Posts by PeteC2

When I am wrong...I am wrong! I was mistaken about the 4gb of ram in my notebook being causative of my video playback issues...although they were much, much more pronounced when running 4gb ram. It turns out that my Nvidia graphics...

Quote: Originally Posted by beut I didn't say to use this scan to find the maximum ram. Use this scan when an user doesn't know or not sure which ram to buy. Of course, install 8GB ram when windows only recognizes the...

I do not think that you should be experiencing this, and maybe this sounds a bit "picky", but if I had a notebook out of the box with poor color/contrast, and it was not an obvious setting adjustment, I would immediately return...

Quote: Originally Posted by beut Use Crucial System Scanner tool to find out the right RAM http://crucial.com/ I would not recommend that, it is not always correct. there is a difference between maximum...

Good question, and of course, it is not an impossibility to short out a motherboard, or parts of it. Equally easy to just crack a trace, and so break a connection on the board. i do hope that this has not occurred. I hate to say it,...

xeicon, I think the thing is, you need to consider the sequence of events that you provided: You dis-assembled your notebook to get to the heat sink/fan and re-attach, right? Subsequently, you lose use of the keyboard and touch...

Based on your description, it may be the ribbon cable from the keyboard that is the problem. These ZIP connectors can be tricky, as long as the ribbon cable isn't kinked/damaged, it may just be improperly or incompletely inserted. ...

Yep, like qhn says, 2 - 512mb DDR PC2700 SODIM (notebook) modules are what you want...very easy to find, around $20 t0o $40 per stick...as low as $14.99 at New Egg, for example, always more at a "Brick and Mortar" store.

Can't comment on the lcd or temps, but I would imagine that the remote that you are referring to is the standard HP DV series multimedia remote, which does not mean that you have the TV tuner.

I think that the bottom line is, sad to say, that this is NOT going to be a "user-fixable" issue, as it is almost certainly a hardware, not software issue. Unless the OP is well-versed in D.I.Y. repair, the lappy needs to get...