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I have an old HP Compaq NX9010 laptop, that wont turn on. When the power button is pressed, the power lights come on for only a second and then they go off. The laptop will power on, on rare occasions, which were usually preceded by spamming the power button for 15mins and hoping it'll turn on. The motherboard makes weird high pitched whining and switching noises, and I have followed the noise to a black square-like component labelled A1022, near the CPU. I removed that component from the board and the whining and the switching noises went away, but the board can't power on without that component. I am wondering where on earth I can get a replacement component like this one? Googling A1022 gives nothing of use. It appears to be a coil of some sort. Can anyone help me? How can I get specifications for this component or how can I find another one of these online, to put back on the board?

I have a Proline W945LU laptop, and the CPU frequently exceeds 85 degrees celcius under full load (Opening a browser gets this laptop to 100% utilization in Lubuntu), The fan is extremely loud and seems ineffective when speeding up. I have reapplied thermal paste multiple times, but it hasn't helped. Is there any way I can improve the cooling performance of this machine? Specs: Intel Celeron N3050 Intel HD 400 2GB DDR3L

I tried lubuntu and xubuntu 14.04 by installing the driver there in their additional drivers menu. The Xubuntu froze on the loading screen, and running it through recovery mode presented the following error "login: initctl: Event failed". It would never get past there. Lubuntu just black screened during bootup.I even tried Lubuntu 16.04 but the nvidia-173 package wasn't in the repository. Oddly enough though, installing the "nvidia-304" driver wouldn't present any issues at first, no black screens or freezes, but some games gave "Could not init GLX" errors. I find this difficult to comprehend since others are able to install nvidia-173 with no problems. The card is detected, but none of the nvidia-173 drivers work.

From the nvidia site I downloaded driver version 173.14.28, I pressed ctrl+alt+f2 then stopped the lightdm service, then ran the .run file, it asks me to accept the agreement, but then it gives me this error. "/lib/modules/3.13.0-32-generic/build/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files in '/lib/modules/3.13.0-170-generic/build' have not been configured" I ran 'sudo apt-get install linux-generic", didn't fix it...

Hello, I was attempting to install drivers for my old Nvidia Geforce FX5500. I searched some threads stating that the latest compatible nvidia driver for this card would be the nvidia-173 driver available in the Ubuntu 14.04 and below repositories. I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 32bit on my Pentium 4, I ran sudo apt update, then sudo apt install nvidia-173. Once it finished, it presented no errors, said it was done, I then rebooted, got to the login screen, I logged in, then the unity launcher doesn't load in, I see my wallpaper, I can make new documents on my desktop, I can change my desktop, but no right-side panel or a top panel, just blank elsewhere, there is also no top panel containing any minimize or close buttons on open windows, Is there a fix for this?

I not-so-smartly left my pc on formatting a HDD during a thunderstorm. Then boom, heard a faily loud pop from the pc, and it went quiet. I checked up on the pc and it was powered off. I knew the pop was from the psu, so I unplugged the power and removed the psu, then observed the motherboard for any black marks, or swollen capacitors, but none. I hooked up a different 250watt basic psu, but it refused to power on? Is my motherboard fried, could it be possible that my CPU and RAM is fried? I salvaged the parts and the GPU and HDD ended up working just fine, however my USB Wifi dongle was faulty and when running in another pc, it would starting heating up to insane temps and burning the USB port. I am not able to test the CPU and RAM. System Specs; Core i7 870 8GB DDR3 Dual channel memory 500GB Seagate Sata HDD GTX 1050TI

Edit: Problem has been resolved, I replaced the Q9400s with a Q9300 and it stopped freezing, after all the Q9400s was not on the supported cpu list of my motherboard, and when removing the cpu, there were a few gold plates with some thermal paste on it, woops. That may have caused it's issues. Anyways it is sorted out. Ran a stress test but now it hit 60c. Not sure why the Q9400s only hit 30C, maybe it was incorrect temp readings?

Unfortunately its a headset, so it uses a headphone/microphone jack. I think I may just have to try using a different operating system for now.

I would have fiddled with the voltages, but i have little experience in that field. But thanks for the help guys.

I picked up a Cooler Master TX3 Evo, had it face right at the exhaust fan and temps dropped to mid 30s under full load. In degress celcius* Edit: System lockups started occuring, I reseated the cpu and the lockups stopped, however the temps went up to 60c max under load, maybe the 30c was a faulty reading? Who knows

Ok, will try a 430watt psu that I have from an old xeon machine.

It came with a prebuilt. I have a few laying around. 290watt in my main pc, 200watt in another, 250watt in this one.

I just built up this pc a few months ago, after building it I ran a stress test on the machine using stress-ng, I even ran Civ 5 on the max graphical settings, and it worked just fine, I powered it off and left for a trip for about a week and when I came back, I wanted to try a few more games on the machine, but it started locking up randomly then rebooting. It has a Core 2 Quad Q9400s, 3gb ddr2 800hz dual channel memory, GTX 1050, 2x80gb HDDs, Cooler Master TX3 Evo cooler, 250watt PSU and a ECS G41T-M v7.1 motherboard. I installed a few operating systems on this machine, BionicDog Linux, Linux Mint 19 and Windows 10. Windows 10 is on the 2nd drive by itself. However when I open up any application, or even just leave the pc at idle, it would just randomly freeze up, mouse won't move, keyboard num lock light doesn't come on when pressed, then a few seconds later it reboots. This happened regardless of operating system. In linux I ran badblocks -s /dev/sda and badblocks -s /dev/sdb and no errors returned when testing the HDDs for any bad sectors. Temps are really good, 20c Idle and up to 35C under full load on the cpu. Graphics card ranges from 40-60C. I took out the 1gb ram stick, and tried again, still froze, then I put the 1gb stick back in a pulled out the 2gb stick, still froze, then I just took out both sticks and put in another different 1gb ddr2 stick, but the problem still persisted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Switch-To-Linux.

Ok, I'll pick up a better cooler as soon as I get some more cash. Thanks for all the help!

Heres a picture of the cooler https://imgur.com/a/7veDIsR

I am running linux, I use stress-ng, select the option to load all 4 cores and then use psensor to monitor temps.

I just installed a core 2 Quad Q9400s processor I bought second hand. I am running it on the stock intel cooler, and when running a stress test, the cpu reaches 85 degrees celcius and sits in the 80s. I used cooler master thermal paste which I think is a pretty well known brand. At idle it sits in the low 50s. Is this ok? Did I do something wrong.

I've had no luck with this machine, it's probably a component failure or motherboard problem, something shorting out. rip

I own a very old machine, the HP compaq nx9010. It has 512mb dual channel memory. I power it on, the lights all over the laptop come on for a second, then it immediately powers off. When it isn't powered on, the orange power light is always on, so I guess that means that the machine is getting power and that the charger isn't the issue, I cleaned out the laptop, reapplied thermal paste, but it didn't help. The display also doesn't come on during that 1 second of on time. I also switched out the ram with ram from a working machine but it didn't work. I do know that the battery no longer works however when plugged in, it should turn on regardless. I saw some websites suggesting to reset the cmos or something like that, I'm not too sure, and I wouldn't like to re-open the machine and do that only to be brought with that same issue. I didn't pay for the laptop, it was given to me a long time ago, so anything to get it working would be great, since it's broken, what worse could I do anyway. Any suggestions? Edit: I left it on charge overnight and the following morning, the light that was orange has now turned green, but it still refuses to stay on instantly turning off after 1 second.

I turned out needing a firewire cable. It worked just fine.

Ok, I'll give it a shot, how do I uninstal a headset though?

Yes. The microphone just wont work on bionic dog linux, and theres a specific reason I chose bionic dog, and that's for it's low resource consumption, and being based on ubuntu. since my system only has 2gb ram and a core 2 quad.

Can anyone help me get my microphone working on discord, I am using Bionic Dog based on ubuntu 18.04 I reset the voice settings, reinstalled discord. I tried another headset on the pc and it didn't work. However discord in my firefox browser works just fine. But not in the discord app itself. I tried discord in linux mint and it worked fine, something up with bionic dog? Is there a way to get it working. It detects no input device.