check no rom chip it had a intel pentium 4 at 3.00ghz in it upgrade it to a pentium D 3.00ghz
I dont think it was hot being its age and how damage the case was
Today I was look around my house and I found a old malay intel pentium i133.
I can't seen to find much info about this cpu. Doses someone have this cpu?
Most laptop out there for 500 have only 1gb of ram and a 100 gb 5200 rpm hard drive
as for as dualcore cpu they only go about 1.80gz (for $500.00) and most programe can't use dual core cpu or games they can onlee use one core and so this laptop will run much faster (one core programe) this...
Two years ago I was working at wall-mart and saw this laptop for sell "HP pavillion ze2308wm". I think they cost $379.00 I got 20% off it so it cost me around $300.00 :D Now its about two years old and out of date. So I started upgradeing this laptop the first thing I did was to add more ram it...
the bios update you install may not be the right kind of update for this laptop or you may have bad ram I think that it is the bios update you did. When did the blank screen start hanppening?