Recent content by zer0c007

I will only talk from personal experience, I use kaspersky currently, I have used AVG, Avira, Avast and also Bitdefender, and I have found bitdefender to find more threats. Yet at same time as long as you keep for at least 2 months those threats in quarantine you will find that bitdefender will...

1. Does it perform the same on battery as well as direct power from wall socket? 2. Check windows updates, see if any updates are very recent enough that coincide with lagging issues. If there are not the KB....names of those windows files and then remove those updates from your pc, or remove...

Do not format the recovery sector of the HDD, its possible you can use this partition to reinstall windows as thats how laptops are designed these without needing to give you a physical disc although on first use of the laptop from the box it usually requires to make recovery dvds, if this was...

Sorry to hear about your issue, sadly what i have to say only use as last resort since i have no other solution. If all else fails and you need to back up your data, then remove the HDD from the laptop and purchase a cheap usb 2.0 external 2.5 inch case and plug your laptop HDD in there and...

In device manager go to universal serial bus controllers and expand this. Then now click on "view" on the computer management window tab on the top and click on "show hidden devices", this will bring up all usb drivers for any usb device that was previously connected to the laptop, so this will...

I fixed a HP laptop which did exactly the same thing, turned out to be dust, also the dust even caused the fan to cease turning but with some elbow grease I got the laptop back on its feet and using core temp was able to see things were now in a healthy state. I recommend not turn on the laptop...

From what I know if a usually most tech savvy people will test power adapter and check the cords from the power adapter input jack pin inside the laptop to the motherboard is not problematic. If its problematic they through the trouble of sodder/soldering the appropriate cords however if the...

Try downloading something like speccy, which will give complete details about the motherboard and other hardware. This way you can get the correct motherboard serial/model number etc, and also the bios loaded so you can find the correct drivers and update your bios. In the mean time use a normal...

If the battery is missing, chances are the original owner battery was dead and thrown away, now if you install windows without a battery and then insert the battery afterwards then windows will BSOD, at least windows xp would. So this may explain why only windows is installed and no drivers...

Try enabling legacy or backward compatibility in bios.

Well technically speaking if the battery is the correct voltage then no it should not damage anything if you are absolutely careful.

To me lines on laptop screen only gets me worried about GPU health, try booting into safe mode and uninstall gfx drivers using something like a dedicated graphic card driver uninstaller, like ddu. Then reinstall drivers and test.

Check youtube vids about how to test your laptop power brick. If in a rare case if supplying to much voltage it may have damaged your motherboard or its supplying to little power. If the brick is working correctly then remove it and the battery and press and hold the power button for 30 seconds...

Rule 1: Laptops must be checked for dust as regularly as possible. Rule 2: If the laptop fans is running high speeds more than usual then the following are the causes: A: You dont regularly check the laptop for dust at all therefore before you get pink and green lines on the screens indicating...

Connect an external monitor to and see if the problem persists on that screen, if so, then you most probably got a faulty gpu. If the screen is fine then it can be flex cable issue or monitor problem. I am not sure whether laptop screen was affected by a strong magnet like leaving car subwoofer...