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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

Good Morning/Afternoon, So I have a Laptop here that was working completely fine until last week, at which time the user could no longer get into their network share Drives, when they click on it the very first time it says wrong credentials, then from then on it says " The Local Device name is already in use " when clicking on the share, all six of them have broken and say the same, I can get them to temporarily work by removing them and adding them back in CMD with ( net use Z: /delete ) and ( net use Z: \\computer_name\share_name /PERSISTENT:YES ) I've tried to find other solutions but they all come up the same and can't find another solution to it, if anyone knows how to permanently fix this please let me know

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

Been watching LTT for a while but never checked out the forum. Hoping someone here might have some useful tech tips because I'm at the end of my rope here. I've had this Asus ROG Strix G17 laptop for I think a little over a year now, and it's been working fine up until a few days ago. There have been a few symptoms, and I'm not sure they're all related, but the main one is that the system very often will fail to boot. Specifically, the "ROG" logo will flash on, then the Windows "spinning circle of dots" will appear underneath and spin for a second or two. But then the dots freeze still, or occasionally stutter through a few frames and then freeze. Once that happens, the computer will stay like that indefinitely (I've left it overnight as a test). A key detail is that this doesn't happen every time, just most of the time. After several tries, I have repeatedly gotten Windows to boot just fine, and after booting it seems to work without issue. It's worth noting that I've never had a problem getting into the BIOS menu; that always comes up reliably, so I know it can boot that far. Another potentially related symptom is that rarely, when restarting and restarting in an attempt to get into Windows, I will receive a Blue Screen with the stop code CLOCK WATCHDOG TIMEOUT. I've tried... SO many things. I'll attempt to name the relevant actions: I cloned the OS disk to a brand new drive and swapped them- no improvement. This has me thinking that it's not a bad drive (technically there is a second, non-bootable drive in there as well, but I don't know why that would matter). I tried booting off a Windows installation USB drive to attempt repairs, and the same thing happened (it froze while trying to boot from the USB), which makes me think it's not a bad Windows install that's causing the problem either. Twice, when booted into Windows, I attempted an "in-place upgrade" (repair install), which each time failed and rolled back because of a hung reboot. I've reseated the RAM. I've run the Windows memory diagnostic tool which found no problems. I tried "Load Optimized Defaults" in the BIOS (even though I hadn't changed anything). I've tried booting without any external devices connected. Nothing plugged in at all besides the charger. Details on specs: The BIOS version is 331, which I believe is the latest. Processor is a Ryzen 9 5900HX w/ Radeon Graphics. GPU is an RTX 3060 Laptop. It has 2 8 GB sticks of RAM for a total of 16 GB (I don't know the type, whatever came with the computer). What else can I even test for or look at at this point?

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

"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.

I have a laptop that does not have an Ethernet input, but I have a stationary computer, can I connect the laptop to the computer via USB and thus have Internet access via a cable?

Hello, TL;DR: My old laptop recently broke and I'm considering getting a replacement for it, and I want to ask for any recommendations. 32 or 24 GB ram i7/equivalent CPU ~13 inch display (sorry if this question type isn't appreciated/accepted in the forums, and sorry for the long read) I want to ask for recommendations for a new laptop. So my old laptop recently broke enough for it to get sent to the repair shop (not turning on after a week of trying), and they fixed a chip but then said the CPU was broken. It charges consistently now but doesn't turn on so I guess I have to get a new laptop. I typically use my laptop for school, which means a nice keyboard would be neat, and I don't do anything too intensive on it too often. Typical heavy load would be running (python and C++) programs or running multiple displays, and at times I would do 3D modelling (Blender) and maybe rendering on it. I only play light games on it, though not very often. I would prefer an intel i7 or AMD equivalent, and 32GB or 24GB of RAM as I tend to have too many tabs open. Ideally I would want something more along the lines of a ~13 inch thin and light as I do have to carry it around with my everyday. I don't want an Apple system due to ideology differences (R2R) and personal preferences. For some unfound reason I really want to get a 2-in-1 system, though I'm still not sure whether I should due to the price increase. My budget would be preferred ~$1500 USD, at most ~$2000. I also really like dedicated mouse buttons below/above the trackpad and the nub mouse thing on the keyboard, but they aren't necessary. I did a bit of searching and I found a few systems that somewhat matches ASUS ROG Flow X13 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga gen 8 Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga gen 4 Also, is there any possibility of getting my laptop fixed by sending it to a different repair shop to have them check the problem out? It is a Lenovo Thinkpad X13 yoga gen 2 and a weird power problem started occurring 1 year after purchase (is this a documented problem?). 2 years after purchase the problem got bad enough I couldn't turn it on after a week of trying to, and it got sent to the repair shop. They replaced a chip on the main board but then said the CPU is broken. I have it back now and it can charge (charge indicator is on when charging and power LED flashes when plugging it in), but I can't power it on. It there anyway to fix this so I don't have to get a new laptop? Thanks for any and all 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!

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.

Hi, I have a Clevo P150EM Laptop with the PremaMod V.2(P15E1711.PM2) flashed to it. It works fine and added UEFI support. The last step of my upgrades was to hopefully get either/both of these GPUs working in it, but it appears I need a BIOs mod for that. First/Preferred: AMD FirePro S7BS100X 8GB Second: AMD FirePro W6170M 2GB I have scoured everything I can think of for info on how to do this, but I have been met with hundreds of broken links and half-complete tutorials. I have found evidence that both of these cards have worked on this laptop and tech-wise they are "compatible". I have the correct drivers and the laptop is already setup to pass display output through the integrated. I just need help modifying the BIOs to support them properly. I can provide the BIOs I am currently using and am happy to provide whatever other information is required. I have acquired basically every flashing tool/modification tool I can along with some GPU vBios's and the original and PREMA Bios for the motherboard. I appreciate any help.

I have got a problem with my laptop (Lenovo LOQ 16APH8 82XUOO57MH) on every other boot. Every single time I boot after shutting down my laptop using windows 11, the laptop tries to boot, the screen goes off and I can't press anything to change this. If I then shut down the laptop using the power button, and restart it, it boots up fine. I have noticed that on that first boot every time I can not go to the boot selector screen, the second boot always works in regards to that. I think this has happened because of a driver update, because I did not have this issue at first. I have searched online for potential things to troubleshoot, but I could not find anything that seemed to help me. Also on the first boot it does NOT show a loading circle, but on second boot it does. I would gladly appreciate if anyone wants to help, because this is an annoying issue.

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

Hey guys, I'm doing my first topic here, because I'm about to buy a laptop at "xotic pc", and I wanna know what you guys have to say about the brand? Are they trustable, are the customs xotic pc good? Thanks guys

Hi everyone! I'm a sophomore Mechanical Engineering student who just picked up a Lenovo P72 laptop (17.3" 1080p, i7-8850H, 32GB DDR4-2400, Quadro P3200 6GB) off eBay. This is so I can do much more intensive engineering tasks around campus and out at SAE events (I'm a project leader in the school's SAE BAJA team) more easily without being tied to my desktop (27" 1080p + 21.5" 1080p + 2x17" 1280x1024, R7-3700x, 64GB DDR4-3600, GTX 1070, 280GB Optane) as well as have enough display real-estate to make multi-document productivity work actually reasonable. The school's provided 13" HP Elitebook Dragonfly G2 was not cutting it in any respect and was too heavily/poorly managed by them, so rather than go to war with them over controlling a rather poorly suited laptop I figured I'd just get my own better one. I would've loved to just remote into my desktop to avoid the need for such a powerful laptop but the school's network is configured in such a way that doing so while maintaining anything below 400ms of round-trip latency was impossible and even that was unreliable so here we are. I'm now looking to find a nice durable backpack I can actually put this beast and my other MecE gear in, and wanted to get y'alls suggestions. I would love to just get an LTT backpack (been meaning to grab a screwdriver and some other LTT merch for a while now), but the laptop sleeves are too small for my machine (mine measures 16.38"W x 11.06"D x 1.16"H while the backpack is only good for up to 15.5"W x 11.25"D x 1.25"H, maybe I could cram it in but I'd really prefer not to for the sake of both the bag and machine). Whatever I end up with needs to fit my chonk laptop including charger plus some notebooks/pencils/TI-85, my caliper/micrometer set, some screwdrivers/other basic tools, and possibly a 17" portable external monitor or 2 (if I can find any for really good deals, otherwise I'll just grab the free 22" 1080p TV I got from the discard pile on campus and lug it under my arm like I have been already). Do any of you have suggestions of bags you have had good luck with? As long as its not totally obnoxious I don't really care how it looks (although the more "military" it is the better since I have some MOLLE accessories I'd love to use with it. It's gotta be durable above all else, just my normal backpack load with the 13" HP in the school's provided Targus bag wore 1.5" long holes thru the bottom corners in my first year there. Thanks in advance for any thoughts y'all have, I took one look at the eBay results when I went looking and noped out of there because anything good was buried under all the garbage my pretty generic search turned up.

Hi everyone, I would like to know if anyone has experience with the Dell Precision 5560. I recently bought one off of eBay and noticed the idle temps reaching 100C (HWMonitor). The fans kick on, and the laptop cools to about 96-97C. When I have a VM running on it, the fans will kick in after a while, but that seems normal as that is quite some load. I have cleaned the cooling fins, fans and repasted the CPU and GPU (MX4). I have contacted Dell, and they just turned off the ExpressCharge feature giving me that as a reason for the overheating, but that didn't fix anything other than my laptop charging slower. They then asked me to perform a hardware check and send them screen shots of the screen after the tests have run. I haven't heard back from them, and doubt they know what is causing the overheating. I'm tempted to try liquid metal, but am kind of scared as I have no experience with it. Note: the room temperature is between 22C and 24C. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my now 4-5 year old Dell Inspiron 5482 2-in-1 because: Its battery life is becoming an issue where it can only be disconnected from power for 30 minutes, despite Windows claiming an hour or so. It will randomly decide not to turn on even when connected to power. It will drain the battery when it's supposed to be powered off. Its touch screen hasn't worked since I upgraded to Windows 11, despite Dell listing it as supported for the Windows 11 touchscreen driver at the time of Windows 11 release, although I can now find no record of such a driver (for Windows 10 or 11). I've been looking around for a new laptop, and I've come to a crossroads; Do I: Get one device, such as a gaming laptop. Get two or three devices, such as a regular laptop, a gaming handheld and possibly a tablet. I think the gaming laptop would probably be the better financial choice becuase, despite gaming laptops being expensive, it will have all of the budget/price going towards the one device so it's a mostly flat price whereas the dedicated device approach could work out cheaper or more expensive depending on the individual device pricing. I've read some comparison reviews of gaming laptops vs a laptop and gaming handheld and the outcome, as I see it, is that whilst gaming laptops can pack a lot of power into a small form factor, they are really just more mobile desktops. This is becuase oftentimes: You will need to be connected to a power socket to get the most out of the performance of the laptop; this tethers you to one location The screen needs to be at a particular angle to get good visibility, but this makes it difficult to use on a plane or bus or something if you want to game. Gaming laptops are heavy and noisy. I don't think there's any 2-in-1 gaming laptop In comparison, having two or three dedicated devices: You won't necessarily be tethered to a power socket to get the best performance out of the devices While the screen of a regular laptop would still have the same angling issues, you would at least be able to put your gaming handheld at whatever angle works for you and wouldn't run into the same issues with a plane, bus, or something similar. Both regular laptops and gaming handhelds can be heavy and noisy in their own ways but oftentimes aren't as heavy or nosy as a gaming laptop, so the weight and noise are a bit more distributed. To my knowledge, gaming handhelds generally aren't touchscreen, but you can get regular laptops in a 2-in-1 configuration. I'm leaning more towards the dedicated laptop and gaming handheld approach as it seems more flexible. For argument's sake this is what I'm thinking: If I went down the one gaming laptop approach then I'd probably get the ASUS Zephyrus G14 or one of the Lenovo Legion Slim series with an AMD chip. If I went down the two or three dedicated devices approach, then I'd probably choose between: Gaming handhelds: SteamDeck Asus ROG Ally (Leaning more towards this) Laptops: HP Pavilion Plus HP Spectre 2-in-1 ASUS Zephyrus G14 What I'd like from a laptop: Decent CPU and RAM: I'm generally quite taxing on my use of my current laptop, with the i5-8265U hovering around 50% at light usage and the 16GB of RAM hovering around 80% usage. Decent Screen: I never know where I'm going to be using it, so it being able to have a bright screen would be useful. I'd also like it to look good if it's used to watch movies or something. Dedicated GPU: I run 4 monitors at my desk via two Dell docks; one uses Intel UhD graphics, and the other relies on DisplayLink which I believe is a virtual GPU of some kind that always pegs my CPU. It having a dedicated GPU could help alleviate the performance hit of DisplayLink Optional wants: Thunderbolt 4: If the laptop supports Thunderbolt, then I could use an external GPU to power my 4 screens, which would alleviate the need for both docks or at least just the DisplayLink one. 2-in-1 convertibility: Having a 2-in-1 laptop can be useful in those rare situations where you are watching a movie in bed and don't need the keyboard or when you are working at your desk and don't need a keyboard. I do recognize that having a 2-in-1, particularly one with a detachable keyboard, often means giving up some performance as all of the hardware then needs to packed behind the screen instead of underneath the keyboard. Any suggestions, opinions, experiences or general feedback is welcome.

I am taking apart a laptop that had coffee spilled on it and the coffee didn't make it past the keyboard and I only saw traces of it in a motherboard screw. The keyboard ribbon feels stuck I have tried tweezers and very carefully with pliers but to no avail, there is no flip-up thing. Is there something I can use to loosen it up?

Hello, I'm an aspiring 3d artist and a not so hard-core gamer. I have an Acer Aspire 7 gaming laptop which I bought about 3 years ago. Now the issue is since last couple of months it's giving me BOSD errors specifically -DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR whenever I try to open a 3d application or try to play a game. I tried to contact Microsoft, Acer and Nvidia but they couldn't help me and just suggested me to go to a repair shop. I went to a repair shop but the thing is where I live, I don't think they are very well skilled to repair this kindda mess. So they said they couldn't fix it and just told me to buy a new PC. (NOTE- when I disable my dedicated GPU the PC works fine but as soon as I enable it the PC crashes on the last frame, but what good is a pc without a GPU right??). Fixes I have tried till now- 1. Reset it 3 times. 2. Updated all the drivers. 3. I showed it to a technician (who i think was not so skilled). Please help me out as I currently cannot afford to get myself a new PC. link-https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dxaveU_GNKurJwDLz1-PfJpSWfgHzOSS?usp=sharing ALSO, I had issues with the perfmon command for some reason i was not able to save the performance report even though I opened it as an administrator info.nfo

I'm a newcomer to Canada and need advice on the best time to buy a laptop within a $700-$800 CAD budget. It will be used for basic and development tasks, and I'm specifically looking for anything Intel i5 10th gen/Ryzen or newer, 256GB or more storage, 16GB RAM, and a size of 14 inches or smaller, type-c charging or 256gb/m1 MacBook if possible. Considering the late December/early January timeframe, I'm wondering if it's an optimal time to buy now or if I should wait for year-end deals. Any insights on student discounts and recommendations for reliable stores or online platforms would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help!

"System" task is constantly waking up my dgpu. Every 3s it changes from "gpu 0 3d" to "gpu 1 copy" in task manager which ends us in disgusting battery performance. Hw monitor shows that gpu jumps from 1w to 11-16 wats when system does it. I have done reinstalls, power plans, battery checks. I don't believe that laptop with the most efficent power plan with 42kwh battery can discharge in 1,5 hours if im lucky and having max 1 site open when the producer says that it can do 5h of light tasks. Also i can't test what would happen if i killed system because win won't let me do it. ps the intel igpu is not overworked, 20-30% max load Gpu model: 1660ti maxq system: win 10 laptop model; hp pavilion gaming 15 cpu 10300h

I got a gaming laptop like a year ago its an ROG Zephurys M16 GU603HM, the issue is that a few weeks ago it started to show some lines in the lower part of the screen I thought it was a glitch or something after a while I realized it was a burned image from whatever is displayed for a long time on the screen, I wanted to know if there is a way to fix this issue, if I should try to replace the entire screen or if its just going to die eventually would appreciate any help. I send a picture i took with my camera of my screen you can clearly see the afected area, other than it usually works fine, It took me so long to notice as I use 2 monitors and the main one (which is the one with the issue I usually have black backgrounds so I couldnt noticed the burns at all)

Look at this ... Is it even worth it I mean