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Hi, i have an HP Pavilion 15-dk0xxx Gaming Laptop and I noticed that recently, that when i unplugged my laptop it shut itself off as soon as the warning to plug it for the battery instead of waiting for a minute before shutting itself off (which was the time it used to take before), so i knew...

Hello there, This is my first post here, so please don't bash me if I'm posting in the wrong place. I'm in the middle of a technical crisis here and need your help finding adaptors to this setup, as I'm out of my depth when it comes to hardware compatibility. I have a spare hardware that I...

Hi, I'm kinda new to laptop and looking to buy this low budget one, Model : Lenovo V15 G3 ABA 82TV0086TA It comes with 8GB of DDR4-3200 RAM soldered on-board, and also with 1 free SODIMM slot for upgradability. So, I'm wondering if I'll be able to add a single 16GB DDR4-3200 module into that 1...

Hello everyone! I'm a new here. Recently I've got a new laptop Lenovo Ideapad 14" with 13700h CPU. I like the laptop, but CPU is very hot and it makes laptop to run fans frequently, even with Turbo Boost disabled. What I've done: 1. Extracting the BIOS into txt file 2. Finding features that are...

I'm a student want to start Game Dev. I'm confused that should I prefer Processor or GPU in Laptop for game Dev. Please Help Me!!!

1) Lenovo Thinkbook 14 G6 with Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U or Core i7-13700H 2) Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 with Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U 3) HP Pavilion Plus 14 with Core i5-13500H 4) HP ProBook 440 G10 with Core i5-1335U 5) Asus Zenbook 14 with Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U 6) Acer...

After playing Team Fortress 2 I noticed that my "P" key and my "Backspace" key no longer work, I temporarily fixed this by alt tabbing in and out of the game however this didn't seem to provide a permanent solution and the 2 keys are still broken. I'm sure this is a not hardware issue as other...

https://streamable.com/ntt5ok It's been going on the past week... it started out where it'd make this sound for maybe 10 mins, then stop the rest of the day. It's gotten progressively longer each time, to the point where it's been 24 hours of this nonstop. I called a computer repair place and...

Hello, I bought a Lenovo Legion 5 a few months ago and recently started to have some issues with it. Sometimes (daily), out of nowhere, no matter what app or game I'm using/ playing, the laptop sound gets distorted and the image (and mouse cursor as well) stutters/ lags, like a massive frame...

Hello, I have a problem that I have had for years, and I don't know what to do with it. I recently had my laptop stored, after connecting it to the power and turning it on, it did not show an image on the screen, I tried trying to press the Fn + F4 keys and nothing, I also tried cleaning the...

Greetings! I received my 32 GB of Crucial DDR4 3200Mhz RAM (16GB × 2) yesterday and I have installed it on my HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec2004AX. To my surprise, it shows only 16GB RAM being available in the TASK Manager and system information. It shows 29.X GB RAM being committed with 670mb...

Hello, tom's hardware community! I have a problem with my GPU from a laptop that I recently bought. The laptop is the Acer Nitro AN515-58 with intel i5 12450h and rtx 3050. Everything I found on the internet wound't help on get to work this GPU. Nvidia drivers are up to date 546.33, Windows 10...

Hi. I'm using Windows 10. If I want to use my Dell Inspiron 7570 laptop only with laptop charger, there are two options: 1) Remove laptop battery physically This option works fine for me. I just need to plug in charger all the time so it doesn't shut down accidentally without turning off...

Hello everyone, about a month ago my Acer Aspire 7, with model number N19C5 stopped working. It wouldn't start anymore. I suspect it stopped working due to water damage. Yesterday, I was still feeling mad about the loss of all my data so I decided to take it out the closet and give it one more...

I used to undervolt my Dell-Inspiron 15-7579, and it ran like clockwork. But then, I flashed the new bios. Undervolting became locked. The laptop's cpu is now throttling. Need 1.27 or older BIOS .rcv to resuscitate it. Help?

About a week ago I started seeing an issue with some of my games, in which performance dropped pretty significantly. I tested my computer with Userbenchmark (will paste results in comments) and got a score of 1.3% for my graphics card. Any ideas why this could be happening? Even for my cheap...

laptop specs: msi bravo 15 c7v windows 10 pro activated ryzen 7 7735hs ddr5 16gb rtx 4060 1tb ssd and 144 hz screen when i play a game lets say Cod, i have 40 fps but the gpu usage is at 3% and cpu is at 30% and the fans doesnt even start i have: drivers updated high performance nvidia...

Hi there, 3y ago I've bought an Asus strix rog g15 512lv. The specs are intel i7-10870H, rtx 2060 6gb, 16gb ram, 3 ssd s nvme ( 1TB + 512x2 ). For almost a year, the laptop ran games without problems untill1 day where i had some display problems then mb. I got it to service where i had the...

Hi guys, any help with my situation is very much appreciated. Sorry if my post is a bit long TLDR in the bottom. BSOD issues are problems out of my league and I am terrified of them, I had one boot loop issue on my old laptop a few years ago and ended up loosing all my data and had to replace...

Hello all, I have encountered a problem on my Lenovo Legion Laptop - the 1660 TI looks like its having some issues. My screen has some weird purple dots and when looking at device manager it says 'Code 43'. I am also unable to connect to my monitor that I use as a second screen. My CPU is...

I'm using an Acer Aspire 5 A514-53G-50LY laptop with an Intel core i5-1035G1 processor and Nvidia MX350 GPU. when the game first launched there was no sign of slowing down until 1 minute of gameplay the game started to become laggy and when I checked the CPU clock using MSI afterburner the CPU...

Hello everyone! Hope ya'll are having a good day so far, I've recently replaced the thermal paste on my laptop (Lenovo Legion 5 Y520-15IKBN, CPU is I7 7700HQ) With some pretty cheap (4,95 euros) thermal paste, now, I am seeing my CPU on startup jumping to 90 ish C, and while gaming it goes up...

Hi, I, a noob, am once again coming on here to get help from professionals😆. so to put things into perspective shortly, i have this old laptop, while using i ran into a keyboard issue (where some keys stopped working except they worked when i pressed Fn + That Key and then that also stopped...

I have a asus fx507zi 2023 which has an i7 12700h and comes with 2 sticks of 8GB DDR4 3200mhz CL19. i want more ram, so im planning to get a 1x32GB stick of ram and get two of them since i cant seem to find a 2x32GB kit in my local store. i was wondering if there was any difference between cl19...

Hey guys so basically i was planning to undervolt my laptop, rtx 4050 and read in a couple reddits, how much to undervolt...

Hello! I have unusual problem with GPU, caused by PSU(that’s what i think). So the machine i use is laptop ASUS Tuf Gaming A15(2020) with fabric 150W charger for my model/FA506II/. I found in internet that close specification also use 180W charger. My problem with GPU is random utilization from...

My laptop has suddenly decided not to connect to my BT Smart Hub 2. I've tried both on the WiFi and wired. Both connections keep changing ip address every few seconds from the 192.168.1.### to a 169.#.#.# address, which I know suggests the DHCP is not working properly, but I can't seem to fix...

my laptop so odd when i turned on the charging indicator start blinking and gets black screen, so i reset the driver graphic ctrl+windows+shift+b repeately and it work but the screen is glitching when i check the temps its around 58 - 98 because i never replace the thermal paste (still order)...

Hello, I have a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop which has a problem with how fast it heats up. To combat this I used new thermal paste (a decent brand I tried before) and I clean it regularly but it has an issue with how the fans' speed slow down at unsuitable heat degrees for the cpu so I used replica...

I created a thread about 2 weeks ago on buying a replacement motherboard and going by what I have read on the forum, I have come to the conclusion that it really isn't worth it so now I am considering getting a refurbished / second hand i7 laptop. I have seen some on a place called backmarket...

I have an ASUS ROG G1713QM, I've had it for about 2 and a half years. Had no issues until I came back from work one day, and it was completely frozen up. I hard reset thinking that will fix it, and it boots and acts normal for about 10 minutes and then freezes again, doesn't respond to any...

Its been a bit of a challenge finding an exact replacement motherboard for my HP Envy 17 J-series laptop but I found a seller who sells a similar one (not the exact same type), I emailed the seller on ebay and sent a picture of my motherboard on the device and he says he doesn't see why the one...

I have a (Legion 5-15ITH6H Laptop (Lenovo) - Type 82JH ), when I connect the headphone output to a subwoofer with two speaker, I hear a continues noise when the laptop has no media playing , that noise disappears when I play any media on the laptop then it comes back after almost 30 seconds...

I'm having issues typing with a Dell Latitude 9430 laptop. In order to type a letter, open the start menu, backspace, etc. the keys only seem to input after being held for about a second. Sounds similar to the effect of FilterKeys based on what I've read since turning that off was the solution...

Hi, I recently bought an HP Pavilion Plus 14-ey0625nd laptop and I decided to change the standard 512GB M.2 SSD to a 1TB M.2 SSD. So I opened the laptop up and changed the M.2 SSD, reinstalled Windows and now my laptop is making little popping sounds. I don't think it's the speakers because...

So in the late 2000's, my grandma worked for IBM. She got me a laptop and the thing was a beast. I want one again I just need help identifying it from deep in my memory. I will try to describe it and hopefully you guys can help me find out what model it was. It had to be around 2008-2012 when...