Posts by zoompad

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn if u bought the laptop preloaded, the serial should be within ur receipt/invoice what is important is the COA underneath ur laptop i would not recommend, at this stage of vista, to wipe...

I read all the posts regarding reformatting and installling the OS with essential drivers and progs- I got that part. What I am having trouble with is when I boot off the HP Windows XP CD I purchased ( NOT the recovery discs I made ) it...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sseadoubleyou I received my system CTO from HP yesterday and I'm wondering if anyone else here has experienced poor build quality with their system? #1. The bottom of the notebook (left...

I bought and returned three dv8000t from Costco. The last one hand this problem. The "fix" for this where you hit shift repeatedly was not acceptable to me. The first had a bad inverter (screen dims) and the second had a warped...

Everything was fine up until the keyboard started acting funny- Caps lock was reversed and click would not work. Similar to this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...t=57325&page=2 The notebook is great in terms of...

Well I decided to try for # 3. I'll let you know how it turns out. I do know if this one doesen't work out there will not be a 4th. No HP for me.

Need some advice. Bought my second BAD dv8000t from Costco online. The first suffered from intermitent dimming back light and the second has a nasty bow/warp keyboard and the screen frame was leaking back light. I used the 1st...

Does anyone know if the new 8790 will support the 23" Apples Cinema HD with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 via the DVI port and USB port? The specs state it will support a CRT resolution up to 2048x1536x16M. TIA