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Is the KTS lithium battery for my motherboard broken, or is it something else?

For the past few months, I have been having some problems with my PC that involve it not powering on when everything is connected as it should be, e.g. power cable plugged in, power supply switched on ...
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ASUS laptop doesn't boot after disassembly

One day I mentioned that cooler doesn't work so I dismantled my laptop to check that nothing prevents him from spinning and connector is OK. I took off the case, DVDROM, HDD, RAM. After that I cleaned ...
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My cpu won't turn on after some frequent power cut (load shedding)

My computer won't turn on in general, but if I give it some time, say I wait for 2-3 hours and then press the power button, it works fine. It was running perfectly until there was some frequent load ...
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New system build powers on, immediately power off

I have a home server I'm building that is immediately powering off after I turn it on. The motherboard is an Intel S2600CP4, I have installed two Xeon processors and 64 GB of RAM in 4 16GB DIMMs. The ...
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My PC isn't turning on at all, only GPU LED is lit

I've had this custom build for 6 months and only today has this happened. I shut off the computer to go out and upon returning the computer will not power on at all when pressing the button. The ...
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Power Supply / Motherboard fake death after power outage?

Every time I lose power - or just disconnect power from my PC for some time - it will be dead. The USB ports / audio ports will get power (I can hear my speakers pop when I turn the PSU on) but when I ...
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Motherboard won't power up after neighborhood power outage

I have a PC with a Silverstone KL-02 case, a Biostar TZ77XE3 motherboard and a PC Power&Cooling Silencer 470 PSU. For a long while I've had trouble powering this machine on - I would have to try ...
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Computer occasionally shuts off mid-boot ; and other weird power issues

So I have a desktop computer I assembled myself back in July. It works great and I didn't encounter any hardware issues, except for some weird power ones. When my computer is on, everything is fine. ...
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Laptop shows no sign of life: motherboard or power supply issue?

My Toshiba Qosmio x505-q890 laptop has suddenly stopped powering on. Symptoms are the laptop simply does not respond to the power button when pressed, but when the DC adapter is connected the adapter ...
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Why doesn't my new motherboard power on

Upgrading old computer, keeping case, SATA hard drives and power supply. Vintage dell 2008. Upgraded MB to ASRock 970M Pro3 AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB (4 x 8GB) ...
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Toshiba laptop shuts down immediately

I have a problem with a laptop which I am trying to fix. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite L50-A-165 Laptop spec The laptop was working fine until one morning when attempting to start it. ...
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Could this be the reason my laptop(Lenovo Y510)'s GPU is under clocked to 400 (from 1150) after being hit hard?

After my laptop got hit pretty heavily on the 'G' key, the GPU's core clock has been reduced from 980 (1150 on boost). But using NvidiaInspector for setting the GPU clock directly, i have confirmed ...
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What is the the best way to add a second power supply on an HP ProDesk?

I have ordered from http://www.add2psu.com/, i would like to add a second PSU to power a video card. The PSU with the HP is non standard and i do not want to make any mistakes. Any help wold be ...
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Desktop PC won't turn on, have to hold down Case's power key while flipping PSU's power key to turn it on

I assembled a computer about a month ago. Asus HERO, GTX 970, 1TB, i7 6700K, 1250W XFX Gold. About a week after, it wouldn't start. The lights on the Main were lit, but the system just wouldn't power ...
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Charge light on if display cable disconnected from motherboard

I have a HP DM4-1050ea laptop, which recently started to not turn on either with battery alone or AC alone (with and without battery). I cannot boot with battery alone because it's drained and don't ...
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