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Hello everyone. Despite my boot order set to Windows Secure Boot (USB last) and UEFI, when I turn my computer on it hangs at loading until I disconnect all USB external devices. When the computer tries to go to sleep mode, the screen goes black and I can hear the …

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I have a Dell XPS 15 9560 and it is running very slowly. When I use lightroom, it often crashed. Can you offer a solution pls.

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I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 series laptop. When the battery is low and as soon as i plug it into charging the laptop starts the shutdown process. The laptop is almost 3.5 years old and never had any problem. Never even formatted it. What should i do to solve …

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PLP27G-00091D-MFPX6K-609H03 (Failure ID) What to do??? Whats wrong???

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Hey people I have just recently purchased an Advent ERT2250 Laptop and the function (fn) key seems to be constantly on. This means i have to hold the fn key down so i am able to use some of the keys on the keyboard properly, if i dont hold the …

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I just got an i7 8700k from hardware swap and the 3rd core is running way hotter than the rest. Its sitting at 68 degress celsius, while the rest are in the 30s. I've reapplied the thermal paste and it didn't change.

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I have a Presario X1050, the laptop just froze on me all of a sudden, the screen went a little weird on me with waves going from one side to the other of the screen. I shut it down imm. but then it never started again. Now when I turn …

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I have Lenovo Ideapad 320 i7 8550u 8th Gen laptop it has below display adapotrs AMD readon TM 530 Intel(R) UHD graphics 620 I want to add two or three external monitors but it has only one HDMI port, Two USB 3.00 and one Type-C 3.1 port how can i …

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Hello everybody! Right now I own a Satellite C655 and I am planning to upgrade to a new laptop. I am looking for something faster & around 400$. I work as a web developer & CM and this laptop isn´t working at its best when it comes to multitasking. Any …

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My brother has a Windows 10 laptop. I use Linux so I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to Windows. He's having problems and wants me to wipe it out and re-install it. Will I need to load the OS onto a USB drive first? If so …

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Recently the LCD screen on my Gateway Solo 5150 Laptop went black. I took it to a repair shop where they replaced the inverter board that supplies power to the LCD lamp. The unit worked very well for a couple of days and the problem re-appeared. I took it back …

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i am not able to reboot our notebook because when press F10 administration password comes setup is locked please solve

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Hi, I have a 3 year old toshiba satellite pro and recently I've noticed that whenever the laptop is plugged in to the AC ( ie when I want to charge it while the laptop is on) it shuts down after about one second. Therefore the only way I can …

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Hello, I would like to know what laptop is suitable for comfortable and convenient programming. I'm a student,which laptop is suitable to $700 ? I think take Lenovo 310 or 520.

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I have a 2005 Toshiba laptop with a celeron processor. For some reason my computer will just shut off without warning. You've got about 15 minutes tops to use it before it'll just turn off unexpectedly. If you're doing something a little more complicated, like running a virus scan, it'll …

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3 metre USB cable with portable DVD writer will not work with Dell laptop. The same laptop and DVD writer will however work with a short 60cm cable. Any reason why?

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I have a gateway FX laptop with 1400 x 1200 screen resolution. Can I swap this screen to another FX laptop with a current screen resolution of 1400 x 900 if they have the same video card or will there be other consideration to deal with?

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hi I am Hoping some one here can shed some light on this. I have a toshiba satellite pro laptop but it's refusing to turn on. it was working fine 2 days ago and was last shutdown as normal. With the AC power supply plugged into the laptop the DC-in …

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Ok so I have a Toshiba A105 s4284 that I just bought from a friend that bought it in january and it was working fine until just recently, all of a sudden the screen just goes completly black when I'm in the middle of something, I mean the computer doesn't …

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I still can work on my laptop (HP Pavilion) because I had a window open and I can access all my docs this way, but the background screen is black, there is no 'Start' button, no desktop and the 'right click' does nothing. Totally emptiness, but I still see the …

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Hi, Due to my laptop having a strange COM port problem I decided to try and fix it by doing a 'repair' with my Windows 2000 Professional disk. When I put the disk in, it asked if I wanted to 'upgrade' and keep all my existing software or 'full install' …

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My laptop had been overheating and got pretty bad,(a year before I practically friend the motherboard) but then I finally learned about the heat sink which was cleaned out and the overheating probs were fixed. But a new problem has beared its ugly head. I turn on the computer, and …

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I am having a problem, my power light is blinking but laptop won't boot up, however when I push and hold either the FN key or the Windows key the screen comes on and it starts to boot. As long as I hold down either one of those keys the …

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Hey all, I have a problem with my Dell Latitude laptop. The laptop is 3 years old, and worked fine 2 days ago. Yesterday when I went to turn it on, the power, battery, and CPU light would all blink on, and the CD light would blink, along with a …

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I've looked through older posts and my story is pretty similar. I was just using my laptop last night. I closed the laptop. This morning, when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't turn on. The power button wouldn't even light up. I noticed that that the laptop feels …

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hi i have an ASUS F8vr note book and when i plug in my friends keyboard through the usb connector via the ps/2 to usb converter it works. but when i connect mine the same way the keyboard light flashes up(the num lock, scrol lock and the cap lock) and …

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Hello everyone, I have a Sony lv-240J and I it turns on all the fans spin but then there is no beep, no boot, no display or anything. After a couple of minutes it just turns off. I connected a display to it and nothing. I tried to use it …

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Hi all, I have a dell inspiron N5010 laptop, a day back it went off. I tried to restart and it just keeps on beeping. After a bit a looking aboud i figured it is a display error (failed LCD). So is figured if i remove the LCD cable from …

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Hi I know this may have been posted on here before, and if it has I am sorry! Anyway, have discovered this evening that my laptop has started suddenly shutting down. The first time it happened I was browsing the web and it had been on for 40-45 mins when …

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I have an HP Spectra x360, which I've been very happy with, however, lately it Chrome gets to a point where it causing high CPU utilization and freezes the computer. I didn't install any new extensions, software or hardware. Any suggestions?

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help, my gateway NE511will not turn back on after I tried to replace wireless card. fan turns on for 2-3 seconds and stops. once in a while the blue light comes on. it has an internal battery and I tried the reset to no avail. cannot find any parts online …

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How important do you think it is for a laptop to have a dedicated video card?

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So, my twin boys start college (sixth form) this year and as their birthday is coming up I thought I'd kill two birds and buy them the laptop they need. I'm used to speccing out my own laptops for the office here, but when it is my money rather than …

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I don't know what else to do, I've tried everything I've seen on the Internet, so I need some help. Also, I'm not good with computer lingo, so try to dumb it down for me, okay? Lol

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Hi all, I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 10 64 bit and Windows 8 32 bit. I think i don't need that windows 8 any more. I want to delete it from laptop and add that empty hard drive space to the drive where windows10 located. How can i …

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Laptop Details: Asus Windows 8.1 64-bit Hi. Im having issues with my laptop lately, I kept getting BSOD with error PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR. I tried uninstalling softwares which I had previously installed but I still kept getting it so i did a reinstall of windows instead and now im having driver issues(with …

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While downloading the latest VB.Net my laptop automatically shutdown and when I tried to turn it on again it didn't boot and stays in black screen; cpu led not blinking but the laptop was still open. I thought it was overheat and when I try to open it the day …

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Hi, I accidently reversed polarity on Asus X301. Now the laptop turns on with charger connected and battery inserted, but after several seconds it shuts down by itself, I power it on again and shits down faster, and the third time it won't power on. After some time it can …

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I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with Linux Mint OS installed. It pretty old and it's starting to show as it's getting slower. It's got a bigger screen and it's even got the num pad on the right of the keyboard in addetion to the numbers at the top. …

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I was playing Dying Light and just paused the game for a bit and was eating. when come back the game had freeze, mouse too, nothing moved. Tried to collapse the screen of they laptop with the hope that it probably would resume the laptop in normal state of work. …

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.... **dilemma**! my 6 month old dell inspiron series 3000 laptop windows 8.1 won't boot up? it gets to the black screen with the windows logo on and at the bottom of the screen it says "Preparing Automatic Repair" but it sticks there...? It hasnt got a built in cd/dvd …

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I dont know why but my young brother laptop (Dell) keeps turning the FN button back to default, I mean, the buttons fn+F1 fn+F2 fn+F3 (mute, volume down and volume up). turn volume just by pressing them, not the FN button. It used to work the vice versa. I changed …

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Hi. When I startup my windows 10 and log into my account, my desktop doesn't seem to be visible. It's just a black screen. There are no icons and no taskbar. When I try to open task manager, I can see it cursor loading for a split second meaning something …

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Hi, The system came with 2x 512MB RAM - total of 1GB. I was sent a 2GB memory upgrade, so I had to remove one of the modules, and was supposed to get 2.5 GB in total. But it seems like the machine will only take max 1GB per slot, …

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Hey guys.... M new to this forum... I have a compaq presario c700 notebook which is quite old..... when i press the power button the led lights turns on..i can here the fans spinning sometimes after 4-5 seconds the system turns off....and i switch it on again...the display remains black …

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My laptop screen does not showing any display..lights are blinking bt nothing on my screen

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I'm experiencing a networking problem which I asked elsewhere and so this is the problem and this was the solution I was given, unfortunately the solution doesn't work in Windows10. The problem was non-existant six months ago, which is a latop and a desktop both running Windows10. As of the …

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I have a Gateway Laptop, anytime i let the battery die, it wont turn on when i plug it in, no charging light, no power light... until i heat up the underneath of my laptop with a hair drier, then it starts to charge.. any sollutions so i dont have …

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