Recent content by AlastairMunro

Hello! This is quite similar to a very recent thread on here, but I have a few more details which seem odd to me, so I thought I'd just see if anyone had any thoughts on this issue. Apologies if this is in the wrong spot, haven't used the forum in about 7 years. So I left my computer...

I know that this is very little help, but in the off chance that someone is in a similar situation, I found that the problem seems to be physical. I'm unable to get to the part of the computer that houses the sound card (due to not having specialized screwdrivers), but I found that sometimes...

Actually, it suddenly started working again. Not quite sure why, but oh well. Thanks for the help, all the same.

Not totally sure if this is the correct forum, but I have a very vexing problem with my on-board sound card. As I said, it's a Realtek, and it seems to have some weird problems with analog input. Just before I go into detail, I would like to say that I have done just about everything possible...

Update: It turns out, it wasn't a cable, it was the screen itself. I twisted the screen a bit, and it went back to normal. I hope it doesn't deteriorate, given that the LCD screen is definitely damaged itself, as opposed to something not being plugged in properly. Oh well, it's fine now, so I'm...

Bad news, kind of. I took it apart (it took forever, due to this keyboard being virtually impossible to remove), but found that to get anywhere near where either end of the cable would be, I needed a screwdriver with six points, which I don't have. Oh well, at least I didn't damage anything when...

Title pretty much sums it up. I dropped my laptop bag on the sidewalk, and when I started it up, instead of the normal black background for the "Starting Windows" screen, it was all blue. In fact, all blacks are now blues, and everything else has a blue tint. Most likely I damaged the screen...

Thanks a lot for all your answers! It isn't possible that I am seriously damaging the RAM or laptop, is it? If not, then I'll just live with the crashes.

I had a laptop with 2 sticks of 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM, but it is temporarily broken, so I took a stick out from it and installed it into my other laptop. Lately though, it has been given me a lot of BSODs, usually related to RAM, such as "page fault in non-paged area". Is that because the RAM is...

I recently had several hard drive related problems with my laptop, and attempted defragment it, which helped somewhat. I rebooted it later, and was several error messages concerning the hard drive. After that, I decided to run dskchk, checking both boxes, and, with having an almost full 500GB...