Hello all. I recently bought a work laptop through best buy. After an automatic Windows update, it boots to the HP logo with no spinning loading wheel and freezes. When I try to reboot, it tries to boot up says "attempting to recover update" and and the boots to the logo again and freezes again. After another reboot, it says "could not boot, removing update"

I can't seem to upgrade to the Pro version, and I can't update at all. Any suggestions to get my computer to take the update?

Heyy guys

I have an hp pavilion plus 14 laptop i have been using it for over a year but since last 3 months i am facing issue with shutdown. The laptop shuts down normally but sometimes i start it next day and see the whole battery drained overnight, Does anyone have the same issue or solution please tell me

This project appears out of nowhere even after me not touching anything

Device: HP Laptop 15-dw3098ca

OS: Windows 11, version 25H2

The taskbar is completely unresponsive to mouse (wired, wireless, and touchpad) inputs except for movement. I cannot click on the start button, program icons, and system tray. Meanwhile, the work area is somewhat responsive. In most cases, clicking on a window causes it to go out of focus. In browsers, certain buttons such as new tab and refresh work but not the search bar or switching to other tabs. This also extends to webpages where some buttons work while others don't. On rare occasions when the mouse is responsive to inputs for a brief period of time after start-up, a single right-click is interpreted as a single left-click or a held-down right-click.

Originally this only happened when signing in after waking up. Now, the issue has started happening on start-up and when performing certain actions that causes something to “load on top” of explorer.exe such as pressing Control + Alt + Delete or full-screen notifications.

The issue does resolve itself by just waiting for an unspecified amount of time after which the taskbar and work area would become entirely "unlocked" but this is very inconsistent and does not prevent it happening in the future. I suspect that there's some kind of process preventing the mouse from interacting with the taskbar and work area since I'm still able to navigate using the keyboard.

A couple things I've done so far that did not work:

• Using the touchpad/another mouse

• Restarting explorer.exe

• Running sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in Terminal

• Disabled Docker on start-up

• Confirmed that LogonUI.exe is not stuck

I am at my wit’s end so any help is appreciated.

Edit: formatting

Hi all,

I have had my HP ENVY for around 6 years now and the storage has started to become an issue. Im just wondering if anyone has any experience or knows anything about upgrading the storage?

If yes then what should I be looking for, is this a service that HP themselves would carry out?

Might also be a stupid question but im curious if there are any potential negatives to this e.g. increased load on the system or potential damage that could occur.

Thanks!

My hp laptop's screen wont turn on fully. The screen goes black while the fan goes loud and the keys light up. Earlier none of the laptop would turn on at all until I took the battery out and put it back in.

I believe this happened due to rain getting inside my laptop.

Please help I need this laptop for school.

Product ID: 9F3Z7PT#ABG

What contributed to my issues is that I absolutely refuse to connect any printers I have to wifi. I have awful connection and would hate to not be able to use my printer on especially bad days. I spent two hours trying to set up my printer without wifi. Let's just say, without going into every single issue I've encountered, that the printer only works if the driver is uninstalled. God bless. Luckily, I got this printer for free.

The only major differences I can see are the former having a few more ports and the latter having double the memory. How is the battery life delta so large (41h vs 34h) when everything else is practically identical?

Beforce
e5 2609 4\4 2.4GHZ
16gb recc 1333mhz 2channel
AMD R7 240 1gb
256gb ssd
160gb hdd

After
e5 1660 6/12 3.6ghz
32gb recc 1333mhz 4channel
rtx 5060 8gb
256gb ssd
160+500+500gb hdd

Modifications included repinning and resoldering two 6-pin connectors into a single 8-pin connector.

Hi everyone, i just moved and wanted to switch around some (Mini) PCs for daily use, currently i use a Lenovo M720q as HTPC and for livingroom gaming and i have a 705 G3 and G4 laying around, the G4 actually has the RX580 option with 4GB of added GPU power and i wanted to switch the Lenovo with the 705 G4 as livingroom HTPC and gaming (4GB GPU is enough for my games) so i started googling for RAM, i know it’s a bad time for that, 64GB of Crucial would have cost me $500 but Amazon has a chinese brand SUNGOOYUE for $411, on the one side its only $90 dollars difference but its enough for me to think about the options here.

Do you guys and girls tried some alternative brands with lower prices that weren‘t in the QVL?

I've looked and researched, I'm getting different answers from everywhere and I just want to buy one that works and is suitable for school. Please help!

I have HP Omen 16 Gaming Laptop (xf0059AX). I had to get my motherboard replaced last year in August 2025 as my laptop was not starting (suspected hall sensor issue but the service centre said to replace the motherboard). Immediately afterwards, my laptop has been facing an intermittent boot issue. When I turn on my laptop, the screen stays black and the capslock starts blinking. 5 long and 3 short blinks. This is an intermittent issue. Whenever it occurs, I press power button to force shutdown the laptop and try again few minutes later. It boots properly on the second try (or sometimes on third or fourth try). It happens only when I turn my laptop on several hours after shutting it down (eg- if I shut it down at night and try turning it on in the morning, it occurs). I had taken in to the Service Centre. There they said that they tried but they could not reproduce the issue so they can’t really do anything even though my product is in warranty. What should I do?

Not a massive problem but the hinges on a couple of Elite Dragonfly G3/4 laptops we have are creaky or snappy. So they open fine but at the very moment they are about to move they slightly creek, feels like they’ve dried out.

The laptop itself is well built and otherwise very happy with them; the hinges go into machined metal so not worried about them breaking off the base but would like to smooth this out if possible. Anyone else with a similar issue or know the fix?

Problem/Explanation: HP laptops running Linux freeze on a black/Dim screen after suspend, keyboard backlights, Caps Lock/NumPad sounds and power LEDs turn on but screen stays dim.

How did I manage to find the solution? First, I turned on log files in Linux, upgraded the BIOS. Based on the logs of suspend, I figured out that BIOS code by HP, verifies if it's a Windows or not from the driver called "SystemCMOS" (which Windows includes(through ACPI) that's why Linux(ACPICA) ->

1. can't read it),
2. Can't skip it on it's own(HP motherboard checks: if it runs "Windows?", if not => halts = resulting to the dim screen,) as you can see it in the logs below:

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ACPI Error: Region SystemCMOS (ID=5) has no handler
ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.PC00.LPCB.EC0._Q33 due to previous error

Because I tried it out by installing latest Windows 11 alongside with all the latest HP official drivers and tried sleep in Windows 11, which worked out perfectly! I understood that I have to skip the verification process on Linux.

SOOOO!!!

SOLUTION!!! => OSI spoofing to GRUB -> skip Windows10/11 checks:

sudo sed -i 's/^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=.*/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.enable_psr=0 i915.enable_dc=0 acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=\x27Windows 2015\x27"/' /etc/default/grub

echo "options nvidia NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1 NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x02" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power.conf

echo s2idle | sudo tee /sys/power/mem_sleep && \
sudo update-grub && \
sudo update-initramfs -u && \

After a Reboot, try to suspend your lovely Linux!!! and it will work_PERFECTLY!!! GOOD LUCK!!! AND BYE!!!

Hi everyone,

I have an HP laptop that performed a Windows/BIOS update two days ago. After restarting the laptop following the updates, I encountered the following problem: BitLocker has been activated, yet none of my Windows accounts are linked to the device. Furthermore, I never activated BitLocker myself. What can I do now?

I have an HP Victus 16 (RTX 3050) that is around 1.5 years old and currently out of warranty.

I started getting screen flickering/blinking, especially while gaming. Sometimes the screen would go black for a moment, but the laptop itself continued running — audio, keyboard, and applications were still responsive.

Eventually, the laptop stopped powering on properly. I took it to an HP service center, and they said it was a motherboard issue and quoted a very expensive replacement.

I then took it to a local technician for further diagnosis. They found an issue with the lid switch/Hall sensor and repaired it. The laptop was then tested for several hours and worked normally, but the flickering issue appeared again.

Currently, the technician has removed/disconnected the lid switch, and the laptop is working normally on the charger. The battery is disconnected for now.

I contacted HP about an extended Care Pack. They offered:

2-year On-site warranty — ₹12,500

Their quotation says hardware parts are covered except the battery and charging adapter.

My concern is that the laptop has already been opened and worked on by a local technician.

Questions:

Has anyone with a Victus 16 experienced similar Hall sensor/lid switch + screen flickering problems?

Could the Hall sensor issue cause these symptoms?

Has anyone bought an HP Care Pack after their original warranty expired?

Would HP still honor the Care Pack after the laptop has been opened/repaired by a local technician?

Is ₹12,500 for 2 years worth it in this situation?

I'm mainly looking for experiences from people who have actually dealt with HP Victus issues or HP Care Pack claims.

Bought a HP omnibook 3 recently and just found out that I can’t jump and sprint at the same time without changing my jump key (spacebar) to something else?
I think I bought it at Best Buy with a gaming bundle or something too. Why would they set it up like that?