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Forum discussion tagged with Touchscreen.
  1. J

    Question Lenovo Touchscreen no longer exists - Windows update deleted it. Flex 5-14ARE05 Laptop (ideapad) - Type 81X2

    I've had this on the back burner for a year or two but a BIOS / Windows update removed my touchscreen, System is a Flex 5-14ARE05 Laptop (ideapad) - Type 81X2. This has happened more than once on my multiple Lenovo laptops and years ago I was able to restore it but not this time. I have done...
  2. C

    Question 65" touch screen: cannot drag & drop in Windows10 browsers

    Hi all, We have installed a beautiful iiyama 65" touchscreen which works great except for what we want to use it for: for dragging appointments around in Google Calendar. The dragging and dropping works great except in Google Chrome, Firefox and Edge. When zooming into a website, it seems to...
  3. willeatpants

    Question How do you turn off a Surface Pro touchscreen AND make sure it stays off????

    Short version. I need to keep my Surface Pro touch screen disabled. Ive disabled and uninstalled the driver, but it keeps on reinstalling and turning on. How can I stop this. I DONT want the touchscreen to be on EVER. Reason. It is stalling the boot on the surface logo. - It fixed it after...
  4. J

    Question HP Envy M6 laptop (m6-n113dx) Screen opens and closes random windows on its own and goes crazy

    I have an HP Envy M6 laptop I have been having problems with that makes it almost unusable. After using the laptop for awhile my screen goes crazy and starts closing windows and reopening them, clicking all over. It's like the laptop has a mind of its own sometimes. I have to restart the...
  5. T

    Recommendation unique laptop Java project

    Hello everyone I have to make a Java project for a client of mine, yet he doesn't have the device that he needs yet. It should be a laptop (Windows OS) with a keyboard (obviously), a rear camera (quality not so important), and a touchscreen. The budget is between 200-400 euros. If someone has...
  6. T

    Question Is it possible to change the Glass-Digitizer from one device to the another?

    I have two identical tablets ( galaxy tab s4) The first tablet functions, but it's with broken Glass-Digitizer the second tablet is with broken LCD Display, but the Glass-Digitizer is untouched. Is it possible to take the glass digitizer from the tablet with broken lcd and put it on the other...
  7. Ctimmerberg

    [SOLVED] Need opinions

    I am a novice with computers. I wanted a desktop with a big screen but cannot seem to find any to suit my needs so am looking into larger laptops. I work from home with a Skype type platform. I need a touchscreen, integrated webcam, can handle having multiple tabs open without slowing down, a...
  8. D

    [SOLVED] touch screen nonsensitive - Xiaomi Pocophone

    so i recently got the pocophone f1, its been pretty good with the exception of the extremely annoying touch screen, which is very sensitive. For example when i am playing music and put the phone in my pocket without closing the screen, the music starts skipping and pausing due to the...
  9. A

    [SOLVED] does using a cracked touch screen damage it even more

    Hi, i use a Surface pro 4,, and there's one large crack that goes diagonal across the screen. The crack has been there for about 8 months, but I've still been using a surface pen on it regularly. but recently i've noticed during the black screen on startup, theres green and pink pixels...
  10. K

    Question USB Switch

    Hi Everyone I hope you’re well and happy. Does anyone have any experience with using two computer with one keyboard? We are using a touchscreens connected to a pc works great but we also connect laptops to the screens to mirror the display via HDMI. The touchscreen function works on both...
  11. asem1123

    Question How do I shut down my iPhone if the touchscreen is 100% broken

    I can't find an option for iOS or iPhone so I'm posting this in the Macbook category. My iPhone's touchscreen completely stopped working and I'm wondering how to shut it down, because it needs to swipe and if the touchscreen is dead, obviously you can't swipe and if I tried hard reset it will...
  12. aafusc2988

    Question Battlefield 1 in 2019

    Worth it for $9? It looks pretty fun and I think it averages around 3,000 players still on PC.. I do have V and I have hardly touched it though (have like 4 hours on that - paid $19 for someone's RTX code on eBay).
  13. R

    [SOLVED] Can pesticide from a sprayer damage my PC?

    I got a weird question. So, I have an exterminator coming into my apartment to spray my kitchen for roaches and we're required to leave for 3-4 hours after he's done and I was just wondering if I should be concerned about my PC being damaged in any way. It's located in my bedroom and he is...
  14. LordMikeus

    [SOLVED] Looking for a 1440p 144hz monitor

    Gonna answer the guidelines first. 1. What Is Your Country Of Origin? England 2. What do you plan to do with this monitor? (ex. Games, Movie Watching, Photo Editing, etc.) Gaming 3. What resolution and screen size do you want? 27" 1440p 4. What refresh rate do you want? (ex. 60 hz , 70 hz.)...
  15. A

    Question Can I wire one power button to two devices?

    I’m putting together a custom TARDIS case (worklog over here if anyone’s interested). I wanted the TARDIS sound to play as the system starts up. That means needing a dedicated device to play the audio during bootup, so I bought one of these. I have two questions: 1. If I splice the button...
  16. A

    [SOLVED] BSOD on new build

    Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post, if not please point me in the right direction. I built a PC early last week and everything went great. A few days ago I started getting some BSOD crashes. Also around the time I purchased a WMR Unit (Samsung Odyssey +). Below are the details...
  17. S

    RTX 2060 or ryzen 2600 for streaming?

    Hello guys I have a question I need to know.I recently made a build with the ryzen 5 2600 and RTX 2060 and I want to start streaming games.I got Streamlabs OBS, I used this before for streaming and I would like to know if it would be better streaming using my CPU or my GPU.My CPU had 6 cores and...
  18. T

    Asus Z97-E MOTHERBOARD USB 3.0 connector 20-1 pin

    I bought a thing that plugs into the 20-1 pin USB 3.0 connector on the motherboard that gives me two additional USB ports at 3.0 speed. They worked great until the USB port on the left stopped working. The one on the right still works. I bought a new thing and the left USB port is broken...
  19. V

    PC keeps waking up from sleep

    Since the last windows 10 update a couple of days ago, my PC keeps waking up on its own, i checked the lastwake command in cmd and it gave me this...I don't know what it is, I already disabled all USB devices to be able to wake my PC except for the keyboard... can anyone tell me what it is or...
  20. D

    [SOLVED] ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition + NVME SSD + Windows 10 inquiry

    I have an ASUS R4BE and a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250gb on which I have Windows 8.1 installed. One PCIE lane is taken by my GTX 780 and my processor is an i7-4930k. My main use is for photo/video editing + 3d rendering. So I have a few questions : 1)I want to upgrade my SSD and am considering an...
  21. A

    [SOLVED] Low FPS on games

    So I’m having very low fps on Minecraft sometimes only 0-20 fps and it’s really laggy. I try playing mod packs and it can run for a few minutes with good fps a few stutters but then it just goes to either 1-2 fps. Why? I can run CS:GO On med-high settings with around 50-100 fps Here’s what I...
  22. J

    What monitor should I get?

    I am going to be receiving a new PC soon that is going to have the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti GPU. Because of this, I am going to be upgrading my monitor. I currently have an AOC 1080p 75hz. I am trying to decide between two options: 1) 1440p (2k) monitor at 144-165hz 2) 1080p monitor at 240hz...
  23. E

    Dell 7910 motherboaRD MOLEX CABLE

    So i have dell 7910 and got my self essence stx 2 sound card that is powered by molex but my MB does not have any molex cables my ssd are all full i was going to use 2-Inch SATA to Molex i do have p11 6pin cable free but i will use it for video card. what can i do here to conect my sound card...
  24. R

    Constant Loop of errors in windows 8.1

    So, I just built a PC with windows 8.1 (yes, 8.1) and I can't connect to the internet because I don't have the drivers for my network adapters, and when I try to Install drivers, wether I've downloaded them using another PC, or picked one of the ones on the computer already, it just says "The...
  25. A

    Why did pull out and pull in the cmos fix my issue?

    I built my pc 4 days ego, and last night when i switched on my pc motherboard light did on for few seconds then went off although cpu fan, case fan and led all worked but no display was shown. But the cpu fan and case fan n led kept running. So i checked all the wires, put the ram out and back...
  26. J

    Cleaned Drive through Diskpart, NO BOOT, NO CMD, NOTHING, HELP!!

    So its a bit of a story, here goes: I bought a desktop and it wasnt reformatted. Step 1: Enter Win7 CD. - Would not let me select SSD - Had error message(forgot now) - Googled it and it instructed me to access CMD in windows start up, diskpart, select disk, clean, restart, install. Step 2: Did...
  27. G

    Windows 10 Bugs You to Try Edge Before Other Browsers

    Windows 10 version 1809, currently available to Windows Insiders, prompts users to give Edge a try before installing Chrome or Firefox. Windows 10 Bugs You to Try Edge Before Other Browsers : Read more
  28. E

    Lenovo y700 not charging

    Had this laptop for about a year now and it has worked wonderfully. But the past few weeks it has randomly stopped charging for about a second or 2 then it starts charging again. Except just now, it stopped charging altogether. There are a few times here and there where it would charge for a...
  29. M

    SSD for games storage, any noticeable difference between SATA SSD and m.2?

    I'm going to to buy a 500GB SSD today for storing my games. I don't know if I should buy a SATA or m.2 SSD. It's either an EVO 860 500GB SATA or and EVO 970 500GB m.2. Price difference between the two is about $85. I currently use a small OCZ SATA SSD for games, but 120GB is just not enough. For...
  30. V

    Steam save file location

    I just bought a 120gb ssd which primary objective was to be only a windows drive. When I installed steam it automatically moved all the save games and what not to the new ssd documents folder. It took about 40 gigs of my 120 gb. My steam is not even installed on the same drive as windows Is...
  31. S

    new cpu causing ram slot error

    after installing new i3 4130 I was getting ram slot error..but ram slot works with my old g3240 processor..
  32. A

    BIOS update failure - Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5

    I am on the "F5" version of the bios, trying to use appcenter version of @BIOS to update the bios. Everything appears to be working, connects to server in U.S.A. just fine, downloads, then starts "reading", then the loading bar fills completely, then @BIOS closes. No matter how long I leave it...
  33. T

    Question about new GPU

    Hi there. So im looking at buying a new gpu. MSI VGA Graphic Cards RX 580 ARMOR 8G OC. Says recommended power is 500w. If my current power supply is 600w. Do i need upgrade my power supply or am i good to go?
  34. C

    Connecting my pc and macbook to a single monitor

    Hey guys it would great if i can have some suggestions on this. So i have recently built a gaming pc thats connected to my monitor right now and now i want to see if its possible to connect my macbook air to the same monitor and swap between the two computers while using the same keyboard and...
  35. F

    my printer wount start to print before i dont confrim it with the big button

    i have a epson m2400 A4 paper format When i hit print it set a qeeue for the printing and then i need to hit a button so thet it start. How can i set it up o when i press print thet it start to print. Thank you :)
  36. V

    Mechanical keyboard switches

    Hey guys, I'm planing to buy a Corsair K70 Lux RGB keyboard with cherry mx blue switches. Why i want blue switches? Because i like the feel and the sound of the switches. When you press the button it just feels satisfying.Now the question. I'am a "youtuber" i can say and im wondering will the...
  37. A

    no device found

    i accidentally deleted conexant smart audio in the device manager..whenever i install driver downloaded from the internet it says cannot install no device found.please help me to fix it..im stuck
  38. W

    How to open "modern windows apps" links in a text editor ?

    I tried to edit those links (desktop shortcuts) with 3 different text editors (notepad, wordpad and notepad++) always getting the same error "catastrophic failure" . Note that links to "modern windows apps" are different from common links that open without problem. But they are still files. So...
  39. B

    Short circuited pc, what needs replacing?

    Recently I short-circuited my pc, or I'd assume so as there was a loud crackle sound and a strong smell of burning, with the burning smell coming from the cpu. I'd assume that I will need to replace the psu and cpu, but what is the likelihood that the motherboard or gpu will need replacing...
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    Amazon Father's Day Deals: Save Big on Echo, Fire HD and More

    The best deals in Amazon's Father's Day sale. Amazon Father's Day Deals: Save Big on Echo, Fire HD and More : Read more