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Bad problems with display on HP pavilion laptop

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Yesterday I was using my laptop and the display turned black with little vertical lines running up and down it. I restarted it and this went away, then today I can't go more than five minutes without it doing this, I went to HP.com and did everything they said, update drivers and BIOS, both of which I routinely do. Any ideas about what is happening would be greatly appreciated.


HP Pavilion dv5
Windows Vista home premium
4 gb ram
Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics
AMD Turion ultra 2.1ghz

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I used my laptop last night, put it in my computer room where I always do and shut the door. (No one goes in this room and my computer had not moved from where I left it.) It started showing vertical rainbow colored lines that took 2/3 of the entire screen. Now the rest of the screen is black. I have had this computer 2 months and 2 days, and Best Buy told me it must have been dropped or something must have hit it. I know nothing of the sort happened. I called HP, went throuh all the trouble-shooting, and am having it sent in for repair. They are telling me it will be covered under warranty. My e-mail is fairychild3025@yahoo.com, let me know what happens with yours. Best of luck to you.

~Amy D.

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Wrong place to post guys but you are not alone....

I recently bought all of the "defective" and mostly repaired items from the back of a circuit city and in this lot is a DV6000 or 5000...

With the vertical lines...so far its not overheating the thing is as cool as a cucumber....i believe it is just the motherboard failing...since the unit is under warranty il be sending it in

Supposedly this laptop series is notorious for being a pos so if your out of warranty go to google and start looking through how others have dealt with the problem there may be something simple you can replace ;)

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