Questions tagged [laptop-repair]
Questions about performing repairs on your mobile computer
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Replace Laptop Battery With Power Supply
I have an old Macbook Pro 2013 UK version, and it's broken. I have a feeling it's the charging circuit for the battery that's broken, and that everything else works fine. I'd like to have a go at ...
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How to check if my laptop screen is broken or it's the internal cable?
I have an acer nitro 5 laptop and the built in screen is not working properly. The majority of the screen is black, only the top part is showing images.
If I use it on my Ubuntu instead of Windows and ...
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Can you replace a laptop screen with a different brand?
hi i have two laptops sony Vaio and acer aspire 3 . the sony screen is broken and can i connect the acer screen to this sony laptop (both 40 pin/ but different resolution) ? . by the way i wanted to ...
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Which failed, the wifi card or the wireless antenna? [closed]
I have a hp 17 by1053dx laptop. My antenna became unsnapped from the wifi card, twice. After many failed attempts, I was finally able to snap them back together so they stay together but still have no ...
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Asus G751J won't turn on after suddenly shutdown itself
So yesterday I was working on my company's laptop when my personal laptop (asus g751j) just died with no warning (I wasn't doing anything on it).
It suddenly shut down. I tried to turn it back on but ...
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Where can i plug in my wrist strap and mat [duplicate]
So I need to clean the fans of my laptop and i just wanna be on a safe side so i bought anti static wrist strap and mat.
CAN I put the anti statics wrist straps clip on the end of the laptops charger ...
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Does a laptop antenna need to be marked as 6Ghz to work with a Wifi 6 card?
My Situation
I bought a new Wi-Fi card for my laptop. The card has Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5. I need to also replace the old 1x1 antenna with a 2x2 antenna. However, I can't seem to find any internal ...
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HP Zbook G3 17 caps lock blinking 5 times
HP Zbook G3 17 caps lock blinking 5 times
I was trying to clear the bios password as i forgot it i followed some instruction from some tech but it's now only caps lock blinking 5 times then fan go ...
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What kind of tape is on this motherboard?
Recently I was replacing the screen on my Surface Book 2, and I mistakenly removed some kind of tape from the back of the motherboard. The tape I removed does not seem reusable, so I'm trying to ...
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High Fan Noise in my OMEN by HP Laptop 15-dc1093tx
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I bought my HP Omen (hp dc1093tx) about 2.5 years. In the last 1 year, there has been enormous fan noise higher than the expected one. At first I assumed this to be a hardware issue and ...
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Strange linux laptop display behaviour
I have an old Lenovo linux laptop with the following.. let's say symptoms:
On startup almost all the screen turns bright and then pure white, leaving only a little window of visible screen on the top....
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colors are not accurate after screen replacement
I have replaced my broken screen with another laptop brand screen both are 40 pin and 15.6" (Acer TravelMate 5742 screen used on Toshiba c50 a539), everything working correctly but the colors are ...
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My laptop screen is off even my PC is working
I was working on my laptop and then I turned if off to leave home only for 1hr.
When I'm back I turned it on but my screen stays black, even though my power button is green which means it is working. ...
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What are those silicone blobs inside trackpad buttons? [closed]
I’m currently trying to fix up a fairly old computer where one of the trackpad buttons is actually missing the little silicone membrane that lets it register clicks. It seems like there’s a little ...
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How to connect anti-static wrist straps without a desktop PC case
I looked up tutorials on how to use an anti-static wrist strap and they all seem to tell me to connect it to a desktop PC case while having the PC turned off but plugged in.
I need to open up my ...
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How to know what's causing screen backlight to fail? Dell XPS 13 9370
I have a Dell XPS 13 9370 laptop which has an issue with its LCD screen backlight. The computer works perfectly with an external screen and you can see that the built-in display works (e.g. against a ...
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What screwdriver do I use for these?
I’m trying to disassemble my computer and the chart below is from the manual.
I cannot find any specific M2x1.9, M2x2.5 and such screwdrivers online at any store. Please help.
Screws specified by the ...
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Wireless logitech keyboard to wired
i have a Logitech K850 keyboard i use it to play, before it didnt have input lag but now it has, i thinks is because the interference of 2.4ghz,can i convert the keyboard to a USB one to avoid input ...
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Toshiba Satellite C655 blinking power LED, refusing to turn on
One minute the laptop works fine, the next it refuses to turn on. The only clue given as to why this is happening is a blinking power LED.
I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the battery and ...
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What can be a reason of jumping purple stripes on MSI laptop display?
A few days ago just suddenly there appeared purple stripes on display. They are visible once laptop is turned on, including bios menu, and get much worse when changing refresh rate from 240hz to 60hz. ...
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Laptop screen resolution limited after dropping laptop
An HP Pavilion 17 laptop was dropped from a low height onto a carpet. It mostly still works, but the display resolution is very bad, almost as though the text is pixelated. It's readable, but with ...
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Power button not working and power light not lighting up after Lenovo Yoga 730 13IKB reassembly
I bought a iFixit computer repair kit and opened up my old Lenovo Yoga 730 13IKB. I had intended to replace the battery until I realized that I had bought the wrong battery. But I was still curious, ...
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Why is my laptop not charging? The led indicater does not light up but the laptop thinks it plugged in
I have a Elitebook 820 G3 laptop.
As far as I could tell the battery held charge well until it suddenly stopped charging. When plugged in the led charging indicator does not light up. However the ...
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Laptop hinge flat angle fatigue
My laptop is placed in front of my secondary monitor and so I use the laptop's screen in about 30 - 45° angle (0° meaning flat open, 180° closed).
Since now the hinge has to support more weight not ...
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Asus Q324UA Notebook - Unable to clear BIOS
I have a Asus Q324UA Notebook that I have unfortunately forgotten the administrator password to the BIOs on. I attempted to simply remove a CMOS battery from the motherboard, but the latptop doesn't ...
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Physical Laptop Issues
I have been experiencing some physical issues with my MSI laptop. Firstly, the bottom-left corner of the frame has separated from the screen.
This seemed to be the result of an increasingly loud ...
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My laptop screen has patches all over it
The screen of my laptop has this cloud like shapes covering all over it horizontally. As you can see in the attached photo it's not on the panel but inside the screen. I don't know how it happened. It ...
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Using an External monitor with my Laptop with a broken builtin screen
The builtin screen of my laptop recently stopped working. I connected an external monitor to my laptop and I received a signal. So it seems to be an issue with my built in laptop itself or the ...
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There is a small white line in the edge of the screen. What must I do to repair it?
Recently I came across seeing a small white patch in the right corner of my laptop screen. What must can I do? Will this spread across over time? Will this be covered by the warranty?
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Will this laptop LCD missing one of the connector pads work?
I removed the broken display connector from an LED screen. As can be seen in the following image, the pad for pin 27 is removed from the PCB due to an accident. I've marked it with red color in the ...
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Thinkpad T450s with USB and 3mm connection problems
I have a Thinkpad T450s with two problems that may or may not be related.
Problem 1: Audio through the 3mm jack is patchy. I know it's not the headphones because they work fine on other devices. I get ...
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How to fix broken hinge (side part of it) of acer aspire e15
How to fix this broken laptop hinge? Can I glue the broken hinge parts?
Image of the broken hinge
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Elite book 840 G2 [duplicate]
Please help me. I noticed that my laptop was on a spilled water on the table over night. I dismantled it and cleaned it up, dried it as much as I could from a warm temperature viz rays on the sun for ...
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threadlocker destroyed laptop screw holes
Not long ago I decided to use some loctite 222 on the bottom screws of my laptop to keep them from falling out. This was supposed to be a low-strength threadlocker, but yesterday when I tried to open ...
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How to fix an overheating laptop issue?
Whenever i try to export my video in HitFilm express my laptop shutdown automatically with a fan noise.
I bring it to a mechanic who change the thermal paste and add a cooling pad. I resett my pc and ...
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Laptop booting only while plugged and keyboard doesn't work either after HDD replacement
Recently I had problems with a laptop (tried to solve them in a previous thread). I managed to remove HDD and replace it with another one from another old laptop.
While trying to put in the last screw ...
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Windows 10 logging in to black screen
A few days back, my laptop started doing something weird on (some) restarts. The laptop seems to turn on properly, I am able to log in using my username and pin, but when it logs in, all I see is a ...
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Dell Inspiron 15R 5521 - No Display No Keyboard Motherboard beeps on RAM removal *
I have Inspiron 15R 5521. It is not giving display. Keyboard is also not working. I removed RAM and CMOS battery one by one and motherboard gave correct number of beeps each time.
I shut-downed the ...
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A serviceman wanted to repair my faulty laptop keyboard by exchanging the SSD
I have the laptop Lenovo Ideapad 720 15IKB and run OpenSUSE on it. Since the beginning of the new year I started having problems with the columns 6YHN (often) and 7UJM (less often). Sometimes they do ...
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Entire UWP system not working on Windows 10
(I hope the title is correct. I'm no Windows UWP developer, but nothing works, so I guess their UWP system is gone here, but correct me if I'm wrong, please)
So I messed up UWP..... Not sure how ...
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Some keys on laptop keyboard stick on prt sc when pressed. Why?
If I press G H delete and probably some other keys I haven't discovered yet, it's similar to pressing and holding the prt sc key to take a screenshot, although they do their core function also. E.g. ...
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Sony Vaio not working after reassembly
So I have an old Sony SVE14A290X Vaio, and I have had it for a few years, recently the fan became way too loud, so I took off the laptop cover, cleaned the filter(which required me to take the ...
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Dell 3542 display
Horizontal pink and blue flickering lines appearing on Dell 3542 laptop display. They don't appear as I start my laptop. They take a few minutes to appear after startup. Any guess what could be wrong ?...
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Laptop taking hours to start even after clean install
Recently I clean installed windows because its suddenly unbarabely slow it took 12 hours to completely install windows and it is too slow hdd is 100% it is taking 3 hours to start back of the laptop ...
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Changing key mapping of wrong model keyboard
The keyboard of my laptop broke recently so I ordered a new one and managed to swap it out, but when I turned the laptop on I noticed that a lot of keys were wrongly assigned or not even assigned at ...
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Horizontal pink line on my HP Pavilion 15, how do I fix it?
I use my 1yr old HP Pavilion for WFH, so its on for around 12 hrs or so every single day.
Yesterday, I put it on sleep mode and when I turn it on today I see a pinkish horizontal line over the screen ...
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Laptop plugged in not charging, Windows 7
At least once every week, laptop shows this problem of plugged in and not charging.
It starts working again only after reinstalling drivers (Microsoft acpi control battery driver) and removing battery ...
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How to replace an ASUS C523NA-IH24T Chromebook screen?
I have the ASUS C523NA-IH24T and I ordered a replacement screen from this place and I have received the screen and am trying to put it on.
I have the cracked screen detached from the Chromebook base, ...
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Thread-holes destroyed for CPU heatsink in laptop
Recently, I was doing a cleaning session for my laptop.
After years of use, two thread-holes gived in, when screwing the CPU heatsink back in.
Unlike a regular damaged thread-hole its quite easy to ...
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Laptop turns off after connecting adapter
I have an HP ProBook 4520s. When I connect AC adapter to it, it turns off immediately and I cant turn it on again for about 20 minutes. Charging LED doesn't turn on. Adapter voltage looks normal. What ...
