Laptop Woes

[ceitfianna]

Apparently after two hours of trying things, HP told me that I need to hook my laptop to an external monitor to find out what's about to fail.

Hopefully its something cheap like the graphics card and not anything involving the motherboard. HP was really helpful, I think I made the HP customer service guy happy, because I understood so much of what he was talking about and we were able to just talk as things processed.

Now I'm backing the few things that aren't backed up so that things are alright. Hopefully the monitor won't act up too much during my shift tonight, I'd feel horrible if that happened while I was helping someone.

I've had this laptop for about a year and a half, that's too soon for it to break. Though I wouldn't mind getting a Mac at some point. My whining about how heavy my laptop is, is not an excuse to break. I like my solid laptop with its big screen.

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[ceitfianna]

At the moment the problem seems to be intermittent, at least and once I try it on an external, I'll know what's to be fixed.

It is annoying, but it could be worse. My old laptop, a Toshiba, the backlight on it just plain died.

On this one its more like I'm getting static on a TV screen, but everything else works.

[julyflame.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the connectors playing up since it's come loose in there, I believe.

The best thing for it is to just be careful with where you apply pressure on the top if it seems like it only comes up after you move the screen or hold it when it's closed in a particular spot.

[ceitfianna]

I'll remember that and pay attention to it. I don't move my laptop that much, it tends to live open, but due to my internship, its been going about more.

My instinct when this started acting up was that it was going to be an HP thing. Now its just a question of how much does it cost to fix.

[julyflame.livejournal.com]

Hundred, twohundredfifty tops depending on where you find the screen.

[ceitfianna]

That's not too bad at all.