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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Strange magnets in Dell Vostro 3460
More of a curiosity than a technical question. I have a Dell Vostro 3460 laptop, and I just noticed it has two magnets embedded on both lower right and left corners near the USB ports and headphone ...
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How to get two fingers scrolling on alienware?
I would like to use two fingers scrolling on my M11x r3. So, I checked the control panel and I just had one finger scrolling.
I went to http://www.synaptics.com/en/drivers.php to update the drivers. ...
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Archlinux - Battery detected only on AC plug/unplug
I use Archlinux on a new Dell Inspiron 14.
I need to plug/unplug the power cord to have the battery detected.
For instance, now, the battery icon tells me that no battery is connected and
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My computer takes 2 minutes to load MS Excel. Is RAM the culprit?
My main laptop is broken and I am using my old one. It performs office work slowly, and I was particularly upset when it took 2 minutes to load MS Excel.
I know this is not a specific question, but ...
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Horizontal lines flash randomly over laptop display
I have a 2 year old laptop. The model is Sony Vaio SVE1511W1EB.
I never encountered any serious problems with it until now. However, last week I plugged a beamer into the laptop and did a Powerpoint ...
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Can a program break a cpu and/or gpu?
For the record I have posted this question on other forums and nobody has a clue. I have an Alienware 14 (Intel i7 4700MQ and GeForce GTX 765M). A while ago I ran an emulated version of the original ...
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Can a hot PCI adapter slow down the computer?
Using the "watch sensors" command in Fedora, I see that while the temperature of the CPU's are normal (70 degrees at most), the PCI easily exceeds 90 degrees (celcius, of course.) Once the PCI gets ...
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Can a bad LCD cause the HDMI to not work?
Recently, one of my laptops have had its LCD go bad: a lot of flickering, colourful lines will appear (the more wellknown version of this problem is that the LCD displays one or several horizontal, ...
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Dell Latitude E6440 Laptop and Dual Monitor not recognized in Xubuntu 14.05
I have a Dell Latitude Laptop E6440. The laptop have two interfaces, VGA and HDMI. I connect an external monitor to the VGA port, but when I ran the xfce4-display-settings I see only one monitor (the ...
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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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Options for external monitors on dual booting laptop with only VGA and HDMI
About a year ago I purchased a fancy new core i7 SSD laptop with nvidia optimus geforce 660M. It's still dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu flawlessly.
There's one major problem though - the lack of ...
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my laptop is not charging when switched on
I have an satellite l735-11f laptop and i have been facing a problem where the laptop battery does not charge even when power cable is plugged in.
I have noticed though that i am able to charge my ...
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The GPU overheats and the laptop shuts down
I had to replace my laptop's graphics card a few weeks ago. I also had it cleaned. At first it was fine, except the fan was loud. But since yesterday it has shut down twice. Once when I tried to play ...
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Is CHKDSK stalling?
I have a Lenovo Y510p running on Win8.1. I've tried running a CHKDSK on boot but power issues with the charger meant it died while it was running(11%).
I tried SHIFT+F8 to try restarting into safe ...
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new laptop battery usage [duplicate]
I have a new hp laptop 4cell battery I am confused about using battery and charging it I have read it is not suitable to keep it pluged in all the time but where I live it has power fluctuation ...
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How to reset BIOS on ASUS K53E
My BIOS is password-protected, so that I can't access the BIOS settings (I don't have problems with booting into Windows XP). The BIOS is made by American Megatrends (AMI). I've been trying some ...
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DVI Thinkpad monitors through Intel on Dock
Hardware is an Thinkpad T520 with Optimus technology.
Video Cards:
Nvidia NVS 4200M
Intel 3000 HD
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Mini dock 433810U
With this dock + laptop combination, the external displays are not ...
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HP Elitebook 8460p use external keyboard to boot up
I am using an Elitebook 8460p with an external wireless keyboard and mouse. I have a second monitor that is a duplicate of the laptop's display and I just keep the lid closed and use the monitor.
I ...
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How can I set the laptop fan speed to 100% manually?
I would like to know if there is a way to set my laptop fan speed to 100%. I want something that I can assign a key to, so when I press combination of keys my fan speed will boost to 100% and pressing ...
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HP computer wont boot from bootable DVD and CD
My notebook is one HP 1000 Notebook having windows 8.1 installed.
Last night I was trying to split the partition C and add some spaces to partition D. So i was using PartitionWizard to do it but it ...
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Keyboard and touchpad stopped working after battery drain in Samsung notebook
I was watching a video on my Samsung 400B4B notebook running Ubuntu 14.04 when it went to sleep because of low battery level. I plugged the AC power, resumed from the sleep but now the keyboard and ...
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Laptop display flicks like a liquid inside when moving the lid
My newly bought dell 3537 laptop accidentally hit on the wall and Now in that corner the display flicks like water inside when I move the laptop lid upwards.
Is this happens because of damage happened ...
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SSD Causing Battery To Die Almost Instantly?
I'm a little stumped a what the problem is. I recently got a used a laptop and I swapped out the 500GB 5400RPM hard drive for a PNY 120GB SSD drive. When I unplug the power from the laptop, the ...
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Rained on Sony Vaio Laptop screens black
So I left windows open while i was gone for a few days, my laptop happened to be underneath them. It rained and got my laptop wet except it was plugged in, it didn't short out wasn't that wet at all. ...
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Why is my CPU heavily loaded?
Idle CPU load ranges 30-80%, when performing any tasks - 100%. problem in linux and windows. The computer is not dusty, model acer ao722, fan is working. Sensor shows initial termperature - 57 C, idle ...
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Battery reports it's fine, but notebook won't boot /wo AC plugged in
I am running Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5-581TG. I opened it up to clean (as I've done twice before), assembled it back and now observe weird behaviour: the laptop won't react to the power button ...
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Laptop turns off immediately after power on
I have an oldish HP Pavilion dv6 laptop. The screen is busted so I use it for general media and server tasks. It's running Windows 7.
The machine has never given me an issue. When I turned it on this ...
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My LENOVO ideapad yoga keeps the fan on but not cooling the laptop....? Why?
For the last few days, my laptop tends to turn the fan on to cool the laptop down with no success. I keep my laptop on a desk where it's never hot or too dusty. I live in central europe, no desert or ...
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What SSD hard drive is compatible with an HP Compaq 2540p? [closed]
I have read this thread but I'm not sure what to look out for and what will cause incompatibility when purchasing an SSD hard drive for this laptop.
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Need help finding drivers for HP laptop
I just downgraded my HP Pavilion 15-n284ca laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 7 (x64) and am now seeing the following two devices complain of not having the required drivers:
Could someone point me in ...
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Whats the name of the device on a laptop that turns the monitor on and off when the lid is opened or closed?
What's the name of the hardware device on a laptop that turns the monitor on and off when the lid is opened or closed?
My dv9000 laptop screen won't come on due to this 'switch' and I want to replace ...
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How do I set my primary graphics card?
I have Acer Aspire V5-552G laptop and it has dual graphic cards 1. on board graphic (Radeon HD 8650G) and 2. dedicated graphic card (Radeon HD 8750M) but the on board graphic card is my primary (which ...
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Laptop Hanging During Updating
I have a HP Probook 6560b Laptop computer running Windows 7 64bit and after a fresh reinstall, I installed various software that my company requires, I then hit shutdown to kick off the updating ...
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Disable ATI card on Acer Timeline 5810TG
This laptop has a huge problem: The switchable graphic card system (INTEL / ATI) can be configured in BIOS to use the ATI or the INTEL+ATI, but not the INTEL (low power).
I want to move on to Windows ...
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Is it possible to show a warning when laptop battery gets down to 20% remaining battery life? [duplicate]
I have a Dell laptop running Windows 7. When running on battery power, an alert pops up when the battery goes below 7% remaining battery life. Within 5 minutes of hitting 7% it goes into sleep mode. I ...
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Windows 7 stuck on shutting down
I have a toshiba laptop with windows 7 home edition. Over the past 2 or 3 weeks, the process of windows shutting down has become slower and slower. A couple of days ago, it stopped altogether. ...
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ssd(Solid State Drive) vs high processor? [closed]
What is preferable?
SSD(Solid State Drive) with enough RAM or i7 processor for a new laptop?
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RDP for High DPI Monitors?
A client is having some problems with their laptop. They use RDP to remote into their work PC, but the laptop they are using is a small 13" Sony Vaio laptop, but with 1920x1080 resolution.
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HDMI and a cracked screen
So recently my laptop screen was broken pretty badly, and the entire screen is covered in white and black spots and lines, so it's impossible for me to see anything. So for the past few days, I've ...
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Diagnostic puzzle - laptop randomly fails at OS startup
I have a problem which has been bothering me for a year now and I would be grateful if somebody could help me. I will try to be as brief and concise as possible:
Laptop: HP Probook 4525s, HDD 160GB, ...
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Brightness adjuster not found in control panel
I cant seem to find the brightness adjuster in my laptop after I reformatted it with windows 7 ROG Rampage(64 bit). My laptop is HP Pavilion dm4-1209tx. I also checked with the HP website and my ...
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Change GUID on Dell E6420
I'm working in a school who have recently updated to Windows 7 and purchased a whole batch of new laptops. While everything else works swimmingly, there are 6 laptops that appear to have the same BIOS ...
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How to download files with close lid of laptop?
I want to download any file (via torrent or download manager) and I want to close my laptop lid too. As I know, it is not possible but is there any way to do this that downloading will be continue ...
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How to disable a pc to connect to internet with usb modem
I want to make a configuration in a computer in order to make it unable to connect to internet with modem. I've tried to give it a static ip adress but it works only with WIFI connections. Have you ...
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Is it safe to use a laptop with a dropped screw somewhere in the motherboard? [duplicate]
I had to completely disassemble a laptop to get at the hard drive. While I was taking the screws out, I dropped one into the closed part of the laptop that can't be accessed. The screw is floating ...
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Remote Desktop Connection to a home computer from work
Can you remotely connect to a computer that's set on a workgroup if your laptop is on the same workgroup but on a different network?
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Turn on Laptop backlight without a keyboard shortcut
I recently installed the latest drivers and my screen backlight turned off. The problem is that my Fn-F7 key combination doesn't work, so I can't turn it back on.
I can see my screen at night if I ...
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Laptop shuts off unexpectedly while in motion
Recently I've been encountering a very annoying problem during my commute in which my laptop unexpectedly powers off. I am using a Dell Inspiron 15 with a touchscreen. The laptop is just a bit over a ...
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How can I check which RAM replacement can I use in my laptop?
I've a Nanya (NT2GT64U8HD0BN-AD) 2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM PC2-6400S, 200-pin, Notebook RAM I would like to use this RAM in my old laptop Samsung NC-10 I know that normally is upgraded with PC5300 667MHz ...
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After cleaning out dust, laptop fan always full speed
My laptop was getting too hot and I decided to open it and clean it (haven't done that in 5-6 years). I opened the CPU fan which had A LOT of dust in it and cleaned it. I also replaced the thermal ...
