I would like to review the hardware. software. complaints.

actions and issues

related on last 2 weeks browsing on reviews on forums and from my own experience.
Opinions are only mine .
I own a Compaq Presario CQ60 series 404CA ( I think meaning Canada. place where I
bought it 18 mo ago ). On middle Sept 2011. one night the laptop suddenly screened
to black and shut off. I panicked a lot. I inmediately turned on. but laptop did
not even resisted 15 sec of running on. I waited one hour. It started good and run.
But later the shut off problems repeated. Nowadays ( difficult to be believed by
your boss or client ), the Compaq shut off occurs naturally. not even playing games
( which I dont ) or having Skype video chats ( which I do a lot ). This can
naturally happen after a mere 15 minutes .
After browsing on forums. I concluded that overheating problems is a hardware one.
Irrespective of what processor your laptop runs ( mine is AMD ), the problems seems
to be on the GPU / Graphic Processing unit. There are thousands if not dozens of
thnds of personal computers that use Nvidia GPU. series G84 and G86. This GPU were
installed on laptop and desktops as well .
Lot of people complaints that after a year and a half or something like this. the
laptop screen suddenly goes to black screen / loose conectivity ; and start to shut
off. Then you have to wait until device cools down. According to tech replies on
forums. there are problems with the GPU pins that insert from graphic chip into
waffle ; and also the resin that covers the chip itself ( the so called " die ").
Some let ` s say " official " replies blaimed our user patterns of turning on /
turning off the laptop. It is not a battery issue. it is not a power setting issue.
it is not a BIOS config issue ( because I set mine with fan running ALL the time
and it continue to shut off ; then I bought an external fan cooler in the hope to
overcool. but it happen the same ); some tried to change power settings. but later
they said that problems persisted. Other updated GPU driver. it seems it worked for
as period. Other upgraded to higher OS version while another downgraded. In my
opinion. It is a hardware problem. Whom to blame. OEM like HP. Compaq. Dell and a
lot of others. Taiwanese Nvidia manufacturer of those GPU. Win Vista beacuse of the
excess of processess running at the same time. According to forums. HP and other
took precautions to help clients. but other forumers say not to pay the inspection
fee. no matter if warranty expired. It seems that in 2008. Nvidia filled a K - 8
report to USA SEC announcing they will take money to previsions to face some
situations ( aka " the complaints "). It seems there is class suit action running
over there ( arguable because Nvidia knew they had a tech problem ). Up to here is
enough for the technicalities. reasons and context .
What to do then. There is a forumer who said it found a place in MA USA where tech
shop fuse. refuse or weld the GPU to motherboard. If your laptop if out of
warranty. maybe this is an option. I ` m temporary in Panama and two technicians
said they knew of this problem ; and that bios approach. speed fan freeware. ext
fan cooler are not solutions. only mitigations. One said that in Compaq CQ60. the
GPU is too close to chip. so both heat reciprocally. By the way mine goes up to 114
Celsius on core and 108 Celsius on GPU. What worries me in terms of hardware
problem is the thermal stress on GPU and motherboards after going up and down that
temperatures. suddenly shut up. cool period. then again the cycle of overheating.
shut off. etc. etc .
So what I did. Because I use mine as a travel device. Im counting on it seriously.
So I have just bought another one on japanese brand. Buy only after purchase I
discovered it run an Nvidia processor but of different series. So I ` m crossing my
fingers. I want to explicitly say that Im not here to make any subliminal publicity
of another makers. But you could ask yourself. What about ATI on japanese OEM. What
about HP with ATI. There are reports on the increased market share of the last one.
Any coincidence over here. My old. old laptop was a Toshiba with ATI and never
experienced this. Maybe you guys would like to consider HP for a ( prevision ) new
one. but HERE. in other forum there is list of HP series that have this overheating
problem. And there. later. it appear a list of Dells .
Interesting consequence of this. If you start to paranoically look for the GPU
processor on new models to buy. possiblity is that your wont find anything wrong
because being new. nobody is still facing or complaning on this kind of problem .
So. if anyone is familiar with this. could ypu disclose his / her way of fixing.
Please do so. I would like to keep my former Compaq. Regards. LOGISTIKA _ TSM .