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    Are there any known/ reported issues with dv2940se?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by rmdesai, Sep 19, 2008.

  1. rmdesai

    rmdesai Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I was planning on selling all my three HP laptops as all of them have Nvidia chipset graphics. The latest one I bought is dv2940se which is very much in warranty.

    My previous two had 6150 and 7600 chipset. Both of them had display problems.

    I wanted to know if there are any known/ reported problems with 7150 chipset that comes with dv2940se.

    Thanks in advance and regards,

    Ravindra.
     
    rmdesai, Sep 19, 2008
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    It likely has the same issue. It depends on when your NVIDIA chip was built. I'm not sure when the cutoff date was but it's recent. So long as you have the newer BIOS that runs the fan 24x7 you should be OK. My old dv9208us is still going strong. I flashed in the BIOS upgrade shortly after it became available.

    I do advise buying the current dv4z/5z/7z series over the older NVIDIA models on general principle, plus the ATI GPU is MUCH faster, but HP has been good about fixing defective notebooks.
     
    brianstretch, Sep 19, 2008
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