• Happy holidays, folks! Thanks to each and every one of you for being part of the Tom's Guiide community!

issues

Forum discussion tagged with issues.
  1. starasterisk

    Question Zephyrus M16 Glitchy Blackout Issue?

    This has been going on with my laptop for a while now. Restarting and reinstalling updates do nothing, and I'm starting to fear it might be something with my hardware. I've also restored the ASUS multiple times and yielded no results. Occasionally, my laptop screen will suddenly go black along...
  2. G

    Question Streaming problems from laptop to tv

    Hi I have cd roms with beavis and I got my hard drive replaced I April of this year . Be for that I could cast to my Samsung TV I also have Roku . Well now the cds open up fine on my laptop but certain episodes want play now . They all played on my tv before they play fine on my laptops so...
  3. T

    Question CPU Cooked ?

    Hello, I had.. (rip) a i7 6700k when dropped onto the market around 2015, I upgraded then gave that PC to my dad a few years ago. I had some issues with the pins on the MB but solved the issue with steady hands and tweezers - everything has run smoothly for the course of the time its been in...
  4. Jambo72uk

    Solved! Keyboard typing extra characters

    I have a dell laptop, windows 10. I am using an external Dell wired keyboard. When I type 123, for example, it comes out 122222233333. When I type now, it comes out nooooooo, and the w is missing. Have tried to adjust repeat delay and repeat rate with no success. I have also tried multiple...
  5. G

    Solved! ASUS X455L battery not increasing

    Hi! My ASUS X455L has been with me for 3 years now and just before 2020 ended, my battery started acting up. At first it failed to show that it was charging, so we got that checked and fixed but then after a while it started to drain like most batteries but it fails to increase. I've been...
  6. Nemanja157

    Question Battery drain

    Hi I have Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming edition and there are some issues with battery usage. It used to last from 4 to 6 hours but now it last 2h max with low usage (browsing net even). I occasionally goes to normal but as soon as I restart laptop it drops. Battery shows no loss in capacity...
  7. Y

    My laptop perfoms less than other same laptops.

    Hey folks, Now I have a laptop that was doing alright. Nothing too bad about my laptop. I have friends that have exactly the same laptop as mine, but theirs perfoms better than mine. So let's say we play Overwatch. If I get 60 fps, they both get 80. It's on every other game too! Like they both...
  8. F

    GTX 960m Thermal Limit issues.

    I'm reposting this, because my last attempt at this thread two days ago got no answers, and this issue is extremely annoying. If anyone could give me any pointers as to how to fix this, I would be incredibly grateful...
  9. noyaus

    Surface Pro 4 Pen Problem

    Hi I have a surrface Pro 4. I haven't use the pen in a while but I use it once a month or so to make sure it works. So I was checking to see if all functions worked today and when i clicked on top to open OneNote it did not open. So I went onto youtube and unpaired and repaired it. The pen...
  10. L

    Lenovo Y410P Charge Problems / AC Adapter. NEED HELP ASAP

    Hello guys, I recently purchased a Lenovo Y410P from eBay, and I have a problem with getting it to charge. The only way I can get the laptop to recognize the AC Adapter is this procedure: 1) Turn off laptop 2) Take out battery and unplug charger 3) Change the wall socket of the AC Adapter 4)...
  11. Joris

    Using different speakers from original system (altec lansing 621 and Sony marriage)

    Hello, so i got this used Altec lansing 621 speaker system, and one of the satellite was broken, so instead I connected a pair of 2 way sony ss scl3 Hi-fi's (full range), now there are differences between the originals, one of which is that Altec satellites where 4 Ohm and Sonys are 6 Ohm, and...
  12. B

    Lenovo- Y50 Frame Rate issues, Stuck Around 60 FPS.

    Hello all, Recently, I downloaded the game Red Orchestra 2, and instantly encountered frame rate issues. After much work I was able to get the frames up to 120 or so, but now I can only get 60 on much lower settings than before. I have tried turning off Vsync in game and in my NVIDIA Control...
  13. B

    Power Light Blinks. Motherboard LED solid. Prior trouble-shooting done.

    Power Light Blinks. Motherboard LED solid. Prior trouble-shooting done. Hi there. I recently bought a couple new monitors for my ASUS G10 Desktop. There was a problem with my first monitor because of some voltage issues, but I troubleshot my pc hardware prior to finding out the root cause. I...
  14. UItmaWepn

    Another way to solve laptop/desktop low volume issues.

    I had the same problem when I first bought my laptop, the volume just would not go loud enough, and everyone that has Windows 8.1 with bing knows that the enhancement tab under speaker setting has been removed for some reason. So, I have a very simple solution for you. Download and install the...
  15. B

    Google Chrome Mmsterious crashing and freezing?

    Hello i'm not sure if i am in the right thread as this is first time posting on Tom's hardware, I assumed this would come under Social Networking as i use google chrome to browse Facebook and you tube but it keeps crashing. The problems that i am having is that when i've been using google...
  16. D

    Video playback choppy everywhere, but on youtube?

    Hello! Recently I have noticed that my video playback is awfully slow and out of sync, the video seems to have huge FPS issues as if it was low, but the voices work fine. Simple motion such as walking in videos doesn't seem natural at all, but more like there are too many steps, as if frames...