1mo ago

No one: Laptop. Could this be hardware or software related?

This has happened 3 times in the past 2 days, any advice? It goes away after reboots but always comes back.

Update: So it could be GPU death, how exciting, especially for a 1.5 year old laptop. As of now it hasn’t terribly affected my workflow, but if this persists even after future kernel/driver updates, it may be rip. I am still hopeful that it could be software related, but time will tell!

This one is a little more interesting

Update 2: I was using Windows for testing purposes, and it happened again! This was immediately after picking the laptop up, so it is definitely hardware related. This time it made a horrible noise as well, answering some of the questions. So somehow by picking the device up, maybe the internals are slightly bent, causing the issues?

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Its an HP, never buy HP!
- This. Especially since they still have the worst hinge designs on notebooks I've ever seen and they have continued to build them so shoddily for years. It must be deliberate at this point.
  
  It is cause it makes them money. I wanted to change the battery on a family members hp laptop. I opened it and everything is glued/solder together. Told her to get a dell!
- Which brand do you recommend
  
  Dell laptops are much better!
  
  I’m probably going to look at Dell or Lenovo for a next laptop, they tend to be of higher quality. Plus old thinkpads are fast and inexpensive, so I may start looking at eBay for a good deal.
- I had this specific model given for free by my high school a bunch of years ago and it is the worst chassis I ever saw. Many of my friends had fissures on theirs by the end of school
- Very fucking helpful

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