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Graphics card / Beep noises with dv6095ea HP Pavilion

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3/16/07 at 6:53pm
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Last year in September i splashed out on an HP dv6095ea laptop.

I play a lot of games with it, surf the net, download movies, work as well of course and burn loads of dvd with it.

Last week when I tried turning it on the screen did not start up and it made beeping noises, however eveything else did work, the fan, windows start up noises etc, all worked. The beep codes were as follows, 1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps. From some research on the HP website I found out that these beep codes indicate a video / graphics card error. I phoned up HP and had my laptop picked up from them, as it is yet in warrenty. I was wondering, what could have caused the nvidia graphics card to stop working, it must have fried with frequent use or maybe it was just a faulty card. Can someone tell me how to prevent this from happening in the future as it was a great dissapointment after paying so much for the laptop. Thank you!

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post #2 of 3
3/29/07 at 7:46pm
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Just got back laptop from repairs as it was within warrenty. Beeping noises have gone, however after about 5 minutes the screen goes fuzzy, the laptop locks up and shuts down. They replaced the system board on the laptop, but there is still a graphical problem with the laptop. Going to have to call HP again tomorrow to arrange another pick up as it is not fixed.
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post #3 of 3
3/29/07 at 10:40pm
Hay pardner, don't dispair! I've got a dv6000t, had it only a few days and when it was running one day it first froze and then the screen went blank with just the lights on the console lite up. I then rebooted the machine by holding down the power button for 5 seconds but nothing happened no hard drive activity, no windows audio sounds to let you know windows was starting up nothing.
To make a long story short I too sent my laptop in and HP had it back in about 6 days, they claim it was the keyboard and also found a problem with the dvd and replaced it as well.
What's interesting is when I got the machine back, when I first powered it on it did the same thing nothing, just lights as before, so I rebooted as before, this time I had the screen with allot of unintelligable lines and so forth although I heard the familar windows tune logging on. One more time I rebooted and this time it came up ok and has been running fine since then . ..Keeping my fingers crossed. I think I'm going to invest in a warrenty for at least for a couple of years!!!

Take heart I'm going to stick with this machine, Usually a new computer if its going to go bad it'll do it during the break in period or as they call it "The burn it period"which is the first few days....Don
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