Help with HP laptop power issue Model: (HP EliteBook 850 G5) Symptom: Charger LED lights up briefly then flickers Laptop LED + fan tries to start for ~4–5 seconds then shuts down Battery disconnected internally RAM reseated and tested one stick at a time Happens every time, no error codes […]
Monthly Archives: March 2026
230 posts
I have used a spare 8-wire network cable (approx 12m length) to connect a USB mouse + keyboard to a Win11 PC at the other end of my home. The PC is linked to my TV through an HDMI cable and my intention is to operate the PC sitting on […]
In the 7-Zip file manager pressing the backslash key in the keyboard moves location to the root folder (My computer or equivalent in case of Windows.) I normally press backspace to go up one location in the folder tree and end up pressing by mistake and going to root. There […]
I have run sysprep on a Windows 11 24H2 device. The next time it boots, it gets to “Just a moment…” and hangs. The only way out of this is a cold reboot of the computer. The next time it boots after this, I get just a black screen with […]
I’m having a problem with my Windows cluster, which consists of two nodes and one generic service. Sometimes when the node with the active service loses communication with the other node and the witness, the node (cluster service on this node?) waits properly for the service to be shut down. […]
My kitty terminal asks for confirmation when closing terminal windows even though I set it to: confirm_os_window_close -1 My expectation is that there’s no confirmation prompt if there are no active processes running as in: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 54964 0.0 0.0 […]
I have an HP ZBook 15 G5, motherboard model DA0XW3MBAG0 Rev G and I am facing a charging issue after re-flashing the full 32MB MX25L256 SPI chip (descriptor, ME, BIOS region) with an external programmer. I reflashed the complete image because the BIOS was bricked before and the original image […]
I run an instance of Windows Server 2025 Core and I want to manage its firewall using a different machine with a GUI. I’ve disabled the firewall on the core machine temporarily: Set-NetFirewallProfile -Name Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False Also, the rule for Windows Defender Firewall remote management is enabled anyway. Both […]
Does anyone know the default values for a Chromium-based browser’s JS screen.availHeight on a 3840×2160 (4k) monitor for Win10 and Win11? Assume fresh install with default scaling (100%) and no user mods to OS. It’s easy to imply, but a wrong value here could be extremely detrimental to my project. […]