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Posted by PJ on May 8, 2007, 12:48 pm
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I've got a year-old dv6000 in my office and
will check it out later on today (i.e. how to
enter bios etc, if there's a text-based test
mode etc.) Will get back prior to close of
business, on West Coast.
I'd guess that the 3-beeps are an error
message from the bios on startup. Although
I'm a Thinkpad person I bought the HP as a
multi-media machine and am impressed with
HP's customer service.
Personal feeling is that you should send the
machine in for repair by HP earliest and
specify overnight return -- the cost of that
should be less than attempting a local
repair. If you open the machine and fail to
fix it then you've got a broken machine and
no warranty.
All those business-related files are backed
up on a memory stick -- right? (Many of mine
aren't.)
--
PJ
jeehokim1@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello all, first time poster.
>
> I own a hp Pavillion dv6000 that I purchased nearly 9 months ago. So
> far it hasn't had any issues. But just this morning, I discovered
> that my laptop's screen wouldn't turn on when I boot the darn thing.
> All the blue lights would come on, the fan would run, and it seems
> like the OS has booted, but the screen would just stay black.
>
> The only other discrepency was that there would be 3 high pitched
> beeps when I start up the laptop.
>
> I contacted hp support and they said to use their mail-in repair
> service. They assume that this is a video card issue. My laptop is
> loaded with a 256mb nVidia card designed for laptops.
>
> Anyway, while my laptop is under warranty and mail-in is an option,
> that would take a long time and the laptop contains work-related stuff
> that I would be hard pressed to part with for an extended period of
> time.
>
> Does any1 on the board have any viable suggestions? If this is a
> video card issue, should I consider buying a video card on my own and
> replace it? Or maybe I can solve this by resetting the inernal
> battery?
>
> Any helpful suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
>
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