Posts by kornwheat

thanks, my warranty is out so I could do it myself, but the process just to take out the heatsink is so long and complicated, I don't want to risk breaking anything. I will probably take laptop to the tech department at my university...

As the title says, my Pavilion dv8000 has been suddenly shutting down for a while now. It varies when it does it, sometimes it does it at night when the lid is closed, sometimes while I'm playing a game, and other times when its just...

Could it be the RAM though? Both of the 1GB modules I bought work in the bottom slot and the 512MB modules worked in the same slot as well as the topmost slot. Would the laptop have two slots that take different kind of RAM modules? I...

But just before I upgraded the RAM I was using the laptop and it registered both 512MB memory modules in it showing me that I had 1GB of RAM.

hey, I've had my HP Pavilion dv8000 for a while and I recently decided to upgrade from 1GB of RAM to the max of 2GB of RAM. I bought the correct type of RAM (2 X 1GB modules) and I took out the 2 X 512MB I had already in there and then...