Hardware failure refers to the act of a piece of physical hardware failing to meet its designed standards during operation.
Questions tagged [hardware-failure]
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What PC parts can produce bright flash, and smoke, with the PC still appearing to work fine afterwards?
I heard some strange noise from my less than a year old PC when it came back from 'sleep' mode;
For about 10-20 seconds I could see bright light visible through ventilation holes (somewhere near the back panel); gradually the fire/flash died down,…
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Nearby electronic devices turn off laptop's display
My Toshiba laptop turns it's display off when I put my smartphone or my soundbar next to it. If I remove them, the display turns back on. How can I fix this?
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How can I avoid problems with CPU power?
When I attempt to turn on my newly built custom computer, it powers on for 5 seconds then turns off again. The only happens when I have the ATX CPU power cable connected. When this cable is removed and the CPU isn’t powered, the motherboard powers…
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Sun and or heat damage to back of monitor or computer
I have a laptop, and 2 monitors that are on a desk next to a window. They get direct sunlight for a few hours a day. In summer it seems to be about 3 hours. Most days I'm not using the hardware during these times.
Is there a concern that exposure to…
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How To Spot/Recognize A Good Repair Shop
I run a small B2B IT business, but I don't get involved with home computers much. My customers sometimes ask me about fixing their home PC and I don't do that kind of work, but it would be handy to be able to make a referral and to give them…
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How can I access the HDD of a Microsoft Surface 1.0 table?
After a few freight transport trips, our Microsoft Surface died. Everything leads to a hard disk drive hardware failure, as it doesn't even show up at POST anymore, thus leading to a "No boot device detected" BIOS error.
After looking on the web, I…
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PC gives long beeps and blank screen after restarting
If I start my PC today then it starts normally and works fine. However, if I shut it down and restart it on the same day it gives 3 long beeps and a blank screen. If I shut it down and restart it the next day it starts normally.
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Has CPU or Motherboard failed?
After I had shut down my computer and unplugged it to clean my desk I hooked everything back up to find that it would not turn on. The PSU, fans, or lights do nothing when I hit the power button. The green power light on the motherboard is on and…
Seth Hikari
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How to troubleshoot instability with my new home-built PC?
I recently built a PC from parts purchased from a big-name online computer parts retailer. I've built several PCs and never had the trouble I'm having with this one. I'm having two primary problems.
The system goes to blue screen of death about…
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How do I diagnose a PC that broke after connecting to a phone via USB 3?
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My PC won't turn on after I connected it to my smartphone via USB 3. Something smells burned on my phone's end, but otherwise it appears to be fine. How can I tell what part of my PC is broken?
Forgive me for writing such a long question, but…
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Screen turns black if charging cell phone is put on top of tower
If I place my charging cell phone on top of my tower (metal) my computer screen turns black either directly or after a few seconds. If I remove the phone the screen turns on again, but hangs sometimes and I need to reboot then. The phone is plugged…
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My PC starts up with black screen
My PC just crashed, and now I can't get it to start up.
I was watching something on my PC. All of a sudden my screen started flickering at the top and bottom of the screen. After about 10 seconds, the screen turned white, and after about 3 seconds…
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Does end-user stress testing hardware serve a purpose?
Every now and then questions come up that ask for good ways for an end user to "stress test" a particular type of hardware. This is not one of them.
Rather, I am asking whether end user stress testing of hardware serves any actual purpose in…
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Will Leaving My Computer On All the Time Damage My Hardware?
If I leave my computer on all day without turning it off/rebooting it for months, is there a possibility that it might break or something?
I hate turning it off, but I don't want it to break.
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Is it easy to build a monitor from a latop screen?
My laptop broke down, but the screen is still good. Is there an easy way to recycle the screen and make a monitor out of it? Just for the fun of it.
The laptop is a Compaq Presario V6700.
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