Grr... I hate HP more and more with each passing month.

[wolfwings]

Now the lid-closed switch is failing. I prevented it from doing any more damage, but I'm afraid it's already fried the inverter for my LCD screen. Meaning... yup, I get to send it in again to HP.

I'm developing what I think is a 'boil-off' spot on my screen building from the lower-left corner where it's very hot. If I 'massage' the corner lightly I can get the screen to respond again, but after a few moments it goes jet-black again. And not a 'backlight off' black, a 'no liquid crystal there' black.

At this point, I've e-mailed HP, and will hopefully hear back from them shortly. I've had it though... ASAP I'm getting a god-damn Dell so I can take this thing out when I get my 944 here and fling it out the window at 70mph into a concrete support pillar on an overpass somewhere.

Piece of utter shit... gods, I can't say it enough, avoid HP like the plague if you actually travel with your notebook at all.

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[sarahemm.livejournal.com]

Funny, I've had terrible luck with HPs, but two of my laptops have been Dell's and they've both been rock solid. I put about 70k miles of travel on my laptop a year and it's 3 years old and the only issue is that many of the labels have worn off the keyboard and ports :)