Posts by MDRhoades

The battery is probably gone. There should also be an external power brick to power the laptop from the wall socket. If you can find a power supply, it should run the laptop w/o the battery installed. If not the laptop is DOA. Mike

Those things are nearly impossible to get out w/o damadging the motherboard (personal experience with a Compaq). Soldering may fix it. I managed to resolder it and the laptop worked, but the solder pad is so small I could see damadging...

Your CompUSA experience was an unusual one but...it sounds like it ended on a good note! I have had my HP back for about 10 days now and it performs perfrectly; just like it was brand new. By the thanks for your input. It is...

Most of the OEM's assemnble their laptop witha thermal pad vice a compound. Compound or pad, they accomplish the samething, take up space between the inperfect machined surfaces of the CPU and the heatpipe while also acting as a heat...

The odds of two lemons seems extremely remote. I would put money on a AC power problem. Try the wall socket on a different ckt in your house. To isolate it, first turn off a ckt breaker at your sub-panel oen at a time until you have no...

Thanks for your input. I am glad to hear of other positive expereiences with HP. My biggest gripe is with Bestbuy Geek squad. One person says to me "oops your computer was sent to the wrong service center". after three weeks...

The Nvidia Geforce 6150's are integrated onto the motherboard; there are no video upgrade options. Mike

When you had it all apart you should have removed the heatsink, reseated the CPU then put some new heatsink compound under the CPU heatsink. It maybe that the minor jolt was sufficient to dislodge the CPU slightly. The CPU reading you...

There is also a M$ HD audio framework driver I have seen under windows XP. I had thought it was part of the audio driver itself but maybe it isnt? Mike

What application? Are there any RAM and graphics processor reuirements? Unfortuanetly, the overall performance of any computer is impacted by all three major components: Processor(s), amount of RAM, and graphics processor. Mike