I tend to leave my laptop running, often it will just wake up on its own anyhow--need to do a full shutdown, not hibernate.
Today, been running a few days, and it decided to start changing screen brightness all on its own?
It's flickering too fast for the slider bar to keep up. And then it'll stop for a few seconds... and the bar gets correct... then more random display brightness changing. What might it be?
I wiped of what I could find for dust, cleaned whatever sensors I could find, shined a light at it, turned the light up in the room. I even went as far as shutting down and letting it cool off for an hour. No go. Immediately started doing this again.
Dell Latitude E6410, looks like an i7 M620 at 2.67GHz, Nvidia NVS 3100M for display adapter, has the max 8GB installed that it will support, Win10 on an SSD. But I'm guessing that's all fine (well it does seem a bit laggy right now) as the laptop screen is doing this--but the external plugged in monitor doesn't. The external monitor is fine (that's what I'm typing on).
I went and "killed" the laptop screen. Maybe it's on its way out? It is going between two levels though, like a day/night mode, but I don't think I have anything turned on for that. I don't know what would be causing that to flip randomly.
I don't think I have anything in NVIDIA turned on?
It's also suddenly glitching on audio. Random bits of static on youtube videos. Both internal speakers and on my audio amp. ? It's like when it has to think hard, things get dropped. Which makes sense... but it was running 100% fine yesterday.
I closed some tabs after catching this, but same static.
The right answer may very well be "deep six that ancient machine!" Which is a bummer but not surprising. I have an i5-6500 with 16GB on Mint that I've been messing with, as I know this laptop is pretty old.
I think I'll post this, then kill this machine and open it up. Maybe dust bunnies attacked it?
Today, been running a few days, and it decided to start changing screen brightness all on its own?
It's flickering too fast for the slider bar to keep up. And then it'll stop for a few seconds... and the bar gets correct... then more random display brightness changing. What might it be?
I wiped of what I could find for dust, cleaned whatever sensors I could find, shined a light at it, turned the light up in the room. I even went as far as shutting down and letting it cool off for an hour. No go. Immediately started doing this again.
Dell Latitude E6410, looks like an i7 M620 at 2.67GHz, Nvidia NVS 3100M for display adapter, has the max 8GB installed that it will support, Win10 on an SSD. But I'm guessing that's all fine (well it does seem a bit laggy right now) as the laptop screen is doing this--but the external plugged in monitor doesn't. The external monitor is fine (that's what I'm typing on).
I went and "killed" the laptop screen. Maybe it's on its way out? It is going between two levels though, like a day/night mode, but I don't think I have anything turned on for that. I don't know what would be causing that to flip randomly.
I don't think I have anything in NVIDIA turned on?
It's also suddenly glitching on audio. Random bits of static on youtube videos. Both internal speakers and on my audio amp. ? It's like when it has to think hard, things get dropped. Which makes sense... but it was running 100% fine yesterday.
I closed some tabs after catching this, but same static.
The right answer may very well be "deep six that ancient machine!" Which is a bummer but not surprising. I have an i5-6500 with 16GB on Mint that I've been messing with, as I know this laptop is pretty old.
I think I'll post this, then kill this machine and open it up. Maybe dust bunnies attacked it?
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