I’ve been looking at an HP Pavilion HDX9250EA which is a monster of a laptop with an enormous 20″ screen. It was brought in with a blank screen although it had been tested on an external monitor to check that the motherboard was working. At the base of the laptop screen is a little...
I looked at an HP Pavillion DV7 yesterday that didn’t seem to be charging at all. As a result the battery was now dead rendering the laptop unuseable. With some laptops the DC power jack (socket) is soldered directly to the motherboard but with the HP DV7 it’s attached to the motherboard via a...
Just been diagnosing a screen fault with an HP G61. The screen would fire up for a few seconds and then die but i couldn’t work out why. It worked fine in an external monitor so I figured it was either the screen itself or prehaps the inverter. In the end i removed the...
Imagine coming into the office one morning if you will. You press the power button your trusty computer and nothing happens. After checking that your computer is actually plugged in you start to worry. “What am I going to do now?” Suddenly you remember the old laptop in the cupboard and fire it up…...
Fairly quiet day today although I’ve been asked to look at an HP DV9500 that appears to have a blown motherboard. If he’s correct then it wouldn’t be the first one i’ve seen of late. For some reason HP seem to have a problem with motherboards on their laptops.. Whether it’s worth fixing is...
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