MONODA
July 2nd, 2008, 11:32 AM
ok well not reall "falling apart" but every once in a while something goes wrong with it hardware wise and my warranty just expired. The first thing is that I have never had a good experience with any OS on this laptop, including vista which came with it, which makes me think something is wrong. It is an hp pavillion dv6395ea. Here is my story with my problems, maybe you can help me.
When I first purchased this laptop, it cam with vista preinstalled. The first time I turned it on, it started check for invalid clusters on my hdd but eventually booted up properly. I would get this everytime I wanted to boot up and it would never shutdown. I decided to install XP, so I did. XP worked relatively well but sometimes the screen would go black and i woul have to reset VGA to get it to work. Eventually I thought of contacting support which told me to follow a few steps whic included instsalling a new graphics card driver and flashing my BIOS. Once I had done this, XP started blue screening. Here I found ubuntu, to make a long story short (relatively) I ended up on arch linux. during this time I noticed a few other problems: the hdd was spinning WAY to fast, the GPU is conmstantly at ~60 C (isnt that too hot?), infrared doesnt work anymore, the media center buttons have stoped working, cds have trouble reading and writing, I can no longer read/write dvds.
So what do you guys suggest I do? do you think there is anyway that I could get a replacement for this from HP? Any ideas?
EDIT: I have a similar HP laptop (dv2000) which i use at work which is also experiencing similar problems.
When I first purchased this laptop, it cam with vista preinstalled. The first time I turned it on, it started check for invalid clusters on my hdd but eventually booted up properly. I would get this everytime I wanted to boot up and it would never shutdown. I decided to install XP, so I did. XP worked relatively well but sometimes the screen would go black and i woul have to reset VGA to get it to work. Eventually I thought of contacting support which told me to follow a few steps whic included instsalling a new graphics card driver and flashing my BIOS. Once I had done this, XP started blue screening. Here I found ubuntu, to make a long story short (relatively) I ended up on arch linux. during this time I noticed a few other problems: the hdd was spinning WAY to fast, the GPU is conmstantly at ~60 C (isnt that too hot?), infrared doesnt work anymore, the media center buttons have stoped working, cds have trouble reading and writing, I can no longer read/write dvds.
So what do you guys suggest I do? do you think there is anyway that I could get a replacement for this from HP? Any ideas?
EDIT: I have a similar HP laptop (dv2000) which i use at work which is also experiencing similar problems.