaio, and I have had it for a few years, recently the fan became way too loud, so I took off the laptop cover, cleaned the filter(which required me to take the ...
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Dell 3542 display
Horizontal pink and blue flickering lines appearing on Dell 3542 laptop display. They don't appear as I start my laptop. They take a few minutes to appear after startup. Any guess what could be wrong ?...
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Laptop taking hours to start even after clean install
Recently I clean installed windows because its suddenly unbarabely slow it took 12 hours to completely install windows and it is too slow hdd is 100% it is taking 3 hours to start back of the laptop ...
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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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Horizontal pink line on my HP Pavilion 15, how do I fix it?
I use my 1yr old HP Pavilion for WFH, so its on for around 12 hrs or so every single day.
Yesterday, I put it on sleep mode and when I turn it on today I see a pinkish horizontal line over the screen ...
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