Laptops

Fix for Constant Hard Drive Clicking Noise in Ubuntu

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3 months ago
by Andrew D. Anderson in ,

If you are reading this it is probably because you have a laptop that keeps making a disconcerting clicking sound. You suspect that it may be the hard drive – and you are probably correct. It very well could be on its way out, and doing a full backup certainly can’t hurt anything… The racket could be something else though, it could actually be a feature of your hard drive. Let’s fix the “feature”!

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Blank Black Screen Fix for HP Laptops

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1 year ago
by Andrew D. Anderson in

A problem affecting many of HP’s newer laptops, including the dv9000 (dv9XXX) and dv6000 (dv6XXX) series of machines is that you’ll get nothing but a back-lit black screen on boot. More specifically, the touch-bar lights will turn on and the hard drive light will blink – the machine will actually appear to be booting into an operating system, but the screen will remain black. This problem usually occurs when the video card fails to work because it has overheated and is no longer soldered to the motherboard. It is a common problem, and the normally recommended fix is to re-flow your gpu (video card) and motherboard.

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