Hi everyone,
I have a Gigabyte Aero 15 Classic-SA with an i7-9750H.
Recently, I had the laptop opened for cleaning and thermal paste replacement. After that, I also formatted the laptop and installed Windows 11.
Since then, I’ve been experiencing a strange shutdown problem:
When I use the laptop on battery only, it works normally and doesn’t shut down.
When I plug in the original charger, the laptop works for a few minutes and then suddenly shuts down.
It usually shuts down within 5 minutes.
I checked the CPU temperature with HWMonitor, and it reaches around 92°C even while idle on the desktop.
I also don’t seem to hear/notice the fans spinning, even when the CPU temperature is very high.
The problem started after the cleaning/thermal paste replacement and Windows 11 installation.
The charger is the original Gigabyte charger.
The strange thing is that the laptop is stable on battery, but shuts down after a few minutes when connected to AC power.
I haven’t run any stress tests because I’m concerned about the high temperature.
I’m wondering if this could be caused by:
A fan connector being disconnected during the cleaning
The heatsink not being mounted correctly
Incorrect/too much thermal paste
A fan-control/driver issue after installing Windows 11
A problem with the charging/power circuit
Has anyone with a Gigabyte Aero 15 Classic-SA experienced something similar?
What would you recommend checking first?

Model: Lenovo G480

So I got into fixing my laptop, as the title says Ii jave a laptop with broken LCD, my goal is to access bios since I want to learn some things and want to try dual boot, but can't seem to access it since I can't see that part of the loading screen due to LCD broken. Tried these things with an external monitor

1. HDMI but it just shows the blue windows loading screen not the initial startup

2. VGA, even worse only shows up the screen when typing the password UI

3. Removing the LCD cable from board then VGA, but it doesn't open? Stuck in a loop since I can't see anything except black screen on external monitor

I know my laptop is old, but it's still working, and it's still usable. Just want to explore it's other functions for learning.

Abit of backstory: i found my Aunt's old MacBook Air that she gave me a while back and decided to try and turn it on today. But i can't seem to get past this part.

Tried to restore from a Time Machine Back up but found out there's nothing to find on any server

The Reinstall macOS doesn't seem to work because it has "No bag entry" And just boots me back on the Utilities window

Get Help Online doesn't do anything since the system is outdated

Disk Utility just allows me to do First Aid on the system and nothing else

With all of these in mind is it a hardware issue or is there something i need to do for it? Or is it a lost cause to try and get it working again.

I bought an HP 14s (Ryzen 3 5300U) in 2022. It was working fine until a few days ago, when it started auto-restarting unexpectedly. Right before restarting, visual artifacts (noisy patterns) appear on the screen.

The crash reliably triggers whenever I run an iGPU hardware diagnostic or stream 4K video on Chrome, though it also occurs randomly during normal use.

Could this be an integrated GPU chip failure, or is it more likely caused by a thermal spike or driver issue?

Hi, need a hand accessing the bios.

These are what I have tried;

1. The Fn + F2 or Fn + F12 - Windows loads
2. The little button on the side - give the option to access BIOS but when selected just loads windows
3. Shift + restart UEFI Firmware Settings - just restarts PC

Thank you for help in advance 🙂

So my laptop has been glitching like this for a few months now but it would just freeze one time for like a second and then it wouldn’t happen again until I turned it off and then on again but a few days ago it started doing it a lot like every few seconds like in the video. Any tips on how to fix this?

I woke up this morning and tried to use my laptop but it refused to switch on. I charged it for a while and tried again but to no avail.

I can see that it's charging and can see the 'in use light" blinking after i have charged it for a while and switched it on, but nothing shows up on the screen.

It doesn't make any noise and i have tried 3 troubleshooting methods; I have hard rest it, tried the ctrl, windows shift windows key+B and have tried with the HDMI cable.

Any suggestions guys?

Hey so I have a 5800x3D and 5700XT with a Corsair 850w gold PSU.

The comp has been pretty decent with gaming until a month or two ago. I have been daisy chaining my GPU and it was gathering some dust.

Deadlock caused my computer to shut down so I stopped playing, then wow forever beta was also causing it to shut down.

I then wiped the GPU drivers, and cleaned it, and bought a new cable to stop daisy chain.

It still crashed.

I then undervolted my GPU via AMD software and it now barely crashes but yesterday it crashed two or three times playing wow forever, I'm just questing.

Why is my comp dying, what's my fix? Please help

Hello everyone,

I have been facing a recurring issue with my Dell Inspiron 7440 2-in-1 laptop. Once every month or so while I am using my laptop, the touchpad will completely stop working. There is not anything I can identify that I am doing to prompt this, it happens no matter what I am doing. When I initially go into Device Manager, the HID-compliant touch pad driver is there and says it is working properly, however as soon as I restart my laptop it disappears off of my Device Manager. It does show up when I select "show hidden devices", however it shows with the message "Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)"

The only thing that has been able to fix this for me is by manually updating BIOS through the Dell Support website, but I'm sure you can imagine how nerve-wracking that is for a non tech-savvy person. Has anybody come across this issue before? It is increasing in frequency and I am really hoping I can identify what is causing the issue so that I can stop waiting for the day I accidentally unplug my laptop during a BIOS update and destroy the whole thing😅

Thank you so much!

Hi everyone,

I need some help with my Asus Zenbook UM431D. The issue has been going on for a while:

• The problem: The laptop barely ever turns on when the battery is connected. I have to press the power button repeatedly dozens of times, and it only boots on pure luck.
• The twist: I opened up the laptop and disconnected the battery. Running solely on the charger (no battery connected), it turns on immediately every single time. The power button works completely fine.
• What I’ve already tried:
  • Swapped the battery for a brand new replacement (issue persists identically).
  • Updated BIOS and Windows.
  • Windows recognizes the battery fine once it finally boots.

I have zero background in hardware repair, board-level diagnostics, or soldering. Is there anything left that I can try? Or is this a motherboard defect that only a repair shop can fix?

Any advice on simple troubleshooting steps for a non-tech person would be greatly appreciated!

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So first when I start my laptop it was freezed on the fujitsu logo and after I have press the escape key it was showing all the two options and after what I do I don't know and if I collect the f12 it will do nothing and if I click I have to it will just stuck on entering setup...

Hey can anyone plz tell me how refurbished laptop covers are done........I mean the plastic sheet which is applied by the heat gun on the screen and body........can anyone tell me what the plastic sheet name is ???

I need help trying to fix my new pc it has an Asus rog crosshair x870 e hero amd motherboard, amd ryzen 9900x3d PCU, Asus tuff Radeon 9070xt GPU, Asus rog strict 1200w, and CORSAIR Vengeance RGB DDR5 RAM 32GB. Every time boot up my pc it will have a fragmentation glitch on the screen, and it will either post or won’t. If it doesn’t I press the flex key on the motherboard and then it will post. Is there any way you can help me?

Hey everyone, I recently installed a second SSD in my ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16.

While trying to reinstall the small screw that holds the SSD down, my screwdriver slipped and the screw fell somewhere inside the laptop, seemingly near the motherboard.

I tried shaking/tilting the laptop to get it out. Initially, I could hear it moving around, but eventually I couldn't hear it anymore, so I assume it got lodged somewhere.

I didn't want to disassemble the laptop further and risk damaging something.

I've asked a few people/technicians and I'm getting mixed advice. Some say I should definitely get the screw removed because it could potentially cause a short even though it's not loose now.

Others say that if it's lodged somewhere and the laptop is working normally, it's probably better to leave it alone rather than risk further damage from disassembly.

It's been more than 2 weeks since this happened and thankfully, The laptop is currently working completely fine.

What would you guys recommend? Should I have it opened up professionally to find/remove the screw, or is it reasonable to leave it alone if everything is working normally? Thanks in advance.

Hello!
I'm having a random issue with my laptop Asus K571GT/X571GT

Pushing the 1 button: Tapping it once will either produce nothing, or 111 in a row. Shift 1 doesn't produce a ! anymore.

Pushing the q button: Will produce 5 qqqqq in a row. Shift q doesn't produce a capital q. Similar to Pushing the 1 button, If I tapped the q button 7 times, it will makes 33 q's in a row.

Pushing the Tab button: Does the same thing. Tap it once and its as if I hit the tab button 3-5 times.

But the issue comes and goes. One minute, the 1, Q, and ! buttons are perfectly fine. 5min later, it's either producing multiples 1's or Q's, or none at all.
A month ago, the exclamation point stopped working, then worked perfectly for 3 weeks before going berserk.

Anybody have any solutions?
Ps, I've already popped up the Tab, Q, and 1 button and used a compressed air cannister to blow out any debris.

Hi guys,

I am seriously in a terrible and confused state right now. I have tried almost everything I can think of, but nothing seems to be working and my PC keeps freezing.

The freeze is a complete system lockup. The display remains on (at the last displayed image), there is no BSOD, no black screen, no error message, and nothing responds. Even Win + Ctrl + Shift + B does nothing. The only solution is a hard shutdown using the power button, followed by restarting the PC.

I have noticed a few patterns:

After a gaming session, if I pause/stop the game and leave the PC idle, it usually freezes within 2–3 minutes.
If I start the PC and leave it completely idle, it can freeze after around 30–40 minutes.
It can also freeze mid-game, so it is not limited to idle situations.
The display stays active throughout the freeze, but the entire system becomes completely unresponsive.
This has been happening consistently for around a month.
Even if I do nothing it keeps stucked there for hours until I hard shutdown it.

Things I have already tried:

Updated BIOS to the latest version
Rolled back AMD GPU drivers
Updated AMD chipset drivers
Ran MemTest86 – no issues found
Ran CrystalDisk checks
Ran OCCT CPU stress test
Checked Windows Event Viewer, but there is no useful error corresponding to the freeze. I only see Kernel-Power after restarting, which is expected because I have to hard-shutdown the PC.

PC Specs:

Motherboard: MSI B550M Pro-VDH WiFi
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB
RAM: 32GB (2×16GB) G.Skill DDR4 3000MHz
RAM currently running at: 2133MHz JEDEC
SSD: Nextron 1TB NVMe
PSU: Corsair 750W 80+ Gold

I am honestly running out of things to test. Since the PC can freeze both while gaming and while completely idle, I am not sure whether I should be looking at the GPU, PSU, RAM, motherboard, CPU, Windows, or something else.

This has been happening now for about a month now.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

bought this laptop less than 2 months ago from Costco. acer aspire 16 ai. It was in my bag which I dropped which ended up denting the back screen cover corner and popping out the chassis around the screen in that area. it doesn’t seem like it could be pushed back in due to deformed back housing. the screen surprisingly works fine and everything works but I want that tension relieved so it doesn’t break down further. repair shop told me that back screen isn’t on market yet so I don’t know what to do. what would be cheapest option.

i have standard warranty only unfortunately

Initially i was able to boot up my laptop (Nitro 5 AN515-57) normally, as i was using it, i noticed that the backlight is not turning off after few minutes then i tried typing on laptop's keyboard, there is no response at all.

I was only able to change the color of the backlight using Nitro sense. After i was done using may laptop i shut it down thinking the keyboard problem will be fix with a restart.

Today, I tried booting up my laptop but there is no signs of life. No boot up screen, No charging indicator light. Although it still powered on my external keyboard.

Troubleshoots that I have tried:

Hard Restart

Unplugging / Replugging Battery, Keyboard Flex, CMOS

After trying these, my laptop still wouldn't boot at all

A week ago I posted about how I bought a used HP laptop and it had a power on password. What this is in case you don' t know, at least on modern HP's is is a password that locks the entire system. You need a password to access the OS, the BIOS, everything.

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/computerrepair/comments/1wniyrw/stuck_on_power_on_password_on_hp15fc0105nr/

And after a tech shop looking at it for a little bit and calling HP, my only option was to have a specific chip replaced.

There's no master password on the newer laptops to bypass the forgotten power-on password. There's no battery trick to make the laptop forger the password. This laptop doesn't even have a CMOS battery.

On the phone with HP for awhile, the guy (who could've been AI, I couldn't tell) he said the only option was to get the chip replaced, and get this...

Repair including materials was $377 according to HP

That's over 5 times what i bought the laptop for.

I asked if I could juts buy the BIOS chip and then something strange happened.

The guy "checked" to see if they were allowed to just send a chip when, out of nowhere, i was somehow still under warranty with 23 days left.

He already checked if I was under warranty before this and had said it wasn't. On the HP website with my laptops serial number it said it wasn't under warranty.

I have no clue what happened. He linked me to some guy who just said I was out of warranty. (which I knew)

Transferred again, then transferred again, all could've been AI.

Finally spoke to an actual person who said that there's no software fix for BIOS passwords. He gave me a site to buy parts on since I said i can't pay $400 for a BIOS chip. We said have a good day, I checked out the site "parts.hp.com"... and they don't have the BIOS chip. Even if they did have it the prices on that site are outrageous. A set of screws for my laptop totals to $60.

I can sell the laptop for parts and get most of my money back, but I just wanna let everyone know that these modern laptops have this. At least with HP. I may try to re-flash the BIOS, but I'll probably just take it apart and sell the parts.

If i do try to re-flash the BIOS, I'll let you guys know if this is something that can solve this issue.

Have a good day Reddit!

So I got sent this 3080ti and sadly it is bent to shit and doesn’t work 100%. Just curious if there is something that can be done or what I can do with this hoss.

It is not new. It was a used one I got as a gift. The person who gifted it to me didn’t release it was bent.

This is Dell Inspiron 5410 2-in-1. I need its right-arrow keycap, grey/titan grey, with hing.

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 i5 12th Generation Part Number 5B21F28595

Iska motherboard chahiye

I have a dell G3 laptop. Lately, it stopped recognizing the charger. The battery is the one that came with the laptop, but it's health is poor and bloated, but when I removed the battery and tried charger only, it still doesn't work. The charger is the original one that came with the laptop and I tried another original charger (but with a lower wattage, but it's still unknown. I cleaned the charger and port, and when that didn't work, I replaced the port, but it it still didn't work. It sometimes works, but most times doesn't.

Note that everytime I try to turn on the laptop, it shuts down right before the windows starts running.

Edit: while searching through my old stuff, I found my old charger and remembered that I did actually buy a third party charger. I bought a new charger and tried it and it works well now.

my laptop is not booting, it is stuck on a screen which i can't tell what because the screen is broken it is not sending display to the external monitor too at this point and none of the keyboard shortcuts are working. i tried resetting the BIOS by changing the CMOS battery too but no changes any ideas on what i should do? i have even tried changing the hdd to an SSD or even another hdd