HP Laptop not POSTING (for a friend)

Dark_Angel

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Hey,

I'm unable to give the exact specs as it's not my system and I'm at work :p but went around a friends when she mentioned her laptop is having issues. Basically it won't power up. You have to press the power button several times, but the screen stays black and won't POST. Eventually it resets itself. It doesn't sound like the fans are turning to me.

Any thoughts to what it could be? I tried RAM (only one stick in different slots) and left it in case of overheating but nothing. I have a sneaking suspicion it could be charger related as apparently it's needed to be replaced several times before but then it was simply refusing to charge the battery... but then it could just be that the battery was helping power the laptop and now it's completely out and the charger isn't providing the required juice to post?

I guess the other options are something internal? I only had a quick look, but wanted a few opinions :)
 
HP make a lot of laptops, which one is it.?

At a guess this is a home laptop....... 99% probability of the GPU failure of death.

Just buy a new laptop.

Probook or Elitebook? Then I guess it was hit by an ICM or Train.

Either way, same outcome buy a new business laptop and this time get a Lenovo thinkpad, HP probook or Toshiba satellite pro.

If you must buy a home laptop then Asus imo.
 
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Well, depends on the model. A lot of the Pavillions have the problem where the GPU is badly cooled and eventually needs reballing.

Also in my experience a lot of the lower end HP laptops are very unreliable these days.
 
WYNIR0 said:
Well, depends on the model. A lot of the Pavillions have the problem where the GPU is badly cooled and eventually needs reballing.

Also in my experience a lot of the lower end HP laptops are very unreliable these days.
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It is a shame HP home laptops have this rep as their business machines are great. But HP home laptops as the stats show have a stupidly high failure rate over 3 years.

Market demand for high volume, high specs, poor cooling, low prices and retail sellers only caring about the £399 price point rather than longevity really don't help.
 
Scrutinize said:
It is a shame HP home laptops have this rep as their business machines are great. But HP home laptops as the stats show have a stupidly high failure rate over 3 years.

Market demand for high volume, high specs, poor cooling, low prices and retail sellers only caring about the £399 price point rather than longevity really don't help.
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Agreed, HP/Compaq used to be my 1st suggestion when people asked. These days I would not touch them with a bargepole. (unless it was the business level kit).

That said, the GFX chip issue is prevelant across several manufacturers, I've had HP, Tosh, Dell etc through here with it.
 
Ironically (if this is actual irony), you can buy business machines from the main brands cheaper than home machines these days especially at the £300-£400 price point. Often with better specs too for example with lenovo going up to an Ati 6650g graphics which is better than most £500 home systems.
 
Well honestly she only wanted it to last a few more months due to wanting to buy a full PC for gaming (she is heavily into Starcraft 2 and the like) so I guess she'll carry on using her netbook until then.

I suppose I could open it up and take a look at the GPU fan to see if it's free to turn from dust and stuff... but unsure if it's worth it honestly.
 
Dark_Angel said:
Well honestly she only wanted it to last a few more months due to wanting to buy a full PC for gaming (she is heavily into Starcraft 2 and the like) so I guess she'll carry on using her netbook until then.

I suppose I could open it up and take a look at the GPU fan to see if it's free to turn from dust and stuff... but unsure if it's worth it honestly.
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Take a look and see if any of the LEDs blink when you try to turn it on. Thse blink codes usually point to what the fault is. Google HP Blink Codes.

Infact

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...&cc=us&docname=c01732674&product=1132551#N213

HTH. :)
 
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I have never come across a dell with gpu fail, i have seen loads of hp g6000/7000 and a few acers.
 
HAz said:
I have never come across a dell with gpu fail, i have seen loads of hp g6000/7000 and a few acers.
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Any dell with the 8xxx series was prone to failure, seen loads of 9x00 series and m1330x with the classic nvidia failure.

@op it sounds like a motherboard fault if its neither powering up or charging. I'd check the charger tip with a multimeter just to eliminate a power issue.
 
HAz said:
I have never come across a dell with gpu fail, i have seen loads of hp g6000/7000 and a few acers.
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My Vostro 1400 died of GPU failure.

I do reflowing on GPUs, if it's only this then it's worth fixing. I've developed my own method, and I've been cycling a HP DV2500 I reflowed for the last few weeks (heavy graphics load, then power off to cool, then heavy load) to try and 'break' it again and it's been 100% solid, so seems to work.

Worth a go if the laptop is otherwise good, just don't let someone take it apart, chuck the board in the oven for an hour and then claimed they did a permanent fix - it'll fail a few weeks after.
 
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