Recent content by somnomania

I did what I always do for new parts, which is put the laptop model into Amazon or Ebay with the type of part needed. Since I posted, it's been fine; I think the thing I use to elevate the back edge of the laptop for better air flow while I have a game open was pressing on something it shouldn't...

Acer Nitro AN515-53, Windows 10, everything as up to date as possible. It had been making a very grating sound from the CPU fan that was slowly driving me out of my mind, so I just replaced that fan. It's still making a sound intermittently, but the noise stops sometimes if I pick up the back...

I appreciate the suggestion. I tried that just now, and it still has problems. Since I booted it the first time today, it's bluescreened a couple of times, but has also frozen multiple times, including the audio freezing in my headphones. I hadn't had a black screen freeze yet but when I bumped...

I'm going to today, but I was hoping someone might be able to look at the evidence and at least point me and the repair place in a specific direction. I've already tried replacing the HDD, and the memory tests fine. Last time I brought the laptop home, about a week ago, the repair place agreed...

This is not a new laptop, I've had it for two years and I said that in my post.

This problem's been going on for about three weeks now. Laptop is Acer Nitro AN515-54, Windows 10 (build 19045.2728), about two years old. When the laptop is shifted, bumped, sometimes when the screen is angled differently, it does one of three things: it freezes completely, the screen goes...

Okay yeah, Assurance couldn't help me, because we aren't active customers and the phone isn't active, so I guess I'm on to rooting. Thanks for your help.

Thanks. So far just for running apps and going online it's miles better than the one I'd been using, except the battery life is a little weak. The fact that the updates never worked was part of why my mom requested yet another new phone from Assurance, because they could never provide any help...

I don't see how that's the problem. The updates never worked even when it was an active Lifeline phone. But it's looking like I'll have to cave and try calling Assurance. I can't even find the SIM card that was in this phone before, it got lost to the ether during all of this. If they can unlock...

My previous post, here, was locked even though I was asking for genuine help and was not breaking rules of any kind, and neither reply addressed my actual problem. Ultimately, I am not asking how to hack this phone. I am asking how/why none of the update functions work, and if there's a way to...

I have a UMX U683CL. My mom has had some of the worst luck with phones via Assurance Wireless; this was her third or fourth one in about three years, and they've all misbehaved terribly. They didn't even want this one back, and I found it again recently and thought I'd repurpose it as a much...

It actually resolved itself after a few days; I tried booting it on a whim and the display was completely fine. I've provided diagnostic reports at the thread I made on this topic over at Bleeping Computer, so I've got some people suggesting some things I can do to determine if the display panel...

This is my mom's laptop. She just woke it up after it had been asleep several hours, and the display was sort of pixelly, colors weren't displaying right. Some basic internet searching led me to it probably being that it was defaulting to 8-bit color for some reason; some settings verified this...