Posted on 05/23/2012 2:05:15 PM PDT by matt04
Do you have a laptop cooler? They’re cheap and very useful. The one I have is old and loud, but a lot of the time I don’t even turn the fan on - it seems to be enough to have it sitting over the vents to let the heat out.
Yes we will...those jobs no longer exist and are not a part of the Obama Numbers Game Base.
I've seen a lot of HPs over the years, and typically it's been the operating system which was screwed up, not the hardware itself. (sometimes the user, but more often than not, the user didn't screw up as much as they thought they did)
Linux is the ultimate windows service pack.
If you want to give it a shot, I'd be glad to give you some pointers. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
I bought a new Lenovo from Newegg and love it and it is way cooler than my old D810.
The old dell that I bought used for $30 a couple years ago has gotten to the point where there are places on it what will almost burn skin.
The new one was on sale and I figure the D810 is going to fry sooner or later.
I really like the Lenovo but one thing which is Windoze related I’m sure that I haven’t been able to beat is home wireless.
During setup it asked for the homegroup creditianls which I had ready and known right. The wireless never locked on. I figured I would do it again after first setup finished.
No dice. It sees the wireless networks around here including home. I reenter the homegroup stuff again and no connect. I plug it via hardwire and it prompted for the password which it took.
I’ve tried it on wireless networks at work and it locks on fine to them.
I have a four port netgear switch and only 2 are in use, no one is apparently taking a spare port. I powered down the switch and woke up the laptop and switch. No luck there either. Sooner or later I will get it to work. The switch is about 18 months or so old. I can’t seem to get more than two years out of home switches since they are made to die.
I bought a new Lenovo from Newegg and love it and it is way cooler than my old D810.
The old dell that I bought used for $30 a couple years ago has gotten to the point where there are places on it what will almost burn skin.
The new one was on sale and I figure the D810 is going to fry sooner or later.
I really like the Lenovo but one thing which is Windoze related I’m sure that I haven’t been able to beat is home wireless.
During setup it asked for the homegroup creditianls which I had ready and known right. The wireless never locked on. I figured I would do it again after first setup finished.
No dice. It sees the wireless networks around here including home. I reenter the homegroup stuff again and no connect. I plug it via hardwire and it prompted for the password which it took.
I’ve tried it on wireless networks at work and it locks on fine to them.
I have a four port netgear switch and only 2 are in use, no one is apparently taking a spare port. I powered down the switch and woke up the laptop and switch. No luck there either. Sooner or later I will get it to work. The switch is about 18 months or so old. I can’t seem to get more than two years out of home switches since they are made to die.
I'm guessing that my uber lib, Obama loving brother will finally get his pink slip in this go-round of fat trimming. He's been with H-P since the late 70's, and has somehow avoided all previous down-sizings. He's a sharp cookie, but way long in the tooth, and probably doesn't even do half the work a newbie would do in the same position.
Unfortunately, he'll never put two and two together when the axe falls. It's just not going to occur to him that the political, cultural, and social policies he's supported all these years, are the root cause of him losing his cushy position.
Good luck with your 'retirement', bro.
I have stopped buying HP computers or printers. Expensive crap. They’ve apparently built their printers to stop working after a certain period. Not the mechanics but the software.
What a shame that HP isn’t Federal HP. Then they could push propaganda and bribe everyone in the book, and enact forced HP-Care.
Then when HP-Care initially fails, use seeding propaganda to bring it back for the benefit of the insiders, using all kinds of propaganda speak, such as:
“we still need reform”,
“start over”...,
“it’s costing “Americans” way to much,”,
“we still need reform”,
“HP-Care is top priority in lowering the deficit”,
“It’s for the children,”
Bill and Dave are probably glad they’re not around any more to watch this. I worked for HP for 5 years and saw the place go downhill fast what with the Bangalore experiment and hiring Carly Fiorina (gee - she hosed Lucent, think how good she’ll be here?). Ah well. Good luck HP’ers - you’re going to need it in Obama’s economy.
FRegards,
PrairieDawg
“Let me add from personal experience HP Laptops are crap.”
Indeed HP laptops are crap, and always have been. Absolute, unmitigated, and total crap. I think even the compaqs are better laptops than the HPs, at least before HP nabbed them.
I’m a PC specialist, and I see more dead and dying HP laptops than practically all other brands put together. Melted motherboards, individual dying chips, fragile mobo power connectors, you name it.
I always STRONGLY advise my customers to stay the hell away from HP laptops. The HP desktops are much better than their laptops, but believe it or not, Dell actually gives better service than HP.
And I’m no fan of HP printers either. Until recently, HP printers installed the most amazing amount of unstable, useless, and crappy software imaginable. Software that frequently caused system instability. And since the HP printers die all the time, people just buy another one, and install its garbage software on top of the old stuff, not knowing they need to remove the old crap. After about 3 HP printers, your PC isn’t going to work anymore.
I have an HP Photosmart inkjet sitting in the basement. The printer lasted 800 pages before the ink system permanently failed.
HP doesn’t repair them. They’ll offer you a discount on a refurb they have in stock to replace it.
Thanks.
They sold me a lemon laptop and it;s probably the only mass lawsuit ever attempted for a laptop which was the DV series in 2007.
It was returned to be ‘fixed’ FIVE times which was unheard of. I prayed back then, that the CEO Mark hurd would get his ass kicked somewhere in his later life.
HP is hands down, 5 years in...my longest boycott of a product. Worst customer tech service in history. Not even Dell could match their ineptitude..
On my rim playbook now, love it. My second one, kids cracked the first one.
HP was a decent product back in the day. Sad.
“Try to open a ticket with them, and the response that you get is from someone in Mexico who has difficulty understanding and expressing themselves in English.”
Information superhighway destroying our economy by working as it was designed to to ping!
“He’s a sharp cookie, but way long in the tooth, and probably doesn’t even do half the work a newbie would do in the same position.”
Many Americans in this demographic (in various fields) are casualties of salaries being adjusted to the “new normal”; too many years of salary increases have made them uncompetitive in an employers’ market. Age discrimination laws aren’t protecting them as they are shuffled around between jobs (if they’re lucky enough to find them) at lower and lower wages; anyone I know over 40 who lost their job in the last five years and found another one is making noticeably less money, even if they are doing the same work.
It is a national disgrace.
Oh, I won't say that at all, myself. I love their printers; have had a ton of 'em. I currently have an Officejet 8600 that rocks.......except for one thing: it has an annoying tendency to get "lost" in the network (we print wirelessly here at the house). Only way to print again is to reboot. Pain in the ass. Otherwise....great machine.
Funny you mention that. I've never owned an HP laptop until my division was purchased by a much larger (household name) company. I was issued a new, top of the line HP laptop by this outfit (EliteBook 8540w); essentially a mobile workstation.
I always set laptops to hibernate when the lid is closed. However, I'd close this one, stick in my computer bag, take off somewhere for biz.......and when I'd get it out of the bag it'd be as hot as a griddle. I mean you could fry eggs on the thing.
I now go to Start, Shut Down, Hibernate to force it into hibernation. That seems to work.
I've never seen this problem before on ANY laptop.
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