I got out this morning to take some pictures of the winter weather we have had lately. Thought we were done in Elk City with the snow, ice and sleet, but the weather surprised me when I woke up this morning with freezing fog. Just was I was getting home from taking pictures, it started to snow. Looks like we added about another 2 inches of snow this afternoon.
I can't count how many HP Pavilion dv6000/dv9000 laptops I have worked on in the last year. They all had the same problem, black screen and wouldn't do anything else, or the wireless would just quit working out of the blue. The wireless problem is an easy fix. The black screen, not so much.
HP extended the 1 year warranty for another 2 years on these specific laptops because of all the problems they were causing, but the problem now is that the extended warranty has expired also (at least all the ones I have come across).
I worked on 3 of the HP/Compaq models listed above today. 1 had the wireless issue, 1 had the black screen issue (bad motherboard), and 1 was still working perfectly. I warned that lady about her laptop. Told her the issues it had and about the expired extended warranty. Suggested to her a couple of different backup solutions, and a couple of different (more reliable) laptop brands.
SO, if you have one of the laptops named above and it is still working, congratulations first off, and 2nd, you should probably bring it in and let me check to see if it has the BIOS update that fixes (supposedly) the problem.
