🙂Īlso read backing the motherboard in an oven and how to reflow failed NVIDIA graphics chip with a heat gun. Now I have to test for how long this fix last. The heatsink gets so hot that it melt solder between the chip and motherboard and the video chip gets resoldered to the motherboard. When you run a laptop wrapped in towels (bubble wrap in my case), it gets very hot because there is no air circulation inside the heatsink. Here’s my understanding of how this fix works. My fix was successful again! The laptop turned on with video and booted to the desktop. Anyway, I didn’t touch it for about 30 minutes and let it cool down. Maybe the motherboard overheated too much and shut down on its own. It was running like that for about 60-70 minutes but then I noticed that all LED lights went off. To make sure there is no cool air coming into the case through the bubble wrap, I closed all air vents with sticky tape.Īfter that I turned it on from AC adapter (again with hard drive and battery removed) and wrapped the base. It failed exactly the same way as the first one. This is a different model with very similar failure symptoms.
I just couldn’t stop and tried the fix on another one. Waited for about 30 minutes and tried turning it on. I closed it in a tablet mode (with hard drive and battery removed), plugged the AC adapter and wrapped the laptop properly in bubble wrap.Īfter that I just waited for about two hours and unplugged AC adapter from the wall. I didn’t have paper towels at work but I had plenty of bubble wrap. I didn’t really believe that this trick might work and tried it just because of curiosity but… IT WORKED!!!!įirst, I tried this fix on a failed HP tx1000 Tablet PC. Unplug the AC adapter from the wall the let it cool down (do not move it for a while).Ħ. Keeps the laptop wrapped in the towel for about one hours.ĥ. Wrap it up with towels so all air intakes are closed.Ĥ.
Make sure it’s is actually on, all LEDs should work.ģ. Plug the AC adapter and turn on the laptop. This trick called “towel fix” and used to fix “no video” issue in xbox360.Ģ. I found this trick mentioned by Walliot in this post. The internal screen remains completely black and blank. The computer turns on and all LEDs light up but there is no video on the screen or external monitor. Overtime the graphics chip separates from the motherboard and the video fails. If you know more models, please mention them in comments after this post.Īs I know, the video problem somehow related to NVIDIA graphics chip located on the motherboard.
Here are some HP models affected by this known video failure problem: HP Pavilion dv2000, dv6000, dv9000, tx1000 tablet PC, Compaq 700, v3000, v6000 and probably some others.
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