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jasonbar:
I'm happy w/ my new HP G60 laptop.  I transferred all of my data from my old laptop to the new one & finally got around to testing/troubleshooting the old laptop a little while back.

Whaddya know, that son of a gun old laptop is working *perfectly* now!   :banghead:

I left it on for 3 days straight in a warm garage, screen on, running SETI@Home non-stop.  Nary a hiccup.  I tried to put the laptop in stressful situations to recreate its problems & failed--the thing is mocking me by being rock solid!   :P

I removed the many many screws on the bottom of the case in an attempt to reveal the motherboard & tinker around, press on solder joints, clean the fan, etc., but the case proved to be still held together pretty tightly, even after removing all the screws that I could find, so I decided against tempting fate & decided to leave the motherboard alone.

-Jason

Santoro:
I'd bet money heat buildup is hosing up the GPU solder.  This is a very common issue.  My wife's 3 year old HP Laptop computer had it and I figured since I had nothing to lose, I'd try to fix it using the heatgun/penny method as outlined <here>.  Worked like a charm.  It's a bit scary but if you are comfortable around electronics you can do it. 

jasonbar:
Thanks, but it wasn't just video failure--the whole machine was shutting off after a moment of running, or not powering on at all (except for the blue indicator lights on the dedicated buttons & the status buttons on the front of the laptop).

-Jason

Santoro:
She had the exact same symptoms!  I think the machine was sensing a missing GPU and saying 'screw that' and powering down.

jasonbar:
Gotcha--could be!  I was taking the text and contents of that video literally--it said that the video was not working, but it didn't say that the whole system was powering down because of it.

I'm generally handy, but the teardown for my DV1000 () didn't seem to be worth the effort, considering that it was no longer acting up.


Thanks,
-Jason

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