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Help please. My laptop suddenly restart while I'm idling. A message appears: "your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you" This repeats in a loop. My laptop won't boot now. Aspire E1-472G. Windows 8.1

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I have a Toshiba Satelite laptop and a few days ago a single grey line appeared across the lower portion of my screen. Yesterday, another grey line appeared across the upper portion of my screen. Does anyone know what this is?

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I wander if anybody can assist me? but about 2 weeks ago, my Laptop started making a horrendous & loud whistling noise. Personally, I'm not sure what's causing this, apparently it's something to do with the fans &/or Skype, but then, I'm not sure. It started when I was using …

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I think my laptop hdd has failed, even though it's only 3-3.5 years old. I took the hdd out and put it in an external hdd enclosure and connected it to my desktop. It still makes a clicking noise and my desktop doesn't show it in My Computer. But, I …

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Need some advice on laptop purchase decision: Has any one used Toshiba Tecra laptops or Fujitsu lifebook laptops? It appears these companies dont even update the websites but their products do look interesting. Suggestions outside these companies very much appreciated too :) Ideal specs: i5 or i7 processor, 8 or …

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hi after i got back my toshiba a205-s4587 laptop from toshiba after they changem my motherboard... now i found that 5 keys on the keyboard dont work (i checked them on live cd of linux too): home, pgup, pgdn, end, \ is there a way i can fix them myself? …

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So here is what happened... One day I was using the laptop for animating and such, I felt tired so I went to the bed.. When I had to go to the toilet I came back to use the laptop 15 or so minutes later BOOM it shut off. I …

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hi my laptop keeps shutting down automatically. its not necessarily a heating issue because its generally lukewarm when it shuts down on its own. what happens is that I run a few programs at the same time and hear this growling revviing of my cpu fan and it shuts down …

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I want to buy a new lenovo laptop could you please suggest best laptop for dual booting.I am looking for Windows10+Ubuntu.What is your suggestion.I want learn linux.

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laptop fails to shut down normally. On starting it, it does not boot beyond the windows 8 load screen

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I have an HP G61 That ran Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. For the past couple of months it would make a buzzing noise that sounded like it was coming from the hard drive. I would have to hit the laptop on the left side beside the touchpad before it …

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Hello Community, I have recently been experiencing extream speed decrees in my internet and general laptop use. I try to load eg. this website to post this and it took just under a minute to fully load. Sometimes for somereason my laptop mouse will freeze up, it will let me …

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[Click Here](null)i am using hp nc6400 laptop. its battery was dead. i am using it with charger. from few days, when i connect the charger, the processor fan starts and stops after few seconds but no dispaly

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I have a dell d600 laptop that seems to be shorted out...it wont work with battery or plugged in. No lights appear on laptop. Seems like no power to laptop when plugged in. Wont charge battery either. When I attached plugged in power unit to laptop it seems to short …

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I have a Tecra 8100 laptop. I've just upgraded its Toshiba DVD-ROM (SD-C2402) drive to CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive (Toshiba model: SD-R2102). Now I get "IDE #1 Error" anytime computer boots up. And, it won't boot from a CD. It is working fine from Windows (XP) after it's re-seated. Is anyway to …

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Is it possible to obtain a backlit laptop Keyboard replacement for a standard laptop keyboard? like the Dell XPS L502X (Backlight) Keyboard. My computer is not that old but I use it late at night and the backlit keyboard would come in handy. Does anyone know if it is possible …

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I am trying to connect my laptop to my television by HDMI, i've done it before and it worked. But now I'm having some problems:: When I connect the HDMI cable to my laptop, my laptop's screen goes black, as if it didn't receive any image signal (neither the tv). …

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I have cheaked my sound driver in my system and looks alright but couldn't get sound output even in earphone as well.give mwe any suggestion my leptop modal lenovo G50.........

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I still can work on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite) because I had a window open, but the background screen is black. There is no 'Start' button, no desktop and the 'right click' does nothing. Totally emptiness, but I still see the pointer on the black screen. If this open window …

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Anyone please, help my acer aspire one stuck at window xp logo loading. I try everthing in F8 button, it didn't work, even in safe mode stuck at 'window starting up'. Please anyone, help me, i don't want waste my money to fix this (T-T)

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Please help, My toshiba laptop starts up ok but the output on the screen display is dark & doesnt light up to show clearly. I can only see a little by tilting it slightly sideways across the light.

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Hi Guys,...Just wanna ask if what brand should I look for in a laptop. And what specs should I look for if I'll use it in programming, gaming, photo editing. Thank you in advance.

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The 2nd monitor on my Windows 7 laptop stopped working today. It just showed black when I started the laptop. It has previously been working fine and I have not recently made any hardware or software changes. So far I have tried: - Checking video & power cables are connected …

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hi please tell me what and where the Right Shift key is...trying to get rid of question mark turning into french accent

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Hi, I am studying Computer Engineering (2nd year). I would like to buy a laptop but dont really know anything about the laptop market. I was wondering if there is any specific laptop that would be recommended for programmers? i will use it mainly for my programming work and a …

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If I'm about to order a laptop without HDD/SSD. I could've added one into the list of purchases, but for this laptop, they offer only 128GB and 256GB. Which will not suffice for me :(. There's many drives I've seen around which are 480GB, 512GB and even 1000GB (not exactly …

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hi, I'm using Windows7, My laptop is better in speed and working process when i install sql server2008 my system becomes very slow how can i recover this problem i need my system should be faster and also i need sql server,,. Please help me Thanks in advance

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i have laptop Hp. when i used the battery is working , but when i wan charge not power, and no any indecation about the damage, becaue i chage cockit to anther computer is working find. Help; thanks Aborami

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This morning my HP Pavilion 7915 worked fine. Then I got some kind of update from Adobe and tried to run it. It said it was already there, and asked if I wanted to overwrite or put it elsewhre. I could do neither. Also, I believe I may have had …

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Laptop that power on but no display follow this step by step tutorial http://itrepairguide.com/laptop-power-on-but-no-display/

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hey guys I have a pc which is "Dell latitude E6400" its problem is that it doesn't start up now i've checked it to see if it is the screen by plugging the projector cable to it and opening the laptop but doesn't display;it now usually opens when ever it …

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I just got my new laptop (after toasting my 2008 model with a glass of water on the keyboard). It's a Dell Inspiron 5748. I was excited to see it came with a USB 3.0 port (plus two USB 2.0 ports). The excitement vanished, however, when I tried my first …

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Just got my nephew an HP Windows 8.1 laptop and either he can't remember the password that he just created or something is messed up. Is there a way to reset the password or do a hard reset if you can't even get logged in? Thanks.

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Wouldn't it be awesome if there were "cover" laptops? Like... you have the main computer station with CPU, HDD, GPU in it, and all that kind of stuff. And then you have laptop cover, having absolutely nothing in it, except keyboard, screen, HDMI/VGA IO with a small charger and mini-accumulator? …

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I have a windows 7 64 bit Laptop, & two internet wireless sourses. What I would like to know, if it is possible for a PC or Laptop to work properly with 2 wireless conections at the same time. Again, I apologise if I appear ignorant.

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I have a gateway nv5378u that boots up, fan runs, but the screen stays black. I've tried all the tips of removing the battery and holding the power button....nothing. The LED screen was recently replaced. Can anyone help with this please??

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Okay, so here's the problem: I have an HP dv6000 series/ model dv6910us laptop. I hadn't used the notbook in about 2 weeks because I was moving to college so it was in my car for a day. When I decided to boot it up everything worked fine...except the internet. …

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Hi, my Dell Laptop won't respond and I don't know why. It worked fine this morning and then I left it on for about an hour and when I came back it was just unresponsive. Even CTRL, ALT, Delete didn't do anything, so I had to turn it off at …

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Hello - I am working on my son's Asus laptop running win-7. Booting into user mode, it's not running well at all - extremely slow to boot, Chrome runs very slowly - nothing runs well. In safe mode, it's not half bad. When I got this from him last week, …

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Hi there I'm new to this, so I hope I'm writing in the correct section. I've been looking for a cheap used laptop to run AutoCAD on, but I can't seem to like one for the price I just need a bit more about minimum specs like CPU, GPU, RAM …

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Hi Guys! I want to buy a new laptop. Price doesn't matter. This is the configuration that I want. 8GB RAM 1TB HDD DDR3 Intel 3rd Gen i5 or i7 processors NVidia 2 GB dedicated graphics card Can u guya help me whic laptop should I buy with this configuration?? …

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My laptop screen keeps going black. I tried restarting it and taking the battery out. Then I tried to unhook the screen from the computer itself and connecting it to another monitor but when i did that it would start with the windows loading screen then cut to black. Can …

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I have just found out that my ASUS laptop came pre-installed with a fake copy of Windows 7 x64 Pro. (Finding the original retailer is not an option.) So, I now want to get rid of it and replace it with a genuine version. I am not sure how to …

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Hi all, Kimangel is here, would like ask your help on my laptop problem. My acer laptop shutdown automatically, sometimes in just seconds, minutes, or hours. I already clean up the cpu fan, and the motherboard. The cpu fan stops after a second when turn on, that is on Bios …

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I am developing web based mess management application where i need to make attendence through finger print identifications , for this purpose i want to use my laptop HP Probook 4530s build in finger print reader as for development and testing purpose .... is it possible or not ?

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hy everyone..i kept thinking of how i could come up with a laptop tracker that i can fit in the motherboard to give me a feedback of the laptop's location whether the laptop is on or off.is it possible if so,give me ideas

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We got a new laptop, the Acer Aspire V5-122P-0408. It has: AMD Dual-Core A4-1250 1GHz, 4GB DDR3, and 500GB HDD. Based on those specs, this computer should have zero issues doing things like facebook or watching videos. It should even be able to play vanilla Minecraft on low video settings. …

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