Factory Restore using HP Recovery vs Windows Refresh/Reset

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

Caps Lock, Volume control and Brightness Onscreen Display Missing in lenovo Think Center

I have done a fresh install of 64 bit Window 7 from a previous 32 bit. I have almost everything back, but some settings are not back. There used to be a display feature for example when I use to hit the caps lock button I used to have an immediate display that used to … Read more

How do I install the drivers for the GTX 1050 ti in Linux?

I purchased the GTX 1050 TI, I went to nvidia.com and chose the right modelname from the Drop-Down menue, whereupon this download link emerged: nvidia driver for linux The name of the file is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.39.run and it was placed into the /home/myname/Downloads Folder. When I click onto the file nothing happens, there is also no … Read more

How does windows controll display settings?

The reason I came up with this question is because the brightness controll of my laptop didn’t work. So my question is how does windows 10 change the brightness of the display? Does it just change the usual HDMI (or some simular) signal or is there a separate modul which is responsible for the brightness? … Read more

Computer freezes when I enable NVIDIA card

Everything was working fine until yesterday, a video game crashed in the middle of a game. I couldn’t restart it because Steam claimed it’s still running, so I rebooted. But it didn’t start up. It was stuck at that moment where the screen turns off and back on during boot sequence. This time, it never … Read more

Pink and green horizontal lines on the top of the screen

Three days ago suddenly my laptop screen started freezing up.It freezes intermittently say for 5 seconds and then is okay on its own.Then within a minute this repeats.Simultaneously I have pink and green horizontal lines flashing on the to of my screen while this freezing is going on. My screen is completely the same as … Read more

Black screen while gaming after Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 driver update (v.457.51)

After updating the driver on Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 to v.457.51 (release date 02-Dec-2020) via GeForce Experience while gaming after 5-15mins the screen goes black, and there must be a restart so the PC can work normally again. Sometimes there is a sound loss when the screen is black, but sometimes there isn’t and the … Read more