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| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: wraper on March 25, 2020, 01:26:25 pm --- --- Quote from: GlennSprigg on March 25, 2020, 01:21:24 pm ---I received 15 such Laptops at a repair shop interstate over a short period of time, that were 'written off'. In general, they could be brought back to life by removal & reflowing of the video chip. --- End quote --- Thanks for churning out 15 still faulty laptops which soon died again :palm: --- End quote --- ??? I never had ONE complaint/return ??? Obviously you saw my old post/messages... but not reading what I wrote! :palm: :palm: And my comment here was talking about the HP problem, not my repairs, though not ONE 'died' again! :scared: When you know all the facts, mate, then you can return to your illinformed high-horse. :palm: :palm: |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on March 25, 2020, 01:37:12 pm ---When you know all the facts, mate, then you can return to your illinformed high-horse. :palm: :palm: --- End quote --- What I know for sure, it's not possible to repair (not "revive") those by reflowing/reballing as the chip itself is faulty. Nvidia produced a lot of crap with failing bumps between die and substrate from 2006 till the end of 2008. And in HP it was even more prominent than in general due to crappy cooling. If it lasts more than 6 months after reball, it's a case of big luck. |
| GlennSprigg:
Well I'm not going to question your statement about the NVIDIA chips 'themselves' failing. Only because I never saw that as a problem in the field, and I'm talking from real experiences. Maybe... (I don't know?), HP were trying to 'Pass The Buck' onto NVIDIA ?? as shit was hitting the fan. ALL I know is what I found, and had ZERO complaints from anyone, over a year later! Hope you have a nice day, and you are safe in these troubled times... :) P.S. Re Cooling. M biggest 'education' to customers is where they place their Laptops. So many of them lay their laptops on top of the bed, and the intake airflow is blocked underneath! and these days they run so hot. Mind you, ANY laptop I've ever had to open, always has the heatsinks cleaned and re-compounded. |
| wraper:
I know from my experience and from experience of other people + Nvidia statement + product warranty extensions from laptop manufacturers + research papers. In most cases you could simply heat the chip without melting solder and it would work again for some time. Many technicians used this as method of fault diagnostics. |
| Avacee:
I put an SSD in my mum's HP laptop and it now takes about 5 minutes to boot - runs great once booted into the OS. It's a _few_ years out of warranty but contacted HP anyway and to paraphrase the information provided:- HP said the BIOS had detected a non-standard HP part so pauses during boot up to piss me off and would I like to buy a brand new laptop or an HP-approved SSD for about twice the price. Guess my answer :p So when her laptop does die I won't be replacing it with an HP as any company who thinks gimping the BIOS is acceptable will never get a penny from me again. |
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