Hardware failure refers to the act of a piece of physical hardware failing to meet its designed standards during operation.
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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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New PSU New Issue, Fan, Hard drive, Disc Drive Start, Nothing Else
I've been in the chat for the past while and found nothing so I figured I'd come to the front page.
For about 6-8 months I've had issues with my computer not starting when it was cold and even then ...
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HD gets bad sectors
I have a 1TB hitachi that after some use develops bad sectors as reported by HD tune and checkdisk. After reformatting the HD tune and checkdisk report no bad sectors.
I use the disk exclusively for ...
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How Often to Check For Hardware Errors/Failure?
I just discovered this great post: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html
and have been wondering how frequently is typical to check for failed/failing hardware? ...
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Windows tools to diagnose dead USB ports?
I have a Toshiba laptop with 3 USB ports. The ports stopped working, independently, over time.
Now I can't use a mouse with the laptop so basically it's a non functional computer for me.
I don't know ...
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SSD and Lenovo X60s laptop dont get along under Windows and Linux
I put an SSD in my Lenovo X60s laptop and the two do not seem to get along. I tried to install Windows 7 and 8 several times and I got several different errors, most often:
windows setup could not ...
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How to Check for Failed Hardware (and other things) in Linux?
OS: Ubuntu Server 12.04
I have three HDD's, configured for software RAID5 to be seen as 1 HDD. I just discovered the file-system check utility (fsck) but am wondering if there are any other tools I ...
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Computer does not BOOT, POST, show any image nor react to power button once turned on? [duplicate]
Well I have a Packard Bell Easy.. something, I don't know the model anymore, but it's a 6 years old Desktop and it worked pretty well until last night.
The problem is that when I boot it on the ...
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What can cause screen flickering in monitor?
I have the exact same problem as the guy made this video.
The laptop (a 17' acer) starts normally and after around 10-20 minutes starts doing this. The screen is ok and suddenly blinks for some ...
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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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Laptop nvidia geforce turned into intel graphics card?
I am experiencing something strange in one of my laptops that I haven't seen before. The laptop is an ASUS K52JC, has an Nvidia Geforce 310M. I have it setup as a dual boot with both windows 7 and ...
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Epson EH-TW3500 projector showing white screen after poweroutage
Well, I have this Epson EH-TW3500 projector which was working perfectly untill a poweroutage happened.
Since then, when I boot up the project I can't get anything but a white screen, i've tried ...
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How do I detect where a lag(+sound screeching) comes from?
I am experiencing a very annoying problem - every so often a lag strikes upon my poor PC running Windows 7 64bit, screeching my sound, slowing down everything and ravaging my cattle.
It usually ...
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what does it mean to hard-brick a device?
I read people complaining that certain EFI-enabled Samsung laptops can be accidentally 'bricked' when trying to install an OS or when using certain programs in them, which doesn't happen with BIOS ...
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Western Digital 1TB external hard drive could not be read
I have a problem with my external hard drive, I was copying a huge amount of data (approx 100 gigs) from it to another hard drive, suddenly an error popped up and told me that the operation could not ...
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How to restore data from a damaged HDD?
I have dropped my laptop accidentally. It had Windows and Linux installed along with GRUB, with Windows located at the beginning of the hard drive and Linux near the end.
After that I couldn't boot ...
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BIOS does not detect SSD after graphic driver installation
I turned on my Windows 7 machine, checked my email, installed an auto-update to AMD Catalyst to version 13.1, installation proceeded as normal. I did not immediately restart, but then proceeded to ...
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Testing joystick on XP - Why is movement registered when centered?
I have a USB 2 Thrustmaster joystick connected to a PC running Windows XP SP 3. I have been testing the joystick using Control Panel->Game Controllers->Properties. However, I find that sometimes ...
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PC powers off after standby
Whenever I resume my PC out of standby, the PC immediately shuts off. Then when I press the power button, nothing happens. I have to flip the power supply switch on the back a couple times before I ...
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Does a dead graphics card have any use?
My Graphics card died. The PC couldn't even boot - the motherboard gave a beep code indicating that it couldn't find a GPU. After replacing the device the PC worked again.
Is there anything I can do ...
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Windows crash on new Hard Drive that was never formatted
I installed a new hard drive after someone removed the OS from my old drive thinking I would eventually slave the two together to recover my data. Unfortunately the new disk keeps crashing and I ...
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Sound (and possibly other functions) cut out on laptop, but only under specific conditions
I have an odd issue with my new Windows 7 laptop, and I'm at a loss to explain it.
I was listening to a podcast downloaded to my hard drive (incidentally a StackExchange podcast) while I did the ...
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Lenovo T410 overheats since replacing HDD with SSD hard drive
As already mentioned in the title, my Lenovo T410 notebook overheats regularly since I've replaced my old harddisk with a SSD harddisk.
My assumption is that the CPU is stressed since replacing the ...
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Virus or hardware failure?
I've been having an extremely odd problem with my desktop computer. It's a custom build (not built by me) running windows xp.
Every so often 1 cpu (it's an amd x2) starts maxing out. When I look in ...
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PC system repeats for 15 times keyboard's key strikes in random moments
I have a PC system with a really strange issue, I think it's hardware. While typing, at random moments and usually after repetitive strikes of any key, or fast typewriting, it repeats the last ...
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Cannot Access Hard drive from a broken PC, I have it hook to a USB adapter and can see it in in computer management
I am trying to get the data off of a windows XP desktop hard drive that the motherboard died on. I have a USB adapter that allows me to plug any IDE or SATA hard drive into in then plug it into my PC ...
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Hard Drive is running at a crawl after intermittent startup issue. Is my HDD finished?
I woke up the other day to find that my Sony Vaio VPC wouldn't boot up after multiple attempts. After running a system diagnostic check using the built-in recovery partition that came with the laptop, ...
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Likely Kernel Panic, possible HDD Failure?
On Monday, during regular working on my Ubuntu 12.10 powered Dell Vostro 3300 laptop, the OS crashed all of a sudden, and I've been left with a black background screen with text that mostly consisted ...
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GPU overheated, computer won't start?
I recently got a new GPU and as I was playing a game today it overheated and my system just went dark.
After about twenty minutes (of leaving my computer off) I open up my case, take out my GPU and ...
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Is there a way to know the health of my computer hardware? [closed]
I am looking for a software that checks and monitors the health of my laptop's RAM, Fan, WiFi Adapter, Touchpad and Harddisk.
I am not too pick and requests a software that have all the checks I ...
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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" ...
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What's the best software to check hardware health? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best hardware diagnostic for a PC
What software can I use to test my hardware?
I want a software to check my hardware health.
Hardwares like: HDD, CPU, ...
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System hangs after Windows startup
I have an Asus N61JQ laptop with Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit installed – same problems using Windows 7 X64 though.
Sometimes my Windows hangs when I shut it down by pressing the power button, and when ...
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How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an "offline uncorrectable sector" appeared in the SMART status.
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age ...
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Check what file / software can cause a disk failure BSOD
On Windows 7 64-bit HP (regularly updated) I'm getting sometime a BSOD saying that the OS can't read a system file and restart the PC. I have one SSD (OS and software) and two HDDs (with software and ...
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Computer reset while partitioning specific hard drive, can't boot into Linux or Windows
My friend was partitioning a hard drive and it hung up for such a long time that he reset the computer while it was partitioning. Now, just plugging in the corrupted hard drive doesn't let ANY ...
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Dell Dimension 8400 error
I've got an old Dell Dimension 8400 that's occasionally getting this error:
I\O card parity interrupt at C000:2100
Type (S)hut off NMI, (R)eboot, other keys to continue
The keyboard don't work so I ...
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What can cause Internet connection to randomly fail?
From time to time, web pages don't open or open slowly, downloading big files stop after a few KB or MB (no errors are thrown, just no data is received). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't ...
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Laptop doesn't boot up (not even to bios settings) and has corrupted partition table
My laptop fails to boot up. Since it fails even before I could enter bios settings, I thought it has to be a hardware failure. To rescue my data, I removed the hard disk and plugged it to another PC. ...
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Laptop keyboard malfunctioning, not sure if keyboard itself, the ribbon cable, or motherboard
I am in possession of a Dell Inspiron 1440, and on the built in keyboard only certain keys work (Fine with USB keyboard). I took it apart and used some compressed air to clean it, and then when I ...
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Overheating RAM, ddr2 motherboard 2 slots
Recently, I bought a new memory stick to speed up my machine, which is the exact product that I have been using. The problem is either of the RAM overheats like after 5 minutes once my computer turns ...
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How to reroute sound from one hardware output to another using software?
My notebook had some champagne spilt on it a long time ago.
As a result of this disaster the internal speakers went silent and don't make any sound, so I was forced to use external speakers via ...
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Odd HDD issue, should I be worried?
Ok, so I get my build up and running on Friday and everything was working great. I have two drives, a 256GB SDD connected via SATA 3(which is the boot drive.) and a 1 TB 7200RPM connected via SATA 2. ...
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Assembled PC not starting up
I recently assembled my first computer but when completed, I pressed the POWER button and the only feedback I received was the PLED brightness. No fan (power nor cpu) rotation, no beep, no video.
I ...
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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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Laptop spacebar key too low down
Today I was typing and after I pressed Space-bar a few times, it continued inputting on it's own. I took the space-bar off, and nothing seems to be stuck or broken; there is no debris and the clips ...
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What is the minimum amount of parts needed to get a beep code out of a PC?
When attempting to verify if either the motherboard or CPU is defective by connecting only the power supply and CPU to the motherboard, does a lack of a beep code imply that the motherboard is ...
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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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Dell LATITUDE D630 won't power on. Need help diagnosing
So, I was using my laptop, which is indeed pretty old (Got it in '07). (As soon as I got it I replaced Windows Vista with XP.) Now, all of a sudden the computer powered off. The battery was almost ...
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Issue with a computer I built
I just built a new computer and I'm having an issue and want to know if this is CPU or Motherboard.
The hardware is:
ASUS P8Z77-V PRO
Intel i7 3770k
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Heat Sink
Antec 750 ...
