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Toefoo
Los Angeles, CARegistered User regular
Los Angeles, CARegistered User regular
I've owned this laptop for almost two years. It is an HP Pavilion dv9000, and when it works I love it to death...unfortunately, it has had so many problems that it is driving me insane.
Problem of the first: my video card literally melted itself. I sent the laptop to HP in February this year and had the whole thing fixed. Since then I invested in a laptop fan platform which always sits under my laptop, so all problems solved...
...or so I thought.
Today everything worked perfectly. I watched some videos, did some school research, logged off and went out with friends for some drinks. I come back this evening and log in, and everything seems fine again...only now, a few minutes after surfing the web, all keyboard input literally stops. I press the CAPS Lock, and the light doesn't go on. I even try Ctrl+Alt+Del but to no avail.
So I do what any regular person would do...I rebooted the laptop. Only now, when it boots up, I get all the volume and DVD control lights turning on, as well as the fans for a brief moment, but then the hard drive does not load. No light from the HDD indicator and no audible sound from the drive itself.
Now, I am perplexed...the ONLY thing I did differently today was install Vista SP2. Everything else was as normal, and I even used my laptop fan. I believe my laptop is now out of warranty (yea, unfortunately I bought it from Best Buy and was broke, so did not invest in their replacement plan) so I am totally stumped on what to do. Personally, I'm pissed because this is the 2nd time this year the HP has broke down and I am seriously tempted to go down to the Apple store and get a 13" Macbook Pro (not out of Windows-spite...I just like how easily I can work with OSX).
So, kind sirs and ladies of the Technology Tavern, I ask of you: what can I do to salvage this laptop if it is indeed out of warranty? It is barely two years old, and it should not be crapping out like this! Halp!
Problem of the first: my video card literally melted itself. I sent the laptop to HP in February this year and had the whole thing fixed. Since then I invested in a laptop fan platform which always sits under my laptop, so all problems solved...
...or so I thought.
Today everything worked perfectly. I watched some videos, did some school research, logged off and went out with friends for some drinks. I come back this evening and log in, and everything seems fine again...only now, a few minutes after surfing the web, all keyboard input literally stops. I press the CAPS Lock, and the light doesn't go on. I even try Ctrl+Alt+Del but to no avail.
So I do what any regular person would do...I rebooted the laptop. Only now, when it boots up, I get all the volume and DVD control lights turning on, as well as the fans for a brief moment, but then the hard drive does not load. No light from the HDD indicator and no audible sound from the drive itself.
Now, I am perplexed...the ONLY thing I did differently today was install Vista SP2. Everything else was as normal, and I even used my laptop fan. I believe my laptop is now out of warranty (yea, unfortunately I bought it from Best Buy and was broke, so did not invest in their replacement plan) so I am totally stumped on what to do. Personally, I'm pissed because this is the 2nd time this year the HP has broke down and I am seriously tempted to go down to the Apple store and get a 13" Macbook Pro (not out of Windows-spite...I just like how easily I can work with OSX).
So, kind sirs and ladies of the Technology Tavern, I ask of you: what can I do to salvage this laptop if it is indeed out of warranty? It is barely two years old, and it should not be crapping out like this! Halp!
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try cleaning it with canned air.
if the cooling didn't work properly, it could very easily have fried your drive...
or, the drive itself "just" died, because it's controler broke (which is the better kind of fatal hard drive errors, because you can try to find a harddrive with the same controller, let someone change it, and salvage your data)
All in all, if your hard drive broke, it's not THAT much of a problem if you didn't have important data on it, since even 2,5" (laptop) harddrives are pretty cheap nowadays
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