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    Broken laptop DV6T:SE

    Discussion in 'HP' started by 4saken, Oct 25, 2010.

  1. 4saken

    4saken Notebook Consultant

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    Alright so a while back I broke my laptop, HP called me and told me 3 different stories.

    They told me I applied wrong thermal paste which fried the CPU and the GPU. I used Ice Diamond 7. Its a non-conductive and i'm pretty sure I applied it correctly and not overloaded it.

    Then they told me that they found water in my laptop, which infact I know I didn't put any water in there.

    Thennn they told me that I put wrong screws back into my laptop which cracked the mother board.

    Anyways, the laptop powers on fine but there battery signal is RED, I have no display, everything is black. When I plug HDMI and VGA its all black and sometimes have just a disorted screen.

    When this first happened I put the VGA cord in and saw some stuff but it was barely visable... I'm coming to the conclusion that its only the mobo and gpu that doesn't work. HP is wanting to charge me $750-800 to fix everything.. Should I just send it back to them or buy a new mobo on there website and test it out for myself? Also, would this even be the right MOBO? I can tell how they word out there products on there site.

    592816-001 SPS-PCA SYSTEM BD DIS 5650/1G QUA NON-TS
    I'm guessing NON-TS means Non-Turbospeed/boost?
     
    4saken, Oct 25, 2010
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  2. darkprime

    darkprime Notebook Consultant

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    What did you do the first time to the laptop? It sounds like to you opened it, did some tweaking, and then it didn't work. What's the full story?
     
    darkprime, Oct 27, 2010
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  3. Poulsen8r

    Poulsen8r Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, your warranty is already void. What would be the purpose in getting them to fix it? You can apply thermal paste and in these laptops that means you know how to remove the motherboard. Definitely DIY. TS is TouchScreen. That is probably the right mobo there are only 2. One has BD and no TS, the other has no BD and TS. Take you pick. They are the same form factor and will do the same job. Depends on whether you want bluray or touchscreen. $360USD for the new mobo if you do the exchange. I really need pics of yout motherboard for another 'project'. Any chance when you have it out you could take a bunch of close up pics of it and post them up?
     
    Poulsen8r, Oct 27, 2010
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  4. Infected @ngel

    Infected @ngel Newbie

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    Oh man, i wanted to repaste my laptop, but after reading your case i think i'm not gonna do it.

    Its a shame you fried your laptop; i read the manual too, and it doesnt specify where to put the thermal paste. No diagram, illustration, nothing.

    Instead of trying to repaste by myself, i think im gonna expand my warranty. 100 usd for an extra year of manteinance seems ok after reading your case.

    Cheers.
     
    Infected @ngel, Jun 27, 2011
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