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    random pattern on screen

    its not listed......i can't stand HP repair..the laptops always come back scratched and with missing screws :-(
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    beeping laptop harddrive

    anyone ever heard of hard drives making a beeping (just the once, about half a second long) sound similar to the POST check but while windows is running? I'm 100% certain its coming from the harddrive and not the motherboard...so we can rule out motherboard problems
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    random pattern on screen

    where is this list?
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    random pattern on screen

    dunno why but sometimes my HP laptop produces the pattern shown below..... I then restart and get a BSOD saying "IRQL not less or equal" wots up?? its a HP pavilion DV6552ea running vista 32-bit I can provide the dump file if someone is able to read them...
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    general question about HP laptops

    sweet - so no matter how messed up the drive is, it'll still reinstall everything back to normal?
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    general question about HP laptops

    mines a pavilion dv6552ea Most HP laptops now come with a recovery partition...as u know.. if this parition is removed....and the user selects the "reset to original factory state" in the recovery manager (from the recovery discs) will this also reinstall the recovery partition even if its...
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    power saving bug on laptop driver

    ok guys I only know so much about these nvidia graphics cards so bear with me.... Spec - HP pavilion DV6552ea, windows vista home premium 32bit, AMD turion X2 1.9Ghz, 2Gb ram, Geforce 7150M / nForce 630M (shared memory of 128mb) 425Mhz ok aero/3d flip is sluggish, when nothing is running...
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    nvidia direct x 9ex

    argh :-( well i hope they update this driver coz HD video sucks...all the colours are blurry in quicktime
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    nvidia direct x 9ex

    i just read in dxdiag that my graphics driver on my laptop is running direct x version 9ex. would nvidia eventually upgrade this to version 10 when the right time comes?
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    Windows XP logon screen being weird

    Hi guys sorry if i sound fussy but this is really annoying me.... I formatted my laptop recently and put XP home edition as supplied on the cd back on it. Previously the welcome screen would come on with all the users listed. I would then click on an icon (or press tab twice) and the...
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    s-video on HP laptop

    right guys been onto HP and they first said it was a driver fault..after updating drivers i had no change soo went back to them... now they are saying windows needs a repair installation!!! are they just fobbing me off?
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    s-video on HP laptop

    nooo its just come back from there - had some dead pixels :-( arghhhhhhhhhhhhh right sent an e-mail - will post answer here coz i don't seem to be be only one with this prob
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    s-video on HP laptop

    right checked with a 4 pin layout - doesn't work either...
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    s-video on HP laptop

    Sorry computer refreshed twice! deleted post!
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    s-video on HP laptop

    lol no my adaptor is plugged into a yellow rca cable coz my tv doesn't have s-video directly
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