death of a computer
polycounter lvl 19
my laptop died today.
just when I have no money, and many contracts.
the graphics card melted. it's part of the motherboard. 14 months old. HP's pavilion zd7000 sucks.
I am not alone. I checked my problem on the internet, and its common - these laptops fail very easily.
just when I have no money, and many contracts.
the graphics card melted. it's part of the motherboard. 14 months old. HP's pavilion zd7000 sucks.
I am not alone. I checked my problem on the internet, and its common - these laptops fail very easily.
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Sad to hear tho.. Hope you get it sorted
Me worries about my zd8000
Why is your home computer a lappy?
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Yeah I don't get it either, but it is becoming more and more common.
For example here in my student home (I do some administratory work for the lan-internet connection, so I can get a good overview) more than 75% almost exclusivly home-used PCs are laptops
Seems to be cool to write your 100 page master thesis on a laptop key(crap)board
ElysiumGX>hard drives suck, that's just a fact of life, it's not a question of if they will die but when, it sucks more on laptops since the small drives are fairly expensive.
Like Justin mentioned, I used mine to model at work during my free time (what little I get). I also use it for my programming classes at school since any software installed at work would be subject to license agreements.
now I have a home, for the first time in 2 years, the laptop has died.
I called HP in Japan but they don't support this model, they can't order a new board either. I have been wrangling with the HP customer service by email but that's like talking to a 4 year old. They gave me the part number, so I can fix it myself, but the HP site doesn't allow customers to order this part, even though it's in the database.
I may have found a soloution, and that's to order the part from the UK for close to £500. If I do that, and it works, I'll sell it on.
I am looking out for a desktop PC now, but after buying my widescreen wacom I feel a bit stupid. I actually sold my normal wacom because of this screen!
The laptop works ok on vga, which is what I doing now, but it's stretched and has lines all over. Somewhat dissapointing to fix laptops, but I always knew it would be. One thing I didn't know is that the life expetancy of this model is about 14 months. HP have actually stated that there is a conflict between the NVidia and the Pentium, causing the run hot tempretures. It's the tempreture that was the straw that broke the camels back.
I wish I got a zd8000 now...
I have no cash at all to repair this laptop. Kinda in a bit of a pickle really. You may see me drop away from the internet from now. I'm thinking about getting an english teaching job so I can afford my rent.