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    Machine Dead

    Discussion in 'HP' started by spacecowboy, Mar 22, 2014.

  1. spacecowboy

    spacecowboy Notebook Guru

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    Hi

    My mum's machine has decided to give up the ghost by the looks of it, but wanted a second opinion before presenting my mum with her new door stop!!! The machine is a fairly old HP Pavilion DV6.

    She turned machine off couple of days ago no probs, machine shutdown as normal, no issues there. Then today she has turned it on and no joy. Machine turns on, no image on screen, fans are blowing but HDD light not showing any life.

    I've tried another hdd, unseated RAM and tried different combos and switched sticks. Also tried HDMI cable to TV but still nothing. Keyboard doesn't do anything, no beeos after hitting too many keys at once.

    My suspicion is the motherboard has gone, but just wanted too see if there is anything else I could try before diagnosis.

    Any help would be great.

    Cheers
     
    spacecowboy, Mar 22, 2014
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  2. spacecowboy

    spacecowboy Notebook Guru

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    Mods, could you move this to the hardware section, may get more responses, thanks,
     
    spacecowboy, Mar 24, 2014
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  3. simonmpoulton

    simonmpoulton Notebook Deity

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    If it's amd based i'd place bets on the amd northbridge with the integrated graphics having failed - will need reflowing or reballing,
     
    simonmpoulton, Apr 14, 2014
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  4. 3Fees

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    See if you can boot to bios, Bios Battery good ? Take battery out and check it. I got recently got an HP dv5000 older laptop with windows xp-now have 2 laptops , installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop, works without issue, best of all its free and has updates and supported LTS- Long Term Support

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    Cheers
    3Fees :)
     
    3Fees, Apr 23, 2014
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  5. joeqan

    joeqan Notebook Enthusiast

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    This happened to my first laptop many years ago. The laptop was actually new (only a month old I think) and my dad (who got it for me as a college gift) had gotten insurance on it so I was able to send it back. Unfortunately, I didn't find out exactly what was wrong with it, but it worked when I got it back. It was an AMD processor which I had some problems with after that. I made sure that I didn't get anything with AMD since.

    I wish I knew what was wrong with my laptop because I feel like that would have been helpful for you. Instead, I have told you a story that isn't helpful at all. Sorry.
     
    joeqan, May 6, 2014
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