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Organizing HP Motherboard class action lawsuit

I have decided to gather and indication of interest for a class action lawsuit against Hewlett Packard. Please email me your name, address and contact phone number if you would like to join my effort in seeking vindication for the faulty products described by HP in the following post:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] 89&lang=en

I'm not interested in making money from this, rather I just want to see the company stand behind their mistakes and provide me with what I paid $1000 for, a laptop computer that works. Any reasonable person assumes that a new PC has, under normal use, a life expectancy of 3-5 years; not 1-2 years. I am not paying $300 to have a computer fixed that I did not break. Its well documented that they made mistakes in their engineering process. This is the reason that they extended the warranty by an additional year, but what good is that if you weren't notified and given an opportunity to participate. The company has all customers phone and email address. Think about the number of emails you get from their sales department each month.

In closing, this is nothing more than a big corporation making a decision based on dollars and not sense. Situations like this are exactly what the legal system exists for.

HPMotherboardAction@yahoo.com

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Could you provide more specific details about this? Like what mistakes did HP commit? Also, where do you base your class suit? Etc. etc.

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Hp issues a BIOS update and an HP user thinks a class action suit is something to consider. Put down the crack pipe and the gun.

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badge: obviously you didnt do any research. the bios update caused the fans on these laptops to run faster, so that the laptop would survive longer enough to out do the warranty. then the fans would wear down and eventually the laptop would break down and HP was very aware of this.

However: there is a class action lawsuit against NVIDIA right now.

http://www.milberg.biz/nvidia.html

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sushiserv wrote :

badge: obviously you didnt do any research. the bios update caused the fans on these laptops to run faster, so that the laptop would survive longer enough to out do the warranty. then the fans would wear down and eventually the laptop would break down and HP was very aware of this.

However: there is a class action lawsuit against NVIDIA right now.

http://www.milberg.biz/nvidia.html



I did my research. OP's errant assumption that his efforts have any real merit and need be posted on this Forum asking for witnesses to a lawsuit that does not exist and apparent use of mind altering drugsare what I repied to.

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True, the posting on this forum was not needed. But you can't stop the fingers at the keyboard :x

Still, I want some of what he is smoking. It seems type good.

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My neighbor just had the NVIDIA GF7600 mobile GPU go bad on her HP DV9000, with this exact symptom: "The external monitor functions but there is no image on the notebook LCD panel."

The image using the VGA port has lots of artifacts and ziggy lines, but it works and the computer boots into Safe Mode but crashes when booting normally. There is no output on the LCD panel at all.

She purchased an extended warranty through Best Buy that still had six months left, otherwise she would have been SOL with no warranty. Of course, getting them to repair it is another matter. She just got the thing back after three weeks, and now it doesn't work at all, not even via the VGA port. So she had to send it back again. I told her it would take them two months to get it fixed but I don't think she believed me.

I don't know why anyone would want their three year-old notebook repaired when they can buy a much better notebook for much less than they paid three years ago.

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My husband and i got 2 of these laptops and were told that we missed the cut off date to have them repaired by 2 days..They never sent out a notice by mail ..They did it over the internet..We told them if we had a laptop that worked we would have been able to get on the internet..Please count us in on your class action lawsuit..belton23@hotmail.com


Message edited by belton50 on 11-03-2009 at 08:10:58 PM
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I bought an HP Slimline desktop the motherboard died 2 days before the warranty expired they replaced the board and this board went out 9 months later. I called and asked if there was a design flaw or problem with these boards and they said they had no knowledge of any problem and there was nothing they could do.THe board is an Asus M2NC51-AR Motherboard

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I bought a $2400 laptop from the HP website. An hour after turning the unit on my wife stuck her fingernail under the volume button and pulled instead of pushing and the button popped out of the case. Unable to install the button back into the case without breaking open the case, I called HP and explained I needed to send the unit in to be repaired. The HP service rep. told me it would cost $250 to repair it even though I had received it an hour ago. I could have sent it back and had my money refunded to my credit card right there on the spot. Instead I called a lawyer and sued. This guy had HP on their knees. Needless to say, I made the right decision by hiring this lawyer.

Give him a call, you will be glad you did.



Message edited by badge on 11-13-2009 at 08:58:46 PM
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