On 2/11/07, Olivier Fourdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, My Compaq R3480EA laptop has died last mid-December. I had a lot of problems with this laptop. It was less than 2 years old when it died, so I will never ever buy anything from Compaq/HP anymore and will advise anyone to avoid Compaq/HP brand. HP support has been totally lame (I live in Europe, if that makes a difference) Well, this being said, I believe it's the nVidia GeForce4 Go MX440 video card or the 64Mb embedded video ram that has died.
I think the exact same thing happened to me. I had used my laptop one night for quite a while, then the next day when I booted it up, the screen was all scrambled. It looked a lot like a video RAM issue (could have been the GPU controlling the VRAM, not sure). Eventually it got to where it would not boot at all. This only a little more than a year after I bought it (if only I had extended my warranty, *sigh*). I decided just to take the loss and build be a nice desktop, which I did for less than the cost of the laptop the year before (well, about the same if you count the LCD display I bought a little while after that). I didn't try HP support when this happened as it was just out of warranty and I was in the midst of my second to last semester of college, so I didn't have the time to see if HP would do anything for me. Also, by this time they had stopped making the R3000z. I did deal with them about a month before this when my battery had gotten to where it would not hold a charge. They sent me a new battery and I shipped the old one back to them. Everything went smoothly and the service was excellent. I am in the US, so you may be right and part of your issues being that you are in Europe. I'm not sure how much good it does to personally "black-list" HP/Compaq. There really doesn't seem to be a good laptop manufacturer out there, or at least none that really stand out. Especially if you want an AMD CPU or AMD+nVidia. Jonathan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
