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Posted on 08-07-09 02:33:04 AM Link | Quote
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If I recall correctly, this happened on July 20th. It has pretty much the same symptoms as last time, but only I can still boot sometimes (not that it does any good, because it'll just randomly crash later). I decided to check the HP forums to see if anyone else has had any problems, so I looked in the "Display and video" category and the first thing I saw was a 50+ page thread about the issue. There were links to articles on other sites about it, and I eventually found a link to a board full of people having problems with nVidia graphics cards on HP notebooks, called HP Lies (I couldn't go there directly from the HP forums because apparently the name of the site is filtered [which is ironic, because wouldn't HP be lying by changing what people say?]).

According to HP Lies, thousands of notebook computers were shipped with defective nVidia cards that would overheat and fry the motherboard. Then, after you pay to have it fixed, they replace it with another defective card! And to make matters worse, they released a BIOS update that makes the fan always run and they underclocked the replaced GPUs (mine looked to be at only 1/4 its potential), just to cool them off enough so that they would outlive the warranty; all the while denying there's anything wrong! There was a recall (well, a "Limited Warranty Service Enhancement", anyway), but not for every model affected (like mine), and they still used defective, underclocked parts to "fix" them. HP Lies recommends calling HP, convincing them to fix it for free, then purposely wearing it out, two or three times, until they just decide to give you a new computer. I don't really feel like going through all of that though.

Anyway, what do you guys think? Ever heard of any of this before? I have another laptop no one else is using, and I heard that you can buy an external hard drive casing and put a laptop hard drive in it, so I might just do that. I was also wandering if I could boot from that...

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Yeah, my $1400 Toshiba was a lie like that.

Nothing you can really do than refuse to shop with people like that ever again.

And probably avoid laptops in general, they seem prone to these sorts of chicanery.

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Keep in mind that laptops have very limited ventilation, and thus, some things *need* to be underclocked to prevent them from burning a hole or something.

Plus, laptops aren't really designed for heavy gaming, they're designed for on-the-go computing.

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