Best place to buy an HP, How to get all your money back,and make sure mfg bears the brunt of the loss, instead of the reseller!

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Need spec's, documents, or a SERVICE and MAINTANCE GUIDE for your Compaq / HP ?.... Want to know how the unit comes apart?

Go to www.HP.com , type in your model number..

(Note the when a unit is "new" it takes HP a while to get info up on the site... My advice? Find a the "parent" model of the unit you have... Like a DV6105CA would be a dv6000"t", or "z" depending on the cpu. T=Intel, Z=AMD

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Need parts/ part numbers?
Trying to fiqure out if your unit can take a faster CPU if you ordered your unit with a "base" cpu, and that model was offered with a faster cpu as an OPTION?

Type in model number, then see if that motherboard, heatsink/heat pipe was used in the higher spec'd model, then of course check/read the bios notes to see if same bios is used in both.

HP PartSurfer

http://www.partsurfer.hp.com/cgi-bin/spi/main

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The official external Hard drive Enclosure thread - Questions /Answers pertaining to the various hard drive enclosures on the market.

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/mess...hreadid=496281


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Repairing the keyboards of Hewlett-Packard laptops

http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~motl/h...classical.html

Problem:
Suddenly it may happen that a group of keys on your Pavilion laptop (the most typical example is "G", "H", "Backspace", "apostrophe", and "F4") becomes intermittently insensitive. In some cases the problem only occurs when the notebook has been turned on for 10 minutes.

Explanation:
The Foxconn keyboard connector is poorly designed. As your computer is being used, it heats up and various materials in the connector expand at different rates. Consequently, the connector is moving. It becomes loose and after two months or so, some contacts are lost. Sometimes the problem can be solved temporarily if we apply mechanical pressure in the center-left region of the bottom side of the laptop.
A thrifty solution - reseating the connector:
Reseating the connector fixes the problem. Sometimes the problem returns after a couple of months; usually it is solved permanently. Don't be afraid to follow these instructions, HP laptop keyboard replacement is not difficult.


HP dv8000t Keyboard Checkup Guide!
HP dv8000t Keyboard Checkup Guide!


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Cold Electronics - Seasonal Reminder
Protecting Cold Electronics

Recently, I received a call from a laptop computer user whose laptop failed to start normally. While troubleshooting the problem, the user mentioned that the laptop was left in a car the previous night.

http://help.its.maine.edu/news_old/seasonal/


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Testing programs

Note it is very important that during your return window that you run some "burn-in" programs on the machine and give it a good workout.... otherwise you may find yourself with a "problematic" unit on the 22nd day of your return window, and have to go thru the trouble /hassle of sending the unit in for "repair".

Burn-in =Stress testing..

Prime95
HeavyLoad
3Dmark
Super_PI
HD Tune
DeadPixelBuddy (This is a dead pixel test program. It allows you to easily test your LCD screen for dead pixels.) http://www.laptopshowcase.co.uk/downloads.php?id=1


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HP QuickPlay info ...
Questions /Answers pertaining to QuickPlay - Note later versions talked about later on in the thread.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=141817

QuickPlay Error code c000007f not enough space in QP part

http://www.notebookforums.com/post2501281-3.html
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Quote:
Originally Posted by seaside1982
After reading so many posts, thanks all. I finally get me XP pro work. However, when I change to the QP 2.0 by pushing the sensor DVD/QP. I loaded sucessfully,but give out the following error before the QP menue comes out.
"unable to reserve hiberfile error:c0000"

Was that full error code c000007f? That usually means "DISK FULL"

I got it after recreating the QP partition from Vista.

Boot to windows, open disk management, and assign a drive letter (I used X to the 1GB Quickplay volume. Enable "show hidden files" and "show critical system files" in folder options. Browse it from explorer and see if there are any temp files taking up space. If there's a (hidden) hiberfil.sys, delete it. When you are done, remove the drive letter from the volume so nothing messes with it.

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VARIOUS PC TOOLS


CCleaner = http://www.ccleaner.com/

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

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Spybot-S&D

http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware.

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Ad-Aware

http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-a...e_personal.php

Provides you with advanced protection against spyware that secretly attaches and takes control of your computer, resulting in aggressive advertising pop-ups, sluggish computer activity, even identify theft through stolen bank details, passwords, and credit card account numbers.

Key Features
User-controlled spyware removal
Customizable Scans
Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology
Extensive Lavasoft Detection Database
ADS scan
Blocks browser hijackers
Quarantine manager


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NHC / Notebook Hardware Control - http://www.pbus-167.com/

Notebook Hardware Control helps you to: - control the hardware and system power management - prolong the battery lifetime - cool down the system and reduce power consumption - monitor the hardware to avoid system failure - make your Notebook quiet

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CPU-Z
http://www.cpuid.com/

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

CPU
Name and number.
Core stepping and process.
Package.
Core voltage.
Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
Supported instructions sets.
Cache information.

Mainboard
Vendor, model and revision.
BIOS model and date.
Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
Graphic interface.

Memory
Frequency and timings.
Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.

System
Windows and DirectX version.


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What are the timmings of the ram my machine uses?
Download CPU-Z, run and it will tell you.

You can also try: http://www.crucial.com/ for info.



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PARTITIONING TOOLS -Disk management..

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GParted live CD

Price=FREE, download the ISO (30mb) burn to CD.
How do you use it? Stick in cd-rom drive, reboot...

Resizes NTFS partitions
Mirror disk images
Move, create disk partitions

GParted handles Ext2, Ext3, FAT16, FAT32, JFS, ReiserFS, Reiser4, NTFS, XFS, and other filesystem formats.
GParted can detect, read, copy, and create partitions using those file systems - and, in some cases, can shrink, expand, and move partitions.

Review of GNOME Partition Editor (GParted)
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/1917228

Get it here:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

Or here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

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How about Ultimate Boot CD or UBCD4Win? And, don't forget Bart PE.

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Unit making a buzzing, or high pitched whine?

One thought is that it's caused by the cpu changing power states...

"Fix" being to obtain a copy of RMCLOCK, and play around with the settings:

Some people reporting it affects both AMD and INTEL cpu'd machines..?

Some people report that turning on ALL the USB ports, or turning then totally OFF reduces the whine...
(I think I remember something about the USB port issue being related to the Intel cpu'd units.... It's a known issue, and I think there is a offical "patch". You might want to check Intel, mfg's site to see if the patch may work for you.

High Pitched Noise from new Pavilions
dv9000t and the whine


Buzzing sound from the laptop!!!

The problem is one which is reasonably well known to MacBook users. It affects a Dell 6400 I have, and I think I would go insane if I ever actually used the laptop.

The noise is caused by the CPU switching between power states. That is why it is not apparent when you are putting the laptop under load - the CPU is not dropping down into the lower power states. The only solution that I know to work is to get RMClock and enable the option 'Run HLT command when OS is idle'. That solution works because it forces the CPU to go no lower than the C1 power state. The same effect can alternatively be achieved by disabling USB power management or plugging in a USB device.

The caveat of forcing that option is that the battery life will decline significantly. Other solutions have been proposed which avoid reducing battery life (see the third link, for example) but they did not fix the problem for me.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/14/w...ure-not-alone/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/08/a...-macbook-pros/
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/showthread.php?t=2674
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/showthread.php?p=31347
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/105/...et-macbook-pro

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