Questions tagged [laptop]

Laptops (also called notebooks) are portable personal computers with an integrated screen and keyboard. They come in a variety of sizes.

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All usb ports broken on laptop, no bluetooth what to do?

All the usb ports(2) on an emachines G630 laptop are broken. It has no bluetooth and no expansion slots. Is there a way to still connect an external keyboard & mouse? I am not talking not ...
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4K (3840x2160) with GeForce GT 730M (Notebook Acer v3-571g) on HDMI port not working

I have a notebook Acer v3-571g with a GeForce GT 730M and try to get my new Samsung UHD Monitor 28" "U28D590D" to work in a 4K resolution via HDMI. The manual of the monitor says it supports 4k via ...
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Is there a way to use modern Nvidia drivers for Intel-Nvidia hybrid notebooks?

I'm reading that modern Nvidia driver installations for mobile cards don't support the Intel-Nvidia hybrid mode. For those who don't know about it, it's designed to save notebook battery charge by ...
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Computer doesn't start

A while back, my computer started to act weird : when I pressed the "on" button, all the leds turned on, but the screen was black, and after a while, it starts up. This delay kept getting longer and ...
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Bluetooth only works after sleep

I am trying to troubleshoot a strange problem but am not quite sure where to start, bluetooth only seems to work after the computer has been put to sleep and woken up again. If the computer is booted ...
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Does a laptop have any hot swap risk when using a docking station?

Certain computer ports (such as PS/2, serial, parallel, VGA) are not hot swappable and there is a risk (maybe a low risk, but still a risk nonetheless) of damage if you disconnect a device from one of ...
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Issue with monitor switching to external even though none are hooked up

I'm currently using my Windows 7 HP DV6000 laptop. For whatever reason the screen decides to automatically go blank as if its displaying on an external monitor, but i don't have any hooked up. I close ...
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My laptop works too slow when it is moved/vibrated

Recently my laptop's (HP envy 15) fan works too loud and gets warmer than before. When the laptop is moved, the laptop works slow for 30-90 seconds then it turns to normal, especially if any video is ...
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Asus laptop doesn't wake-up from sleep. It's restarting

Since short time, I have a sleep issue with my Asus laptop F751LAV. When I put the laptop in sleep mode (close led, LED light shows sleep mode), and when I open the laptop, it restarts instead of wake-...
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How much RAM can my laptop really support?

I have an Acer Aspire E1-571-6837 laptop and I've read on different sources that the maximum memory it can handle is 8GB of DDR3 (2x4GB, 4GB per slot), but I read here that the max memory the CPU can ...
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Laptop shutdown every 30min

Today I upgraded my Intel CPU from b970 to i3-2310m I did everything correctly, connected all wires to motherboard etc. The problem is that it shuts down exactly every 30 minutes. CPU is not ...
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How to reset my computer turned-off display?

I closed the display on my laptop accidentally while personalizing my desktop (after right-clicking on my desktop) Without being able to see my desktop I am not able to turn the display back on. I ...
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Samsung RC520 laptop and 2 bootable SSD drives

I have Samsung RC520 laptop, 4-5 years old. It originally had HDD 320GB, DVD+/-RW drive and Windows 7. Last year I migrated Windows from HDD to Samsung 840 120GB SSD and old HDD was mounted as second,...
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Noise in headphones when connected to laptop

I have a Dell m4800 laptop, with arch linux installed. Everytime I connect my headphones to the computer I hear a regular noise but just when no other sound is being played from computer. I am sure ...
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Display stretched double, only left half visible

This one's got me stumped. Dell Vostro 3700 laptop, Win7, Nvidia Geforce 330M, 1600x900 LCD. The LCD went (partially) out on this machine. Left 1/3 of screen OK, Right 2/3 would intermittently break ...
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Overclocking of Ram on laptop

My laptop have an 2GB and 4GB DDR3-1600MHz ram chip running at dual channel. Both Chips is of crucial technology. I have read in many posts that overclocking Ram can increase the performance of ...
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NVidia driver update in Windows 7 issues

I'm writing this from a Ubuntu CD installation, because I upgraded my video card drivers and now I can't boot anymore in Widows... My video card is GeForce 8600M GT, and the drivers to which I ...
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Is it safe to use a bare drive in a 2.5" metal enclosure?

I just recently replaced my Seagate Momentus 7200.4 with a Samsung Pro 512GB SSD. I wanted to continue using the Seagate Momentus (as a way to access old files should I need to), so I bought a Sabrent ...
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How to tell if a laptop has been used of off the normal network

OK So here is the situation: We have a number of laptops in our organisation. A percentage of the users of these laptops, we beleive never take the laptops out of the building or even out of the ...
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how to switch partition on a disk to boot from

I partitioned my hard disk into 2 equally sized disks. On one I have windows 7 and the other is clone of the first one which I want to upgrade to windows 10. Since right now this is a clone of the ...
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Can I charge my laptop using a power bank using my laptop charger?

I have a Dell XPS-1530 laptop with a 9 cell battery. It's working fine but I was just wondering whether I could use a power connector or something to plug my laptop charger's 3 pin plug into another ...
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Brand new laptop li-ion battery has 74% capacity, should I return it? What can I do?

I've only had this battery for maybe three days. I think it might have hit 100% once... and it hasn't since. It's been dropping... 94%, then 92%, now 91%... I know that you're only supposed to charge ...
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Speakers connected to laptop make desktop monitor flicker

I've been wondering about the cause of this phenomenon for a long time and since I haven't managed to find a good explanation, I thought I'd post it here. My desk is in a corner, there's a radiator ...
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Notebook's Battery is not calibrated. Operates at 0% for an hour

My problem is that even if the battery percentage is 0 the notebook can stay on around an hour. I have disabled "critical battery action" on my operating systems to use more time my notebook. The ...
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How do I determine what hardware is in my laptop?

I've bought an HP Envy 15 laptop, used, from Amazon. It had Windows 8 installed, so I tried installing Windows 7 instead. There were a lot of problems with that installation (the screen flickered, ...
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Windows 8.1 fresh install on a UEFI laptop?

Sorry for the vague title. I haven't used a Windows Laptop in about 4 years and the last time I reformatted a laptop around 2 years ago, I used Windows 7 (which turned out fine). Recently, I had a ...
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How to enable Nvidia Optimus in Asus Notebook(Gt520m)?

I have recently purchased Asus K43sj. It has NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 1GB DDR3.Problem is that it does not have optimus. Battery life is 4+ hours while surfing. But if I could enable Optimus I could ...
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ASUS N751JK NVIDIA GTX850M keeps underclocking

I have a brand new Asus N751JK which has an NVIDIA GTX850M graphics processor which should be a pretty nice piece of hardware. It runs perfectly fine, and the game I'm playing gives me solid 60 FPS (...
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Laptop shutsdown when I, myself, go to sleep. Turns back on asking me to start in safe mode etc

The laptop is connected to the wall plug, with the battery removed. I just leave the laptop on, go to sleep, and when I wake up, sometimes I'll find it already shut down (as opposed to the screen ...
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How do I play audio through my computer to my LG HBS750 (win 7)

I have a Dell Inspiron running Win 7 and a LGHSB750 bluetooth headset. I added the headset no problem however the headset never says connected. It does report connected when paired to my phone but ...
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Significant drop in battery life on new laptop

I got an Acer Aspire V Nitro about 4 months ago and I've noticed a really large drop in battery life lately, despite attempts to fix that. Unless I really need it (games, which I rarely play, or ...
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Certain keys on my keyboard stopped working

Ive never spilt anything on my keyboard and they do work some of the time. All the keys that aren't working are on one side of the keyboard, but its not the entire side... 123456789 qwertyuio[]\ ...
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How to stop my laptop's screen from rotating when I press Alt + Arrow?

I have a ThinkPad laptop, and whenever I press Alt + Left arrow, my screen rotates to the left. How do I stop this annoying behavior?
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Dell Vostro 14 5000 Series

I am installing windows 10 pro on a new Vostro 14 5000 Series and after installing all the drivers from the dell site I ran into some problems with: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9D3A&CC_0780 and APCI\...
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Can a laptop's screen, keyboard and touchpad be used for a desktop?

Is it possible to use a laptop's screen, mouse and keyboard for a desktop? Please do not suggest breaking the laptop apart or anything. Obviously, it is fine if I can not use the laptop while I am ...
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Fixed-Green -square on 4K Display Asus n551VW

Today i notice my new Asusn551VW has some problem with display. I witness a small green square on my display when the background is pure black, the problem looks more clear when the system starts up. ...
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Nvidia driver for Dell XPS M1330 in XP

I need to run XP, and cannot find a driver that works for this laptop in windows xp. I have tried quite a few of them, from my google searches, but none work, they all come up and say no proper ...
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random popping sound from subwoofer even when muted or booting; audio sometimes cuts out; headphones still work

I dual boot Ubuntu 15 and Windows 10, and I have been having audio issues for a couple of weeks now in both OSs and even sometimes during boot before either OS starts. My laptop's subwoofer makes a ...
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Why does a radio station play through my speakers when the laptop runs on battery? [duplicate]

Every fortnight, on a schedule, I disconnect the charger from my laptop (which is largely stationary anyway) and let the battery run down. As soon as I disconnected the battery earlier today, I ...
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Is It Common for a Laptop Heatsink to Have a Temperature Sensor Near The Main Fan?

I'm using SpeedFan to control my laptop temperature. Among the readings for outright local CPU, GPU, HDD, DIMM, Core, and ACPI temperature, there is an unknown reading marked "Temp4". The temperature ...
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Effects of Nvidia graphics card aperture change

I have laptop with nvidia 8200M G.In BIOS setting I can adjust the aperture size from 64 MB to 512 MB.This change reflects as increase in the available RAM. Considering that I don't play ANY games as ...
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Laptop's monitor goes black after bios

I have a laptop whose monitor reaches bios and then when windows start it goes black. I connected it via vga to an external monitor and it runs good. So the monitor should not be burned from what I ...
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Is there a way to find out max Memory per slot

I have a Packard Bell EasyNote Packard Bell (a division of Acer) Easynote TE69BM (ENTE69BM-29204G50Mnsk) laptop which has 4gb of memory stock. All PC scans show that there are two RAM slots, but when ...
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Toshiba Laptop screen size

I am a web developer, and I have been developing a website. But while developing the website, I looked at my website from another computer, and the website looked different from laptop to laptop (In ...
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Second external monitor not working for Dell E6420 after Windows 10 upgrade

I upgraded two Dell E6420 laptops from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I use both with the same docking station connected to a Dell 2408WFP monitor and a Dell U3011 monitor. The laptops have two display ...
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Can I install 2TB HDD on a Toshiba Satellite L845 Laptop?

I have a Toshiba Satellite L845 Laptop with an Intel Core i3-2350M processor. I have installed a 1TB HDD and it currently runs 64-bit Windows 7. My BIOS version is Insyde Corp. 1.00. Is it possible to ...
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Cuda toolkit draining battery windows 10

I installed CUDA toolkit 7.5 from NVIDIA (for Parallel programming course). But from the very next day, I've observed drastic change in the power consumption. Earlier the battery used to last for ...
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Can I upgrade the video card of a Dell Studio XPS 16?

The Studio XPS 16 comes with either integrated Intel graphics, or discrete ATI graphics. Would I be able to replace the card with, say, an nVidia GeForce 8800M?
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Swapping wireless antennas in Laptop?

I have two mPCIe slots in my laptop which have their own set of antennas: Slot A (full-size only), 3G/GPS card Slot B (half-size only), WiFi/Bluetooth card. I'm planning to replace them with new ...
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MSI GE60 Apache 75 °C on browsing

I am having some trouble with keeping my laptop cool. It's a MSI GE60 Apache 2QD. It used to run kind of hot while playing high-end games (80-90°C) but recently it's been heating up until 80°C while ...

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