Power Consumption

My stupid Toshiba tempro laptop won't turn ln turn on its not dead it was fully charged my auntie was sat right next to me it just went off on its own battery is attached to it my mom's refunded it so she got her money back but why? Oh, Yeah my mom, turned it on today it wouldn't come on she...

I am using lenovo g500s without plugin my laptop does not work. Now I am forced to sue my laptop like a pc. If i remove my plugin it shuts off in the next second.

I bought this laptop 2 1/2 yrs ago, last week I started having problems with the charger, it is plugged in but it is not charging. What should I do? I am self employed and I need my laptop for work.

As soon as I power on my ASUS UX32A Zenbook, I am prompted with the ASUS logo, followed by the POST sound. The wait time for the Windows logo is generally 10-15 minutes, and no longer. However, I have found that by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL immediately after hearing POST, this eliminates the problem...

Hey so I just bought a laptop, MSI pe70 2qe, and the battery on this thing doesn't last a very long time. I'm thinking about buying a power bank so I can power my laptop off that if I start running out of juice on the laptop battery. I've been looking at a few power banks that say they can power...

Whenever I turn the fluorescent lights ON or OFF my the screen flickers, show random artifacts, white 'snow' noise, goes black - then returns after several seconds. Also the audio usually gets cut off momentarily as the screen gets distorted. The issues seems to have started a week ago...

I recently developed a couple of problems with my Dell 17" laptop. The first problem is when the computer is taken out of sleep mode the backlit keyboard stays on and the only way to turn it off is the do a complete restart. The second problem is that the computer uses the battery up very...

Well, I've been wondering if turning off the DVD Drive of a laptop would improve battery life. I know at some points it can but I just don't know how much. If there's a way to completely turn off the optical drive (powered off not just disabled) without opening the chassis, that'd be really...

Hey guys, I found the Aspire V Nitro Black Edition laptop and I just want to know if you think it's a good idea to buy this laptop with: 15.6" (FHD) i7-5500U 8GB RAM NVIDIA GT 940M (2GB DDR3) 1TB HDD No DVD Drive ---------------------------------- There is another laptop (same brand) but with...

Hi, I have a dell studio 15. The charger is only 5A, however, the graphics card inside can use up to 15 amps. Graphics card is dedicated ATI Mobile Radeon HD 5470 Graphics If I get a 20A charger, but with the same voltage, will my graphics card be able to take advantage of the extra power input...

2 days ago, I unplugged my gaming laptop charger from the jack, and couldn't plug it back in. Thinking that there was dirt/plastic stuck inside, I (probably stupidly) used a few toothpicks to poke around in both the jack and the charger tip. The charger tip did end up fitting back in the jack...

I am looking for help deciding on a low-end Surface Pro 3 or the upper tier Surface 3. The price after purchasing would be roughly the same at street value now, and I would like to hear some opinions from current college students, or those who carry the Surface Pro and/or Surface on a daily...

I purchased a soundbar, where the manufacturers specs show 120W RMS and a power consumption of 25W. I didn't think anything of it until somebody mentioned that I should buy a stock to power my home. Their explanation was that if the soundbar is rated at 120W RMS for output, then the amount of...

Hi, I have an Aorus X7 Pro laptop with dual gtx970m graphics card in it which are in SLI. I want to actually shut off both cards and use onboard graphics instead to save power. I am aware that SLI graphics is not compatible with Optimus but is there any other option? It defiantly doesn't have to...

Hello, I bought this Asus computer (http://www.boulanger.fr/portable_asus_n751jk_t7128h/p_65511_727454.htm) which has a 128GB SSD but I have demand a refund to buy the top version of this model which has a 256 GB SSD. In the meantime I read that electric consumption is known to increase with...

Hey there! I want to buy a laptop (asus n550jk-CN395D) and four extra devices: - an usb powered external hdd (samsung m3 portable 1TB) - a cooling pad (Cooler Masters' Notepal U2 Plus) - has a usb passthrough - a keyboard (Razer Blackwidow 2014) - has another usb passthrough - a mouse (Razer...

I'm going to buy a laptop. The main purpose is daily use (watching movies mainly). I travel with my laptop, so I want to save power as much as possible. Is it true the power consumption more in Win 7 than win 8 than win 8.1 ???

Good day, Had a look through the car charger related topics didn't find something that answered the query I currently have: This is the phone I have: http:// This is the Car Charger they want to sell: http:// This is what I am looking at for those long trips were one or more smartphone will...

i just want to ask if how much power consumption will be added if you unlock and overclock a cpu like +.5 vcore ?

how do i turn off the screen manually