HP Notebook Update
I received my notebook back from HP a few days ago and it was repaired at no charge. Strange thing is that it still runs hot and since the problem with it and thousands more of the nvidia Geforce GPUs is that they couldn’t handle the heat due to substandard manufacturing, I’m a little worried.
I did read a rumor that makes sense and pisses me off if true. The reason HP is covering the AMD models and not Intel is that AMD agreed to share the cost but Intel refused. I’m not sure why AMD would agree to pay part of the costs when nvidia admitted they had defective chips and set aside almost 2 million bucks.
While I am going to continue to follow the story and hope all of the people who are still trying to get some help as well as the people who didn’t know they weren’t alone, it’s time to get back to ranting about the financial system.
I’m not doing a rant today except that the feds reluctance to help the auto industry while giving buckets of money (a large part of which was doled out in bonuses) to the banks) made some of the conspiracy theorists sound logical when they talk about the federal reserve conspiracy. Actually some of the things I’ve read and watched claim that the federal reserve is owned by banks and not the American Government which more than explains why they would want the banks bailed out doesn’t it?
Update on defective HP DV 9000/nvidia chip
I was able to escalate my issue to a case manager and she is sending a box to return for repair. I’m trying to stay positive but there’s a lot of people who had the exact same problem shortly after having theirs repaired.
One thing that concerns me is that there are a lot of people who own these notebooks that have no idea that there’s a system problem. They may have had theirs crash and just thought it was an isolated issue. That’s what I thought. I searched all kinds of terms that didn’t pull up the nvidia issue but when I entered the magic phrase, I found thousands of people who had the same problem and at least 2 class action lawsuits.
The AMD problem isn’t even listed on the official HP recall page.
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