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HP motherboard, hard drive and 1 gb of memory cooked all at once!

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bischoffjohn   08-03-2009 at 08:40:37 PM

I have had an HP Pavilion Elite d5000t for 5 months. Bot HP so I WOULDN'T have problems - once I get one, I like to keep it awhile. This is a bad choice from HP. After coming back from hibernation one day, without any warning, all I got was HP's blue screen upon startup. After troubleshooting online chat for over 6 hours, they said I had a bad motherboard. After extensive hands-on analysis by the Geeksquad, I have a bad hard drive (500gb Seagate), bad motherboard, and a cooked 1 GB of RAM (I had 2-2gb modules and 2-1gb modules).

Does anyone know if ALL the motherboards for this model are bad (i.e. asus ipibl-tx OR Burbank GL8E)? Should I buy another motherboard of this kind?
Also, if I keep this thing what internal hard drive should I put in it? Something that is reliable...... Thanks. JB

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Matthew Kane   08-19-2009 at 02:20:31 PM

I wouldn't be so sure of it being cooked just because somebody else said so (geeksquad don't know jack, and HP as well) The only way to find out is to test and investigate yourself.

Your motherboard:
https://www.skyline-eng.com/images/ [...] 9-0477.jpg

Case Layout:
http://images.pcworld.com/reviews/ [...] 029_g3.jpg

First things first, what happens when you turn the computer on?
Do you smell anything smoked (particular out of the PSU, or air blowing out of vent of the case or exhaust)
Once opened up the side case, do you see any bulging or blown capacitors?
Have you tested the RAM modules separately in another computer?
Lift up the Northbridge heatsink and see if anything is black under the silver sh1tsink
Turn on your computer and see if the inside of the case gets heated up fast, large amounts of heat pouring out?
Try and spot for anything burnt, black, produces smell when you power the computer up
Single test each piece of hardware inside the computer (i.e graphics card, hard drive, RAM, CPU and PSU) in another computer

Post pictures of any damages you see on the hardware.

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