Seriously though, I have a Windows 7 product key and disc and I am saving that.
I use Ubuntu Linux right now on this old thing.
OK, so I’ve got this HP Pavilion, dv7-1245dx, laptop.
Vista
AMD turion-X2 64
It hasn’t run for a year now.
My first issues happened about a year after I bought it, when the keyboard/touchpad died and I resigned myself to using a USB keyboard and mouse.
I understand the heat issues and try to maintain proper ventilation etc..
Currently, if I try to start the machine it may or may not boot up. It can take anywhere from 2 minutes to two hours.
Sometimes it comes up and just dies within a few minutes. Sometimes I can get a hour or so of web browsing or multimedia and it dies. No blue screen, just shuts off.
I’ve somewhat given up on this machine but just now I’ve fired it up.
It would be really great if I could get this thing running and was reliable.
I’d be happy to put another OS on it, but I’m not sure how I would go about that.
Help ?