Questions tagged [laptop-repair]
Questions about performing repairs on your mobile computer
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Why does right side of my laptop screen display appear black?
I have a HP laptop with Windows 7 as the OS. I don't know why but since some time the right side of the display looks black. It looks like this:
And, I think if you zoom on, you can see that the ...
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A few of my Toshiba laptop keys stopped working
Some of my Toshiba laptop automatically stopped working. Right now I am using a wireless keyboard and all keys work on it. I wonder if it is something I did accidentally in the bottom "Find" space.....
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How can I fix keys on my Dell laptop that have become harder to press?
A couple of days ago, my son spilled soda on one side of my laptop computer. Upon using it, I discovered that some of the keys in that area have become difficult to press down, they work just fine but ...
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Testing hardware in computer that fails to POST
With a computer that powers on and runs its fan, but doesn't get any further, what would be useful troubleshooting steps and diagnostic equipment (if any)? It seems undamaged to look at, and the user ...
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Erratic light on laptop power adapter
I replaced a power board on a Dell Inspiron laptop. If I plug the power adapter into the power board by itself, the light on the adapter stays on, if I connect the power board to the motherboard then ...
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BIOS corruption failure
I have an HP laptop g42-415dx and when i start it up the Caps lock light blinks twice and then I get a blank screen. The HP website states that 2 blinks means BIOS corruption.
At the beginning it was ...
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Can I stop the bottom of my laptop screen from glitching out?
The symptoms can be summed up in this video:
https://i.imgur.com/mU8Ck9q.mp4
As far as I can remember, there was always a pink line at the bottom of my laptop (Asus GL502V) screen about a pixel tall. ...
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Lenovo P51s ThinkPad laptop continuously cycles power on and off. Why is this happening and how can it be fixed?
This morning, when I tried to turn my Lenovo P51s ThinkPad laptop on (it was on my desk, untouched from where I'd left it last night), it started the process (keyboard lights up, fan turns on), then ...
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Is there a "PM"/"P" Torx screw or are they always "TM"/"T"?
Is there a "PM"/"P" Torx screw or are they always "TM"/"T"?
The reason:
The Elitebook 8470p manual mentions two types of screws:
Remove the four Torx TM2.5×8.0 ...
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Accessing BIOS taking literal hours in laptop
Apologies if this is the wrong sub
I'm troubleshooting a weird issue on a friends laptop and I'm a bit taken aback as to why it's doing this. Essentially it's an asus E403S laptop and when you power ...
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Asus Rog GL702ZC shuts down on GPU memory clock stress
My laptop has the following specifications:
RX 580
Ryzen 1600
8GB RAM
SSD + HDD
A week ago I gave my laptop to a local service to have it cleaned up and some new thermal ...
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Opening ASUS Zenbook 15 UX533FD
Was all set to upgrade my ASUS Zenbook 15 UX533FD today with a new 2TB NVMe SSD (up from the 500GB SSD it shipped with), or so I thought.
Reviews say, and visual inspection of the notebook's chassis ...
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A green vertical line on my laptop screen
I get a green vertical line on the screen of my laptop, and i think it's because the pressure or something, is there any solution for it ?
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My screen doesn't display anything, only the backlight works
I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this problem. I use an hp ProBook 4540s and I'm not quite sure why but whenever I restart the PC ( whether after a Windows update or perhaps after a ...
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Monitor broken or changed settings? Blues have lines and whites with yellow tint
Very recently, my Lenovo y510p laptop's monitor has been having display problems with blues and whites. In my setup I also have a second monitor connected to the laptop. The second monitor has no ...
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my laptop screen showing horizontal lines
I have horizontal bands on the top and bottom of my Dell Precision laptop screen. How do I make it go away?
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How do I open the case for a HP ENVY Notebook - 17-n152sa (ENERGY STAR)?
I have unscrewed every screw I can find and looked online for help, including the HP support and maintenence pages, YouTube and other obvious sources and scoured some web pages but for some reason can'...
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Dell EC not detected after Windows crashed accessing it but is detected again when accessing it after some time. EC failure or compatibility issue?
When accessing Dell Embedded Controller (EC), which should be a temperature sensor on Dell Studio XPS 1645 notebook PC with SpeedFan and HWInfo, Windows would randomly crash with BSOD with memory-...
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IBM Think Pad T40 not booting, screen never lights up.
so i had my buddie drop his old laptop, the display wont light up there seems to be some issues with the boot up. it doesn't seem like it evern starts the process but the start light are acting ...
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Laptop LCD T-Con
Is the t-con (timing control) board for a laptop lcd panel built into the panel itself, or is it a separate part that can be replaced like it is in televisions and desktop monitors?
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Asus Zenbook UX31A not booting
I have been trying to repair a Asus Zenbook UX31A for quite some time and would like to pick your brains, because I am finally out of ideas.
When I received the Zenbook it was not booting, not ...
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Power laptop battery without internal power circuit
I have two identical laptops and one of them is broken. I expect it has something to do with the charging circuit. The laptop works fine when it is provided with a full battery. But it doesn't receive ...
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Laptop charger turns off as soon as I plug it in to the laptop. Could it be a bad motherboard?
If I unplug the battery and attempt to power the laptop off just AC it works just fine, but as soon as I plug in the battery the charger turns off.
I've tried two different batteries and three ...
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What wires can I use to make an extension of LCD?
I want to put main part of laptop into a drawer, and put display on a desk.
Like this.
So I need to make wire extension of laptop's LCD wire (extend length), which connects LCD display with ...
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My laptop won't let me enter my password
This started a couple of days ago when my laptop's built-in keyboard suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. So I tried the usual "turn it off and turn it back on again" approach, and now I ...
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Acer Aspire 1694 not charging
I've a Acer Aspire 1694WLMi and it just stopped working.
When the charger is connected, its (the charger) green LED indicator starts flashing repeatedly but there's no life signal from the laptop. On ...
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Replacing notebook thermal pads
I happen to own 2 Acer Aspire notebooks - old 5737Z and newer V3-571G. One thing they have in common is overheating a lot (I wouldn't blame them, they were abused a lot). I heard it could help quite a ...
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orginal broken part from samsung, can't replace with unbroken
I have samsung NP550P5C laptop and I wanted to replace dvd driver with ssd. I took off dvd drive, and try to put ssd with case. but It doesn't fit. after that It made me wonder why It doesn't fit like ...
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Any guarantee that replacing the ATI graphic chip works
Im having a Dell studio 1558 laptop that was purchased 4 yrs ago and now im having a problem in booting the laptop.I gave it to a service center and they said some problem with ATI graphic chip and ...
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Extremely laggy touchpad after drop EDIT : After plugging to power source
LOOK at EDIT 4 at first!
I dropped my laptop - Acer Aspire 5742z and everything works fine but the touchpad.
It looks like touchpad send the information about position of finger every 500 ms or ...
