Learned something new about HP laptops

So my wifes monitor became intermittent as far as working.

Noticed it would get unusually hot coming out vents.

It finally dropped out all together. 

Come to find out there is a class action lawsuit about this prob.

So heres the fix I came to:
Disassembled down to Motherboard
Surrounded the Video chipset with 2 layers of foil tape
Broke out the TORCH and warmed the board to just above 200 degrees 
Let cool and wahlah!!!  SAVED IT-WOOT WOOT

thats one long URL...lol

That's almost as crazy as how I fixed the Yellow Light Of Death on my Playstation 3.

The 'fix' that I found on u - toob for it is so you can get it to boot long enough to get your saved games off the HDD. You stick a hair blow dryer in the back of it and let it blow on high with high heat for 15 minutes.

Fixed it long enough for me to use it for a few days until it died again. Then I did the hair dryer trick again just long enough to get my saved games off ... ya know, because I thought I had it permanently fixed while it was running for those few days and I didn't see the need to waste the time to get the data off. Doh!

The permanent fix is to strip the entire PS3 down and take out the motherboard. Wrap it in tin foil and bake it for 10 minutes at 425 degrees. But the problem is, you have to take off heat sinks, and a bunch of those hair thin connectors. Chances are you'll destroy something else doing it.

They do this with dead video cards too.

yup exactly.

Takes about 210 to warm the joints enough to get a good connection back.

The poor design with heat build up is enough to make the connections weak.

Hopefully I can get about another year out of it but if it crashes tomorrow, it was worth a shot.

I could use a spare boat anchor anywho  

I recently got the flashing donut problem, with the original xbox, to stop blinking. I put my foot through the box and then threw it a the brick wall by my trash cans. It hasn't blinked since.

My wife bought me a new XBox. It had better shape up.

Hey Charlie
Ill see if I cant find that video I watched that has a tech doing it for ya.

I had to go into a shop for a part and he had ALOT of the DV9000 in for just that. He doesnt do this type of repair though and wanted to do a MB Swap-UHHHH   NO  lol

Anyway, I used the same tape that I use in the HVAC industry.  You can take aluminum foil and triple it up or so.

Once you get the motherboard broke down with the fan removed you will see the slave board the video chip is mounted to,  PROTECT around that board.  This is the one you want to heat up angling you flame away from the chip down at an angle at the board towards the foil making sure you warm the connections from board to board.

Sounds confusing but you will see it once you are down to that point. I didnt have any probs getting down to that point other than I popped a tang off of the keyboard strip connections which I had to replace. (If you havent dealt with these, there is a little black piece that PIVOTS up to release the cable-BE CAREFUL not to break off).

Ill get back with the link if I can find it

ok...I was trying to figure out how heat would solve an overheating problem..... usually it's the other way around...clear out the dust and everything starts working again since it's now able to cool off properly 

Well it is a clean machine but this is a design flaw with a class action against HP on it.

The computer I have is about 3 years old so just limping it along