HP DV6Z Laptop

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Jon Peddie

My big bad HP Pavilion DV9700 notebook died. Actually it didn’t completely die, it just went blind, or maybe I did because I couldn’t see the screen anymore. It was kinda exciting to watch as it turned itself off, the screen flashed brilliant lines, rippled up down like a snake shivering, then got black bars with color highlights and then—flat line, except there wasn’t even a line. My first thought was, no problem, just connect an external monitor—that’s like flying to the sun at night so you don’t burn up—HUH? Obviously if the Nvidia GPU has fried itself there’s no external…