My grandmother had surgery a few months back, and ever since, she’s been dealing with constant nausea and vomiting... basically everything coming right back up. After getting an X-ray, it turns out things didn't heal quite the way they were supposed to at the surgical site—it was actually putting pressure on her intestines, which is why she couldn't even keep food down. Thankfully, after a follow-up procedure, she's finally doing okay now.
Have you given this a shot? http://www.hardreset.info/devices/mo...recovery-mode/
If that doesn't work, just take it to a repair shop. If it's a hardware issue—which, let's face it, it probably is—you'll want that warranty coverage. Honestly, though, it's usually not worth the headache to fix these things.
Man, if you don't have a warranty, just bite the bullet and get a new one. Something likely just gave out...
What’s the point of this thing anyway? Like, what's the actual use case here? Where does it even come into play... especially if you're just sitting there with one in your lap?
If you’ve still got the warranty, just take it straight to the service center...
Otherwise, you might want to hunt down a used LCD that matches your specific model—or just bite the bullet and buy a brand-new screen. You can usually find them for about $200.
Honestly, though? Just weigh your options first... see if fixing this thing actually makes sense or if you're better off just putting that money toward a new laptop altogether.
On the other hand—and look, I’ve seen this before—if you're talking about an hourly rate for a technician, we're looking at maybe $150 or so... and if the job turns out to be even slightly complicated, good luck finding anyone willing to touch it without charging a fortune.
Honestly? Just grab a new motherboard and try to be more careful next time. Learn from the mess...
I’m a little confused by what they’re actually asking for here...
I mean, wouldn't it be way easier to just find a custom-built one on eBay? It’d probably end up being higher quality too—plus, it should be cheaper since they can just mass-produce them in those big factories...
So, I’m using this wireless mouse, and it’s got that annoying feature where it just goes to sleep whenever I stop moving it—supposedly to save battery life... Honestly, if you’re looking to pick one up, just grab one that comes with a built-in Micro-USB port so you can top it off easily. For me, a single charge lasts about two weeks 😉
I had a similar nightmare with my Bluetooth adapter—reinstalling the drivers didn't do squat... eventually, I just had to wipe everything and do a clean install of Windows 10 to get it working again. It was a total pain...
Basically, just ditch the power supply, the case, and the hard drive—keep everything else and just buy new parts to swap into your current setup.
You’d be able to run older games without much trouble, but honestly... trying to upgrade that old motherboard of yours isn't worth the headache. It's way too outdated, and you'd end up relying on used parts anyway, which is always a gamble... If you don't mind spending a bit more, I'd skip that Pentium and go straight for an Intel Core i7 processor instead. At least it's actually useful.
And here you go—these 9mm optical drive trays that let you just swap them out for a USB stick once you've yanked the original drive from your laptop. Makes things a bit easier, I guess... https://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=...mm+dvd+rom+usb.
I’m just sitting here hoping they didn't go ahead and solder the GPU directly onto the motherboard...
When you're hunting for a new card, you really ought to look up the specific model of your laptop first—because, let's be real, not every graphics card is shaped the same way... things get tight in those chassis...
Most likely NO—unless we’re talking about the exact same model and series, then maybe. But every laptop is built differently, and since tech moves at light speed, parts from an older machine just won't play nice with a newer one... it's basically incompatible.
Honestly, your best bet is probably scouring eBay for a GPU specifically made for that model. If you can find a used one for something like $33 plus shipping or whatever, that might actually work.
Does anyone know who handles the shipping for Adm? Apparently, Overseas is a total mess right now—they aren't even delivering things properly anymore, they just toss the packages into some random pile...
Those things look tiny... honestly, they probably aren't even actual photos, just the little thumbnail files generated alongside the originals. Usually, a camera will spit out these "thumbsmall" files—basically miniature versions, like those 128x96 ones you've got there—just so it can show a quick preview when you're scrolling through your gallery. It's like if you took a photo of a sunset, say, in Grand Canyon National Park, and the camera saved the main shot as sunset.jpg, but also tucked away a little file called sunset.jpg128x96 in a side folder just for its own internal use.
Your primary care doctor will handle that for you for free through your insurance. Just go see them. In the hospital, they usually just slap some iodine on it and wrap it in gauze, which sounds fine until the next time they have to change the dressing—then it’s pure agony when they try to peel that stuck-on gauze right off your skin. When I went back to my doctor after my own procedure, she actually put a moist dressing over the wound before applying the gauze, so there was zero issue with it sticking. It hurts like hell when they rip it off a fresh surgical site... I've dealt with that twice now, once after knee surgery and once after getting a toenail ripped out.
Does the laptop have an American keyboard layout? If so, then yeah, that’s standard... American keyboards have different placements for certain letters and symbols—like the colon or semicolon—compared to what you might be used to back home. Honestly, just get used to it. You can easily toggle between two different layouts in your settings; you'll see "ENG" or "US" on the taskbar at the bottom, and you can just click through them... Since the hardware is an American layout anyway, it’ll actually be easier if you just set the software to match.
The other way to go about it is to just buy an American-style external keyboard for your laptop.