Thursday, July 10

Rant

Green Ring Of Death

After my Compaq Presario notebook coughed and died just weeks out of warranty, I went out and got a shiny new HP Pavilion notebook to replace it.  Which is basically the same thing, except shinier and newer.

One of the shiny new features was that it has a proper dedicated Nvidia 8400 graphics controller, instead of the embedded ATI graphics on the Presario.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:28 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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My notebook that I bought last November has a "GeForce 8600m GT" in it. No problems at all, but now you've got me worried.

On the other hand, the Inquirer tends to be sensationalistic. I'm not sure I believe the problem is as bad as they say.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, July 10 2008 05:38 PM (+rSRq)

2 True.

And even if all the chips have the fault, it may or may not happen in the life of your notebook.  100% of Xbox 360's manufactured through late '07 have a similar heat-related fault, but the actual failure rate is a lot less than 100%, because it takes a significant (and varying) number of thermal cycles for the fault to manifest.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, July 10 2008 06:08 PM (PiXy!)

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