Laptop Fail???

CinderzFTW · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:13

Hey Y'all,

My mate has a problem with his HP Pavilion laptop... not sure what the model is.

Its an AMD Turion Dual Core at 2.1ghz 2gb DDR2 memory and 250GB HDD running Win 7.

Basically the laptop refuses to boot. Turn it on, lights come on for a second then turns itself straight off again.

I have removed the battery and used the charger alone, tried a different charger, tried with the battery in, taken it apart and checked the CPU, MEMORY and HDD (all seem fine) and no damage to the mobo from what I can see.

I have swap tested e.g. used one stick of memory in at a time just to be on the safe side, booted without HDD in... I am stumped.

Any ideas??? Or is it just dead.

Thanks

Cinderz

d_brennen · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:14

Does it have an Nvidia chipset?

CinderzFTW · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:15

yea why

RJC · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:15

Edit: Re-read your last part again.

Nvidia had a problems with certain models failing.

CinderzFTW · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:16

it didn't boot with HDD in either

d_brennen · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:20

CinderzFTW said:
yea why

Take hard drive out and bin

I had 20 odd laptops fail on me. Nvidia and HP cost me an arm and a leg

paradisiac · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:21

i know we have a fair few DV6000 series laptops in for repair with failed graphics chips.

RJC · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:22

My work colleague had a touch screen HP and the Nvidia chip failed, in the end he managed to to get vouchers to spend in store.

CinderzFTW · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:57

Yea its a DV6000 series... all I know... so the laptop is dead nice... will sell on the RAM etc

paradisiac · 27 Feb 2012 at 21:59

CinderzFTW said:
Yea its a DV6000 series... all I know... so the laptop is dead nice... will sell on the RAM etc

might be worth taking it to a computer shop, we can rework the chip, which generally give another 12months or more life, when it works. worth looking into if you like the laptop.

CinderzFTW · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:00

erm I think he is going to buy a new one tbh

d_brennen · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:02

paradisiac said:
might be worth taking it to a computer shop, we can rework the chip, which generally give another 12months or more life, when it works. worth looking into if you like the laptop.

Trouble with that is that is isn't 12 months exactly. It could be 12 years, 12 months, 12 days or 12 minutes

p_r_i_m_e · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:03

I've seen several HP laptops fail in this way (one of them my own) its the one reason I'll never buy HP again

p_r_i_m_e · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:05

d_brennen said:
Trouble with that is that is isn't 12 months exactly. It could be 12 years, 12 months, 12 days or 12 minutes

I looked into it with my own, but it was about a third of the price I paid for it new so wasn't going to take the risk of it going pop again in a few months/weeks.

paradisiac · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:06

d_brennen said:
Trouble with that is that is isn't 12 months exactly. It could be 12 years, 12 months, 12 days or 12 minutes

yeh can be really hit and miss, but most of the time it outlasts the customers need for the laptop. gives them some time to save and buy what they want, not make a rash decission.

seldNofSparta · 27 Feb 2012 at 22:08

Take the heatsink/fan assembly off, put a hair dryer to the gpu, go around the gpu chip itself for a minute or two not getting too close, heatgun would be better, but who has one of those lying around. Hope this helps.

jamesfreddie · 3 Mar 2012 at 22:20

seldNofSparta said:
Take the heatsink/fan assembly off, put a hair dryer to the gpu, go around the gpu chip itself for a minute or two not getting too close, heatgun would be better, but who has one of those lying around. Hope this helps.

A hairdryer is not going to melt the solder well.

MagicBoy · 3 Mar 2012 at 22:28

seldNofSparta said:
Take the heatsink/fan assembly off, put a hair dryer to the gpu, go around the gpu chip itself for a minute or two not getting too close, heatgun would be better, but who has one of those lying around. Hope this helps.

LOL. I think not.

Draeger · 3 Mar 2012 at 22:53

It works. It's called reflowing. Google it.

I just carried out this procedure this week on my XPS 1530 and it's 8600GT GPU. Cleaned the old thermal paste off and replaced the heat sink assembly using AS5.

MagicBoy · 3 Mar 2012 at 22:54

Draeger said:
It works. It's called reflowing. Google it.

I know it works. Just not with a hairdryer!