Anyone Here ever had a laptop die on them?

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Over the past few years I have seen so many laptops just "die" completely. They vary from model to model, mostly acers and HP's however.

I have had this happen to me personally aswel, with an old Advent around 5 years ago.

HP laptops are notorious for overheating on the GPU's after the 12 month period, similar sort of thing to the Xbox 360 issues.

Other problems with them include just randomly cutting out, totally dying and having no life at all when plugged in, won't boot or post.

I think it's ridiculous how with all this technology in 2011 manufacturers can't make a laptop that will last 5 years +

Without exaggerating the fact I have seen and diagnosed around 40-50 laptops in the past two years of being completely dead.

Anyone else had a laptop die on them or know of anyone, friends, family etc.

Be interesting to find out peoples views on this.
 
I had an HP laptop that the motherboard kept going on.
My gf mothers died after 13 months. No idea what killed it.

My dell here is now 3years and 2 1/2 months old without a single issue. Battery has lost around half of its lietime, but still gets 2-3 hours!
 
Yes, due to a known gpu bug with an nvidia card my Dell laptop over heated and the chip burnt through the motherboard

I've never bought an nvidia card since and never will.. I feel my bias is justified
 
I've had Sonys, HPs, Dells, Acers and Toshibas all die. Asus is the only manufacturer I've had that hasn't died on me. So impressed I've had several and I've successfully passed them onto people and they're still going strong or are retired simply because the person wanted a new model.

Asus make their own. Sony, HP, Dell and Toshiba all contract others to make there laptops. Acer are just cheap crap.
 
never had a problem with laptops until last night, when my charger died. Well, i think it did anyway. keeps beeping when plugged in, no power going to laptop. I just ordered a new one for a tenner anyway.
Don't think it's a laptop problem. hope not anyway....
 
To add to my previous post and the post above, Dell at least has an option in the BIOS to see if the charger is detected, which let's you know if a charger is knackered or the battery. Haven't noticed a similar thing in Asus BIOS's.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
Over the past few years I have seen so many laptops just "die" completely. They vary from model to model, mostly acers and HP's however.

I have had this happen to me personally aswel, with an old Advent around 5 years ago.

HP laptops are notorious for overheating on the GPU's after the 12 month period, similar sort of thing to the Xbox 360 issues.

Other problems with them include just randomly cutting out, totally dying and having no life at all when plugged in, won't boot or post.

I think it's ridiculous how with all this technology in 2011 manufacturers can't make a laptop that will last 5 years +

Without exaggerating the fact I have seen and diagnosed around 40-50 laptops in the past two years of being completely dead.

Anyone else had a laptop die on them or know of anyone, friends, family etc.

Be interesting to find out peoples views on this.
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Funny you should say that, My HP is 12 months old this month, and the processor burnt out last week
 
Brian8bit said:
I've had Sonys, HPs, Dells, Acers and Toshibas all die. Asus is the only manufacturer I've had that hasn't died on me. So impressed I've had several and I've successfully passed them onto people and they're still going strong or are retired simply because the person wanted a new model.

Asus make their own. Sony, HP, Dell and Toshiba all contract others to make there laptops. Acer are just cheap crap.
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Totally agree with the comment on Acer' laptops, cheapest of the cheap. I'm also a fan of Asus, however my friends screen went on his a few months ago... Rainbow effect on it. His Girlfriend has the same and hers is fine however. They seem reliable compared to the rest, they aren't nearly half as popular however. Shame, they must spend all their time making motherboards and concentrating on other fields.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
Totally agree with the comment on Acer' laptops, cheapest of the cheap. I'm also a fan of Asus, however my friends screen went on his a few months ago... Rainbow effect on it. His Girlfriend has the same and hers is fine however. They seem reliable compared to the rest, they aren't nearly half as popular however. Shame, they must spend all their time making motherboards and concentrating on other fields.
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The only downside to Asus is their customer service is notoriously crap. Thankfully, touch wood, I've never had a device of theirs need returning to them.
 
Pighardia said:
never had a problem with laptops until last night, when my charger died. Well, i think it did anyway. keeps beeping when plugged in, no power going to laptop. I just ordered a new one for a tenner anyway.
Don't think it's a laptop problem. hope not anyway....
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haha, bought a £8 charger from Amazon, works fine for now, though probably not ideal for long-term.
at least it wasn't a prob with laptop though
 
I've dealt with a lot of laptops where the gpu has needed repair. Even bought a Dell Vostro 1400 with 8400gs. Reflowed it multiple times longest lasting 6 months. This time round have lifted the chip completely and reballed it with lead solder so hopefully won't break again.
 
bobbydigital said:
I've dealt with a lot of laptops where the gpu has needed repair. Even bought a Dell Vostro 1400 with 8400gs. Reflowed it multiple times longest lasting 6 months. This time round have lifted the chip completely and reballed it with lead solder so hopefully won't break again.
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smart ass lol :p

HP GPU's always need reballed... it's a well known manufacturer fault. Why they don't recognise this and still produced them is beyond me. Not sure what their latest models are like right enough. Surely it's been fixed.
 
Problem isn't with design flaws as many people believe (well some factors don't help.)

Problem is down to the use of non-lead solder, despite having a higher melting point when motherboards flex due to heat or moving the laptop around the fact there is no lead in the solder causes it to break easier.

Blame it on RoHS :p

That's why even with the perfect reflow on any equipment the problem can/will return in time. I tend to find the repairs that last the longest are the dirtiest machines as the problem has occured due to heat.
 
My girlfriend's ~6 year old Inspiron 1300 is still going strong- battery included!

My two year old M1330, on the other hand, has had many replacements in terms of heatsinks, motherboards and graphics cards, and the battery is completely dead. Thank god for the 3 year next day warranty I purchased.

Dell really are a mixed bag. I certainly won't be purchasing a gaming laptop again, from anyone.
 
hybrid572 said:
My girlfriend's ~6 year old Inspiron 1300 is still going strong- battery included!

My two year old M1330, on the other hand, has had many replacements in terms of heatsinks, motherboards and graphics cards, and the battery is completely dead. Thank god for the 3 year next day warranty I purchased.

Dell really are a mixed bag. I certainly won't be purchasing a gaming laptop again, from anyone.
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My dell m1710 with nvidia gpu went a month out of warranty... was not happy. Then I went desktop and ati for life
 
panyan said:
a laptop die, no... i have a set of laptop dice at home, but not on me, no...
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