My girlfriends computer is an HP Pavillion ZT1135 laptop. It was a fairly nice laptop for late 2002, with a 1.2ghz P3 based Celery, 256mb of ram, DVD/CD-RW, a nice screen, and a very thin and light packaging.
A)The problems began in early 2003 with random shutdowns. Rather quickly I realized that it was heat. For whatever reason, even with the heatsink fairly jammed with lint, the fan would rarely kick itself into high gear, even at 100% use. Anyway, frequent blow outs kept the computer running fine.
B)Then, the cheap DVD/CD-RW drive from no name company Matsushita (owned by Panasonic) simply upped and died. A few months pass, and the computer is in bad need of restoration (young females + computers, often a bad combo). Due to the dead CD-ROM, a copy of XP that wouldnt boot, and no USB boot ability... I attempted to remove the HD, and use the restoration discs in a seperate box, through use of a laptop-> standard IDE converter card. The discs unfortunatly would not allow such a simple solution, screaming of mismatching computer information. Had to purchase a refurbed replacement drive to fix that problem
C) Now the CPU fan has completely died, forcing me to take on the epic challenge of tearing apart the laptop, somehow replacing the fan with a replacement that will actually fit, and reassembling...
What is the moral of the story? HP sucks. Although this story is not to say that Dell, et al, are any better. I have a similar story to tell about a P4M based Dell whose screen connecter died. Or how about my roommates Athlon 4 based Sony whose DVD drive will no longer play DVDs, even with reformat and lens cleanening? Or how about....
A)The problems began in early 2003 with random shutdowns. Rather quickly I realized that it was heat. For whatever reason, even with the heatsink fairly jammed with lint, the fan would rarely kick itself into high gear, even at 100% use. Anyway, frequent blow outs kept the computer running fine.
B)Then, the cheap DVD/CD-RW drive from no name company Matsushita (owned by Panasonic) simply upped and died. A few months pass, and the computer is in bad need of restoration (young females + computers, often a bad combo). Due to the dead CD-ROM, a copy of XP that wouldnt boot, and no USB boot ability... I attempted to remove the HD, and use the restoration discs in a seperate box, through use of a laptop-> standard IDE converter card. The discs unfortunatly would not allow such a simple solution, screaming of mismatching computer information. Had to purchase a refurbed replacement drive to fix that problem
C) Now the CPU fan has completely died, forcing me to take on the epic challenge of tearing apart the laptop, somehow replacing the fan with a replacement that will actually fit, and reassembling...
What is the moral of the story? HP sucks. Although this story is not to say that Dell, et al, are any better. I have a similar story to tell about a P4M based Dell whose screen connecter died. Or how about my roommates Athlon 4 based Sony whose DVD drive will no longer play DVDs, even with reformat and lens cleanening? Or how about....
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