HP Pavilion DV6000 | DV9000 Laptop Series Motherboard Video Repair $95

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 [...]

Compaq Presario CQ60-215DX Overheat Repair

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 [...]

Gateway M Series Laptop Overheating & Fix

This is actually a Gateway M Series -1617 Laptop. To get to the fan & heatsink is easy on this laptop. Remove one panel off back, and you now have easy access to these components on this laptop. Unlike most laptops you have to “tear down” completely.  Well I cleaned the fan, heatsink exhaust and [...]

How To Keep Your Laptop From Overheating

Heat build up in every laptop is a problem. With current laptops being built with Duo, Triple and Quad core processors they should not be called “laptops” anymore.  For they are to hot for using on your laptop. Actually laptops should NOT be used on your laptop, for this blocks off the cool air intake [...]