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    DV4000 Freezing Fault ??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by pauljrog, Apr 24, 2008.

  1. pauljrog

    pauljrog Notebook Guru

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    My son has a DV4000, recently it has started to freeze, the only thing that seems to work is to press the palm rest in, which sorts it out for a while, then it freezes again ??

    I've already taken out the RAM and blown off any dust, but it's done no good.

    Thanks for any help.

    Paul
     
    pauljrog, Apr 24, 2008
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    macani Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have you figured out what was wrong?

    I have the same issue on my dv4000. I press it and it works but later continues to freeze. Took it apart, looked at it but everything seems to be connected.

    Thanks
    Almir
     
    macani, May 28, 2008
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    pauljrog Notebook Guru

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    Hi, yes i sorted it out, the motherboard was faulty, it's a common fault on this model, you can't repair it, so i looked on ebay, about £100 to either replace it or repair it.

    So what i did was to break the laptop up for spares, i listed all the parts separately on ebay, the LCD i sold for £75, i got about £200 in total, then i brought a DV6000 on ebay, only just over a year old, much better than my son's old dv4000, i didn't pay anything extra and he got a much better laptop in the end.

    Everything turned out great in the end. my son was very happy.
     
    pauljrog, May 29, 2008
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