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I have two Samsung OEM NVMe SSDs that have developed what appears to be the same failure in HP Victus laptops, and I’m trying to determine whether either SSD can be recovered. The drives are: Samsung PM9A1 — 1 TB — firmware originally HPS2NGXK, now/previously updated to HPS3NGXK Samsung PM9A1a […]

I have following languages input methods In the task bar, I am normally able to click and change the language (or with ALT+SHIFT or with WIN + SPACE). But sometimes none of these work and I am stuck with ENG US. As a workaround I go to language settings and […]

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma. Not sure if it matters but this is a dualboot setup with Windows 11 Pro, a Dell Latitude laptop. OpenSUSE is using LUKS encryption. SecureBoot is enabled. I am unsure if this has happened before, but nowadays if I leave the OpenSUSE session open (usually with […]

My UPS (CyberPower OLS1000EC) reports ‘output short’ and cuts off power when the PC restarts, particularly when the switching is fast, like from BIOS to M-Flash (MSI’s BIOS flashing utility). It happens erratically. The PC peak load is 450W (7800X3D, 9070XT) on a 750W PSU (Deepcool PN750M) on a 1000VA […]

Since yesterday my HP ZBook laptop is now showing a black box that obscures the taskbar and its icons. I can click on the icons as if the box isn’t there. Multiple restarts have not removed the box. It’s very annoying. Has anyone encountered this before?

I have a .iso file that is an image of a CD. This .iso file contains a filesystem. I know the offset of some data in the .iso file (found it by opening the .iso file in a hex-editor) and now I want to know the path of the file […]

Symptoms: Laptop (HP 15-fd0000, 13th Gen Intel Core i7-1355U, Intel Iris Xe graphics) connected to an LG 42PC3RV-TJ plasma TV via HDMI. Windows 11: picture displays correctly, but no HDMI audio device ever shows up in Sound settings — not muted, not disabled, simply not present. Device Manager (with “Show […]

In surface 1943 not able to install WMIS from any ways tried all the ways to install but showing error in logs

For testing purposes, I installed a Debian-based distribution on a USB SSD. I first connected this bootable SSD to an old laptop. The Xfce desktop displayed various icons, listed under Desktop/Settings > Files/Launcher Icons. Since all the checkboxes are selected, I should see icons representing the partitions on the internal […]