Re: hi, laptop display issue, component level

mightbe an lcd issue from when you repalced the cable you could have broke the little chip on film tab things or you could have damaged the LVDS slot when inserting the cable. remove the cable and check the slots... does the laptop work when connected to external monitor or tv

Re: Shorted out Components Behind Cpu

Ok i might RMA the board and get a new cpu. what cpu do you reccommend?

Re: Shorted out Components Behind Cpu

i bought a usb to sata/ide converter and tried the drive in my old laptop and it has reallocated sectors :/ i just checked the drive 2 days ago and did a full scan maybe the power loss made the heads hit the platters or something. also that one ram module has got to be faulty if i have that one in the computer it will not post if i have all 4 of them in or just the suspected faulty one it wont post my other hdds and ssd seems fine though im currently on the laptop and running memtest on the computer after that i will do a full surface scan on...

Re: Shorted out Components Behind Cpu

the computer is working still i jsut wanted to know if the motheboard wont last long like if the short shortened the mb's life also im going to RMA the hdd and i have ordered replacement RAM i hope the slot isnt damaged

Re: Shorted out Components Behind Cpu

this is a pic where it fell in the bit i circled in red this isnt my motherboard because i dont have a camera to take pics but the place it fell looks the same...

Re: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Not charging

I have one of these tablets with the same problem let me know if you find a way to fix

Re: Shorted out Components Behind Cpu

Also forgot to mention i was installing a game on my 2tb hdd when the computer turned off and when that hdd is connected windows 7 takes over 5 mins to boot eve though windows 7 is on an ssd and the 2tb hdd was just games it makes aa clicking noise every few secs but when windows is actually running it works fine could that be a controller error or is the hard drive failing. i just hope it is the hdd and not anything on the motherboard. before i accidently shorted the mobo out windows booted in about 30 secs

My cpu is a AMD athlon...

Hi just about 10 minutes ago I was checking that all my fans were working. I accidently dropped a screw on the components behing the CPU like ok the other side of the board they look like tiny capacitors or transistors. When the screw fell on them the computers display went black and started saying no signal. So i uplugged the computer for 10 seconds then plugged it back in again and it wouldnt post with all my ram (16gb) if i have all four sticks in the computer will not post ive tried them in different slots etc. Could my motheroard have been damaged? or will it not last as log now. or is the...

Re: Chipped mosfet on P8Z77-V

it should be fine... i once got given a old foxonn board that had a few chiiped mosfets im not sure how they got chipped though. i alsodropped a screwdriver in the case accidently and it chipped the edge of a small chip but it still worked good for about 3 years then i threw the computer away ecause it was outdated