#laptop

Forum discussion tagged with #laptop.
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    Question Why is the laptop fan randomly slowing down and speeding up?

    Hi. I got a laptop. Its a Hp 15s. Specs: I5 1235u, 16 gb ddr4 ram, intel iris xe grapichs. Since unboxing it yesterday the cpu fan has been really annoying me. When idle it randomly spins up like crazy, then after a few minutes it drops to basically zero. The time period between the jumps are...
  2. GamingDude0

    Question Laptop Won't Power Up Via Battery After I Upgraded RAM and SSD

    The battery being connected to the motherboard on my 2021 ROG Zephyrus G14 prevents it from turning on, even though it is charged. This issue persists even when the laptop is plugged in. However, if the laptop is plugged in with the battery disconnected from the motherboard, it does turn on and...
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    Question Undervolting Made my computer instantly freeze

    Hello guys so i have a MSI GF63 I5 12th gen 4050. I decided to undervolt my mhz from 1605 to 1705. Once i clicked apply, it freezed my laptop. I can shut it down and make it to the windows tab (where u have to put ur password/pin in) and once i log in it freezes instantly. Program which was...
  4. Topolek

    Question Asus TUF Gaming F15 laptop replacement ?

    Hi, I'm considering replacing my current laptop, which is an ASUS TUF Gaming F15 with an i5-11400H processor, 24GB of RAM, and a GeForce RTX3060 graphics card. I mainly use it for 3D projects, animations, and occasional gaming. However, I'm not entirely satisfied with it as it tends to overheat...
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    Question Help me to understand how cooling and cooling monitoring works ?

    I have lenovo gaming laptop 3, ryzen 5 5600H, RTX 3060. and I just found out there is no way you can neither monitor nor control your fan. Long story short, when i was trying to disconnect and reconnect the fans I accidently cut the CPU fan connector. Thankfully I got it fixed and working again...
  6. khouloud

    Question Is this laptop good

    Good Morning, iv been using my dad's Laptop which he had for years ,i recently got into digital painting and 3D sclupting been saving for abit to buy a new laptop but idk what to pick (my budget is 800$) Can u recommend me a good laptop on this price range? EDIT...
  7. Akshay_2006

    Question Is it alright to use lower wattage charger to charge my laptop ?

    I previously was using a 40W (19V 2.1 A) charger provided. Then this charger stopped working so I bought an other one which was 33W (19V 1.75A), since that charger wasnot available. Is it ok to use this charger daily ?
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    Question Laptop RAM suggestion and clarification ?

    I installed a lexar 3200mhz 8gb and a kingston 8gb 3200mhz value ram in my Lenovo Legion 5 15ARH05H (2020 edition) laptop. I removed the Ramaxel 8gb 3200mhz ram which came with the laptop. I also noticed that the Ramaxel one used to heat up more and have ICs on both sides. The lexar and kingston...
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    Question Intel UHD Graphics no longer supports 144Hz?

    2 Months ago I got my new laptop + external monitor and connected them, 144Hz worked without an issue through HDMI, and yesterday for an unknown reason the 144Hz is completely gone, only 120Hz remains, I have not changed anything about my setup since then and I don't see why that would happen...
  10. Bjg13190

    Accessing Tower PC BIOS using a laptop?

    So my org received 90+ PCs which I need to pull the NMVe M.2 SDD serial numbers from via BIOS prior to their installation. My question is simply whether or not it is possible to access the PC towers BIOS (straight out of box) using a laptop. Is it as simple as using an HDMI and using the Fn key...
  11. J

    Question Replacing my desktop PC with a high-end gaming laptop ?

    Been thinking about whether or not selling and replacing my desktop PC with a high end gaming laptop? Current pc specs are a ryzen 5 3600 with an rx 570 4gb model. Laptops im looking at range between 1200-1500 with amd + 3060 configurations. Only thinking about this because soon I am moving into...
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    [SOLVED] How to revert display driver to original?

    Hi all, I was trying to connect a Samsung SD300H monitor to my MSI Prestige laptop, to use it as external monitor. In the process of installing the official drivers for said monitor, my laptop seems not to have detected it while was connected via HDMI (the monitor was on but all black), and so...
  13. Abdrhman

    [SOLVED] Low battery

    welcome everybody When I play with a laptop, the battery is low, although it is charging, but the battery does not charge, it starts to lose, especially when I play and put the plan on a high level of energ... just when i play games like warzone apex etc ... this my my laptop...
  14. Blazedsrr

    [SOLVED] Stripped screw on laptop

    I am trying to get inside of my rog laptop to fix an issue with the little hand connectors that connect the screen to the device but one of the screws are completely stripped and I am just unable to get it out, what do I do?
  15. Krishnan 05

    [SOLVED] MX 330 performing lower than expected

    I have a dell vostro 3500 with I5 1135g7, Nvidia mx330, 8gb ram , 1tb hdd and 240gb ssd . the problem is it performs very less than the benchmarks i saw on the internet and i played using the I GPU (iris xe) and it feels better . Sometimes it gets into some slow-motion like lag in f1 2018. is...
  16. Johnson21xd

    [SOLVED] How can i fix my laptop not running games on high settings

    My used laptop hp omen 15 2016 isn't running gaming like it should because the specs are good Gtx 1050ti 4gb 16gb ram Display is 3840×2160 Intel core i7 -7700HQ CPU 2.80GHz 2.8 GHz It cannot even run rocket league correctly at low settings And the fans are annoying I open a browser and it's...
  17. Fade77

    [SOLVED] High CPU/GPU temps when gaming ?

    Rog Gl503GE Hero Edition Gaming Laptop: Cpu:Core i7 8750h 2.21 Ghz 6 Cores Ram:16 gb ddr4 Gpu:Gtx 1050ti 4gb gddr5 Hdd;1TB Ssd:128 gb So i have an trouble while gaming and do some graphic stuffs,When i opened my laptop and play games like Rdr 2 and many other stuff my fps is so normal i had...
  18. rti0irt

    [SOLVED] laptop keyboard issues

    i'm running into an issue on my fujitsu laptop keyboard where it registers irregular letters/numbers after hitting 1 key. for example: 'h4ello, 0i am rtunn0ing 0inrto manky 0issu84s w0irh mky kykyboartd' this is the problem that i've been running into and i'd like some support. thank you!
  19. MaxersTrash

    Question Laptop AC Charger disconnects when playing games, but not because of overheating ?

    So one day I was playing CSGO, but then suddenly my fps drops to 10 or lower, then I saw my laptop charging light isn't on anymore. It will keep on disconnecting for about a few minutes then it wil reconnect. Using MSI afterburner, I saw that my cpu and gpu usage are only at around 60-80%...
  20. helpe

    [SOLVED] 8GB of ram installed, only 5,86GB usable on Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 laptop

    System specs: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Ryzen 5 5500u with AMD Radeon Vega graphics (Vega 7, has 7 cores) 8GB RAM 512GB SSD Samsung Laptop came without OS so I installed Win10 Pro 64-bit from Windows 10 Installation Media and activated it with purchased licence key, everything seemed fine, fast...
  21. Pacifico

    [SOLVED] Can I upgrade my MX 450 graphic card to GTX 1650 on a laptop?

    Can I upgrade my MX 450 graphic card to GTX 1650 on a laptop?
  22. rainyman13

    Question I can't use my laptop's discrete GPU ?

    Hi I have samsung np350v5x-s04ae laptop (i5 - 4GB ram) , when i try playing video games with the primary discrete GPU (AMD 7670m) it starts lagging and fps drops to the ground and changing the game quality settings doesn't help . But I can play the same game with the intel 400 iGPU . I wonder...
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    Question New laptop blue screening and then going to BIOS ?

    I bought a new Asus Vivobook 15 laptop. Right out of the package, i tried uninstalling the preloaded antivirus that came with it and it blue screened during the uninstall. The weird thing is after the blue screen it sent me to the BIOS, i restarted and windows was in the recovery screen and I...
  24. LOL!@#LMAO

    [SOLVED] AMD driver automatically installing itself

    Hi there, I own a dell g5 se with Ryzen 5 4600h and RX 5600m. For the last few days i am having an issue where this driver 20.18.06.6002 (dell driver) automatically installs. I don't want to use this particular driver because I have encountered some crashes and BSOD while playing some games. So...
  25. mdeodarari

    [SOLVED] ASUS Vivobook Low Performance

    So I just bought a new laptop; an ASUS Vivobook S14 S433EQ and here's the spec: CPU: Intel i5-1135G7 @ 2.40 Ghz, 4 cores 8 threads Onboard GPU: Intel IrisXe 80EU Dedicated GPU: Nvidia MX350 RAM: 8GB Storage: 512GB NVME SSD OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit. Version: 20H2. Build: 19042.928 Mainly I'm...
  26. 4MIK

    Question is this normal?

    im using an asus g531gt i7-9750h 16gb single channel ram gtx 1650 (8 months old) while gaming my cpu temps fluctuates between 94 degrees and 97 degrees and my gpu goes up to 93 degrees which i feel is insanely hot can anyone tell me if this is normal?
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    [SOLVED] Dell inspiron 15 7567 : CPU jumps from 60° to 98° within 1 second of starting a stress test and cools down in 1 second aswell!

    So i have this laptop dell inspiron 15 7567! And it has i7 7700hq processor and recently i’ve been having thermal shut down issues with it. I can play any game for 8-12 mins. Max. Now when i try to run any stress test for cpu either prime95 or intelburn, as soon as i hit start test temp goes...
  28. Rak11

    [SOLVED] CPU upgrade

    So recently my dell inspiron 15r se died which has a core i7 3632qm (3rd gen ) And i have a laptop Toshiba Satellite c640 which has a core i5-2430M .so the question is should i swap the i5 with an i7? Will it work both processors has a tdp of 35 w i7 sits in rPGA989 and i5 is in ppga 988? What...
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    [SOLVED] Fix potentially broken HDMI port

    When i connect any monitor to my laptop it displays purple colored dead pixels, and sometimes the screen flickers when i touch the HDMI cable. I've tried multiple cables and displays but the problem keeps persisting. When i connect the cables and monitors to another laptop it seems to work fine...
  30. jamalmohdssb

    Question Massive fps drop while gaming idk why max temp it goes to 70- 75 degree C, I dont know what is the reason, Should i buy a cooling fan or something

    I own hp laptop, model number 15-da0014ne, i7-8550U CPU@ 1.80Ghz, 16gb ram, with Mx 130 4gb.
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    Question Laptop shutting off on AC Power

    Hi Guys, I have been having this problem for a while with my school laptop, and the occurrences are becoming more frequent and therefore I am losing more progress on my work. It is becoming increasingly annoying and inconvenient, and I need a fix. A little background info, I have a LEADER...
  32. J

    [SOLVED] Having CPU issues on laptop, please help.

    I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.30 GHz for my CPU and a Geforce GTX 1660 ti with Max-Q design for my GPU. When playing games initially I found that I was getting 2 or 3 frames on games like Rust or Call of Duty, so I switched my power options to High Performance which...
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    [SOLVED] Where can i find informations like how many slot for ssds/rams etc my motherboard has?

    Hello guys, I'm struggling with finding informations about my motherboard. I was thinking about upgrading my laptop but i can't find any info about the motherboard. I'm curious how many slots for ssd it has. If it has a single or dual channel rams... etc ... My laptop is Lenovo IdePad L340...
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    [SOLVED] GPU Clock Won't Go Up After Changing The Offest

    I wanna overclock my gt740m in my old laptop I don't really care about and I have overclocked the memory clock for the card successfully. But the gpu clock won't increase even though I cranked up the offset. So I feel like I'm leaving performance on the table here. I've tried nvidia...
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    [SOLVED] Low FPS on Laptop Gaming with High Resolution Monitor

    Hi Guys, I have 8 yrs old Toshiba Laptop 1+1GB graphic card which have 1366x768 resolution. When i plug it to 4K Samsung monitor, it allows me to choose any resolution in windows and in games. Problem is; when i set to a higher resolution than 1366 games begin to have dramatically low fps. If...
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    [SOLVED] Adapter for a 3 prong laptop charger

    Is there any adapter that can eliminate the massive power cable on a laptop charger? https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Gateway-Notebook-Computer-Charger/dp/B01JBDY3GS/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=3+prong+cable&qid=1571627231&sr=8-3 ^this thing but without a cable. I am trying to make my desk cleaner so...
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    [SOLVED] What Laptop for 4-6 x 2K monitors

    Just curious if anyone had any recommendations for laptop/docking station/monitor combos that could run 4-6 external 2K monitors? I was thinking one of the new Dell XPS 15 i9 8 core processor laptops or would I even need that much power??? For the monitors I was thinking I could even run 4 wide...
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    Looking for a laptop for my wife

    HI guys need a powerful lapptop for wife. she wants to code. Most priority it should be i7 8750h or above 16gb plus ram very good cooling and battery life. she doessnt want to game but i know she will regret later so i want atleast a decent gpu for her like 1650, 1060 or above my point of view...
  39. J

    Question Laptop Hard Drive upgrade Question

    Alright, so I have a 200gb hard drive that is pre-installed in my laptop. Now I have a 1tb that I haven't put in yet due to a issue I think I will run into. If I take out that 200gb, I know I will lose all my games, pictures, music, but will I have to buy a new copy of windows 10? Or will it...
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    Question Random Laptop Lag Spikes - Please Help

    I just received a brand new Lenovo Yoga 730 laptop for Christmas 2018, I've had it for about 6 months now and I have had absolutely no issues whatsoever. This was the case until this past Thursday (4/18/19), I would randomly receive lag spikes while using my laptop. I've tried testing on other...