Ardell...what kind of equipment do you have to re-flow a motherboard?
Mike Stone
-----Original Message-----
From: Ardell Faul <ardell@icehouse.net>
To: simplycomputers2 <simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 2:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] HP Pavillion DV8000-series laptop
Is this a DV8000 or a DV9000? I have reflowed the motherboards on many
DV9000's to fix the no display-but-its-fine-on-the-external problem, but
I have never seen a DV8000.
Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@icehouse.net
509-891-5188
On 10/26/2011 1:16 PM, Misha wrote:
>
> This customer's laptop is driving me nuts. Hard drive and display were
> dying, replaced the hard drive, reinstalled from a disk image,
> repaired Windows XP, it was working fine. Took me a while to get the
> replacement display as the supplier sent the wrong part first. Replace
> the display, the new display doesn't work. Double-checked with the old
> one, it was still functioning as well as before. Got the supplier's
> permission to open it up to check the cables, they were fine, so the
> supplier is going to replace it.
>
> So I put the laptop back together with the old display, and now it's
> not working. Display does nothing. Connected to an external monitor,
> that works, but the computer only gets as far as POST and the HP
> splash screen -- I can hear the hard drive spinning, the hard drive
> access light flashes for a while, then stops. The CD drive lights. No
> response to the keyboard, doesn't do anything else. No beeps. I swap
> out the RAM and make sure it's seated properly, same thing.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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