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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
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.
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it run good for me for most part (1.5-2 years) even with VGA cable to secondary monitor, I even remember we had this discussion couple years back where I was very happy with my HP and you telling exact same thing about class action suit, etc.. once I went HDMI, after two month my GPU was partially toast (only standard vga drivers and no secondary monitor). HDMI to TV never worked for me on it. it would just freeze laptop after 30 sec. every time I tried it. Now, I'm in your camp, I won't look at HPs again for a long time