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05-14-2013, 01:09 PM
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
Yeah, I wonder if there's a solder gap? Is the lcd screen backlight on? Usually you'll get a beep code, though. If you have time to waste, look on Youtube for reflowing a motherboard. It's worked for me several times and it only costs you a thermal paste tube/patch (plus the joy of completely tearing apart your laptop). You might be able to get a mobo cheap online and replace it, instead.
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05-14-2013, 01:25 PM
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Living Legend
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
I will tear it apart and see what I find. Thanks
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05-14-2013, 01:27 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
laptop motherboards aren't cheap. $100-250 depending, so you can get a new system for that.
it's probably not the bios chip, it's probably the power supply on the inside of the laptop, that tends to be a high fail item. if the northbridge etc ran superhot and the thermal transfer failed between it and the heatsink, that could cause a brick too, but it's less likely (the chip would be dead at that point) -- that happened to a laptop gpu years and years ago for me. microcenter has a $400 15.6" dell i5 (win8) right now. office depot is still the easiest and cheap. |
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05-15-2013, 10:07 AM
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Living Legend
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Location: chesapeake, va
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
Whats the difference between a Laptop, Notebook, or sleekbook? The name. How does this one look ior what I need?
HP Pavilion Sleekbook 15-b085nr |
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05-15-2013, 10:30 AM
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
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The Sleekbook must be a HP product name. The dimensions say it's 1.41" thick so that must be the reason for the name. Don't forget Netbooks! (the mini-laptops for internet browsing)
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07-18-2013, 10:42 AM
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Quietly Dominating the East
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
Greetings,
Just bought the wife a new Laptop for work. Any good suggestions for Virus and Spyware control?
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07-18-2013, 10:45 AM
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials (free download) for a couple of years and it's great.
Previously I used AVG Free and Avast but they can occasionally be buggy and I don't like all of the alerts. They used to be much better than they are now. The MS product just works...and you never have to notice it. Microsoft Security Essentials - Microsoft Windows I see absolutely no reason to overpay (annually) for something like Norton or McAfee.
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07-18-2013, 05:38 PM
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Quietly Dominating the East
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
Thanx Man......
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07-18-2013, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
This would be a useful resource
Three products share the Editor's Choice honor for best overall antivirus: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2013$39.95 at BitDefender, Norton AntiVirus (2013)$58.88 at Lenovo, and Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus 2013$19.99 at Webroot. Norton and Webroot tied for second place in my malware removal test, with 6.6 points. Bitdefender, with 6.4 points, wasn't far behind. |
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07-18-2013, 09:30 PM
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Quietly Dominating the East
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Re: Need Help Purchasing A Laptop
Thanx RR, good stuff
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07-18-2013, 10:57 PM
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