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I have a Thinkbook 15 G2 ARE motherboard and there seems to be a power switch on the side of it. I plan to put it in a larger case but unfortunately I cant seem to find the pins for the actual power button. Does anyone know where it is or how to identify it? There is also a very small power...

Hello enthusiasts, My old Acer V5-471P-6605 laptop is running really slow these days. It's got an Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB hard drive. I mainly use it for browsing with Chrome, but even with just 6-8 tabs open, it's struggling. I'm looking for some advice on how to speed it...

I have a MSI GS65 RE laptop. A few days ago i blew up the chipset and that made it completey died, so i brought it to repair center and they replaced the chipsetwith the new one. After i got the laptop back, i tried to play Valorant. BUT THERE IS A POP UP MESSAGE THAT WONT LET ME OPEN THE GAME...

Need a laptop for college, I have a PC so it's not very vital but I need it to use it in college and not have to split my PC with my brother. I need something that should do well in games and last me for a while so I don't want an iGpu unless I can upgrade later somehow. Country: Ukraine, I...

I have upgraded my ram in my Acer nitro 5 laptop from this...

Bought a new laptop (linked below), and it keeps freezing (massive fps drop and my mouse freezes in place, screen freezes) while I play games, mostly League Of Legends. When playing, my CPU stays at around 30-40% usage, ram and 60%, and GPU at 60-70%. Randomly my entire computer will freeze...

I have a ASUS Vivobook s14 x411uf with i7-8550U CPU with 16 GB RAM I turned my laptop off with the keyboard button instead of shutting down, and when i turned it back on the touchpad wouldnt work, the cursor wont appear and it'd only work when i use a mouse. My drivers are up to date, the f9...

I have a laptop with: AMD Ryzen 5600H GTX 1650, 8GB DDR4 RAM 512GB SSD 144hz display Suddenly the FPS in all games fluctuates between ~20 and my normal fps which is 90+, in every game I tried to run this happened besides one game, League of Legends, I don't know what LoL has different but I...

So recently I've had problems with my Razor laptop power throttling which makes my core speeds dip down from 4,1Ghz to 3,2Ghz when stress testing. I don't understand the issue. I recently cleaned and changed thermal paste and my temperatures are in the mid 60s when under heavy load. The power is...

I'm tired of playing games with this laptop I got - I can only get ~75 fps max, with lag spikes... It can be deconstructed for modyfying thankfully. Recommend me things to replace! I was told increasing the RAM would help; IT'S ONLY GOT 8GB, so by how much would it help? I could also buy a PC...

Hello there, new to the whole Apple scene. I'm looking to switch from Windows to Apple for university and I've been looking at the Apple MacBook Pro lineups. Initially I was quite firm on the new base model MacBook Pro M3, with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD, but then I started watching YouTube videos...

Hello,I work with tech repairs as a hobby, and I plan for it to become a more serious endeavor in the future , like a real work. However, for that to happen, I need more people to reach out to me to solve their issues. Today, I discovered that I gave a wrong diagnosis to a colleague of mine at...

Hey guys, as the title says my laptop's (Thinkpad L460) battery is behaving in a weird way, it's discharging from 100% to 6% when unplugged, normally, it lasts for 3 hours at least, but then it's stuck on 6% and keeps working despite "your battery is running low" notification for 2-3 hours more...

I'm currently still working with my Lenovo ThinkPad X220, 16gb ddr3, 500gb ssd. And to be honest i still love it to this day. my little work horse. However i want to upgrade to something thats: Small/Medium in size. Decent GPU Hdmi, USB C (important) Preferably 32gb ram // Min 16gb AMD or...

Hello people! Sadly my water bottle leaked all over my Samsung Galaxy book a few weeks ago. As soon as it happened I went straight home and took the back panel off, took out the battery, unscrewed the main board. I put the laptop on its side, on a towel with a PC fan blowing on the internals...

Hi guys! I'm a student and i want to buy a laptop for photo/video editing and a bit of gaming. I came along these 2 laptops and i cannot decide between them, can u please help me understand which one is better and why? The softwares that I mainly use are: Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop...

Please read my signature to know what my laptop's name and specs. I have a South Korean laptop that has Nvidia GTX 1060 and an 8th-gen Core i7 CPU, which is pretty potent, in my opinion. But newer games need more demanding hardware, and I care less about gaming as time passes- I'm losing...

After 2 decades of reading the questions of others in the hopes of getting my answer this is my very first thread/post. I had a Toshiba L755D-128 Laptop from around 2012. I dug it out and I found it to be like Win98 type slow and the only media I tested was youtube which was constantly glitchy...

Hey everyone! Thanks for taking time to read through this. I've been suffering with a laptop stutter for at least 7 months and have scoured the internet for research. I finally figured out the root of the issue. It has to do with AMD and fTPM conflicting, thus causing a consistent gaming...

I wanted to clean out my laptop and replace it's thermal solution for college since I've been using it for more over a year now without checking its insides. I opened it up and successfully dusted it out, but was not able to replace the thermal solution because of one screw. After this, I have...

Hello, I've seen a lot of posts about this issue online and everything I have tried to fix the problem has not seemed to work. It's very odd and has had me banging my head against a wall for a while. So, during gameplay the game will be running perfectly, for example Beam.ng Drive. my GPU will...

I'm looking to buy a new laptop and would like to buy one that the CPU, RAM and storage are all upgradeable. Are there any models out there that come with these requirements ? I'd like to spend $1K - $1.5K if possible but will consider spending more if needed. Thanks.

Hello, I want your advice between building a custom pc or ready gaming laptop for my needs. I’ll be using it for photos and video editing ( iphone footage ) not interested in gaming for the moment maybe some light gaming but it’s not a priority. According to my budget and current prices in my...

I bought an Asus TUF gaming A15 laptop with the military standard durability back in October of 2023 which has been fantastic up until now. I usually get off work and hop on games. I got off for about an hour or two and when I went to turn on my laptop the next time it gave me all the prompts...

So basically everytime i turn off integrated graphics so that i could use my rtx 4050 only, it would set me back to 60hz without letting me putting it to 144hz it just sets my display to microsoft display adapter which is really annoying i want to use my rtx 4050 only not no igpu.

Hello, Which CPU would you choose (is better): Intel Core i5-1335U AMD Ryzen 7 7730U I found these comparisons: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5294vs5215/Intel-i5-1335U-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-7730U https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-i5-1335u-vs-amd-ryzen-7-7730u It seems...

I have a DELL Laptop vostro 3491 . Service Tag - 2P09B53 ( if that helps ) . I came with DDR4-2666 . I recently bought DDR4-3200 ram but HWinfo and windows task manager shows it runs at 2667 mode . And YES 1600Mhz is a jedec profile . Also check the attached photo .

I am browsing which laptop to buy. I browsed those that have i7-13 gen or i9-13 gen. Quite good, but I want to take a look at other options. What are Ryzen (or other manufacturers') models that are comparable to (or better than) i7-13 gen or i9-13 gen?

Hello all, first post here, please be kind :) I have a Dell XPS laptop with an i7 CPU, 16 gigs of ram and an SSD drive. I've had it for a few years (probably about 5) and have been using it mostly for web browsing, so nothing too demanding. Over the last year my computer has become increasingly...

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...