elohelomg Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 This hp dv7 keeps acting up. I'm 2 seconds away from destroying it, lighting it on fire, watching it melt, and peeing on it to take out the fire. This is no joke.I turned on the computer today, and, like every other god damn hp, it doesn't turn on. I took everything out, ram, cmos batter, hd, batter, held the power down, nothing. i tried the leave the screen open enough to press the power button, no good.Any other things i can do, before plan A takes effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 If this is the same one you have had issues with.. I would call HP for a replacement and ship it back..after restoring ti to its original condition... IF nobody has touched or messed with the settings.. nor any action by you has prompted the problem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 how old is it and is it under warrenty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 21, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 21, 2010 Moved to Tech Talk. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elohelomg Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 I'm not sure how old it is, but it is out of warranty. Someone suggested heating up the video card, saw a vid of it on youtube, and i guess it works. Anyone tried this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Why in the hell would it matter if the Video Card was warm or not?I don't get it.. Unless your Card is warped from previously overheating and warps back enough to make contact.. I dunno..Have you tried pulling the data and doing a fresh installation .. or restore from Hiren's or Install Disc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwop Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 We do the solder reflow thing frequently with HPs. Remove any thermal 'pads' that you find and replace with thermal paste. If you can get yourself a properly sized copper shim, use that as well.However, some models, such as the DV9000, seem to have some other sort of self destruct engineered into them, cause they keep failing. My suggestion would be to learn a valuable lesson from all of this. There is a good chance any fix you do will be short term, so I say screw it, get satisfaction by going Office Space on the machine and NEVER buy anything HP again.The last HP device I owned was this beautifully made GPS, the IPAQ 310. Dual core, 256mb RAM, gorgeous screen, great hardware all around, but terrible software and some 'suspect' engineering when it came to long term reliability.I had to keep sending it back to them, on their dime, and they'd keep telling me they could find nothing wrong with it, even though I spelled out steps for them to duplicate the errors (I used to be a software QA analyst).Finally I told them that if they don't replace it, I was going to microwave it when I got the unit back and then make them refund my money. They got all panicky and pleaded not to do it (and also FINALLY passed me up to a higher level techie), but when they refused to replace the unit, I said send it back and await a completely dead re-return.That's exactly what I did and I've made it a mission to make sure nobody I know buys anything HP ever again. I love showing customers in my shop the thermal pad they use in their $1800 DV9000s.I'd buy a Lenovo if I were you and take away from this experience a valuable lesson. It will help with the assburn that you received from HP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pope Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 So wait.. Is it not posting "NO POWER" or is it Posting and Crashing at the bios or splash screen in Windows?Any beep codes? Is it posting with no video?Are the fans running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elohelomg Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 So wait.. Is it not posting "NO POWER" or is it Posting and Crashing at the bios or splash screen in Windows?Any beep codes? Is it posting with no video?Are the fans running?Fans are running, computer powers up, but there is no video display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 22, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 22, 2010 majithia23, who also has a HP laptop which had the same problem (?), he mentioned that he had sent the laptop for repair later and it's video chip was replaced or something. About $110 was the charge. So I guess it has to be the video chip or graphics card, etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henz Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 making it like a "power failure" (different with pressing the power button)my laptop sometimes like this, and that solve my problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pope Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Hmmm,Do you get hard drive activity? Windows theme song play?Could be an inverter if the machine is running and booting into windows.Could be system RAM, video or board if there is no activity from the drive.We just replaced an inverter in that exact machine 2 weeks ago and my coworker replaced one a month ago.On another note I know first hand the those mainboards are known to fail quite often. Have had at least 20 similar HP 15" and 17" that are using the same board inside that were dead. :angry: Don't want to scare you but it's a possibility.If it is dead then there is always options, replace the board obviously, OR get your self a MSI whitebook empty shell and re-use your CPU, Wireless, HDD and RAM.http://www.msiwhitebook.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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