Questions tagged [hardware-failure]
Hardware failure refers to the act of a piece of physical hardware failing to meet its designed standards during operation.
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Monitor blinking when I plug an audio jack
My Dell Latitude E7440 laptop is connected to a Dell U2312HM monitor like so: laptop -> HDMI-DVI cable -> monitor. Sometimes when I plug or unplug the audio jack from my loudspeakers (brand new ...
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Why can I view my data in TestDisk but not otherwise? How can I recover the hard drive?
A few days ago I was working on my computer and my hard drive decided it was time to say goodbye; the screen froze, and when I tried booting my computer it failed.
I take the drive out, put it into ...
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"No Battery is Detected" but battery works
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How do I get my battery to be detected again?
My system is dual boot Windows/Linux.
On Linux, for a while, the system claimed that the battery was always at 15%. Now, it says there's ...
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Mainboard beeping for error but running fine - beep codes corrupt?
I traded CPU, PSU and Graphics Card with a friend. When I took his parts and build my PC everything works fine. When We tried to put my parts in his PC, the Mainboard did a non-ending 2 tone siren ...
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CHKDSK finds no errors but drive keeps on failing
So here is the problem: I have an external disk that I use to store all the archived data, e.g. photos, movies, etc. The drive is formatted as NTFS, and checking the Disk Management tool from the ...
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External HD Damaged During File Transfer
A friend was exporting a project from Final Cut Pro when his external drive containing this HD was disconnected and is no longer accessible. He was using a mac and the drive is formatted for Extended ...
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Windows 8 hang on startup and chkdsk /f /r
Trying to fix a friends Lenovo p400 laptop. The drive is a samsung spin point one terabyte drive.
The system hangs during booting, will go into system recovery, or the uefi firmware settings screen.
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Original cracked laptop screen works. New one goes off after a minute
I have cracked screen on Lenovo S400. With this cracked screen, laptop works as excepted.
When I install replacement screen, laptop works for about a minute and then the display goes black. It is ...
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Messed up my SD card something awful. Cannot format, reporting bad sectors, bad partitions.. what can I use to repair?
So, long story short - I created an image of my 16GB SD card used for my Raspberry Pi. I bought a 32GB SD card, wrote the image on it and it is now totally bricked.
The SD card is brand new, just ...
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Agghhh! UPS Back-Up, Laptop Charger, Sparks
Boy… ok. This is so frustrating! Ok so, I've been getting a whole lot of problems with the electrical grid here lately: spikes, surges, lows, brown-outs, all kinds of problems, it's terrible, short-...
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Graphics card issues? Green lines and distortion on my screens
I turned on my computer this morning and it had a bunch of vertical green artefacts and some horizontal distortions on text.
You can see what it looks like
I assume it's the graphics card but I'm ...
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eGPU extreme failure. What went wrong?
I attempted to setup an eGPU system today using a PE4L 2.1 and GTX 650 card, and after making all of the proper connections with my laptop off, I plugged in the PSU (520 Watts) to power the 650 and ...
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Has the hardware in my modem gone bad?
I contacted CenturyLink about my modem recently and received useless and unrelated information.
The problem seems to be that the modem will no longer save settings, the web interface is unusable ...
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PC doesn't make it to the BIOS, except when it was turned off for a really long time
I bought a new graphic-card and put a spare hard-drive in my old pc (got myself a new one).
Then I installed freshly Windows 7 professional again and the PC worked fine for a few months.
I don't ...
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Wireless Adapter keeps cutting out
Okay, I'm in a situation where my wireless adapter keeps cutting out, maybe after only like 5 minutes of browsing; the more intense the activity, the more chance of a cut out (i.e. multiple tabs ...
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External Hard Disk not showing up
I have a samsung external drive 3TB. The device shows up in the device manager but it wont sow up in my list of drives in My computer. I have to remove it and plug it in about 10 times before it shows ...
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Computer crashed for good
My one-year-old custom PC was crashing when I played Battlefield for 5 minutes or Counter-Strike for 20 minutes. Now it keeps crashing whenever I power it up. (It doesn't loop.)
Debugging steps
I ...
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HDD S.M.A.R.T bad status error
i have two SATA HDD on my computer,
one of them (not the one with OS) displays something like this at start up:
S.M.A.R.T Bad status backup and replace
and after that windows won't come up and F1 ...
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Short Circuiting USB Device gives spark
I have a bluetooth adaptor that is not working very well. This is because its range is about 30cm, as the antenna is broken (I have checked with my phone and the bluetooth speaker). As I have had it ...
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USB Host controller not working
My usb ports were acting very weird and I found some guides on internet, so obviously I followed the guides.
I've found 5 guides telling me to uninstall the host controllers, then the host ...
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Toner light on a Brother 2170W
I've got a Brother 2170W with the toner light on, supposedly meaning the toner is empty. It's not.
It doesn't mind that I put in there a new unused toner, an empty toner or a refilled, the light ...
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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 ...
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I suspect that my HDD is causing hardlocks, as all other components have been replaced. How can I check this theory and solve the potential cause?
I have had this problem over quite a while now, thorough multiple Linux kernel versions and distributions, as well as replacement of all components, aside from my main HDD - RAM, GPU(twice), mother ...
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Computer's clock not running at correct speed, Trying to diagnose
I built a desktop just over a year ago, and it's been rock solid since then in Linux and Windows. However, two really weird problems have happened over the last few days. When I turned my computer on, ...
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Laptop only displays on external monitor, even after screen was replaced
I have an HP Pavilion G6. The screen (LED) doesn't work, but it displays fine on an external monitor with HDMI or VGA. The screen was obviously cracked so I got a new one. After replacing it, the ...
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My desktop won't boot or turn off, and there's no output - is it an issue with the motherboard or the PSU?
I have a desktop that won't boot, and the monitor doesn't turn on.
The weird thing is as soon as you plug the computer, it turns on and then you can't turn it off.
There's no light on the board to ...
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MacBook Pro shuts down if no key is pressed
Today, when I tried to turn on my MacBook Pro it shut down while it was booting.
I found out that it always happens if no key has been pressed on the keyboard for 10-15 seconds. It also happens in ...
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Electric surge on Magsafe connector
Noticed something very strange today while putting my MBP on charge. Attaching image.
Bought the 13" retina MBP last month. I have no idea what it is but I suspect electric surge from incorrect ...
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Fujitsu Hard Drive asking to be formated
I have a Fujutsi hard drive that's requesting to be formatted, but if i cancel the format window it gives me this error "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". The thing is that I don't want to format ...
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What can cause "Reboot and select proper boot device" other than hard drive issues?
I'm having some weird issues with my computer that I'd be hugely appreciative if someone can help me troubleshoot.
Recently, my HTPC will start fine, then after 20-30 minutes it will freeze up and ...
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Computer freezes for a second or two, if there is sound playing, it buzzes while it's frozen
So this has been happening for a while now, but recently it has been more frequent, not sure why.
Sometimes when I am playing games (Guild Wars 2 is the most recent example I've got) or watching ...
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unallocated space in hard drives causing windows not to load
I was trying to dual boot kubuntu with windows 8. Now, I created unallocated space and restarted my PC, the windows didn't load showing an error. Windows diagnostics didn't work. There partitions in ...
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Dell inspiron laptop failure due to USB
I have a dell inspiron laptop with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB hard drive. I recently plugged a usb to Robotic arm interface cable from my laptop to the robot. My laptop was in sleep mode, and right when ...
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Multiple hardware failures, looking for a cause
In the last months I've been experiencing multiple hardware failures that cannot be totally unrelated:
My prosumer PCI audio card (Delta 1010LT) was randomly not being recognized at startup. I had to ...
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The spacebar on my new microsoft keyboard 4000 is acting crazy, what's causing it?
This Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard is practically new, less than a month old, and today out of nowhere when using Ubuntu the spacebar stops working.
At first I thought it might be the occasional ...
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Failing hard drive false positive?
Upon booting a computer I get an error "AHCI Port 1 Error, press F1 to continue." Ok, everything goes fine, I can perfectly boot into Windows (7). There I get a S.M.A.R.T. warning that my hard drive ...
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Weird black fading rectangles appearing on my monitor... Any clue?
Around 3 months ago I started noticing these weird black-faded lines that appear in the left side of my monitor. I'm 100% sure the issue is on my monitor because when i take a screen capture while the ...
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Windows 7 black screen, may be a hardware issue
Today my HP laptop suddenly started having the black screen issue: When booting up, after the Windows logo and the "Starting Windows" message, the screen just goes black. I know Windows keeps going ...
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Is my NVIDIA GT 540M having a hardware failure?
I'm using a Sager NP5160 laptop, which has an NVIDIA GT 540M dGPU as well as integrated graphics. I'm dual-booting Windows 7 and Linux Mint. I've recently noticed issues with games not performing as ...
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HDD not detected whenever first power on (detected at BIOS level)
I am using
Asus P8H61-M LX Motherboard with latest version of BIOS: 4401
One SATA-3 Western Digital Black Series 1.5TB is attached to SATA port 0
A Samsung 22x DVDRW SATA drive attached to SATA ...
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further troubleshooting on a p8z77 motherboard
I just bought a brand now asus p8z77 motherboard with a intel 3770. Its currently not booting - the system powers up for half a second and then powers down, and the CPU error light shines. I've tried ...
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Hp pavilion dv7 power button
My power button is non responsive I am getting LED for charging. I've taken it apart before to change the dc jack and it was fine and a few months later it just powered off. I try to power back on and ...
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Options on boot medium for NAS?
I have a NAS machine with an Atom motherboard that has only 4 SATA ports. The case has 4 hot swap bays, each with a 2TB disk. The machine runs CentOS and the hard disks are configured in Linux ...
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Wrong Sound Blaster's PCI ID within Windows
I own Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium, it was working with no problems under Linux or Windows 7. It's original PCI ID is 1102:000b but now I see different within MS Windows.
BIOS setup: 1102:000b
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HD read error while booting Linux
I have been dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my laptop since the past 3 years and all was working fine until I started getting logs like
ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata1.00: error: { UNC }
ata1....
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Flickering white lines displayed whilst playing games in high quality [duplicate]
My computer specs are
Asus M4A88T-M
Antec BP550 Plus 550W
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SD-RAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) RAM
Nvidia 550ti 1gb 192bit video card
Anthon 2 3.2ghz x3 ...
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Graphics failures on both linux and windows
On windows, if I allow the system turn the monitors off (due to being idle), about once a week, it will fail to resume. There does not seem to be a pattern to this.
On linux (Arch 64, fully updated ...
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replacing failed HDD in Lacie 2big
I have a Lacie 2big Network, 2 x 1 TB in mirror. One of them failed 3 days ago. It produces a clicking sound, the Raid status shows endless "Synchronizing".
If I buy a new HDD, same type, and replace ...
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Brother J515W won't print Black
I assume I have some sort of ink clogging.
The cartridge going in is new (brother brand), but no amount of print clean cycles are getting me any black ink printing, so I assume the clog is within the ...
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Acer Aspire One (mini) mfgd 9/03 locks up also when plugged in
My problem is almost the same as the Toshiba user (Toshiba A205-5804 freezes when plugged in):
Well I have a Toshiba A205-5804 and the problem is that the screen
freezes anytime I plug the pc ...
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