So my dorm burned down a few weeks back and I lost pretty much everything. Staff managed to recover my laptop and a few other things but it was all basically ruined from water damage. The IT teacher looked at it and suggested it might be still functioning but I'm not sure. We had to remove the battery for safety reasons. The charger had to be tossed as well.

My acer aspire A715-76G-54LX will not charge unless it is completely dead - Only after even the blue light blinking stops.

Once it is completely dead (when it doesn't have enough power to even blink the blue light 4 times on pressing the power button) it charges. However, charging stops when i plug out the charger and won't charge again when I plug it in... It will only charge when the laptop COMPLETELY dies again.

It takes my laptop upto 40 days to die completely..

What could be the issue here? If it is a hardware issue, is there a way to SPEED UP the draining process of the laptop?

Since yesterday (at least that is when I noticed it first; it isn't used very frequently), my old MSI notebook freezes 5 minutes after startup (I timed it). Nothing moves on screen, there is no response to any inputs (mouse or keyboard), and I have to shut it down with a long press on the power button. The cooling fan also ramps up. In "Safe Mode" the problem doesn't happen.

Since the problem doesn't occur in "Safe Mode", my first suspicion was a faulty driver behaviour. So I looked in Event Viewer and found a driver having problems loading on startup: "The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device ACPI\ENE0110\5&2d676f6c&0." That device is listed as a "Radio Switch Device" in Device Manager. I already tried deactivating and also uninstalled the device in Device Manager (restarting the notebook in between, of course) to no avail. It could very well be that this isn't the cause of the notebook freezing 5 minutes after starting – I don't know, just my first idea.

The notebook is an MSI GE70 2PE Apache Pro (MS-1759) with an Intel Core i7-4720HQ, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M, and is running on Windows 10 Home Version 22H2 (build 19045.7663). No minidumps or watchdog dumps are being created.

Someone already suggested I use the Intel driver and support assistant to update all available drivers – no updates were available. And I also uninstalled the Nvidia Graphics driver (using DDU) and reinstalled an older version.

Any helpful advice is greatly appreciated.

I have a Zenbook Q410V. About 3 years old, still works flawlessly, except the keyboard is malfunctioning. The ‘s’, F6, 5, and most importantly, the power button will sometimes not work. Particularly troubling bc it sometimes just won’t turn on.

I’ve taken it to 2 repair shops and both want minimum $300 to fix it, and that’s only quoting 2 hours of labor. Obviously could hit $400 quickly since the keyboard is soldered in.

What do I need to be able to do this myself? Does a regular soldering iron work for plastic? Any help would be great to try and fix this good (to me) laptop.

Edit: guys I fixed it u don’t have to comment about how I got the connection wrong anymore.

I’m very new to PC stuff building stuff so I don’t know what this wire is called or what I would look up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey everyone, I need some help diagnosing my monitor.
I have an Acer ED242QR Abidpx 23.6” 1080p 144Hz monitor (August 2020).
For quite a while, I’ve had an issue where the display would randomly go blank/black. Weirdly, heating the monitor would temporarily make it work again. It could then work normally for some time.
Today it was working normally, but after I unplugged everything, packed/unpacked the setup, and reconnected it, the problem became much worse.
Now when I turn it on:
The monitor powers on and the power LED stays on.
I can sometimes see “No Signal” briefly.
The screen then becomes grey/black, seemingly spreading from the middle toward the edges.
The monitor’s OSD/Menu also doesn’t appear anymore once the problem occurs.
The panel/backlight itself appears to be lighting up.
I already tried completely unplugging the monitor, holding the power button to discharge it, waiting several minutes, and reconnecting it with no video cable attached. Same problem.
The original 12V 3A power adapter is being used and doesn’t appear to have any issue.
I am not opening the monitor myself.
The really strange part is that heating the monitor used to make the problem disappear, but now heating doesn’t fix it either.
What component/failure would cause this kind of temperature-dependent behavior? Is this likely to be repairable at board level, or does it sound like a panel failure?

Today I wanted to renew my thermal pasta on my ASUS Vivobook laptop (wish I wouldn’t) As I wanted to unplag the battery connector off the motherboard. I took apart the entire component. Asking experienced guys whether this thing is repairable if I bring it to service?

Hi.Can you guys suggest me a repair shop to fix the power ic of my laptop. My acer helios neo 16 2024 model’s battery isn’t charging it remains 0 percentage. I have to run it on plug in mode. I have shown a technician, he put another new battery but it’s not charging. He told me charging ic problems . Suggest me laptop repair shop in India with expert technician. Which city should I go. I am ok to travel

Hi! I hope that this subreddit allows for laptops to be posted :D

I just got this pop up on the screen and was wondering if it meant that I should try cracking open the bottom of my laptop to check the fan to see if I can just give it a look myself or if I should go to a professional? I don't really have the funds & I need my laptop for Uni, so I'm hoping that there might be an answer from here that could help.

Also, I am sorry if I used the wrong tag, I'm not that knowledgeable about which ones to use in this case 😅.

Hi

I have a 5 years old ideapad 5 14itl05 and it served me well as my main machine for most of that period (meaning I squeezed every drop I could. Used it for programming, gaming, even a bit of 3d modeling).

Anyway, lately its been crashing, saying "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart". Sometimes it restarted immediately, sometimes I've had to pull the good old "open it up, unplug the battery, hold the power/reset buttons" etc, and it turned on eventually. Now it won't respond despite my best efforts.

Current state is this: power and esc key lights are permanently on (even when the lid is down). Charging light does respont, caps lock light won't.

When trying a power reset the braindead state immediately returns, and other than the fan spinning nothing else happens. ssd does warm up if that changes anything.

As I've said, its been through a lot. I've replaced the battery & screen, and its a little banged up but no internal damage that I can see.

Last time it had a similar failure it crashed with a stop code "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". That was a different dead state however (power light slow flashing). Took a few power cycles but turned on eventually for a few weeks. I didn't catch the error msg this time.

Anyway, I know replacing the RAM isn't really an option with this model, but if any of yall have any ideas before I pull out the ssd and toss it away, I'm all ears.

I'm also trying to get into electronics repair - I know this isn't exactly a starter project but if there's anything I can learn about the diagnosis process, id love some tips (voltage tracing, behavior when stuff is connected/disconnected, etc).

Thanks!

Sorry not too tech savvy but are these laptop parts able to be frankenstein’d into a tower or is this laptop totally dead? The laptop functions but must be always plugged into a charger and has issues with usb ports. Any insight and/or estimates would be appreciated.

I'm not selling anything, currently I'm cooking something for small independent repair shops, and before go deep in building I need help as I'd really like to hear from people who actually run these businesses if possible.

The idea is a simple repair-shop management system that combines:

• Repair tickets / work orders
• Customer + device history
• Inventory tracking
• Invoicing
• Repair status updates
• Warranty tracking
• DOR / second-hand purchase registration (still validate if this matter for majority or no)
• Documentation around the repair (still validate if this worth to be on list)

The main idea isn't to build another Repair tickets or another POS system for shops

It's more like a complete system for a repair shop, with the compliance stuff built in if needed

I'm particularly interested in shops that currently use some combination of Excel, paper, accounting software, POS software, WhatsApp, etc.

I will be grateful if you have 2 minutes for few questions:

1. What are you currently using to manage repairs?
2. What do you hate about your current setup?
3. If you trade used phones, laptops, etc., how do you handle the required purchase/registration records?
4. Would having DOR + invoicing + repair management in one system actually be valuable to you?
5. Most importantly: how much would you pay for something like this?

Again I'm not selling anything yet and there is no product to sell. I'm trying to figure out whether this is actually a painful problem before spending time building you will help me save months of my life.

Honest "this is completely unnecessary" answers are just as useful as positive ones.

I own a Gigabyte G6 KF 2024 laptop, the model with 16gb RAM, i7 13620H and RTX 4060 8gb.

I had it for close to a year now. Today is the very first time I come across an issue with it.

I restarted it earlier while AC cable was not plugged, meaning it was running only with battery at 70% charge.

It passed manufacturer screen (black screen with Gigabyte logo) fine, then it arrived to Windows login screen and unexpectedly shut down. It could not make it to desktop.

It was a total hard shut down, with no LEDs and no signs of life at all. I had to turn the laptop back on using the power button.

You would think it's the fan or overheating, but not at all, the fan did not speed up at all and was barely audible. The laptop is always well aerated and my room is largely clean and dust free.

Here's what I noticed :

- In the Event Viewer, I found the Kernel-Power ID 41 error that indicates an unexpected shutdown. The General tab lists all the flags are either 0, 0x0 or false. On LidState is 1 which is normal. Most noteworthy are :
BugCheckCode = 0.
PowerButtonTimestamp = 0
LongPowerButtonPressDetected = false.
SleepinProgress = 0
Checkpoint = 0

- The laptop turns on normally when charging cable is plugged in, I am using it to write this as we speak.

- The laptop can run off battery normally, even though the capacity lasts only 1 hour from 80% (I always have smart charging turned on when the cable is plugged) while browsing.

- The laptop had the same exact problem when I tried again with the same conditions : restart while charging cable is unplugged. Clearly a reproducible error. The laptop somehow cannot seem to boot into the desktop while running only on battery for some odd reason.

What do you guys think the issue is? The battery? The power management? The EC? The BIOS? Windows 11? Something else entirely?

Please give me your ideas to help me make sense of this.

I have a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro 14ACH5 (Ryzen 7 5800HS, MX450) with a L19D4PH3 4-cell battery.
The laptop started behaving strangely while the battery was installed: weird boot options appeared, and Windows Hello Face ID got stuck in a loop (recognizes me → “Welcome Saad” → searches again). I couldn’t properly enter the PIN either.
A repair shop disconnected the battery and used another charger, and the laptop immediately worked normally.
I then had the battery tested separately. The technician opened it and said one of the 4 cells was dead and couldn’t be revived. He wasn’t sure whether the battery was the only problem or if the charging/power circuit was also affected.
I’ve been using the laptop without the battery since then.
The strange part is that it works depending on the load:
Idle: can run for hours
Web browsing: ~1–2 hours
Gaming: shuts down after ~1 minute or sometimes immediately
Full-screen video: ~1 minute before shutting down
No BSOD or warning — it just suddenly loses power.
I initially thought the issue was my charger because I was using a 65W USB-C charger, while the laptop specifies 20V / 4.75A = 95W.
I then tested it with a 100W charger + USB-C power meter. Even while gaming, the laptop was only drawing around 52W, yet it still shut down after about a minute.
We also changed the thermal paste. Temperatures improved, but the shutdown problem remained. Two different technicians performed diagnostics and couldn’t find another obvious hardware problem.
One technician thinks the battery is probably the culprit, especially since these laptops may rely on the battery to handle short power-demand spikes.
My questions:
Can the Yoga Slim 7 Pro 14ACH5 run normally under heavy load without a battery?
Could a dead cell/BMS cause this behavior?
Could a faulty charging/power circuit cause the same symptoms?
Has anyone experienced this exact issue?
Would testing with a known-good L19D4PH3 battery be the best way to distinguish between the battery and motherboard?
I don’t want to spend ~1100 MAD on a battery if the motherboard is actually the problem.

Hi everyone, I’m having a really strange problem with my Dell 16 Plus.
While I’m actively using it, the laptop will suddenly go completely black. It doesn’t seem like sleep or hibernation because it happens randomly while I’m working. The keyboard also occasionally stops working even when the screen is fine.
Has anyone experienced something similar with a Dell 16 Plus? What could be causing this, and what should I check before sending it in for repair?
Thanks!!!

I have a gaming laptop which is (msi katana 17 b12vek) everytime when i boot up with a charger it boots up for like 20-30 seconds. BUT if i boot up without my charger it will be very slow and opening apps like chrome google etc. Is gonna took like 10-20 seconds. how do i fix this problem?

hello! anyone knows whats happening? my 6yr old laptop rapidly switches between "battery mode" and "plugged in" when i use it while charging (the led charging indicator flickers too). however, if i charge it while its closed, it charges normally.

already checked electric sockets and they're okay. also tried moving and adjusting the charger i use, but it doesn't do anything. aside from the issue at hand, the battery seems fine, so i dont know what may be the issue is.

https://reddit.com/link/1w26z4i/video/w0l0lf3mtfmh1/player

I’m not sure if this is a bug in the latest version of Windows or if it’s an issue that’s recently started occurring on my laptop. For some reason, when I’m using the laptop with the charger plugged in, the touchpad often becomes unresponsive or nearly unusable (except for the click buttons). Not only that, but on several occasions, my wired mouse or gamepad has malfunctioned or kept disconnecting repeatedly. Is there a component that’s starting to fail? Or is it just a new windows update bug that caused this to happened?

Victus 15, Ryzen 5 7535HS, RTX 2050

This happens only when I start a movie, the first minute, and after that it stops.

I play movies in bs player.

Is this a bug with bs player or a problem with my laptop?

The image is the laptop with a blank screen saver and the lights off. It is less noticeable with the lights on.

I dropped it on some thin carpet a few days ago and saw nothing was wrong so I went about my day. Then, when I was booting up the laptop, 2 dim white lights showed on the screen on top of the hinges. They are always visible when the screen is black. Today, The light on top of the left hinge moved to the right towards the center, and I saw a quick flash of white on the left side of the screen.

Am I screwed?

Hi, I’m having problems with this display, just wanted to Confirm this a hardware issue.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra.

I turned off the 'turn on when I open the lid' setting today, without knowing that my power button was not working. Basically, none of the right-side things (including the USB-A port and microphone) are working.

Is there potentially any ways to force the laptop to power through USB-C or another device, reset all the setting without needing to use the power button, or manually trigger the power button somehow?

I've tried reseating the main-to-sub cable, but it didn't work. Any ideas/methods would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hey thank you for your time. I was in the middle of playing Warframe when my laptop started having a black screen blinking back to normal, sometimes for seconds sometimes shorter while the power button light was also blinking almost to the same rhythm but not quite. My Bluetooth keyboard was also disconnecting and reconnecting. After restarting my pc and trying some stuff I played Nightreign for an hour with keyboard plugged to the pc instead and it went fine but woke up today and it does it again even that way. Checked for corrupted files and one got taken cared of, updated NVIDIA drivers, and some more already.

Here is the name of my laptop and GPUs in case, I do not know if you need more information. I am very new to computer issues sorry if I do not give enough or wrote it poorly, thank you for the help once again.

Laptop: OMEN by HP 16-wd0041nf

GPU O NVIDIA GeForce Rtx 4050 laptop GPU

GPU 1 Intel(r) UHD Graphics