Questions tagged [hardware-failure]
Hardware failure refers to the act of a piece of physical hardware failing to meet its designed standards during operation.
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PC sporadically restarting - multiple times per day
I'm currently having random, but not repeatable, computer restarts. The computer has been running perfectly since build (approx. 1 year old) with no changes in hardware or software.
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Can my Intel LGA1151 CPU be damaged from a shorted monitor cable?
I was running a ASUS B365M-k mother board with a LGA 1151 Intel CPU with dual monitors.
One monitor stopped working and I noticed that the VGA cable had been cut and wires shorted out.
I have a new ...
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Why am I experiencing a RAID array drive error 792 when running smartctl when the RAID array seems to be working?
Pasted below the result of a smartctl scan of the one drive of the 4 in the array that is giving me issues.
The array seems to work (it's RAID 0) but the error code 792 I'm unsure about.
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How to know an external drive is failing in macOS before it goes bad? Or how to otherwise prepare?
I had two drive failures compromise my video collection in one instance and my backup in the second.
In the first case, video data became silently corrupt on an external USB SSD, in the second, older ...
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Lenovo T14s Gen1 (AMD) reboots when booting any OS
I'm trying to troubleshoot my Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 1 (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U), which has developed a strange issue. While I can enter and navigate the BIOS settings perfectly fine, the laptop ...
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Why I always encountered an I/O error and got crashed when creating a Timeshift snapshot?
Every time when I wanted to create a snapshot of my Linuxmint(using external USB hard drive), I encounter an I/O error and my desktop environment just crashed.
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DELL G16 7630
NVIDIA ...
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PC keeps crashing under load. Bad PSU, motherboard, or CPU?
My PC started shutting off completely when I played demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077, with a Kernel-Power 41 error. After some digging, I realized my old PSU (NZXT C650, 650W) wasn’t meeting the ...
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Screen tearing and blackouts after building a desktop
I recently put together a desktop to play games in 1440p, but around a week or so ago I began getting some minor white static looking lines that flashed every once in a while. I solved the issue by ...
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Failing SSD with 15TB written how is it possible and how to prevent (delay) in future drives
Yesterday I got the following notification on my Kubuntu laptop:
Storage Device Problems
The storage device SK hynix BC501 HFM512GDJTNG-8310A ('/dev/nvme0n1') is likely to fail soon!
I run sudo ...
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Why am I getting horizontal blue/cyan bars in color laser printer prints (Xerox WorkCentre 7830)?
I have a Xerox Workcentre 7830 color laser printer that recently developed a problem in its print outs.
Please see the following photo:
Have you seen this kind of error before? What component might ...
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Why am I getting a consistent HMAC-SHA256 calculation error across multiple environments on my laptop also on colab and pycharm?
https://gist.github.com/mounirmamia/b2bfd28e3ce44171a232ef5d10e6b145
Unexplained HMAC-SHA256 Calculation Anomaly
This repository/Gist details a highly unusual and persistent problem encountered with ...
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Software Solutions for "SMART Hard Disk Error 301"
I've been getting the SMART Hard Disk Error 301 for a month now on every boot up. It asks me to replace hard drive but I want to know if there's any software fixes I can proceed with instead of ...
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ATA errors system freezing
My system is freezing several 15-60 seconds randomly.
The SSD was working fine on my previous computer. And I put it to my new computer.
There are many errors in smartctl and journalctl -k. Internet ...
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How to skip POST
My Dell Latitude E5530 hangs 19 out of 20 times while power-on booting.
When the laptop is still warm it is more worse than when the laptop has been off for some time.
Starting a (warm) reboot from ...
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How to deal with a disk failure apparently because of a bad sector?
My external hard disk (WD: 1T , 800 GB used , NTFS file system) before using GNU ddrescue had 52 Pending_Sector with 0 reallocated (remapped) sector. After several minutes, Pending_Sector increased ...
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