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From: BillW50 on 3 Jun 2010 10:16 On 6/2/2010 9:39 AM, Bob Villa wrote: > On Jun 2, 9:17 am, John LaBella<bl...(a)dev.com> wrote: >> I don't know if this is related or a Red Herring but .... >> I have a Compaq Pressario 2800. I purchased the WiFi "Bump" for it. >> All was well. >> I had to replace my WiFi ROuter and started getting BSOD (running WinXP >> Professional). >> >> Tried all of the usual - checked memory replaced Hard Drive Introduced A >> PCMCIA Cooler ran it on a notebook cooling pad etc etc etc. It still >> would BSOD but then got a string from the error that suggested the WiFI >> was to blame. I could not locate any newer drivers for it. >> Then Tried a USB Dongle Again BSOD - Did more digging and found the HP >> "sort of" acknowledges that their "Bump" will cause BSOD. I tried a >> PCMCIA WiFi Card ans I haven't had a BSOD. >> However When I re installed WinXP (to try and solve the problem - the >> install could not identify it as a Laptop and would not install the >> Battery meter& processes). >> >> Eventually I gave up and now have purchased a New Laptop NOT HP and I >> won't buy another HP/Compaq! So sad for a company that used to have >> really solid products. > > Thanks for the info...my 1st PC was an HP in '99...I would not buy > another, either! > > bob Out of five HP desktops, one was a good one and it is 8 years old and it is still working just fine. It is using a Pentium 4. The other four I purchased at once from TigerDirect and was sold as refurbish. Normally refurbish is generally okay since they are tested by a technician. Although apparently these were not real HP models per se, but spare parts that HP or somebody else had. As what they came with didn't match the specs on the HP website (8655c). And the HP Recovery disc had a totally different model number (97xx something) and not even that one matched the specs of these machines. Two of them came with bad DVD drives. One somebody put in the RAM in backwards and fired the motherboard. I have no idea how they got it jammed in the socket in backwards. And another one sort of worked. They all had AMD CPUs. I got my money back from the one with the fired motherboard. Had to send it back first of course. TigerDirect sent me two generic DVD drives to replace the two bad ones. So now I had three of these things. They came with Windows ME which was problematic right there. Later they either had Windows 2000 or Windows XP and that was far better. But one problem never went away. That was playing a video, about every 30 frames forward, it would back up a frame or two and then forward once again. and repeat. They lasted for years this way until I bought a D-Link wireless card for one. And something on the motherboard went bad. As even the built in Ethernet stopped working. I foolishly put the D-Link card in another one and it had taken that motherboard out too. Spent many hours on the phone with D-Link and they claimed it wasn't their product, but HP problem. That pretty much ended my use of them. But that one HP model a475c still runs fine and runs 24/7. It does gets shut off for maintenance every two weeks. And standby nor hibernation modes never worked. But otherwise no other problems. Oh the ATI video card did go bad after about 4 years later. And the DVD burner quit after 6 years. Put a GeForce video card in there and another burner and it has been running fine ever since. So no, getting another HP computer would be one of the last makes that would attract me. But indeed some of them are ok. -- Bill Thunderbird Portable 3.0 (20091130)
From: ~misfit~ on 5 Jun 2010 06:56
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Bob Villa wrote: > On Jun 1, 2:14 am, "~misfit~" <sore_n_ha...(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote: >> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Bob Villa wrote: >> >> >> >>> On May 29, 3:20 am, Roy <royba...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 29 Mayo, 14:53, Bob Villa <pheeh.z...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>> On May 28, 6:43 pm, Roy <royba...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> Hello group >>>>>> One lady friend of mine asked if there is a way to regain her >>>>>> notebook wireless internet connection ? >> >>>>>> Her notebook is already 2 years old and having that fault She had >>>>>> the unit brought to an HP service center and the guy there told >>>>>> her that it needs to replace the motherboard that will set her >>>>>> back by 300USD. Now she is using a wired internet connection but >>>>>> she still wants to regain wireless internet connectivity >>>>>> I would like to ask if there is any remedy to her problem? >>>>>> TIA >> >>>>>> Roy >> >>>>> Vista could not see the new (or old) card?! >> >>>> Huh,,? vista does not recognize it.......? >> >>> Two people (one very knowledgeable and experienced with repair) >>> said a re-install may wake Vista up and see the hardware. (If it >>> was mine I would XP or Win7) >>> But, on the other hand...I tried a Ubuntu Live CD and it didn't see >>> the new card either. >>> No one can make much sense of it...especially me! >>> bob >> >> It's obvious to me; The slot or slot contacts are unreliable. Either >> the point of failure is the soldering onto the planar or the slot >> itself is poorly designed. > > Being obvious, after the fact...is pretty arrogant of you! Dude, it wasn't after the fact. I read the thread in chronological order and didn't see the other post until after I posted my reply. However believe what you will. -- Shaun. "When we dream.... that's just our brains defragmenting" G Jackson. |