Archive for the ‘Laptops’ Category

Power lights, media bar lights but no display? Black Screen? Black Screen when tested with an external monitor? A very, very common failure in these HP DV Series laptops! They were built by HP with a well known cooling design defect. Cause: 1 – HP & Nvidia manufacturing cooling/overheat defect. 2 – Lack of preventive [...]

Have read of others having problems updating the Nvidia Video driver on this model. And I to had the same problem. “Compatible Hardware Not Found” driver install failed. I uninstalled the old driver first and ran into this problem trying to install the driver. I created a System Restore point before uninstalling the old driver [...]

Compaq CQ60-215DX Overheat Repair Compaq to the right was idling at a high 85+ celsius, which is overheat range. Bottom of laptop was extremely hot. Customer brought it in thinking it was virus related. Customer stated “it began running very slow for weeks ago and shutting down on it’s own, and would not start back [...]

Heat is a problem in every computer, and more so in laptops. With dust accumulation around the computers air vents, fans and poorly applied thermal compound by the manufacture that can break down overtime, heat can increase which will cause problems with the laptop or computer. Dual, Triple and quad core processors now in laptops?? [...]