In the past 2 years I have run into a plethora of DV series laptops with the GPU Failure. I have been able to convince most of my customers to buy Lenovo or Asus and/or anything but HP.
What are your thoughts on this?
What should Consumers think?
What should HP be doing?
What should we as techs be doing?
What are your thoughts on this?
What should Consumers think?
What should HP be doing?
What should we as techs be doing?
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Professional x64AMD Athlon II x4 3.00 GHz16GB Kingston DDR3Nvidia 8600 (dual DVI out for 2 monitors)
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom Build MPCBS AMII
- OS
- Windows 7 Professional x64
- CPU
- AMD Athlon II x4 3.00 GHz
- Motherboard
- MSI GF615M-p33
- Memory
- 16GB Kingston DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia 8600 (dual DVI out for 2 monitors)
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer H233H 23", ASUS 23"
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 x 768
- Hard Drives
- (2) WD Blue 1 TB 3 partitions, (1) Seagate 7200 500GB with 2 partitions for useless and frequently deleted data Looking forward do an ssd for os soon.
- PSU
- Corsair 1100Watt
- Case
- Apevia HAF
- Cooling
- HAF AMD High Profile Heat sink and fan
- Keyboard
- wireless Logitech
- Mouse
- wireless Logitech
- Internet Speed
- 16 mbps
- Antivirus
- eSet, AVG, Clam and Clamwin (depends on machine)
- Browser
- Firefox
- Other Info
- (9) Win 7 machines all x64 (POS Updated to Windows 7 pro YEA), (4) Linux machines x64 and x86 including a v3000 compaq lappy brought back to life with Mint 9 used to scan drives, (1) Linux Machine dual boot XP Pro (for testing and destroying), (1) Win 7 pro x64/Win 8.1 Lenovo Laptop Dual Boot.