Laptop Died

[Hanabi]

Here is what happened yesterday.

1. Start TF2 everything was fine, game froze and crashed.
2. Raged for 15mins.
3. Restarted the game, stuck at loading the server.
4. PC self terminated (restarted)
5. Screen starts to having lines, stuck at welcome screen.
6. Manually restarted the pc, screen is black. No bios menus, or anything.

HDD is fine i checked, screen should be fine since it was changed couple months ago.

Its a HP Pavilion dv9000


I did some research, could it be the video card?

(Voice)|Ex| Hanabi: Help!

[stewlounse]

It's hard to diagnose laptop problems because most everything is integrated. Have you tried tech support from HP, like the live tech chat or anything?

[Hanabi]

yea i did, they ask me to send it in. My warranty expired, will cost me $400. T.T I guess its the video card.

[Clone]

Sounds like tiem for a a new lap-top. :(

They can be fixed, but kind of hard. And for $400 ot send it in; might as well ge a new one.

[Cosmic_Shame]

use the defibrillator, jump start dat bitch into workin order

[stewlounse]

If your warranty is expired I definitely wouldn't spend $400 just to repair video, but put that money towards another laptop....or parts for a desktop.

[stewlounse]

Well, it *might* be possible to find a replacement video card lingering around on ebay or something. Swich it out yourself, it's worth a shot. No warranty, nothing to lose given it's current state.

Or.. sell it now "as is" and buy something else.

[mountaindues]

One quick way I have checked to see whether it's the laptop video card or the screen is to hook the laptop up to an external monitor. If you can see the laptop video output on the external monitor then you know it's the screen. If you see nothing on the external monitor then you know that the video card is the problem.

[Clone]

One quick way I have checked to see whether it's the laptop video card or the screen is to hook the laptop up to an external monitor. If you can see the laptop video output on the external monitor then you know it's the screen. If you see nothing on the external monitor then you know that the video card is the problem.

Wow. A smarty pants. That is genius. <--- not sarcasm, really it's not.

[Hanabi]

One quick way I have checked to see whether it's the laptop video card or the screen is to hook the laptop up to an external monitor. If you can see the laptop video output on the external monitor then you know it's the screen. If you see nothing on the external monitor then you know that the video card is the problem.

just hooked it to my monitor, and nothing showed up. definitely the video card problem. And i refuse to pay 400 to fix it. LOL could invest to another 5850 so i can crossfire!! lololololol