[laptop] Forum Topics

Hi, so my problem is that my laptop was working fine a couple days ago then yesterday the fan started getting louder then it turned off I thought it was overheated over 24 hrs later and still nothing there are no lights when the charger is in except for a …

okay guys, well i have read every above post from previous threads relating to this topic as my daughters Compaq laptop was working 3 nights ago and when she went to reboot it the following morning it gave the black screen.. she could just barely see some writing on screen …

ok here is what I have done so far. I removed the battery removed power cable..no power going to the laptop now. pushed and held power button for minimum of 30 seconds or more. added battery only then tried to power up, only middle green light flashed, then nothing. I …

Laptop is on, but did not display on the screen, how come?

The other night I was on my laptop (Gateway NV57H20u) playing a game and it was about to die so I plugged in the charger and it shut off shortly after. The laptop was working completely fine before hand and now it won't even turn on. There are also no …

Had a spare bay in my laptop, and put a SATA 160 gig HD in purely for backup. Became apparent that I needed more space, so bought a Seagate 500 gig internal HD as a replacement. First thing I noticed is that the original 160 drive had SATA power, and …

I have a dell inspiron n5010 with dual boot (windows 7 and ubuntu). It was running fine earlier but suddenly it started mistyping letters with multiple letters and special characters for 1 sec and then shuts down. After that laptop was not getting started for a while. Few hours later …

So a while ago my [Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520s Keyboard](http://www.acompatible.com/keyboard/1005-lenovo-thinkpad-edge-e520s-keyboard-replacement-brand-new-us-layout.html) had a key that had broken off, and just about a year later, it was getting so frustrating I removed it and am about to order a new one in the mail. Since it's taking such a long time, I …

I have a new Acer Aspire 1670 laptop which has worked fine for the past few weeks. However, I turned it on this morning (it worked fine last night) to find that my touchpad no longer works. I don't feel this is a hardware issue in the sense that the …

Hi.. I have an Hp PAvilion DM4. The laptop screen has been going faint/black wen started. IT looks like as if there is some wire which is loose, as when I insert a thick cardboard in between the gap of laptop and the screen, the screen is absolutely fine. As …

Hello All, I am trying to fix my friend's Sony VAIO laptop which I think may have a dying hard drive. Naturally, he did not back up his files, so my current project is trying to rescue the picture and video files he has on it of his newborn daughter. …

Hello. I had my Sony VGN-690 reballed to fix the graphics card solder connection ilness. When I got it back, I put in the power cord but never did see the charging amber light blink on the front. I thought it should have shown charge but the battery had been …

hi have a nice time, how to find out the difference between 6 cell and 9 cell laptop batteries physically thanks for your time

Hi I have a hp pavillion laptop When I try to start it , hp logo screen comes up and that's it.nothing happens afterwards. Then I repeat the process to enter to bios menu,all is fine there.then I try to boot from an external source. Nothing happens there too.So m …

I have a Gateway W650i laptop that suddenly stopped working prior to Thanksgiving. Days before the laptop was unable to power on, it would unexpectedly restart itself. Regardless if the laptop's battery or a/c adapter are plugged in, the LEDs show no sign of the laptop receiving any power. I've …

Hi My laptop froze the other night, and wouldn't respond to anything i did, and so i had to manually take out its battery to turn it off. I think it froze again once i restarted it so i took out the battery a second time. Now, i cant get …

Hi, I have a Sony VAIO Laptop VGN-NR21M/S which has been working fine. The only problem was the battery wasn't holding it's charge and I was planning to buy a new one. Last night it shut down while I was running Virtual DJ software. No warning, no error message or …

Whenever I open my laptop, a Windows 7 HP Mini, all I see is my desktop background with no icons, task bar, or anything. When I right click, nothing happens. The only time I see something is when I "Alt+Space", which is useless. I can't even press Ctrl+Alt+Delete. When I …

I have purchased a new laptop (Toshiba) with Windows vista home basic. But the pc is shutting down unexpectedly. whenever i am putting a cd or dvd in the dvd drive the computer is shutting down. Pl suggest me the remedy. Thnaks in advance Regards, Ravi

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop, 1.5 years old. I have been having some VGA problems since 6 months: laptop hanging due to infinite loop caused by the VGA process (ati2dvag). But it was gone since 3 weeks. Now the Laptop isn't booting, yesterday it gave the same symptoms …

I have a 2002 Gateway laptop running Windows XP that used to find our old linksys router network just fine, connect to it and easily connect to the internet. We had to replace the linksys and bought a new netgear router and now that same laptop will connect just fine …

I logged off my laptop at night. When I turned it on in the morning, all lights were blue, but screen was black.. I tried holding the power button for 1 minute, then turning it on, still the same .. I tried to reseat the ram, now all I get …

Hi all, I wonder if you can help me with something odd that happened. Last week I bought a new laptop for my sister, a acer aspire one 756. It comes with load of useless stuff installed. I have removed only office 2010 and installed office 2003, plus a virtual …

First i had the problem that my laptop could not run without having the screen shutt off cause the battery was too weak to give the screen some power but no i found out it wont even charge from its ac adapter! What can i do. I know this is …

Hello, My laptop power all of the sudden turned off. I was able to reboot the computer, but now it keeps shutting itself off about every five minutes. Does anyone have any tips on what I should be looking for or what component might be going bad and needs replacement. …

So I have a HP Pavilion Dv8000 that I am fixing for a friend. I am cmoputer savy enough to take it all apart and put it back together, but I'm stumped. His computer sometimes shuts down a few minutes to few seconds after staring up. If it makes it …

Hi, I have a Gateway Solo 1450 laptop and it seems to have a repeated problem with the power port breaking off inside the computer or loosening. Gateway will "fix" it for about $250 each time it breaks. This is the THIRD time it's broken and once again, Gateway's customer …

Sir,What Is Wrong With a Computer When the Screen Goes Black But the Lights & Computer Stay On? My Laptop, Compaq Evo N610C ,turn on but screen remain black. I connect laptop from back port with extra monitor and laptop is working with extra monitor but still laptop screen is …

I cannot get BlueTooth to work on my laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 running Windows 7 Pro. When I got it back in 2008 the BlueTooth was working fine. I have re-installed Windows several times since then and have never had to use bluetooth. Today I got hearing …

I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with an GeForce Go440 video card. After I did so, my display settings were changed. What I found is that I can set the screen resolution to 1600 x 1200 and the display will take up the entire screen, …

I am trying to use 2 external monitors with my laptop in a docking station and I cannot get the option to use the second monitor only one works. I have an HP elitebook and used to have a Dell and since switching I can't use the same set up …

5160 Dell loaptop fails to boot past say 75% cant enter setup/ safe mode/ nouthing as the laptop will not do anything but hang up idears please. have tride replacing Ram modgel + H disk still no go fan runs MB clean no dust :)

After installing new ram into my Qosmio x300 the screen doesn't display anything :/ The laptop had 2 RAM sticks in it Both of the RAM sticks were 2GB 533Mhz PC3-8500S I took them out and added one RAM stick with 8GB 1066 MHz PC-8500S

My eMachine Laptop screen is splitted into 2.. the other one half looks darker.

In my laptop (modelno:PSC2UG-00P001 toshiba) inbuilt bluetooth is not working. It is able to detect and search other bluetooth devices, but it is not able to send or receive any data ie my information exchanger is not working. How can I solve this issue. Please please help me..

I haven't spilled anything on my HP Pavilion DV6 laptop, but suddenly the "t" and "y" keys do not work. I've tried deleting the keyboard in Device Mgr and letting Windows 7 Home Premium refind and install the device. Didn't work. I've got compressed air and shot air under the …

I have a very simple question. Can you run games off of an external hard drive. I play World of Warcraft and many other games. My computer, which is a laptop, only has 40gb of space. I don't have anymore room for patches or anything else. So I was wondering …

Asus Laptop with Win 8. Intel GMA4000 with updated drivers. Signal only works while running on battery. after plugging in laptop my Sony Bravia tv goes black and shows "unsupported signal'. I tried to fool around with the graphics settings but to no avail.

There was a thread with this title "dell d610 won't power up w/ac adapter but it will power on with the battery" two years ago which was never resolved. It involves the power adapter light going out when it is plugged into the laptop. The laptop works fine off battery …

I need urgent help. **When i turn on my laptop, it reboot and/or SCAN whole laptop with C Drive.** How to solve this? Thanks in advanced.

Hi all, a friend of mine had some problems with her laptop and she asked me to look at it. I have formatted the hard drive and I am in the process of reinstall windows xp on it - I don't know the specs of the laptop because I dont' …

Hi guys! I am a laptop user and uses my laptop mostly for gaming. While using my laptop, I placed an electric fan at the back, directly blowing air to my unit. It is effective and this kept my laptop from lag. The problem is when I am gaming at …

I have Toshiba laptop the processor is over heating, I have open it and clean all inside including the fan. the fan is working but still the process is over heating. Can anyone help.

I have a four and a half year old HP Pavillion dv4 laptop. Today, I saw a thin 1px red horizontal line on the near top of my laptop screen. The line sometime changes to light blue. I tried connecting an external monitor and found that the problem is with …

My Dell Inspiron N1510 was working fine until one day when i went to start it up, it refused to do anything. Nothing appears on the screen, no lights, no sounds, just as if i hadn't pushed the power button at all! I've tried taking the battery out and holding …

I am looking over my cousin's laptop he did something to it I am trying to figure out what as he wont tell me. THe laptop starts up but then freezes up on the toshiba start screen and I can go no futher. I can't acess the laptop it self. …