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Originally Posted by holograph
pavilion big ass 17" screen, dv9000 series
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Those DV series laptops were crap. There was a class action lawsuit because of the issue you just described. I've seen the solder balls on the GPU completely melt down and either short on neighboring pads on the mobo or lose contact with the pads entirely. If they short the computer is toast. If they just broke the solder joint it's fixable.
I've fixed a bunch of them over the last year or so. The only way I have been able to fix them is by reballing the GPU and then putting a shim under the heatsink with some arctic silver. Lots of people claim to have fixed it by putting a penny under the heatsink but that's a little too thick IMO.