Hello!
y'day had a peculiar problem. while browsing, my laptop's (HP DV6114TX) display went blank. restarted the laptop, but still no display. checked on the net about the issue, and found that the HP DV6000 series was prone to it. i encountered it for the first time. rebooted it a couple of times. once, it gave a long beep followed by 2 short ones, indicating video chipset failure. however, that was only once. i used the towel-wrap method once after removing the HDD, and the display came up after 20-30 mins. i then shut it down, and powered it again after a couple of hours. was fine, until i again started browsing on it (somehow makes me feel the GPU driver may be at fault, has something to do with my browser with many tabs opened). the display again went off.
i will try the towel-wrap method once again, then uninstall the GPU driver and install the one available on HP's website (earlier, it was installed automatically by the OS, Win 7). if that also fails, then i will have to take it to some service centre for reflowing of the GPU chipset. there are many articles on it over the net. however, am not sure if any techinicans here would be aware of this specific problem and how to handle it. i plan to download a few videos and show them what's it about. but it would be good to know if any of you here has had a similar problem and got it resolved by the reflowing or reballing method at some service centre at Mumbai/Lamington road. would appreciate suggestions on any service centres that you are aware of that can help me with this.
thanks![DOUBLEPOST=1426693329][/DOUBLEPOST]UPDATE: it seems the issue had something to with firefox and the many tabs that were open in it (my laptop is old and the config is weak). browsed the web on IE and used the laptop for quite some time without any issues. later on uninstalled the GPU driver and installed the older version from HP. made some changes in the advanced settings of FF, reduced the no. of opened tabs, and for now the laptop's working fine, and hopefully would continue so.
y'day had a peculiar problem. while browsing, my laptop's (HP DV6114TX) display went blank. restarted the laptop, but still no display. checked on the net about the issue, and found that the HP DV6000 series was prone to it. i encountered it for the first time. rebooted it a couple of times. once, it gave a long beep followed by 2 short ones, indicating video chipset failure. however, that was only once. i used the towel-wrap method once after removing the HDD, and the display came up after 20-30 mins. i then shut it down, and powered it again after a couple of hours. was fine, until i again started browsing on it (somehow makes me feel the GPU driver may be at fault, has something to do with my browser with many tabs opened). the display again went off.
i will try the towel-wrap method once again, then uninstall the GPU driver and install the one available on HP's website (earlier, it was installed automatically by the OS, Win 7). if that also fails, then i will have to take it to some service centre for reflowing of the GPU chipset. there are many articles on it over the net. however, am not sure if any techinicans here would be aware of this specific problem and how to handle it. i plan to download a few videos and show them what's it about. but it would be good to know if any of you here has had a similar problem and got it resolved by the reflowing or reballing method at some service centre at Mumbai/Lamington road. would appreciate suggestions on any service centres that you are aware of that can help me with this.
thanks![DOUBLEPOST=1426693329][/DOUBLEPOST]UPDATE: it seems the issue had something to with firefox and the many tabs that were open in it (my laptop is old and the config is weak). browsed the web on IE and used the laptop for quite some time without any issues. later on uninstalled the GPU driver and installed the older version from HP. made some changes in the advanced settings of FF, reduced the no. of opened tabs, and for now the laptop's working fine, and hopefully would continue so.
Last edited: