Unanswered Questions
8,983 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Want unchanged HDMI output when lid closed (Linux)
My question is similar to a couple of other questions except I need a Linux/Ubuntu solution.
When I plug a HDMI cable into my laptop, I automatically get a second desktop on the second screen. This ...
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Adaptive brightness won't turn off
TL;DR: I’ve tried everything to disable adaptive brightness with no luck. Brightness changes according to what’s on screen.
Recently I bought a Dell Inspiron 3542, built on the Intel i7-4510U with ...
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Are laptop LCD cables interchangeable?
I do a fair amount of laptop repair for my job. One of our most common issues is people coming in with broken screens; in such cases, it can be hard to figure out if the cable is broken or the screen ...
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Toggle integrated/discrete graphics manually
Many laptops have two GPU's, an integrated Intel processor, and a discrete Nvidia processor. There are options to set which processor is used by specific applications, though those settings are not ...
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Bluescreen Stop 0x00000027 RDR_FILE_SYSTEM after cloning system on new HDD
A couple of months ago I got a new 500GB HDD for my no-name-brand Laptop PC and I cloned the complete Win 7 Pro 32bit system with clonezilla from the old 70GB drive to the new one. At first everything ...
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How do I get the full path to a USB drive in Windows 7 with no drive letter?
I plug in a Nokia C3 phone to USB and select view files on this device.
It shows up in the Explorer "my computer" window as Nokia C3 under "Portable Devices" but there's no drive letter associated ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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Some USB devices not working properly on a new W10 x64 machine
Can you help me with a problem that I have with some USB devices not working properly on a new built machine.
I hope you will be able to help me, being myself a power user, but here a little lost in ...
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Is the 40% - 80% laptop battery rule still relevant?
In 2013, the wire reported that you should plug in when the laptop battery gets to 40%, and unplug when it gets to 80%. Quoting from the article:
For example, Battery University states that a ...
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Drive missing from Optimize Drives since upgrade to Windows 10 1803
Since upgrading Windows 10 (Pro) to version 1803, one of my drives is missing from the Optimize Drives list. The drive in question is, my D:-drive, a software-defined RAID-0 (striped) over two disks.
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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Will the write pointers in drive-managed SMR drives ever be reset?
I own a Seagate Expansion Desktop 5TB external hard drive, containing a ST5000DM000 according to hdparm. While information found on the internet is inconclusive, I strongly suspect that this drive ...
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Bind mounts not visible in chroot
I am using a debootstrap envs on my Arch system.
I bind-mount some directories from my home dir into the chroot fs home dir, ie. /home/user/foo → /stretch/home/user/foo. I can see the content from the ...
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Windows 10 dynamic mirror showing "Failed"
I had Windows 7 running 2 x 1TB hard disks in a dynamic mirror setup. I had this for many years and it worked just fine.
I recently installed Windows 10 on a new SSD. Everything booted fine but my ...
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My Asus u56e is randomly rebooting again. Any Ideas?
This seems to be a popular problem for Asus users. However, I have not found a definite cause or solution for the problem.
This machine is roughly four years of age now, and was recently given to me ...
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