All Im going to say is I had an HP laptop do that, it got progressively worse, then a few months later the HDD totally failed. If its under warranty get it sent in asap. They took 40 days and numerous calls to get a laptop back to me; after I had told them they finally realized it was a faulty HDD and after conversing with the HDD company and being told they had manufactured some hundred faulty drives, I was sent a new laptop. Two years later, my new laptop's back to being annoyingly hot.
hp laptop won't start - cmos battery dead?
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did what? the hdd being hot or the laptop stalling?
Originally Posted by m|dg3t All Im going to say is I had an HP laptop do that, it got progressively worse, then a few months later the HDD totally failed. If its under warranty get it sent in asap. They took 40 days and numerous calls to get a laptop back to me; after I had told them they finally realized it was a faulty HDD and after conversing with the HDD company and being told they had manufactured some hundred faulty drives, I was sent a new laptop. Two years later, my new laptop's back to being annoyingly hot. |
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my hdd is working. i check my drive values every day without fail, cross-referencing between everest and speedfan.
Originally Posted by TurboTurtle Drive Fitness Test You'll have to reboot to use it, as it's a bootable test. Will test every sector of your drive and perform some other functionality tests and of course a S.M.A.R.T. test. If you're confident in your disassembling ability, try taking the top shell and keyboard off the laptop and checking the connections. Even if it's a faulty HDD, it should POST - not just not power on. 8 times out of 10 at work when a laptop comes in that won't power on, but powers the LED - it's a loose connection, or a combination of loose connection and bad HDD. |
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haha, thanks for the info. hp does make some fine computers, but their 2007/2008 lineup was rubbish. poor workmanship, corners that didn't fit, bulging areas, etc.
my dv2713tx has paid two visits to their workshop within the first year of use - the first time was to replace the 8400m gs card which packed up and went when i was doing some light graphic designing on the laptop. when i got it back, their ignorance saw the 128mb (dedicated) vram 8400m gs being replaced with one that only had 64mb (dedicated) vram. the difference was quite drastic - with the poorer card, booting time was 30 seconds longer, and i lost considerable fps in games. so back into the workshop it went again, to replace the correct card.
since then i've lost considerable faith in hp products. their 2009 lineup seems to have changed things though. i shall once again 'test waters', and go out to purchase a hp netbook.. hopefully the horrible experience won't recur.
Originally Posted by ericeod I had a 14" DV2125 HP laptop. it did the same thing to me. it would show the blue power LED, but nothing else. I forced a restart and it wouldn't turn back on. I messed with it for a couple of days and got it to finally boot again. It worked for another few days and then finally went completely dead. I ended up doing some research and found HP uses a lead based solder, which breaks at the joints due to the high heat within a laptop. So the chipset solder joints basically broke leaving me with a dead motherboard. I sent it into a repair company to have them re-solder a new NB chip to the board. That worked for about 3 months... I later found that this was a common problem with my laptop, and HP extended their warranty another year to cover it. Unfortunately they never passed it onto the consumer, and I had already repaired the board (voiding the warranty). So keep an eye on it, and see if you start to have problems booting. I recommend you contact HP immediately with the issue just to make sure there isn't a known issue, or an extended warranty. It won't hurt to shoot their customer service an email. |
my dv2713tx has paid two visits to their workshop within the first year of use - the first time was to replace the 8400m gs card which packed up and went when i was doing some light graphic designing on the laptop. when i got it back, their ignorance saw the 128mb (dedicated) vram 8400m gs being replaced with one that only had 64mb (dedicated) vram. the difference was quite drastic - with the poorer card, booting time was 30 seconds longer, and i lost considerable fps in games. so back into the workshop it went again, to replace the correct card.
since then i've lost considerable faith in hp products. their 2009 lineup seems to have changed things though. i shall once again 'test waters', and go out to purchase a hp netbook.. hopefully the horrible experience won't recur.
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The laptops light and keyboard would light as if it were booting, but it would never start up. I'm telling you its a faulty HDD and if it does it again, I would send it in while you're under warranty.
Originally Posted by Volvo did what? the hdd being hot or the laptop stalling? |
I would recheck the cmos battery if it is not holding than replace it.
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