I'm currently looking into buying a new ultraportable laptop or netbook and this notebook looks like it fits my needs perfectly. My old 15.4" laptop is starting to show it's age and is becoming a pain to lug around campus all day. Plus the battery life is starting to decrease to under 1:30 hours..
Is there any word when this notebook will be available? I read that it's going to be sometime this month. How much will it be with the external DVD or Blu-ray drive? And are there going to be any other battery options other than the standard 4-cell? I'm probably only willing to purchase this notebook if it gets 4-5+ hours of battery life.. so how long do you think it will last?
I have a Pavilion dv5-1203ax with AMD Turion X2 and ATi Mbility Radeon HD 3450.
I have a strange issue.. the system stops charging the battery at anytime...sometimes it charges the battery properly and other time it stops at 40 % , 50 % , 90 % etc.
The battery charges to 100 % normally when Windows is off and power suply is left on...
I changed the battery but the problem still exists
While the battery charges... HP Battery Check show Good when it does not, the battery check shows Replace...
I've formatted the system and tried Vista twice and Windows 7 also and recaliberated the battery but to no success...
I have decided to buy an HP Pavilion dv6.i dont know the exact model no. but here's the configuration...
T6600 processor, 1GB ATI 4650 graphics card, 4gb DDr3 RAM, 500gb SATA, 15.6" display. I had earlier decided on the dell studio 15 but i found the hp with better config.
I got HP Pavilion dv5-1213em with windows vista home premium sp1 preinstalled ... now what stupid thing i have done ..... i did not create recovery disks and format the hard drive and create new partitions because there were only two partitions and try to install vista ultimate on it (Registered version) ... but on setup screen when it shows completing installation, after that it shows me black screen with moveable cursor ... nothing is happen .... .... so i tried to get recovery discs online ... but i did not get the link .... now i m with not usable notebook ...
I have just seen this HP laptop on www.play.com and it looks pretty amazing! It's up for pre-order coming out on Friday and is Ł599, here are its specs:
Processor: AMD Turion X2 mobile processor RM-75 / 2.2 GHz Memory: 4GB HD Capacity: 320GB Display: 15.6" Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 - 1GB Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit Dimensions (WxDxH): 37.9 cm x 25.8 cm x 4.1 cm Weight: 2.9 kg
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The only thing that stops me from just pre-ordering this laptop is the fact it hasn't been released yet and so there aren't any reviews saying whether it's good or bad that and that I have never used AMD instead of Intel and the last ATI graphics card I had was shocking to say the least. What do you guys think? Are HP laptops good, reliable etc and are these specs that great?
I bought the laptop two days ago and it seems an excellent laptop.
I had some problems with creating system recovery Dvd, but eventually i recognized that the problem was in the type of dvd i used. I changed the type of dvd and created the system recovery discs, and everything is working quite well!
I'd be very glad to keep in touch with all those who purchased this series.
My Pavilion dv8333ea's (specs here) GPU died the other day
It was getting old (3.5 years) but I'd never had a problem with it before and aside from the GPU it still works fine (except the screen looks like it may have been programmed by Picasso (random pixels everywhere!).
If this were any other laptop, I'd just replace it, but there was something special about this one: It had a firewire port with a Texas Instruments chipset (this is the Holy Grail of firewire audio recording). Plus, it genuinely was a good laptop
i have notebook dv9000 and works so fine and then today i try to turn on notebook and just show me the led power and then after a few sec turn off every thing.
about the dv6-1268nr that Newegg is selling for $800. I am looking for an affordable, pre-built laptop to replace my busted Studio 1555 and this really caught my eye. The only thing that is holding me back right now is I have some experience with AMD processors and they tend to have heat issues. The reviews on Newegg also say this but they don't seem like expert reviews.
The only reason I created a new topic is because the dv6 thread has basically been dead since the HDX 16 came out.
It's pretty nicely specced out, but I won't go over the details, since the GPU and processor have nothing to do with it.
It comes with 4GB of DDR2 RAM, but it's only running a 32-bit OS (or so the box says). Does that mean that only 3GB will be used?
if it does have a 64-bit version of Vista, there's another problem. My backup for my old system was for Vista 32-bit. Will this cause problems on a 64-bit OS? Microsoft support says that some models may face problems when running 32-bit backups on a 64-bit OS, but is this one of them?
when I brought out my old HP dv5228TX laptop for a 3 month trip. When i brought it with me, the power cord was already burnt through around the adaptor so i bought a new one immediately. The problem is, i kept getting blue screen of death whenever i do ANYTHING in windows, which was a major annoyance. I thought it might have been the CD-ROM that was beginning to be faulty or dying so i disabled it in hardware manager. When the BSODs wouldn't go away, i thought it might have been a memory hardware problem. I set out to find 1gb ddr2 memory (2 of them) but since they were 45$ each, i thought i might as well wait until my trip to taiwan before i hastily bought it here (since taiwan has cheaper hardware).
Now previously i had owned a NuSlim MOBILE disk case so that i can take out the harddrive in my HP pavilion laptop to access the files in case the computer itself failed. So when the Blue screen of death wouldn't go away, I decided to use the NuSlim mobile disk to store my HP hard drive and use it on my HP Presario B1900 laptop as a USB Drive. I searched on the internet and learned that you can boot directly from a USB drive. When i decided to boot from my "hp pavilion hard drive" the USB way, a MBR error popped up. Which meant that the hard disc itself had a bad master boot sector. This was a slap in the face because my Blue screen of death could have been all attributed to a corrupted hard drive. When i discovered this, I immediately tried to put my harddrive back into my HP pavilion so that i can run recovery manager directly via F11 at startup.
Now here is my problem! Not only does it not let me go into recovery manager at all at start up when i press F11, windows does not even boot. The weird thing is, when I put the harddrive into the NuSlim mobile disk, all the files works (including the recovery partition).
Is it possible to reformat my entire hard drive back to factory condition since the recovery partition is techinically there? It just won't let me enter it possibly due to bad master boot sector. I even tried to access the recovery partition itself through the USB via my HP presario. Is it also possible to create a recovery disc if i have access to this recovery partition even though booting it from the HP pavilion itself doesn't seem to work? Please help as soon as possible because i do not wish to purchase a recovery disc from HP since i do not have warranty anymore (and since i have the recovery partition anyway). the OS i'm using is Windows XP and i tried looking on the HP website for the recovery order form but apparently they dont have it. I do not wish to purchase the Vista recovery disc since my HP pavilion is only 1gb and it will not run well on vista.
I forgot my power-up password. How can I reset it. Called Hp and they want my first born for a laptop that is a number of years old. Nephew had similar problem with a Dell and we were able to prove over the phone that we were the original owner and they supplied a master password. HP will not do the same with their product.
I'm considering paying the extra $100 to add in the 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 to the dv5z I'm customizing...
My question is if I add that in does this machine make use of the "Hybrid Crossfire " capabilities and have the integrated and dedicated work together?
A friend of mine has a Pavilion dv4-1225dx notebook and spilled some wine that according to him hardly hit the laptop, but something happened as it doesn't want to work anymore.
He called HP and the notebook was shipped to them, then he got a call and they told him that the warranty was void as there was liquid damage.
I took the thing, put it my Vista DVD from my Dell and it did start up, but just before it wanted to install it couldn't find the hard drive and asked me for a driver I don't have. I did download all the drivers from the HP support site but I'm not sure if that driver was even there. Nothing of what I downloaded worked.
Ran the memory and hard drive test and hard drive test failed. Replaced the hard drive with a new one that was already formatted and ran the test again. At least this time it did see a hard drive, though the test failed again and it gave me some error code (think it was 10008).
Could this be a driver issue or might it be the mother board? I don't think it's worth putting a lot of money in the notebook but if it's a driver issue I'd try to fix it.
Basically I don't even get to the point where I could install Windows as it seems to be unable to address the hard drive.
Well not a great buy @ Amazon, but i see the exact same thing selling on ebay for only $1000, which for an Mobile i7 and a Fairly decent GFX card seems like a good price, what do you guys think? would it be good for gaming?
I want a HP Pavilion 17 incher cuz they look so sexy but all i find have either bad CPU or GPU. WHen will the new serie GPU come in the HP Pavilion series?
Processor: AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-80 Dual-Core (2.1 GhZ) Hard Drive: 400 GB @ 5400RPM RAM: 4096MB DDR2 System Memory
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3450 Graphics with 512MB dedicated
is on sale on the official HP store at 849 no taxes. It looks like a good deal. I wanted a couple info: does it have bluethoot? what about the fingerprint reader? and if anybody has it i'd like to see some pics and have some info for gaming. not that i play a lot but sometimes...
First impressions The DV6 is the most powerful laptop I have ever owned and used. The laptop will definitely work well for the type of computer activities that I do: buring DVD's, programming, video converison, picture editing, etc.
Specs: Intel Core i7-720QM processor 1.60GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.80 GHz Memory 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 DIMM) Video Graphics Nvidia GeForce GT 230M Video Memory Up to 2815MB (1024MB dedicated ) Hard Drive 500GB (7200RPM) Multimedia Drive LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support Display 15.6" Diagonal High-Definition LED HP BrightView Display (1366x768) Network Card Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN 802.11b/g/n WLAN.................
I got a HP Pavilion Dv7 not to long ago, about six months to be exact...
Anyways, it used to be fine for heat but as of late, it idles at around 70 C for the dual cores and GPU...it's beginning to worry me a bit because when i play games they can reach temperatures of 90 C.
By the way, I have the most recent Bios update and I have cleaned the vents too. Something worth noting though is that when I bought this laptop it was the only one left, which was the display unit, do you reckon that it may have had wear and tear due to this already?
hp pavilion dv600. when u press the power button it will sometimes restart three times before displaying the hp start up logo and sometime it starts fine it does the same thing even if the hdd is out or cd drive is out or if the battery is out or if the RAM is out?
Last night I was on my computer working on a graphic design project for school (was running Photoshop) when the screen went a weird purple color and then completely blank after a minute or so. The computer was still running, however, and pretty hard at that, so I shut it off. Since then, whenever I turn it on the screen shows up split into four, equal, horizontal parts.
If I do not touch anything, it will continue to show the Microsoft loading screen, but then shows a blue screen for a few seconds then reboots. Screen Pic
If I press Esc at the initial restart Screen Pic, it launches "Windows error recovery" and gives a choice between using 'Launch Start Up Repair' and 'Start Windows Normally' Screen Pic. It will not start up Windows (Vista), instead it reboots the computer and starts all over again. When I try Startup Repair Screen Pic, after a few minutes, it asks me if I want to restore my computer using System Restore. After about 10 minutes I get a message saying that it cannot repair the problem automatically.
Im thinking on buy the HP Pavilion DV7-1451NR, but I cant find anywhere whats the bus of this notebook(memorymoboprocessor bus), is it 1066, 1333, 800? Its ridiculous that this info is not found on the hp site...
I bought this from the PX and want to add internal Bluetooth 2.0 EDR. The problem is HP is worthless for support, I was chatting with the support people online and they keep telling me it doesn't come with my computer which what I told them from the start, I know the dv5 CTO with intel processor has the option. I told them I wanted the part number for the module with no help from HP, I searched online and so far the only number I could come across is 483113-001 is this compatible with the computer? Can some post pics of this module or email them to me and post pics of where it goes in the computer. From what I have seen when I removed the center cover on the bottom of the laptop looks to be an open port I am not sure if it is mini pci or what, it is definitely a card type slot.
Notebook specs are: Intel Core 2 Duo (Centrino 2) P7350 I think is the processor number 2.0Ghz 25W 1066MHz 4GB PC6400 DDR 2 ram Nvidia 9600GT 512M video card SATA II hard drive Intel 5100 AGN Pro Wifi and etc.
