Pavilion DV9500T piece of crap that drives me nuts

The above mentioned steaming pile of s(*&t works decently when decides so and that is in the following two cases:

1. When I put it to sleep WITHOUT closing the lid. Doings by closing the lid, will prevent me from using the steaming pile of **** because the no image comes up after I start it up again. I can only fix the problem sometimes when I plug in a secondary VGA monitor.

2. When I don't use or think about use the external VGA connector. Whenever I make this mistake (and happened multiple times so far) the image would not come back on the main laptop display unless I spend countless hours in different combinations to convince the god f^%* **** image to migrate from the external monitor to the laptop display. How did I succeed in the past to do so?! Beat the hell out of me because there's no consistent f. way to do it. Pressing FN+F5 is absolutely useless. Pressing FN+F5 in the shutdown sequence might help, but not all the time. The weird thing though is that FN+F5 sequence gives a hint that something is going on, the image is flickering but it stays only on the external monitor.

So if someone has some answers before I break this pile of **** against the ceiling fan, I would be eternal grateful.

Thanks,

Infuriated HP f. customer

P.S. I dunno why I bought HP. So far, I'm pretty much disappointed with any laptop. Yet, I still refuse to migrate to Apple, as I would tie myself to another set of problems - besides, that mac os crap is too many bells and whistles for me.

 

What operating system, graphics card and drivers are you using?

 

Why don't you tell us how you really feel

 

This isn't the locker room. Why don't you act like an adult and cut out the potty mouth? There are impressionable youths here you go to consider.

Honestly, if you're this disappointed with all laptops as you say, over a minor issue, then maybe you shouldn't have one. It'd save yourself and everyone else here a lot of aggravation.

I think if you just said "Hey, I'm having a problem with my sleep function, can anyone help?", you'll be much more likely to get a positive response.

 

"I think if you just said "Hey, I'm having a problem with my sleep function, can anyone help?", you'll be much more likely to get a positive response."

Do you think that crappy laptop stirs into me any positive feelings?! Probably I haven't made myself clear enough. So much positiveness that I can't breath anymore.

Anyway, the technical details: I'm running it on Vista Ultimate 64bit, Nvidia video drivers v174.74 ( laptopvideo2go dot com), video card 8600M GS. I installed all the intel chipset drivers before installing the video drivers. Initially, I installed the hp provided video driver, but it does exactly the same thing as described.

The reported video driver version in device manager is 7.15.11.129 5/13/2007. However, I don't think the video driver has anything to do with this. Even in the rebooting sequence I still cannot switch it back from the external monitor to the internal display.

 

is there a setting on BIOS that might lock your main display

 

I'd love to see the BIOS again as it would mean I can get to it.

A colleague of mine suggested I should open and visually inspect the lcd panel ribbon. It seems a lil bit drastic to me but if I run out of solutions eventually I'll do it.
While I'm not excluding the physical damage possibility for the lcd panel components, I suspect that this hole thing is an annoying BIOS/electrical signal priority of VGA external monitor over the internal lcd display, something that not even a FN+F5 is not able to switch, also something that HP might have overlooked early in their QA tests.

 

I guess that's between you and your notebook. I do not expect that everything turns out perfectly, because that's not how the world operates, but I do expect people to act with some modicum of maturity. I also expect people come here to discuss their concerns/issues in a civil and productive way. Coming on here to rant about your notebook using inappropriate language, now matter bad you think it is, falls outside of those expectations.

 

Zaz, please, take a break. I don't need to hear you talking philosophies about self righteousness. If you have an opinion about FN+F4, feel free to say it, otherwise leave some space for people that have something say concerning my problem. You started all the whining about my rants and so far you're the only one. You don't like it then don't reply to it and move on.

 

I did a search and found this I suppose it wouldn't hurt to give it a go?

>>Since all the power to your MOBO is not turned off during a restart like it
is with a power off your problem may have something to do with the amount of
power available to your components and the sequence they come up in. It
appears that another device may be drawing too much power during restart at
the same time that you graphics card is trying to start.
I suggest that you set your floppy or a optical drive as your boot disk and
then let this device time out during boot with no disk installed this will
delay your boot HDD from drawing a lot of power right away<<

 

You're going to do the you started it thing? Alls you had to do was say it won't happen again.

There is nothing self-righteous or whiny in what I am doing. I am simply enforcing the Forum Rules, which is one of my duties here as a Moderator. It seems you're not familiar with them, which is odd, because you agreed to them when you created your account. Perhaps a review would be in order? I wouldn't be a very good moderator if I let rules violations slide by? I will continue to do so when I see it.

I'm sorry you seem to be having such a difficult time grasping the concept that coming here to rant while using inappropriate language is not acceptable behavior here. Maybe it is where you're at, but not here. There are other people here to consider. NBR is one of the more friendly forums on the Internet. This is part of that. Despite what you think, posts like yours get flagged all the time, even if no one else replied to it.

 

Yea I agree, none of the staff at NBR would hack your computer with a trojan because you're troublesome !

 

Would it be too drastic a measure to suggest reinstalling the OS? It seems like a lot of issues with notebooks not waking from sleep mode, etc. are caused by problems with the OS.

I know that always seems like what people suggest as a solution, and that it's a major PITA, but it frequently solves the problem.

Besides, if you contacted HP, they would suggest it anyway.

BTW, did you change the setting for 'do this when I close my notebook lid' to 'Do Nothing'?

 

@S_P_Q_R:
I was able at some point yesterday to access the BIOS interface and I did what your search suggested - change the drive boot order. I set the hard drive to be the last one. However, my beloved laptop acts as before:
- at boot time it doesn't show up anything on the internal display and it doesn't boot (the external monitor is connected in the hope that the image will reach it eventually)
- when it randomly decides that is better to use the external monitor, I do get access to BIOS or even I'm able to load windows. After I reach windows gui I'm able to use only the external monitor, regardless of what I'm trying in the video card/monitor settings.
- while in windows gui and trying to fn+f4 the heck out of it, as I said it before, the image on E.M. (that is, external monitor) flickers once and nothing further happens

@theseadragon:
It wouldn't be too drastic to try to reinstall vista 64, in fact I'm waiting for my laptop to decide to boot up and it will pick the installation disk already stuffed in. I'm a windowsy guy since the dawn of computers (486).

I already contacted HP, she just wasted my time writing to me a ~30 rows chat in approx 45 min. Definitely she was writing too fast for me and I had troubles in the end comprehending (from too much chat writing speed) why is she telling me to send the laptop for a mail-in-repair.

"TW, did you change the setting for 'do this when I close my notebook lid' to 'Do Nothing'?"
Nope, I didn't touch that.

More and more I'm inclined to conclude that the lcd panel is gone, although I'll try some more until then.


@Zaz:
I'm still confused if you're worth a reply or not - keep trying though.

 

Now that I managed to reinstall Vista, the internal display is not even detected so it doesn't show up in the desktop settings. It turns out to be more and more fun.