Anyone Here ever had a laptop die on them?

[Buchanan0204]

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.

 

[Buchanan0204]

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....

Soon find out. Don't hold your breath though.

 

[Buchanan0204]

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.

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]

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.

smart ass lol

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.

 

[Buchanan0204]

Anyone ever heard of a Macbook go majorly wrong?

 

[Buchanan0204]

a laptop die, no... i have a set of laptop dice at home, but not on me, no...