Hey and thanks for checking this out - I have an HP notebook (DV1340) I picked up about 1yr and 4 months ago.
The Problem. After running for about 5 minutes, the laptop flashes the blue screen of death - the physical memory dump - and then shuts down. It then tries to restart on its own, which shows the windows XP screen loading and then goes black (no backlight or anything). After that, if I try to start up the laptop it acts like its powering on and all the lights go on up front and on the keyboard, but the screen stays black like described previously.
Over this past summer, the notebook was doing the SAME EXACT thing and went to HP and they replaced the heatsink fan, and since then (~5 months) it's been fine. Something tells me its not the same part, i mean, what are the odds? I feel like its the hard drive, just a hunch, but how can i check? I'd send it to HP again, but now its out of warranty.
***by the way, resetting the RAM allows this cycle to begin again. If I could get it to work again, is it worth trying to run PC Wizard 2006?
If anyone has any idea how to test or what to fix, please let me know since I head back to college in a week! :upset:
Joe
HP DV1340, 1.73 GHZ Centrino 740, 1GB RAM, 100GB HD, WinXP
The Problem. After running for about 5 minutes, the laptop flashes the blue screen of death - the physical memory dump - and then shuts down. It then tries to restart on its own, which shows the windows XP screen loading and then goes black (no backlight or anything). After that, if I try to start up the laptop it acts like its powering on and all the lights go on up front and on the keyboard, but the screen stays black like described previously.
Over this past summer, the notebook was doing the SAME EXACT thing and went to HP and they replaced the heatsink fan, and since then (~5 months) it's been fine. Something tells me its not the same part, i mean, what are the odds? I feel like its the hard drive, just a hunch, but how can i check? I'd send it to HP again, but now its out of warranty.
***by the way, resetting the RAM allows this cycle to begin again. If I could get it to work again, is it worth trying to run PC Wizard 2006?
If anyone has any idea how to test or what to fix, please let me know since I head back to college in a week! :upset:
Joe
HP DV1340, 1.73 GHZ Centrino 740, 1GB RAM, 100GB HD, WinXP