⟐ Answered June 24, 2023 at 2:05 MST

Laptop seem to be working fine for another day and then just now I took the laptop on my knee again (lifting while on) and the screen turns green-purple and pixalated again.

Pulled battery out to restart and once on again I actually saw my old start background picture which I had before re installing the OS yesterday!

Because I saw the old picture before the computer changed back to my new background picture it made think that it must be a hardware fault.

It works well when placed on a flat surface like a table, but not when tilted which is a sign of something like a cable that is slipping then and then.

What do you think?

⟐ Commented April 28, 2017 at 8:34 MST

I tried all the solutions on the web I could find:

Took out battery, tried powering up with just ac cable, no good.

Tried powering up without ac cable, no good.

Tried holding down power button for 30 secs. plugging in only ac cable, no good.

Put battery back in and ac cable in, no good.

Reseated the RAM (and blew out a lot of dust that was on the fan), still no good.

Is it the motherboard? graphics card? Any help appreciated

⟐ Commented October 05, 2023 at 21:46 MST

⟐ Answer accepted April 08, 2019 at 11:28 MST

⟐ Answer edited December 24, 2025 at 8:21 MST

So after getting out of the shower and going to my room I stupidly leant across my laptop to get some clothes and about 5 drops of water from my hair went on the keyboard of my lenovo e460 laptop, which I didn't notice until about 10 minutes later when I wiped it off and tried to use my keyboard. Cue keys not working and me turning my laptop off and putting it upside down. I left it for two hours and tried booting it up again which was all fine, started typing the alphabet all keys are working again for about five minutes before it begins to freak out, keys not working or not typing anything but a bunch of random letters show up. So Ive turned it off again and left it upside down as I realised it probably wasnt enough time to dry but my question is because the keys worked fine for a bit, do you think my laptop will be ok when it properly dries and how long should I leave it for?

Thanks a heap!

⟐ Commented January 12, 2023 at 18:36 MST

⟐ Answer deleted January 11, 2021 at 5:10 MST

⟐ Answer accepted January 11, 2021 at 0:03 MST

Tell me total expense of full body replacement of Edge E530 without keyboard ?

⟐ Answer accepted May 21, 2019 at 4:45 MST

⟐ Commented May 28, 2018 at 16:11 MST

⟐ Answer accepted November 06, 2017 at 5:53 MST

I replaced the flat flex cable and it didn't help. I'm wondering if I should replace the daughter board. Since it's expensive, before I order one I would like to ask if somebody has access to schematic of that daughter board and can verify if there's some circuitry on the board that can cause the USB data communication to fail.

On this machine is installed linux mint. Here is "lsusb -v" output

Thanks a lot!

⟐ Commented April 24, 2026 at 2:09 MST

⟐ Answered November 26, 2024 at 21:54 MST

I have a Thinkpad which was pulled off the couch by my cat.  Stop laughing.  The tip of the USB-C power cord bent when it fell onto the floor.  I was able to bend it enough to have it work,  but I would like to replace the tip.  I am not scared of soldering, etc. but I want to make sure I use a good tip.  I was thinking of buying a good quality USB-C cable and cutting it and matching up the wires.   Before I strip or cut the end off and examine the wires etc, I was hoping to get some feedback. Any suggestions?

⟐ Commented July 22, 2020 at 18:30 MST

⟐ Answer accepted April 23, 2018 at 11:54 MST

⟐ Answer edited May 04, 2026 at 18:42 MST

cpu fan goes on/off, nothing on screen,

no boot,no beep

redlight flashes on i

tryed to reconnect evrything.

⟐ Answered April 27, 2026 at 11:58 MST

⟐ Answer edited February 19, 2026 at 0:13 MST