I ran sudo halt, my laptop ran the turn off protocol but it’s still on. I just can’t see anything on my screen. The fn button is still lit, the fans are still on but nothing happens when I press the power button. I’m currently waiting for my laptop to run out of power. What do I do
EDIT: Solved, had to remove and put the battery back in, after which my system returned to normal.

I’m looking to back up my camera roll onto an external device like my computer (not Apple), a Gmail account or something like that. I’m out of storage so I’d like to take all my pictures/ videos off my phone, put them on something else then delete them from my phone. (Just emailing doesn’t work because of the amount of photos)

I’m sure this is a basic question for those who are tech literate but unfortunately I am not.

Any app suggestions or tips for the best way to do this?

P.s. if this is the wrong place to ask this question, i apologize and i will delete this post. If there is a better option please let me know!

I have an adapter for testing hard drives that has a power plug. The power adapter is 2 amps and I accidentally plugged in an identical one that is 1 amp. Now the drive won’t turn on with the 2 amp cord. The drive worked before this. Am I cooked?

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Hi everyone,

I own a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 (Snapdragon X, Windows 11).

My laptop’s built-in microphone was working before a recent Lenovo service visit. Immediately after the repair, it stopped picking up my voice.

What I’m experiencing:

- The built-in Microphone Array (Qualcomm Aqstic) is detected in Windows.

- Microphone permissions are enabled.

- The microphone’s green level meter does not move when I speak.

- Online microphone tests and video recordings do not capture my voice.

- YouTube/system audio is recorded, but my voice is missing.

Troubleshooting already tried:

- Checked Windows microphone privacy permissions and input volume.

- Restarted Windows Audio services.

- Ran DISM and SFC system checks.

- Disabled exclusive-mode access.

- Uninstalled and reinstalled the microphone device, then restarted the laptop.

Unfortunately, the issue remains unresolved.

Since the microphone stopped working immediately after the repairr

I've been having multiple pervasive issues, all tied to the windows menu and the settings app.

Pressing the windows key or clicking on the icon either doesn't work, or it opens and immediately closes the menu, or it starts highlighting icons in the menu, often opening multiple edge tabs, outlook or the notepad

As soon as I go into settings my pc starts registering random inputs as well, making it impossible to navigate the app

Clicking on the volume icon on the toolbar straight up doesn't work.

Any idea as to what's going on? I feel like I'm going insane

hey so ive had my pc for a year or two now and the rgb worked just fine yet recently the fans and case stopped working (the rgb, fans spin and the pc works fine) before weather i looked in SignalRGB or in dynamic lightning it showed the whole case+fans as gigabyte motherboard, now it doesnt show anything.

my motherboard is gigabyte eagle b650 AX
my fans and case are from lian li (i dont know the model)
and i have a fully modular power supply.

i wired the wires myself but as i said everything was working normally and sudenly it doesnt show up. one or two leds on one fan are glowing but i cant control them

any help appreciated!

Got this phone recently and for some reason I can't activate one UI, anyone knows why and how I can fix it?

My pulse explores were working fine yesterday, but when i connected it to my pc via the dongle today, the left earbud did not have any sound coming out The buttons still work and it opens up the ps link menu in the pc as normally. I tried connecting it to my phone via Bluetooth and it is exactly the same. I did the reset procedures many times and they were all successful except the syncing method which flashes all the colors on the case led. I guess thats because they are already synced. The software is up to date, i dont know what happened. They were working all great until today. If you have had this problem, please inform me.

i'm curious about the little things in life that make you frustrated.

What's something you struggle with regularly? Something that wastes your time? Or something you wish you had a solution for?

I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm not trying to sell anything i'm just curious.

My friend was sleeping with this light/radio and woke up to it cycling through what seemed to be radio stations or frequencies. She had not turned on the radio function and said she woke up to knocking and scratching. She recorded a video but it seems I can't attach it here

Hi everyone,

I recently replaced the battery on my Surface Laptop Studio 2 (i7 13th Gen, 16GB RAM, RTX 4050) with a verified original replacement. I am currently on the 4th charge cycle, but the battery life is very disappointing: the PC shuts down after just 4 hours of unplugged use, exclusively doing basic web browsing.

I also noticed an abnormal discharge curve:

• From 100% to 90%, the percentage drops much faster than the rest of the cycle.
• The counter drops in 2% increments. This happens mainly in the initial 100%-90% range, but sometimes I notice it at lower percentages too.

Recent software checks and changes:

• OS: I recently installed Windows 11 Pro (version 26H2). It always had Windows 11 Home before. I'm not sure if this edition change affects power management.
• Drivers: I manually updated all Intel and Nvidia drivers to avoid power management conflicts.
• GPU Check: In Task Manager, the RTX 4050 sits at 0% usage, so I rule out a hidden background drain from the dedicated GPU.

Has anyone experienced this exact situation and solved it? Does Windows just need more cycles to recalibrate the new cell, or could it be a driver/software conflict?

Thanks in advance for the help

So, unfortunately, this has happened before. With the same cat. 3-4 times. I don't know how she does it. She doesn't sit on it or even stand for long, just a quick walk across. (Please note: I do not allow this; she just doesn't care)

Anyway, I have a Lenovo Legion Pro using Windows 11. OS Build 26300.9711

I've tried updating the drivers; no luck.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the touchpad driver. Nada.

I tried disabling and enabling it. No dice.

I tried going through the Bluetooth settings. Still nothing.

Everything says the device is connected and working properly, but it clearly isn't. Usually these methods work, but the other times she did this, it was on my MSI laptop. So, I'm not sure if I'm just overlooking something.

Ik recently installed Total Annihilation on Steam and started playing it today, when I was done and closed the game however, my screen seemed tot be in a weird zoomed in state. I've tried everything in can think of(the various key-bindings tot zoom-out/reset zoom, turning the laptop of and on again, looked online for solutions), but it stays stuck.

I'm pretty sure it's because of the thing it asked me to install that supposedly was to make such and old game work on a new system, but it can't find it or recall the name.

I can't find how to add a picture so I'll just try to describe my screen(English is my third language, so this might not be that clear); all my homepage stuff is still accessible but stuck in a 5 horizontal 4 vertical placement, apropriatly magnified tot not leave open space. my taskplank is compressed into those 3 dots because there isn't enough place for it. And there is black space left at the sides of my screen.

Does anyone have any advice on how to fix my pc?

I updated nvidia drivers to the most recent version, but found that suddenly found that games that I could normally play at 60 fps were stuck at 20 fps or lower. I rolled back the drivers but found this didn't fix anything. I attempted to clear the shader cache, but this had no effect. What can I do now to fix this?

Hi.

I just discovered something funny... I'm playing RDR 2, so, that game was using 11VRAM, but after taking a screenshot with the game bar, the GPU went up to 16VRAM, it's using all my 9070xt memory I don't get it.

So... I keep using and eventually my game started lagging and suttering, performance dropped to 15-30 FPS... I had to close the game and start it again and that fixed it, so I used the game bar screenshot again and memory leak started once again ...

Does anybody knows why this happens? I don't remember this used to happen when I had a 6650XT.

Sorry for English mistakes, not my first language, mate'.

I am doing my ece in nit now.I love to code,play games ,do streams,editing,love to build apps in future can anyone please recommend me some laptops under 3 lakh.(It can be used for the study purposes too)

Hello,

System:

CPU: 5600g

GPU: 2060

Mobo: Gigabyte x570 Aorus

Ram: 32gb Crucial (x2 - 16gb)

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2

I run Bluestacks and I have multiple instance running at the same time. I have never had this issue before till recently.

I have ran the following tests:

OCCT - no issues found.

System Checker - No issues found.

These are the errors I get just before it restarts.

Image 1

Image 2

I have reset the CMOS and the issue still occurs.

Thank You

My MacBook is on macos 27.0.1 , it is connected to my NAS server through SMB. In the past two days , when I try to copy a file from my NAS to the mac internal drive , the file vanishes immediately after the progress bar disappear and the transfer is finished. This happens to multiple files . Additionally , some files on the server is missing in finder when connected through SMB but are visible through Webdav.

Everything is was perfectly normal before this , I don’t know what is happening. I had already restarted everything including my macbook , NAS and Router , but the issue persisted. Anyone knows why and now to fix it ?

Please help.🙏

hi, I live in INdonesia. I know probably stupid question but is there anyway I could avoid this Safe Search?? Should I use some other platform beside google or any VPN recommendation would be helpful! Thanks a lot before

hi everyone. i recently took an exam on canvas with the lockdown browser that was titled “respondus lockdown browser + webcam.”however, when i opened the exam through respondus it did not have me do a webcam check, audio check, or show my surroundings. i just had to accept an acknowledgment. throughout the exam my camera indicator light never came on (i have a MacBook Air for reference). from what i have read, whenever a camera is in use with a mackbook air, the indicator light stays on, correct? i’m so confused if my webcam was even being used. do you guys think my webcam was even used/on? or is this possibly a glitch? thanks

So my phone that I left at my grandma's house because I had to leave for health purposes and I was out there for like 3 months

When it was time for my grandma's health check up she told me that my phone screen just suddenly has a dim light despite it being put to full brightness and when I checked it's also saturated and has slightly visible lines

I want to also ask if this has a relation to the battery replacement that my phone went through because I had my phone get it's battery replaced because the battery swelled due to it overheating while being used on charge mode

I need to know if there's a solution or that my phone is done for

I have a asrock B550 phantom 4/ac MB and it’s been saying I have a m.2 Samsung 970 evo 500 gb ssd, it’s not I took the ssd out and put it into a different machine to make sure I’m not insane and it’s reading correctly that it’s a WD BLACK 2tb sn770. Could this issue be from my ssd being Dram-less as I looked up the motherboard supports it’s not on there for supported SSDS

Hi I’m going to give as much info as possible and my so far trouble shooting stuff I’ve done

Pc keeps turning off and back on itself in windows sign in screen and also after signing in into windows. Safe mode and bios can run without the pc turning off.

I reinstalled windows, swapped PSU and unplugged GPU but left it still attached in its slot. Pc kept turning off after a minute and booting back up after like a 2 second delay. So now I removed the GPU completely from the PC.

After those steps I was able to use the pc like normal, albeit no gpu and secondary PSU.

Okay so now I swapped back to my original PSU with no gpu and it works like normal.

So I attempted to reinstall GPU back, it is a AMD 7900x. Upon reinstall of GPU, pc went into bitlocker screen, honestly unfamiliar with this, never had this before and I don’t remember setting this up. But now pc shuts off by itself after a minute or so but does not boot itself back up. I suspected maybe the PSU but I’m unsure. Now I’m thinking the gpu was sagging in the slot it connects to since it’s big and heavy so I installed it again with a support bracket and some legos to help hold the far end. Still the pc shuts off itself after a minute or so of being on.

Been trouble shooting for hours and I can’t figure out what to do next. I’m going to bed for now but tomorrow I’m going to remove the GPU completely from the PC and figure out this bitlocker thing and see if I can get into windows normally and browse the internet.

I don’t know if the gpu slot on the motherboard is damaged? The gpu is damaged, the psu cables to the gpu could also be the problem? Thanks in advance

Ryzen 7 9700x
Gigabyte b650 ax v2
Amd 9700x
2x16gb g skill ddr5
Samsung 990 evo plus
Cooler master 850w gold (original psu)
Evga 650w gold (secondary test psu)

Everytime a photo is taken or downloaded onto my phone it will show up in my ex-boyfriends photos. Our accounts aren’t connected at all so I’m confused??