I have a HP laptop (Pavillion g6). Its motherboard has some issue which is not repairable. A new motherboard is too costly. Can I create a new system using other motherboards like gigabyte or MSI mini-ITX motherboards? Answer Yes, possibly. Laptop processors are different than desktop processors, be sure you pick a motherboard with the … Read more
I have a windows 7 Pavilion, HP laptop that’s been having issues for a month or so. It started after the laptop fell from my bedside, around a 2 foot drop onto the corner near the vent fan, and cracked the bottom part of the casing. The crack doesn’t go up into the plastic around … Read more
I am having some display driver trouble with my Windows 10 HP laptop, and after multiple rounds of support from Costco and HP, I was told to just factory reset my laptop. I was given instructions to rapidly pres F11 when booting, and then select system recovery. From there I was to select System reset … Read more
I have moved to linux (lubuntu) a few months ago on my HP Pavilion dv6000. Since I installed lubuntu my screen has some weird dots on it, making it hard to use. today I switched to xubuntu, thinking it would solve it, but it didn’t. So maybe I should switch to a distro which is … Read more
My HP Pavilion 15-p157na came with two 5400 rpm hard drives and one optical drive. However, I see that the total number of SATA ports is four. Does this mean that I still have one free slot to install a SATA SSD in this laptop? At least, can I replace the optical drive with an … Read more
Lately I have been trying to find a way to update the BIOS on my 10-year-old Asus P5BW-LA from 3.08 to 3.17. I found an HP update program called sp35153.exe, but whenever I try to run it in Windows XP Pro SP3, it won’t install because it thinks I’m not logged in as an Administrator, … Read more
I have a HP dv6-6b51ea laptop which has AMD Radeon HD 6490M graphics card, and also has the Intel HD Graphics. I recently upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 (64bit) (came with the laptop) to Windows 10 (64bit). When I went to the windows 10 desktop for the the first time after installation, the resolution … Read more
I am in the process of upgrading several internal computer components. There are two small brackets at the bottom of the area where the fan is mounted. I would like to add some antenna ports or a USB port to the back of the case, but a search has yielded no results. I have no … Read more
I have been searching all the answers which revolve around the network adapter in Linux. Sadly, I am stuck where I started since none of the remedies was a breakthrough for me. Output for lspci | grep d723 2:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device d723 I had even tried to set one of … Read more
I have a HP Pavilion 17-f110nw laptop wich has a geforce GT 840M. Lately i formatted the hard drive and installed a fresh win 10 installation on it ( v1709, disabled updates, cause i don’t want them, could this be the case? ). I have installed the proper nvidia notebook drivers (notebook 419.67 for 64-bit … Read more
