HP Pavilion problem

Hey everybody,

I seem to be having problem with my laptop and since I couldn't find much for my particular issue, thought I would try to ask on a forum.

I have a HP Pavilion dv9500 notebook and yesterday after more than two years of pretty much running smoothly it wouldn't boot. First it actually booted into windows but the whole desktop screen was frozen with mouse cursor. So I turned it off, turned it back on and it booted into blue screen and restarted itself. After couple of tries I booted into safe mode which was running fine.

I wasn't sure what the problem was but I was thinking it must be software related, so I loaded an image of my system which I've used before and knew was ok. But even after putting a brand new OS it was doing the same thing.

One time I was actually able to boot into normal mode so I thought maybe the issue got resolved magically. But, I have my external monitor plugged in and even when in normal mode the signal wouldn't go through, so I had to use my laptop monitor. I kept trying to switch the signal and even though it was showing the icon like it's transferring nothing happened. So I checked my video card properties and the card all of the sudden had no drivers and was basically unrecognized by the OS. Does anybody have any suggestion or advice? Would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

NVIDIA GPU? Odds are it's in the process of failing.

 

Yeah, everybody seems to be having problems with NVIDIA M cards on HP. I'm wondering if it's just on HP or if they die on different laptops too e.g Asus.

I actually took the whole thing apart until I got to the GPU and blew a hot air on it for 5 minutes. To my huge surprise it actually worked and I was able to put it back in piece. Took me about 4-5 hours

 

Well, its an nvidia issue. Affected any laptop which used that generation of graphics cards. Dell, extended warranties on their systems, even thinkpad T61 owners had problems.