Laptop Dead
my laptop’s dead…
end rant 
hope you had back ups
Any witnesses?
haha.. yeah, she died in my arms.
all good (i guess) cos the hdd is fine, just seems to be fried motherboard. common out of warranty problem with that particular model.
Let me guess.
HP DV series?
I had the same shit.
HP DV6000z. The graphics chip burnt out. Sent it back as it was seen as a factory fault and many were recalled.
All they did was put a new mobo in…from the SAME faulty batch.
6 months later…same thing…burnt out.
Its in PERFECT nick…sitting in my desk drawer.
Beautiful laptop man…but dead as a doornail.
haha.. great guess!! dv5 actually. i’ve gathered from the chatter on various forums is that its a common hp fault for anything built in the last 2 or so years.
im not too annoyed, it cost me nothing - i won it in a myspace competition about 12-18 months ago 
from the day i got it i didn’t think it would last too long, it just felt so cheap! the power connector was loose from day one, the keys felt like they’d break off at every key press… no need to explain to you tho as no doubt yours was the same.
maybe it’s time to go to the dark side and buy a mac?
The one thing I don’t like about my dv5 is the slick plastic. Just gets gooey and slippery so quickly. Any model from the pro line would have a better feel to it..
At university I studied product and industrial design. One of the lectures was about built-in obselence and the science of designing things that would last a certain period of time before breaking. Sony and HP are the absolute masters of this… ever noticed how their shit always seems to break just outside the warranty period?
Mine was the handprint gloss!
Sick laptop!
Had a lil remote for movies and shit…
Sad its fucked!
Yeah…very common problem with the HP series.
Tsk tsk…
Use something like eventghost and use the remote to browse through traktor’s library 
(useless with an x1 though, let alone two!).
A bit like this guy.
I know you mean come towards the light (shaped like a little apple with a bite out of it) and buy a mac?
I have had quite a few things that have gone wrong just outside their warranty, head phones, mp3 players, girlfriends 
good idea!
Cheers!
Yeah, I just replaced the mobo on my DV9 series…was trying to run an external moniter via HDMI cable and use the LT screen for ableton.
When I finished reassembling the lappy I had 5 screws left over…lol. XD
Care to elaborate? I’m just curious
yeah, i was bored and did one of those “in 25 words or less things” and won.
they ran a comp for a bunch of artists from all different areas to win $10,000. and you had to pick which one and why you think they should win. each artist had a short video about them what they are doing etc..
the one i picked didn’t win - but i won a laptop for my answer