I vote that it's dust and cat hair.

I vote that it's dust and cat hair.

Thanks Mark! I hope windows7 loads tomorrow. I see AR stuff in your future. Thanks to all who responded to my call for help! Hands down, you guys on this forum are top notch.

I can't thanks you guys enuff for all the help since I joined here.

So what was the issue?

First off check and see if an external monitor works. If so, now you can begin to source the problem. When your computer boots up, are the prompts readable? Please let me know so we can go from there...

So what was the issue?

 

It's an issue with an overheating GPU. The Cat hair and dust let it run pretty much all day yesterday without issue but this morning the problem returned with gusto. I've currently got it in pieces awaiting some copper shim stock.

It's an issue with an overheating GPU. The Cat hair and dust let it run pretty much all day yesterday without issue but this morning the problem returned with gusto. I've currently got it in pieces awaiting some copper shim stock.

 

 

I ran a small consumer end PC repair company for roughly 5 years.. and towards the last year and a half or so we saw a TON of HP DV series laptops with fried components... that particular series laptop just seems really prone to mechanical failure..

I ran a small consumer end PC repair company for roughly 5 years.. and towards the last year and a half or so we saw a TON of HP DV series laptops with fried components... that particular series laptop just seems really prone to mechanical failure..

Dell had a similar issue with their Optiplex 270/280 machines a couple of years ago. It got to the point where they were scheduling service calls and sending teams of tech guys to replace motherboards for commercial quantity customers over weekends as a precaution. We had 27 of those machines here, and once the first 4 or 5 went bad, they sent 3 guys in to replace all the boards on a Sunday.

I ran a small consumer end PC repair company for roughly 5 years.. and towards the last year and a half or so we saw a TON of HP DV series laptops with fried components... that particular series laptop just seems really prone to mechanical failure..

 

Poorly designed heat sink. At this point, I'm hoping it didn't cook something. I did one of these before a year or so ago and it turned out ok. At least the data on his disk is still fine and I can drag everything off it it without any issue.

I had the same issue with my HP dv9730. Fortunately I had 1 month left on my Best Buy extended warranty. They replaced the video card and motherboard (video card is on the motherboard) and the display. All free with no deductible. I had no idea about the NVIDIA lawsuit.

Ahhh got here too late! i was gonna say it sounded like an over heating issue.. I have had this exact problem when the fan burnt out on mine.. When you get lines on your display that are fuzzy, 99% of the time its over heating, its more noticeable if your playing a video game as the 3d engine goes haywire and the lines on the screen make you go cross eyed. Driver issues usually just give you an error and blue screen, and if a driver is damaged it usually will not work at all. Another good indication of overheating is when your machine runs fine after boot, but after 10mins starts giving you problems.

I have since started to use a program called speedfan which lays out all of the temp sensors in your machine.

 

A big issue with laptops is where the fan ducts are located.. My sisters laptop fried itself when she left it on her bed and the air duct was restricted.

I guess its lessons learned AFTER the fact. Im glad it in good hands for now, bc im totally clueless. (Mark will agree) Hopefully, I can get it back tday, im feeling a bit isolated without the internet.

I guess its lessons learned AFTER the fact. Im glad it in good hands for now, bc im totally clueless. (Mark will agree) Hopefully, I can get it back tday, im feeling a bit isolated without the internet.

 

Almost done

Almost done

 

Not exactly, we're back to square one.

Tomorrow I have high hopes.