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adverge
Joined: 16 May 2006
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject: HP Laptop Repair |
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My HP laptop is overheating very badly and I'd like to get it fixed.
Does anyone know of a good repair shop for HP laptops that has some English speakers or at least are really good with HP laptops?
I live in Daegu but can travel to Seoul or Busan if necessary.
I love my laptop - it's my only connection to home so I really need it to not die on me. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Overheating? Don't bother taking it to a shop. Get a can of compressed air and blow out the dust from it's inards by opening up every opening possible and blowing the air into it. Then, buy a cooling pad to help draw the heat away from your computer. That's all they're going to do at a shop anyways, if anything, and they will likely forget to inform you that cooling pads are essential for laptop usage in Korea. |
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adverge
Joined: 16 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Where would one get a cooling pad? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| adverge wrote: |
| Where would one get a cooling pad? |
Anywhere in the country that sells computers should sell cooling pads too. They look like flat trays with fans in them and you use one by placing it under your laptop and plugging it into a USB port. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| Buy a cooling pad to help draw the heat away from your computer. That's all they're going to do at a shop anyways, if anything, and they will likely forget to inform you that cooling pads are essential for laptop usage in Korea. |
I've got two laptops here in Korea, and neither has overheated. One is a Compaq Presario with an Athlon XP2200 that I've had for 3 years, and has never overheated. It gets a bit hot sitting on my lap, but it runs well enough, and I've never cleaned it out with a blast of compressed air. Well, not yet.
The other is an eMachines M6809 with an Athlon64 3200+ that I've had for a year, and has also never overheated, even when the ambient temperature was over 30 degrees. Not even when running Everquest 2, with the CPU running up to 100 percent usage for an hour at a time.
One thing I think many people forget is that different processors and graphics modules have different thermal outputs, and as long as the laptop has a cooling system designed to cope with the peak output at realistic temperatures, it'll be okay. That means doing some homework on the laptop before you buy it, and not just going for the highest CPU speed numbers for the lowest price.
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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Funny, I just finished disassembling and reassembling my presario because of the same exact problem you were having. Now, it's running like new (I left it on for two days straight to test my repair; it's fixed).
Please give me the model of the HP. I will then be able to help you. If you have a set of eyeglass screwdrivers (about 2,000WON), you'll be able to do it yourself. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Considering the fact that the OP is having troubles with overheating, as well as the fact that HP puts crappy parts into their prebuilts, I think it's adviseable that he/she follow through with blasting out the dustmites and running a cooling pad, despite the more positive experiences of other posters. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| Considering the fact that the OP is having troubles with overheating, as well as the fact that HP puts crappy parts into their prebuilts, I think it's adviseable that he/she follow through with blasting out the dustmites and running a cooling pad, despite the more positive experiences of other posters. |
...Agreed. Just make sure the Chassis fan (or the CPU fan; whichever you are talking about) is still turning. If you spray incorrectly, you'll just push the dust wods back into one of the fan groves and complete stall the fan. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| Considering the fact that the OP is having troubles with overheating, as well as the fact that HP puts crappy parts into their prebuilts, I think it's adviseable that he/she follow through with blasting out the dustmites and running a cooling pad, despite the more positive experiences of other posters. |
...Agreed. Just make sure the Chassis fan (or the CPU fan; whichever you are talking about) is still turning. If you spray incorrectly, you'll just push the dust wods back into one of the fan groves and complete stall the fan. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. |
On the same note, think about where you want the dust to come out of your laptop and blow towards that spot. Plug it in and take out your battery and any removable modules, open up the RAM casing, and blow towards any holes that present themselves. If you blow a clot of dust further into your system, you have hardly done yourself any favours at all. |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| The motherboard in my last notebook overheated and melted due to dust. Notebook maintenance in Korea is no joke. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| Considering the fact that the OP is having troubles with overheating, as well as the fact that HP puts crappy parts into their prebuilts, I think it's adviseable that he/she follow through with blasting out the dustmites and running a cooling pad, despite the more positive experiences of other posters. |
...Agreed. Just make sure the Chassis fan (or the CPU fan; whichever you are talking about) is still turning. If you spray incorrectly, you'll just push the dust wods back into one of the fan groves and complete stall the fan. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. |
On the same note, think about where you want the dust to come out of your laptop and blow towards that spot. Plug it in and take out your battery and any removable modules, open up the RAM casing, and blow towards any holes that present themselves. If you blow a clot of dust further into your system, you have hardly done yourself any favours at all. |
In all honesty, After performing a full service maintanence job no my wife's laptop, I recommend it to anyone. At least once every year and a half (if you really value your laptop). The Pc will run more efficiently with less heat. |
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buster brown
Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Since the hard drive and RAM both had to be replaced last week, on a 6-month-old HP laptop, I've been having the same thoughts about overheating. I'll definitely be investing in a cooling pad after cleaning the unit as described above! |
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kitekid
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: usually at http://www.expatkorea.com/
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: HP Laptop Repair |
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| adverge wrote: |
Does anyone know of a good repair shop for HP laptops that has some English speakers or at least are really good with HP laptops?
I live in Daegu but can travel to Seoul or Busan if necessary. |
call me old school, but i'd much rather pay to have a professional check and fix it, before i go messing around with it myself
the hp service center in daegu is here:
http://h50054.www5.hp.com/support/servicecenter/map_04.asp |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: HP Laptop Repair |
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| kitekid wrote: |
| adverge wrote: |
Does anyone know of a good repair shop for HP laptops that has some English speakers or at least are really good with HP laptops?
I live in Daegu but can travel to Seoul or Busan if necessary. |
call me old school, but i'd much rather pay to have a professional check and fix it, before i go messing around with it myself
the hp service center in daegu is here:
http://h50054.www5.hp.com/support/servicecenter/map_04.asp |
Not old school at all; very practical.
Fussing about inside a computer isn't for everyone. Just like auto repairs or anything else; some people enjoy it, others can't be bothered.
It's good advice to take it to a shop. From what I have read on these forums, it's just not sound to tell everyone to rip into it themselves. Not that they can't do it themselves, but they just shouldn't.  |
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