TBC_Shaggy

Dark take a flashlight to the screen and boot the laptop if you can see the windows logo or desktop icons when you light it up with the flashlight it is likely not the screen but possibly the backlight or more likely the inverter for the backlight. They are easy to change and fail quite often. I have replaced at least 20 of them for the reason you listed. You can get them on Ebay Cheap. Just gotta pull it out and make sure you get the right one for the panel in your laptop. same model laptop can have several different screen manufacturers.

It was the solder, partially, inadequate cooling system design was the rest of the equation. the solder is tin based instead of lead, thanks EPA, so the tin is more brittle. Add to that the engineers designed a mediocre cooling system usually with one cooling tube for the CPU , GPU and chipset. This causes the GPU to overheat in demanding scenarios like gaming when all the chips are roasting. When it overheats it flexes due to expansion and cracks the BGA solder joints. Usually the heat fix might bring it back for awhile but the problem will return unless you have some method of cooling the chips better, like a fan utility to run the fans at 100%. HP had a big problem with this in the DV6000-DV9000's and the TX2's. Dell had it in almost any laptop that ran an 8400-8800GT. I have a 1705 with the 8800 that I baked and it works but I have a utility to keep the fans at max all the time. If I use it on the battery I also use the Nvidia utility to downclock the GPU as low as it will go.

Congrats on the scoot! It's always a good day to ride here in San Diego! See my profile pic. Peace

When you said "Warranty" they officially went into we don't give a crap mode. Warranty pay isn't even close to customer pay jobs. I used to work for the stealership. I was lucky I escaped.

What sources actually support 4K. I have found very few. Yes the demos in the stores make them look great but that's a lot of dough for bleeding edge technology that isn't going to have good support for a bit longer. OLED has a better picture but it seems the industry is giving up on it due to manufacturing costs being too high for large format . OLED will still be used in Phone screens and small TV's.

Miss you like a double root canal without sedation. Good nuff?

Happy Birthday! Getting on in the years reverting back to dumb, toothless and in a diaper! It's so much fun. Ask Bob he knows.

Black Friday is now a scalpers game. People line up/camp out to get the "good" stuff just to sell it and make a profit. the stores generally have very few of the "good" items. Just enough so they can put it in their add and get you in the store, knowing you will buy something else.

wonder if their well is drilled close to their septic tank? J/K wells are much deeper than septic systems.

Whores get paid! You come here everyday and give that shit up fo free. You're just easy.

Nah! You'll still suck! LOL

Not sure if your board supports hybrid crossfire but it would be worth a shot. I did some online snooping but didn't find anything. The user manual was designed for a 5 year old and doesn't go into much detail.

The Root of all Activision evil is Kotick! In 2010 he took the helm and COD was doomed, PC gaming at Activision was doomed. He publicly said he would charge us $100+ for each game if he could. He won't give us mapping tools because we could create our own maps for free, well then we wouldn't buy his shitty DLC packs for lots of money. He won't give us server files for dedicated servers unless he has a deal with the server company and gets more of your money that way. He pretty much killed Infinity Ward by playing Overlord and forcing them to his will. All of the original top guys left Infinity ward because of him. Call Of Duty will never, ever be what it once was. Greed is all this guy knows and it will be a great day when he is gone except, of course, for the shareholders. He has set a precedence at Activision and it will likely continue even after he is gone. DICE gets it and will continue to harvest players disappointed with COD to the BF series. I dislike him to the inth degree. We need new games from PC centric developers.

I fly and one thing to remember is "Fly the plane". Someone wasn't paying attention to the proximity of the other aircraft. He was instead paying attention to the jumpers.

Kill her with kindness don't work. Maybe it will make him feel better as she sticks it in his bum. The courts (overall) are still biased to the Female gender when it comes to child custody. Get a lawyer and get one quick. That part I do agree with.

I get the feeling you don't like Steam Syckle.

Get filters and use tap water. STOP BUYING BOTTLED WATER! Nestle is out to take all of our water and sell it back to us for huge profits! Boycott Nestle! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLAQKtkeTQ

And to think it sounded like the tune was rather rough and still hit that mark. Gears were tall too.

I have used their Ram long ago (DDR) and it died. I have some now (DDR3 triple channel) and knock on wood it is still going great. They tried to branch into other markets as well with limited success such as Power supplies. One of our clan members has one, it died, both replacements were DOA. Their SSD branch was hyping all the glorious speed but had issues with the first gen Sandforce controllers and failures. They would likely need to liquidate some of these markets and focus more on quality if they want to turn around.

Happy Birthday Bob. You look exactly like the "Hedgehog", Ron Jeremy, minus the big wiener. At least that is what Mule told me.

CYRIX (lol)

Well like I say it depends on what you want to do with it and what your budget is. Cad/Cam or vid editing and 3d modeling is where intel will pay for itself. Gaming isn't as Core number friendly as most think. the majority of games like 99.9% only use 2 cores. A couple use four. What is important is the clock speed of those cores. So if you think "I'm gonna drop on a s Hex core" cause it will game better, you are uninformed and wasting money. A high clocked dual or quad is more than enough for ripping through the most demanding of games. As many have said intel rulz the roost currently in clock for clock cycles so an I5 hyperclocked to 4.5 Ghz or higher is a monster for gaming provided you have a GPU that can handle it. AMD Quad cores will do well overclocked too but the overclock margins are usually a good bit lower. whatever you decide is your call just make sure the clock speed is up there. If you are willing to overclock it will serve you well provided you aren't GPU bound. I have had and loved both AMD and Intel CPU's. I currently run a 1366 (first gen) i7 920 2.6 @ 4.5 on water. was it worth the $200 for that kind of headroom. Hell yes. I am a geek so there I said it.

here you can have this one.

If that is the case Bob is a Charlatan because he has tampons under the sinks of many!

I have no issue whatsoever with getting booted to make room for the paying clan members. I don't like the redirect to a different mod server with different maps that nobody is playing in. So I just wait till it finishes the downloads and disconnect. It is annoying sometimes but hey who am I to complain? I think I'd rather just get booted with a message "player kicked to make room for clan members".