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obisite:
Pls I need help... One,,, I have to keep bending/squiz the edge of the charging pin here n there before my laptop start charging,,... TWO:- IF I plug it, I can't do anything,, the pointer don't move while touching the touch pad, if I unplug it,,, the laptop goes off, or stays 5-10mins and goes off... How do I go about it,,,, changing battery and charging point or battery and charger? Which one is faulty among the two?

It seems you have an HP or Dell Laptop ?

The DC Jack or the Power jack is faulty.

The battery doesn't not hold charge, you
probably need a new battery. Fix the
two faults and then use google to research
advanced power by right clicking on the battery icon
and see all the box regarding mouse make sure is set
properly. I'm unable to tell precisely what it should be there
as I'm using a Linux. However, you can get back to us once you
fix the Dc jack and the battery then we would take it from there.

I don't live in Nigeria, therefore look for adetwin on this forum, h/she
would offer a repair. Good luck

emmathebigg:
pls dudes in the house I have a laptop that always get hot wen I on it,like 5mins it will become very hot pls I have went to a place that the repair system and the said nothing is wrong with it that is normal but am not comfortable with it pls what will I do to make it stop...

The laptop needs cleaning and a new thermal paste/artic silver compound to be applied.
Look for adtwin on this forum. I dont live in nigeria so look for adtwin on this forum.

Debbylia:
please the computer gurus, I changed my laptop's
password and I didn't login until a week after only to
discover that I can't remember the password again.
What's the way out without me having to loose all
the files on my laptop.
N.B. I didn't create a password reset disk, which
makes that option not usable for me.

L@@k for adetwin on this forum

Nostalgia21:
hello house. Please, I broke the digitizer glass of my touchscreen hp envy 4 (14inchs). the computer still works fine and the LCD is okay. so, is there anywhere I can get just the digitizer glass only without buying the full display assembly here in naija?. I need to change it asap because the crack looks pretty bad.
Please help a brother if you've got info.

L@@k for adetwin on this forum

DonCrust:
Morning guys, hope we all had a good night rest?
What could be the problem with my HP laptop? Each time i power it on it'll switch itself down before it boots to the desktop. this has been happenig for about 3 months and its really giving me a tough time. At time I'll have to run disk repair before it can boot to desktop. Now since yesterday its giving sign that the harddisk is corrupt. Any advice pls?

Restart and keep pressing f10 for bios, click on diagnostics Then run me an hard drive short test. If u have
Nepa light run the long test and let us know the results

That was a mistake

SkydaDGreat:
Hello all, i just recently encountered a problem with my asus k43u laptop, i woke it up from hibernation yesterday, it came on, i put in my password, desktop displayed. It was looking fyn, then i went outside to pack my close outside, when i came back my laptop screen was completly black with a message like ''reboot and select proper boot media and press a key'' the message was multiple on the screen and its was blinking. I pressed one key and the blinking stopped. I pressed the power button and it immediatly shut down which was very unusal.
I started the laptop again, and it showed me on message after the asus logo to select the boot media, i think i selected one of them because they were two, on ended with ram, while the other had some numbers and letters as it name e.g st903145s66.
Then it showed the windows logo, after with a black screen came up, i waited for about 5 minutes or xo before i could eventually log in. And i when i logged in discovered the laptop was extremely slow, it takes minutes form programs to open, and even when they open they dont respond or just hang, at times the thing will just hang. I decide to scan with avast but the first messagae i got was that avast is noy running in background or xo and no endpoints or something like that. Please i want you all to help me solve this problem. Thank you.

I think your laptop was installed with a 2gb ram.

Do you have norton antivirus installed ?

Are you installing windows updates ?

Where did you placed the laptop, i.e. bed/desk ?

Have you serviced the laptop before, i.e. to clean the
fan and apply a fresh artic silver thermal paste so as to
help cool the cpu and other internal components ?

The average Nigeria temperature is between 28 and 42 degree
Celsius. Therefore, you need to clean the fan and apply a fresh thermal paste.
If you have a virus, I'd suggest to look for adetwin on this forum for further help

Last resort is to reformat the laptop, is entirely up to you.

EXICON:
hello great house. pls I need your help with the idea of softwares that can be used to recover the contents from a crashed HDD or formatted one. My system recently crashed and I need to recover some of the contents in it.

kindly help out please.

Thanks.

recuva

bigt2:
you should have gotten an external or additional source of light of which you will be sure that it wont trip and jumble things up. you failed to act according to instructions and now you are exposed to facing the tide of either changing your BIOS chip, a hardware solution, or the motherboard, or sell it as scrap, or any other solution i personally haven't known about. Kindly state the make and model of your laptop for more evaluation. Good luck.

I like that, nice1 bigt2. Moreover,@user assumed your computer bios needs charging.
If the bios is integrated to the motherboard, you need to change the motherboard.

ephortunate:
Good evening, guys. Please, my laptop keeps telling me 'Plugged in, not charging" when I plug in the laptop charger. But if I plug it into a similar laptop, it will be charging the laptop. Also if I plug in my own charger into a similar system, it will be charging it well, but not mine still.
Thanks....

Google battery memory effective to read more. In the meanwhile,
save all your data to prevent data loss and then let the laptop
Shut itself down and then charge it to 100 percent when in windows

The battery should state plug in charging

Disconnect the charger and use as normal. Always connect your charger when
You get battery low message don't plug it in in between always wait for the
Prompt.

Damfostopper:
Pls house....about 5 keys on my keyboard is nt working for 2weeks now....wat shud i do to resolve d issue...am using hp650...intel pentium....pls help....im tired of using onscreen keyboard for sum keys dats nt working

Look for adetwin on this forum, he might of help.
I live abroad and would advise adetwin, he lives in Nigeria
Look for him, take my word. He will charge you for his service,

mablie:
Hello everyone.I've had an issue with my DELL E6400 PC since yesterday.It highlighted the message "Windows 7 can't start up normally because of a change in hardware or faulty software.Use Windows Start up Repair to solve the problem".I then clicked on the start up repair prompt and the screen went blank and has been that way for the past 9hours.No sign of any repairs happening whatsoever just a black screen.House abeg,what steps should I follow to solve this issue?For hours,I've searched the internet for a solution.Still haven't found any.Help a brotha out fellas

Please check no cd/device or usb stick is attached
Power off and remove battery and charger
connect everything back again and
restart and keep pressing f8
then choose safe mode and use
google to find out how to system restore to
a time it works.

Epaul:
thanks. The F10bios displayed the following "exiting.. Save Option YES, NO and CANCEL".

click no or cancel and run me the hard drive test

Epaul:
Thanks sir.
Did the latter and it came up. But there is a little problem. My cousin, at first, had mistakenly removed the system-disk confusing it for the RAM. He detached it completely from the system(so much for our naivety). Here is what's displaying on the monitor "non-system disk or disk error. Replace and strike any key when ready" what can we do to effect repair?
As to it's specs. Here is a bit of what i can lay my fingers on:
LAPTOP - HP 625
Windows - window 7
RAM - 2GB
Operating system - Intel (lol. I'm clearly off the boat with regards to computer components.)

Given my colleague's advice, could you please restart the machine and keep pressing
f10 for bios and run me an hard drive short test. It would be advisable to plug in your charger to
prevent unexpected shutdown.

Abdujapha:
Hi bigt2
My laptop acer aspire one D257 doesn't come on except for the back light. Our office I.T guy looked at it and said the hard disk is dead because the OS wasn't genuine.(I once changed the OS from windows 7 starter to windows 7 pro and after a while I was getting prompts on the OS not being genuine)
Please do you have an idea how much it would cost to replace the hard disk and reinstall a genuine Windows 7 starter and would the RAM be affected by this also?
Thanks.

bigt2:
1) Click on Start. Go to Run. Users running
Windows 8, Windows 7 or Vista, go to Search .
2) Type gpedit.msc and press Enter.
3) Navigate to User Configuration/ Administrative
Templates / System.
4) In the work area on the right side, double click
on " Prevent access to the command prompt".
5) In the popup dialog, encircle Disabled and
click OK.
6) You should be able to immediately use the
command prompt. If you still cannot access it,
restart your computer.

Look on this forum for adetwin h/she
would be able to provide repairs and
charge for his service. I am sure adetwin
would run windows genuine test after installation.

Good luck

ruem:
gurus in the house please help me fix this, window media player displays 'server execution failed' this happened after i did a little cleaning of non functional programs on my system. this prompted me to rename the admin name but same problem, I've followed tutorial on youtube but none solved the it. Note it occurs when i open a media file, even vlc cannot play too.

use google to find out how to open a run box then
type in rstrui select a date before the problem started, for example a
week before it started then restart and test it.

DorcasShalom:
My people hw una dey, plz I want to kne, is advent laptop good, my friend brought 1. I want to knw if its a good 1 becos av neva heard of it be4. Thanks

Re: Post Your Computer (PC) Troubles Here. by bigt2(m): 4:51pm On May 04
DorcasShalom:
My people hw una dey, plz I want to kne, is advent laptop good, my friend brought 1. I want to knw if its a good 1 becos av neva heard of it be4. Thanks
its good but if you are having doubt, go for another manufacturer.
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Advents, eisystem, emachines, phillips, packard bell are UK brand. The advent is good but watch out for broken plastics near
the air vent, screen and touchpad. watchout for burnt plasctic near the charger tip and where it goes to on the laptop.

bigt2:
put the laptop in an air tight nylon. Wrap it firmly to the extent that air will not enter or escape through the charging port. Plug in the charger and switch it on. Leave it like that till it switches off by itself. After this, the graphics panel detached through heat must have been reflowed. G. Luck.

It works most of the time for the hp dv/nvidia series of laptops (just a temp fix). I don't think there are reflow machines around nigeria, are they?

bigt2:
click start, type cmd in the start menu and you should see the cmd application. right-click on it and select 'run as administrator', select yes at the prompt.
this should open a command prompt window. you can now type chkdsk /r to check your drive for errors and attempt repairs. i pray it helps goodluck.

Niceone bigt2, could the user make sure the laptop is not interrupted during checkdisk.
This to prevents hard drive from errors and corruptions.

Tholley:
Hello here,pls my Toshiba Satellite c50 just stopped playing audio sound suddenly. When I hover d mouse over the audio icon it says no audio output device is installed. Pls what's d solution to this?

You could try clicking on start, computer c drive, drivers then Toshiba drivers then look for sound and install.
It is there take your time and look around.

edobor108:
Gud morning gurus in the house,hw can i format my hp compaq 6710b without entering bios setup bcus wen i tried it yesterdy it ask for my password which i can't remember tankz,

bigt2:
if you are truly the owner, you won't say you forgot your password. In Sorry but if you don't come out clean, you can't get such a help cos nobody will touch something that hot. No offense or doubt.

Moreover, the telephone number on the receipt is missing one or two digit. Why did you password the bios?

Have you contacted the seller to see if they can offer you a free service. The basic input and output system
is a delicate algorithm that requires patient. I would be surprise if you get it working on this forum without
someone present to have a look at it. There are software out there but be careful ! If you contact hp helpline
they may be of help by offering a backdoor password, but doubt it.

Vivly:
Help. Since I restarted my laptop, it has been showing 'Configuring windows features. 100% complete. Do not turn off the computer' for long. I've removed the battery, put it on again yet it shows the same thing.
HP 250.

Collinz2:
it seem u have a lot of undating installing. Jst allow it to do its thing.

I would not install windows update in Nigeria, It cost a lots to top up the internet and on and off power supply.
If you'd like. To install update in Nigeria, you need to prepare by buying lots of internet top ups and fill your generator.
In addition the computer failed to restart the because you have interrupted the process. It should have displayed failure configuring
Windows updates. In practice, windows update can take a whole day. You need a technician to help you out.

bigt2:
you are using a fake charger which fails to match the OEM rating either on wattage, voltage, or both . you need to try an original charger from a replica of your laptop to ascertain this. If it works perfectly after taking the recommended step , then you need to get an original spare before it spoils your trackpad and/or battery (that is if they aren't spoilt before)

@User you can also download hp battery test to test the charger.

bigt2:
what is the name of the loader in question? Okay, fine then run thee command prompt as an administrator ( i guess you know how to do that); type without quotes "SLMGR -REARM" and press Enter.
reboot your computer and download Removewatt (try and google that). then follow the software instructions. Goodluck!

I think the software licencing manager would give the user few days before
prompt to install genuine windows. If you download security essential, it would
detect and flag it up.

cp2dec1:
Confirm and make sure the headset cable is plugged in properly to the jack

At times I notice that when i dont plug the cable all the way into the jack...i get audio from both the speaker and the headset.

In addition to this please check hp website for frequently asked questions.

cp2dec1:
I'm sorry but it seems like you have done a proper troubleshooting and figured its the battery....there's no need trying to fix a bad laptop battery. You should just consider "properly" throwing it away.

Wow!

stadora:
under netwok adapters, I only see broadband netxtreme gigabit ethernet.
I also saw a big yellow question mark as other devices in d list, with another 3 big yellow question mark under it
wot next do I do pls?

The yellow should have a name, for example mass controller
Ok rift click on the yellow sign and click properties

It should give you code 10 or19

Also visit the laptop Manu'f website to download the latest wireless/ethernet drivers
You could buy a driver scanner from the internet.(last resort)

cp2dec1:
How are you upgrading to Windows 8?

Sounds like you may have a bad image...

And why is everyone using windows 8 on here....y'all don't understand how windows 7 is still so much better and stable?

Hello cp2dec1

My name is Deji one of the technical adviser on nairaland. Having read your post all
week, I welcome you on board, please join us to provide impeccable technical support.

stadora:
pls I sent my system 4 repair, by Then time I got it back, I found out that Then wireless button is no more working, therefore I can't connect to any wireless Network as the blue light doesn't come up again.
pls I need the wireless light back, what do I do to restore it?

Use google to find out how to get to device manager
and click the + sign next to network adaptor, what can you see ?

Any yellow signs on the list ?

kindmman:
My laptop powers up but the screen is blank. One repairer told me it is damaged beyond repair and another said I have to change the processor. Am confused.

Have they checked the memory ram ?

Have they checked the power display switch
that can accidentally turn off the display

Is the caps/num lock on ?

Have they tested it on a vga monitor?

cp2dec1:
Big display is clear indication of a driver issue. Sounds like your system may have defaulted back to "Standard VGA adapter"

But since you are unable to see any display at all...then you may have a bad video card. But do check the beeps you are getting from the manufacurers website.

@poster follow the above advice and also Google hp dv recall. Is it NVIDIA? You would
Find this information next to the touchpad.