Defective HP Notebooks With NVIDIA chips
Wondering why I haven’t been writing much? Here’s why.
Recently NVIDIA said that they had a bad bunch of cards that affected a “small” number of customers and had set aside about 200 million to take care of it.These cards were sent to HP, Dell and Apple but it seems that these problems hit more than just notebooks when it was confirmed that defective cards are in desktops as well.
I can’t speak for Apple and Dell but HP is only fixing part of the defective units. If you have a notebook that is on the list, you can get it repaired under the HP Limited Warranty Service Enhancement the problem is that even though the chips were used in both Intel and AMD computers, they are only taking care of the AMD units. This brings me to my problem, I have an Intel powered DV9000 HP notebook with the Geforce Go 7600 and at least for now, HP is not taking care of the problem. Actually the fix they came up with for the AMD units is a BIOS update that makes the fan run longer and cuts the battery life. These computers don’t have the longest battery life as it is so any loss is probably not a good thing. Some people on the forums linked below have suggested that the BIOS update just postpones the problem until it’s out of warranty. They are replacing the motherboards that are on the list so if you have one, you should check into it. Actually, if you have ANY NVIDIA graphics card, you should search around and see if you’re sitting on a timebomb.
Old HP Forum with Defective NVIDIA complaints
New HP Forum with more Defective NVIDIA complaints
Oh wait, it’s not just a small amount of defective chips.
NVIDIA chips that are defective
I did contact HP by e-mail and explained that there are thousands of people that all have the same problem but haven’t received a reply as of today. When I called and spoke to a tech, he said he hadn’t heard of any issues with the Intel units but I find that impossible to believe. One thing that I’m mad about is that they did nothing to notify customers of the problem and had I not searched, I wouldn’t have found it. As a matter of fact, I searched for days for a fix and tried many things that didn’t work. It was a severe waste of time. I was told to do a full system restore which resets it back to factory and loses all the settings and info on the computer. It worked just long enough to get everything almost set back up.
When/if I get a reply, I’ll post about it.
Time To Start Rebuilding
Filed under: Credit, Job Losses, Uncategorized, Work From Home
I think you can figure out that I read all kinds of articles when I’m looking for something that is useful to write about. Today I was on MSNBC and found this article about easing the blows of bad credit. Since the news is full of doom and gloom about the economy and the credit crunch, I figure there’s a lot of people who might need this info. Jean Chatzky wrote an interesting story called 5 tips to ease the blow of bad credit.
I still believe it’s important to have a Plan B and create multiple streams of income just so you’re prepared when life throws a monkey wrench in your plans. The Washington Post reported that payrolls dropped by 240,000 in October. I used to have a blog that just reported job losses until it became too depressing at about the time the count passed a million. Every time I read a story about massive layoffs, I have to wonder how many of them had a plan B and how many had been living paycheck to paycheck. I also have to wonder how many were blindsided by losing their job.
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