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Hello, I recently got ( for free ) this laptop ( model g3 3779 from Dell ) from a company who discarded most of the older equipment. This particular laptop is in great shape, rarely used and etc. I saw it had dedicated 1060 GPU from NVIDIA which would make it a great budget gaming laptop, but there is a problem. Windows instantly blue screens whenever I try to install drivers for it, it just insta crashes.I get this : nvlddmkm.sys system_thread_exception_not_handled which would suggest that its a driver issue ( according to google at least ). I tried drivers from Dell ( older and new but without success ) same result, same BSOD. I updated everything else - BIOS, mobo drivers, but nothing helps. I cant find anything in BIOS related to dedicated GPU so I assume it switches to it when it needs in Windows. Had to boot to safe mode to disable auto drivers install from windows bcs it kept BSOD-ing every time I turn on the laptop so now I am stuck with only Intel UHD 630 but at least there is no crashes. I also tried downloading latest drivers from NVIDIA which installed fine and GPU is picked up in device manager but after restarting windows it gives me error code 43 - device reported problems so Windows stopped it ( attached picture ). This is probably hardware related so my questions are : Did anyone had anything similar to deal with ? Can it be fixed , or is it even profitable to take it to the repair store ? Thanks for the responses in advance. OS - Windows 10 x64 2H22 RAM - 16 GB

I have a Clevo x170sm-g where when it first boots the battery shows its not plugged in but the percentage doesn't go down, after awhile 20-40m every few seconds it will say it's plugged in and then it will say it's not after it's been on awhile it will stably say it's plugged in but any game will have low fps and big lag spikes iv already tried bringing it to best buy and they said it was "faulty ram" I tried each stick individually with no change, I also tried known good charging cables/bricks, and battery, iv tried to reinstall windows and install all drivers Specs: i9-10900K 64GB 2400mhz RTX2080super

Sometimes while doing CPU-Intensive tasks, such as gaming, the built in keyboard on my HP ProBook 440 G3 will have extreme latency when i stop pressing a key. For example: If i hold the W key for about 20 seconds, after i let go it will sometimes register for anywhere between 1-30 seconds while i am not even touching the key. Nothing i do during that time gets it to stop registering either. This makes the keyboard almost impossible to use while gaming or doing anything else CPU intensive. I have tested this with plugging external keyboards into my laptop, and not a single one has the issue, so it must be the integrated one. But all of my drivers are up to date and there is no obvious problem with the keyboard other then this, so it must be something software level. Is this a known issue? If so, is there any possible fix?

Budget: Not realy set on a budget Country: Netherlands Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fusion, Photoshop, Illustrator, stray and horizon. Other details: My girlfriend has an 4 year laptop that still works okey but is not the best and she wants a desktop since she does not like her small screen for doing a lot of thing so i was thinking about getting her a screen that is color accurate and a mouse and keyboard and a laptop doc so she has the look of a desktop but still her laptop as her main computer since she needs one for school anyway and after we get that setup i want to buy a new laptop that can easy handle her workload. So the main thing i need your help for is - Monitor - New Laptop - And a Doc (So she only has to plug in the doc and her charger instead of all her cables)

Hi there, I am curious about what docking station i need for my laptop (MSI katana 15 b12v) to support my monitor (MSI MAG241C) with the full 144hz. I also watched many videos and read many threads to get an answer but i still can't find it. I only need it to be 1080p because my monitor doesn't support 4K, i would love a recommendation that isnt too expensive but still supports 1 HDMI or DP output for my monitor that reaches the 144hz.

Hello, I’m looking into upgrading my parents old Satellite Z830 laptop with a new cheap non-mechanical drive. They have a mechanical 128GB hd in there and it’s really slow. I’m just not sure what to look for exactly and not sure if modern drives will be compatible since this laptop is quite old. For the size anything at or above 128GB would be fine as they mostly use usb sticks for storage. Bonus recommendation: memory upgrade. They have 6GB so I thought I might as well look into upgrading to 8GB. Again, not sure what would be the optimal ram upgrade here. Budget: as low as possible since the laptop is old and I believe that any upgrade will be much better regardless of cost. Thanks in advance for the recommendations.

i didn't really want to go here for this, but i am looking for a laptop that has an interchangeable GPU, and the rest of the internet is no help and buying a gaming laptop is hella expensive and i cant really do desktop as i move alot

I have an Alienware 15 R3 that i use mostly for gaming and wanted to get rid of the original 1 TB had drive and replace it with a ssd so it would be faster. While I was looking for an ssd I saw the Samsung 870 Evo 2 TB for around $150. I also noticed the speeds were really low compared to a NVMe m.2 ssd so I went looking for an adapter for NVMe m.2 to sata and found an adapter for $30. I picked the WD_Black SN850X 1TB for my ssd. after looking a the cost it was about 150 dollars for all of the items on Amazon. Sorry for the paragraph but I wanted to know should I sick with the ssd and would the adapter slow down the speed of the m.2 drive also would the m.2 drive need a heat sink so it wouldn’t over heat.

This laptop is 5 years old, it used to be my family's, but since it's barely functional they wanted to get rid of it and I wanted to see if I could resurrect it. When plugging in the laptop, the powerbrick didn't want to work (or just the LED indicator), however then the LED was working, however none of the laptops LEDs turn on when I plug the charger in, the laptop seems to be 0% on battery, at leas I assume it is, I did leave it plugged in for few hours with no change. The laptop also doesn't seem to have direct access to the battery, and would need me to at least unscrew the bottom to do so. The laptop in question is an Acer with a Pentium processor, the model on the back reads: Extensa 2508-P272 (I'll attach images of top and bottom side with charger plugged in)

Background: I have a Dell G5 5590 that is exhibiting some odd behavior. Specs are as follows: I5 9300H GTX 1650 32 GB Ram (Dual Channel) I've done a few things to this PC in this order: Cleaned the fans (spraying air cannister condensate into them by accident causing notable whining) Installed MSI Afterburner to attempt to give my GPU a small bump. This resulted in battery drain even when plugged in when gaming (and some really bad battery activity such as not charging to 100%). Uninstalled MSI Afterburner I removed my battery as it began to swell and used my laptop exclusively plugged in. went from 8gb to 32 gb of ram Recently replaced SSD and reimaged with fresh windows 10 (issue still persists) The Problem: Performance began to dip after Uninstalling MSI Afterburner and got notably worse when i removed my battery. During game sessions, I would experience extreme dips in FPS (80fps to low 15s) and would stay low for a notable amount of time. Generally this happened when more was happening on screen, however this was not the only trigger as it would happen when I hadn't moved in game at all with nothing on screen. For a time the fans would kick in, however they recently have not (though they are still functional, aka i can force them to 100% speed). With task manager open, I noticed my clock speeds acting extremely weird, with clock speeds dropping extremely low when under load. During my testing for example, in a situation where multiple abilities on screen, my frames dropped from 80 to 10, and when I checked my clock speeds, they were 1.15Ghz (For context the base clock of my CPU is 2.4Ghz). My temperatures at that moment were around 60c. What I've Tried: Running Aida 64 and stressing my CPU had a similar effect where my clock speeds dropped from 2.4Ghz to around 1.1Ghz under load, This was without any temperature spikes or anything, once under load the clockspeeds would simply drop. NOTE: During this test Aida 64 did not show the warning for thermal throttling. Fresh install of Windows, however problem still persists in games (I have not benchmarked aida 64 in this new install) My Question: What could be the cause of this downclock underload? I will be doing more testing with Aida64 and other tools, trying to replace parts by ordering them through dell. Is it a voltage problem? perhaps with the battery gone my 130W powersupply is unable to supply enough power? I'm no longer sure where to look, and some help would be much appreciated! Thank you so much for reading, I'm thankful for any help here!

I was wondering if a SATA connector connected to the motherboard this way, maybe we can replace it with a M.2 SATA or M.2 NVMe. If that's not possible and NVMe should be connected directly to the motherboard, is that possible to move my WiFi Card over here (on the place of ODD SATA port)? so that I can connect an NVMe ssd there. Also Speccy says I have 3 PCIe x1 ports available. What are those and how I can utilize them?

For a couple of months my ThinkPad E15 Gen 3 AMD (w/5800U & soldered 8G & 1x so-dimm ddr4) seems to work really fine like before, expect for one fact that it use over 30 seconds to launch my bootloader (systemd-boot menu of Arch Linux, if that matters). The strange thing is that it's NOT the case where the Lenovo logo appears a long time after pressing the power button. Instead it IS the case that the logo itself instantly shows up after powering on, and (after prompting for boot interruption) it just stays there for a LONG time before bootloader kicks in. Other details: If I interrupt the boot immediately after powering on (press Enter), the interrupt menu pops up immediately too, if I select a boot device, "the daze" happens afterwards. But if I wait for at least 2 seconds, "the daze" happens before the interrupt menu pops up. `systemd-analyze` shows `Startup finished in 30.838s (firmware) + 3.064s (loader) + 1.251s (kernel) + 4.562s (userspace) = 39.716s graphical.target reached after 4.562s in userspace.` Hardware I modified: Upgraded the RAM (from 8G soldered + 8G so-dimm to 8G soldered + 32G so-dimm, DDR4-2400) Once I installed another NVMe to the spare slot, but soon for reasons I removed it. (It mostly happens before the problem appears.) Things I tried: Updating to the December firmware (just did that, nothing changes) Resetting the firmware settings (no effect) Tweaking the boot order (set NVMe or Linux to top, no changes) (problem persists even when I boot with a thumbdrive) Installing other OSes such as Windows (no effect) Disabling every security & integrity related settings in FW (no effect) Disabling AMD-V and memory protection (no effect)

So I've been searching for best thermal paste in terms of its effective service life lately and got stuck in a dead end. I need a thermal paste for my gaming laptop that can last for a minimal of 1-2 years, any recommendations?

Since im building a pc after about 4 months, and while im waiting i might as well max out my laptop. i'm trying to overclock, especially my laptop monitor as its 60hz. electricity isnt a concern for me, also i have a laptop cooler pad. so, where can i get started in overclocking?

I recently bought a 2.5" SSD for my laptop to expand the storage, since I knew that the motherboard had space for one. I also got a sata cable that connected the SSD to the port on the motherboard. The issue is that once I plugged the drive into the motherboard, the laptop would only power on for less than a second before turning off. Once I took the cable out of the motherboard, my laptop powered on just fine. To be clear, this SSD isn't a boot drive, and is brand new so it should be empty. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 3 A315-41-R4J7

Hello I have a Lenovo ideapad s145 I5-8265u 12GB Mx110 2gb ddr5 Windows 11 fresh install The problem is that Windows (10 and 11) Don't recognise headsets, they work but they show as speakers. Downloading the latest Intel driver 1-it uninstalls the current driver 2-restart pc 3-doesn't finish installing, shows an error BUT here is the weird part not doing step 3 everything works fine, they show as headsets I get the enhancements tab in audio settings until I restart that as and it reverts to old drivers Everything else is updated. Also it's not a headset problem first one was a moxom something, now I have a hyperx cloud

So some context, the laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite L755, its my father's and he only uses it for watching movies but it was really slow and gave error messages for anything, it had windows 7 so I decided to take it home and try to do something with it, I formatted the drives and put Linux Mint on it, even the installation process was slow as hell, it installed but it was a pain in the ass to even navigate, so I put Chrome OS Flex on it, which doesn't helped it was still slow, now it has a Windows 10 (cuz not the OS the problem here and atleast I know something about windows 10 so I knew where can I search for the problem) surprise it's slow aswell but not slower then the other OS's so I opened the task manager and everything seems to be fine BUT the CPU utilization is always on 100% the hdd seems fine at 20%, etc. So the problem is with the CPU utilization, what can cause it? tried virus scan, it didn't show anything, the Task Manager shows normal processes but they use a lot of CPU for some reason When I try to watch something on YouTube it's hard for the laptop to even load the site, and a 144p video is laggy, unwatchable.

I would like to know if the below laptop with spec are OK for doing Video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro HP ZBook Firefly 14 G10 (Part number 865P0EA) • 14", WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, 400 nits • i7-1355U ( up to 5.0 GHz, 12 MB L3 cache, 10 cores) • 32GB DDR5-5200 MHz RAM (1 x 32GB) • 1TB PCIe NVMe TLC SSD • NVIDIA RTX Α500 (4GB GDDR6 dedicated) • Windows 11 Pro, • 1.45Kg, • 3YW

"Old tech still rocks!" Is what I would I I was a very short man named Linus, but I'm not Linus so why do I actually agree with him? Sure old game consoles are cool but how are old laptops and how do they hold up now? Surely someone had to answer the question no one asked and that had to be me unfortunately. So for the past 13 years I have been using the same laptop (HP G61) and monitor (Acer X223w) I got as a teen and not once have I felt like I needed to change as it did everything including my varsity projects pretty well until only 2 weeks ago when it started randomly blue screening. I wish I could show you how good my experience has been but I'd rather show you this segway to our sponsor LTT Store Dot Com. (Inserts Linus talking about the LTT Retro Screwdriver) Anyway back to the review. I simply think my old laptop is pretty cool. Its taken a fair amount of falls, a couple liquids that might not be water, has a great speaker cause its such a thiccc boi. It obviously has it downs like 2 GB ram, a Celeron processor, and not being able to process 1000P video natively that's why I have a 1050P second monitor. Anyway I am ranting at this point but I do challenge anyone who still has their first ever setup to downgrade to that for a week. Shot on Nikon Coolpix L840.

Hey LTT forum! I've been experiencing an odd problem with my gaming laptop that started occuring a few weeks ago. Every time I leave my laptop for more than an hour, it enters sleep but a sort of sleep that plays the sleep animation on the keyboard, but it does not react to any key presses whatsoever. WakeOnLan also doesn't work, I've tried and it doesn't show up in the program. It does however react to me unplugging the power cable. Whenever I unplug the power cable, the keyboard's RGB turns off after a certain amount of time and the sleep animation doesn't play. Is there anything I can do to fix this? The laptop always feels very warm and the issue occurs with all my fan profiles (I have one silent one where I use ThrottleStop to make the CPU throttle at 77°C and set the CPU fan to 0% until it reaches 79°C and the GPU fan spins at a constant 2100/5400RPM. I also have one that constantly spins both fans at 4500RPM and one that full sends both fans all the time, the issue occurs with all three as the fans stop completely while it's in sleep). The only thing that gets it back is holding the power button down for 15 seconds. When I then start it up, I'll see the GPU temp at like 75°C or more and the CPU is at 98°C or so (though it's pulliing 65W while the heatsink is saturated from the fans not running). Could it be that it doesn't want to start up because it thinks it's too hot and it would be dangerous to turn on? I honestly have no clue how to figure out what's going on and any help is appreciated as I don't want to kill my laptop every day at least once

I just now discovered about battery bypass in laptop and Asus battery health charging software which limits charging of battery at certain percentage. My question is battery bypass supported in my Asus Zenbook 14x OLED powered by ryzen processor. Will using my laptop during charging ruins its battery... because on some reddit forums I found that Zephyrus g14 dosen't support battery bypass with type c charger and my laptop can only be charged by type c charger, so someone help me, will using my laptop while charging my laptop ruin it's battery health.

I have been scouring the internet for about an hour and I've only found 3 options. I'm looking for a laptop with a 4080 and a Ryzen 9 CPU and from my extreme googling there aren't many options. I'm looking at the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17. or the ASUS ROG Zephyrus DUO 16 (but the Duo 16 is a bit over my budget) most important part is the cooling and performance. how the keyboard feels or how the monitor looks is almost completely irrelevant. since I'm connecting it to a setup and the laptop will stay stationary most of its life. But I still need a laptop since i travel overseas twice a year, I do physical 3d classes and online classes. "Most of it's life" is more like 250 days out of 365 I'm going for a Ryzen CPU since I'll be doing a lot of 3d rendering and a lot of editing. 4080 is the highest I can go. and I need good opticx performance and raytracing. budget is around 3k. but even that is pushing it.

Hello, I am planning on buying a laptop for myself for regular day-to-day office work and some gaming. I have been looking at Lenovo LOQ series laptops and I am confused between 2 specifications- A- CPU-> i5-12450H GPU-> NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 B- CPU-> i7-13620H GPU-> NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 Both have the same- RAM- 2 x 8GB, 5800MHz, DDR5 SCREEN/ DISPLAY- WQHD (15.6)(2560 x 1440), IPS, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, 100%sRGB, 350 nits, 165Hz. STORAGE- 1TB, M.2, 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC, SSD I have to choose between A and B as any other Combination will go over my budget(I am from INDIA, and my max budget is 1,00,000 INR, I cant have refurbished laptops due to the billing policies/methods I will be using). I usually use my laptop until they come apart themself. My current laptop is 4.5 yrs old. I am someone in the age range of 18-25 years. Please also keep these factors in consideration. Please help.

Hey! I'm a student and I'm trying to ditch my Thinkpad T480. It's not that I hate it, it's an amazing machine. However, it's not quite doing what I need it to. It's 8th gen i7 and now primitive IPS display struggle as soon as I start anything that begins with "Adobe" and I kill my battery in a day without issue (new batteries, cycle count on both <90). In Windows I use 3 desktops. One for school which contains about 25 chrome tabs, one for work which has Slack and 10 Firefox tabs, and one for personal. In the personal desktop, I normally just have Firefox, Signal, and Spotify open, but its not infrequent that I whip out Illustrator, Photoshop, FL studio, Visual Studio, CLion, RekordBox, or even Premiere Pro. As you can imagine, this doesn't go so well and my battery life seems to reduce to 25 minutes. I decided, even as an engineering student, that I will need to buy a MacBook. Once I start doing engineering stuff for school in a few years I'll have to buy a windows workstation, but for now it's gonna be Mac. For the first time ever. I'm torn between the 13" M2 Air (512, 16gb), a refurbished 14" mbp (m2), and a refurbished 14" m1 pro. What's the best move? Battery life is important, but so is the ability to run photoshop and illustrator. Portability wise, any of these would work. My bag is already heavy enough. I get the apple education discount, and I also work at best buy, which means the Geek squad refurbished m1 would come to $890 pre tax. That means, unless I wanna spend $2,000 for the m2 mbp I would be deciding between the air and the pro, but at that price difference the air is actually more expensive. Is that m1 pro mbp better than an m2 mba? I'm guessing fans and battery life would play a big difference there but I'm not sure how big. If I have the money, I'll get the m2 pro, but otherwise what do you all think is the best move? Thanks!

Budget around 70k indian rupees($850) Requirements : Casual browsing, content watching, ms office. I really want a beautiful display to look at which is most probably will be delivered by an oled laptop with atleast 90hz refresh rate and good battery. I don't want anything bigger than a 14" screen size. Would appreciate if the fans don't go off even during casual browsing. Options are ASUS Zenbook 14X OLED, Intel Core i5-12500H 12th Gen 16gb ram - $850 Take a look at this ASUS Zenbook 14X OLED AMD Ryzen 5 Hexa Core 5600HS - 16 GB ram - $660 Take a look at this ASUS Vivobook S14 OLED Intel EVO H-Series Intel Core i5 12th Gen 12500H 16gb ram - $850