[mdlug] HP printer working well

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:19:37 -0500
Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:

> Peter Bart wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:38:54 -0500
> > "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Last year I did go with an HP DV9000 series laptop. Everything but
> the Ricoh card reader work perfectly, until about 2 weeks after the
> the one year warranty expired. Then the NVidia video failed. I can
> boot to command line, but even there the text characters look "worm
> eaten" and sketchy. Most of the time X will not start, the error
> is:"could not initialize NVidia /dev/nvidia0" (or words very much
> like that.) Even the HP logo at the first power up splash, and the
> bois screens look "off".
> 
> I'm looking to get a second opinion, but I think I'll need to replace 
> the motherboard. :(

	That's a real bummer, maybe HP will stretch the warranty? That
would mean calling their customer diservice dept, I have my own horror
stories there. I was looking at a similar model last year but picked the
Toshiba. I'll have to look closely at the extended warranty if I do
switch.

Best Regards,
-- 
___Peter The Plumber sm on the road

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