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 | @ducatichick, You are right about it not being good for the laptop. Since ist in warranty, best get it changed. |
| | @techsheaven, This issue of no display in HP DV2000/6000/9000 series laptops is due to a design defect for the cooling of the GPU. The chips tend to sometimes get as hot as 140 degrees centigrade and even higher. This plus lead free solder joints that crack with repeated heating and … |
| | As i said in another thread, this model of pavilion has a design defect. The GPU(graphic processing unit- NVidia chip in this case) gets overheated due to bad design in the cooling system. The GPU with repeated heating and cooling cycles develops cracks in the lead free solder. This usually …  |
| | First try to test the laptop with a working DDR2 RAm module. If this doesn't work, its most likely a motherboard problem. NVIDIA geforce based laptops generally fail after a year due to repeated overheating of the GPU. This is due to a bad design by NVIDIA for cooling the … |
| | The temperatures you mentioned are quite high. What specific model is your laptop? If its a DV2000/6000/9000 series with an NVIDIA GPU it'll likely fail in the future due to the overheating problem. One thing you can do is download the latest BIOS update and install it. This should make … |
| | This is a great thread. Glad to see there are some who at least share some info on chip level reoairs. In India chip level repairs of motherboards is still common. Generally you can get a board fixed for around 10USD or sometimes less. It goes without saying that whoever … |
| | Try booting the system with just the board, processor and one stick of good RAM and Video card on the board. make sure no other devices are connnected. Check if the 4 pin connector that gives additional supplies for display is connected. Also if the board has onboard display, use … |
| | If you can find a place where they do chip level repairs of laptops, take it to them and tell them what happened. It needs to be opened up, the board taken out and cleaned of any soda residues that might be causing corrosion or short circuits. Also some circuit … |
| | DO you get any beeps when the systems starts? A single beep means the system is ok. If you have any other beep code or no beeps it indicates a problem. What you can do is try and remove the RAM and reinstall it in its socket and then boot … |
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