Recent content by HeuristicToaster

Been a while! Reporting back with success! It's a funny ol' story, turns out the non-OEM charger WAS preventing the battery charging. It also turns out that the ST09 battery works perfectly. The battery that came with the laptop was dead, and the replacement battery was dead too - with a dead...

Quick update, got the exact same behavior with an ST09 second battery as the primary battery and even with an OEM 120W PSU nothing is charging :( I can only assume that the problem is then something minor on the motherboard, in which case is it possible or even worth fitting a new charging port...

Thank you guys! The laptop runs perfectly fine whilst plugged in without (and with) a battery connected. I've just started running prime95+furmark simultaneously to see what happens when everything is drawing lots of power because so far I've only tested the PSU's voltages. I'll see about the...

You mention this only occurring when you're not charging the laptop - I wonder if this is related to power settings? Check your NVIDIA control panel for a 'battery boost' setting (http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/battery-boost) and see if switching it off makes a difference. As a...

Hello! I recently bought a HP Elitebook 8560w second hand, and so far it's proving to be a brilliant workstation. Unfortunately, as the title reveals, the battery is not on par with the rest of the hardware. The laptop boots and runs okay, regardless of whether or not a battery is connected...

+1 regarding Oliver's comments The GT 710M is a decent mobile card (if a little old now) that will handle GTA V reasonably well. Here is a laptop with that card: ebay.eu/22W0Kpf Of course, I recommend shopping around for better deals that are probably hiding somewhere, but that's just something...

Could you tell us a bit more about your OS (version, architecture) and how you're accessing Netflix (browser, app)?