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30th Sep 2007, 05:57
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One of the fans on my HP Pavilion zv5000t started dying, so I was lucky enough to have a complete same model that I have for parts. I replaced the fan with the parts laptop, booted it back up, and now I have some really weird things going on.
When first turning it on, I get a "compaq" logo rather then my HP logo (before windows loads), next it will no longer run off the battery (not a big deal, I never use the battery), I have to manually push the wireless button to turn the wireless on everytime I boot it up, and finally I have to raise the brightness level of the screen each time I boot up. Once the laptop is up and I have done everything it runs like a champ. Im guessing when I switched the fan I must have reset something, or loaded some old bios, but when I go into bios its still the same version, and I have all of my normal bios settings including the bios password I set. Attempted fixes: I put the old fan back in, I tried updating the bios to the newest version, which I was a version or 2 old, the update went through fine, but no change. I completely took everything apart and reconnected everything. Still having the same results. I contacted HP's chat, but you know how that is, one of the chat techs told me the only way for this to happen would be if I replaced the motherboard, and he asked me 3 or 4 times if I was sure I didnt change out the MB.....the other tech said the fan must have caused it, and to try putting the old fan back in, or sending it in for a analyss from them. Im not expecting much of a fix here, but I thought the whole thing seemed really odd, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or ideas on this one. I work on desktops and laptops for a living, and have completly rebuilt hundreds...mainly dells though....although I have taken my HP apart many times for cleaning and other things. |
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2nd Oct 2007, 08:43
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If the pre windows logo has changed then it sounds like the a bios issue, but to be honest sounds like you have pretty much already done anything I could think of. Have you checked all the driver updates on the HP site and installed them?
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2nd Oct 2007, 12:37
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Thanks for the reply.....ya infact I have tried 3 diferent bios updates, including the very first one they put on this model. I was thinking maybe it flashed to some manufactur default, and maybe the original bios update might help. I was able to get it after talking to a hp tech, but got the same result :/
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