Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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I've only had mine a year, it always sounds like it's going to take off (graphics chip reaching temperatures of 90 deg.), and now my wireless is dead - the switch on the front panel thing is always orange now instead of blue.
Has anyone had these problems before and fixed them (I am contemplating buying a MacBook and selling the HP but I don't have £800 spare to spend on one just yet!).
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Shane
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ive got a compaq laptop always runs fairly hot even if the underneath is well ventalated.
how old is it? what model?
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pow
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No, we swear by HP here
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Sam
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HP G6031EA.
I still can't get my wireless to work, the Broadcom device has disappeared from Device Manager, so I think it might be dead 
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Marc
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Should have bought a Dell 
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Rob_Quads
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Yours sounds just like my friends. It was bought around 9/10 months ago. It has been back to John Lewis 4 times to have stuff fixed like the wireless switch not working etc.
On the 4th return he complained and said it was not good enough and was given a brand new laptop which was the same current generation model (but much better as a year newer tech i.e. bluray etc)
Since he has not had any problems. I suspect there is a few dodgy models in the HP range as the others appear to be solid.
Want reliability look at the old Thinkpads - might not be the best to look at but are real work horses and take some severe abuse.
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John
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Good luck with HP support, one I had to deal with ended up going back to pc world because they were that bad.
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Sam
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Well I managed to get the wireless going again, I uninstalled HP Wireless Assistant and reinstalled it, and reinstalled the Broadcom drivers, as well as this I physically removed the WLAN card from inside the laptop and reseated it.
I suspect I won't hear the end of this though as my WLAN is notorious for fucking up on a regular basis.
Still, I have a spare WLAN USB adapter that I can use when (not if but when LOL) the Broadcom adapter finally dies.
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Nismo
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I have a HP Business class laptop,
there commercial ones are a little pap, they look pretty but thats about it,
Business ones are not so pretty but good!
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Sam
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Wireless is broken again 
Using my spare USB adapter now. 
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Andrew
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One of mine died after a couple of months. Bastards replaced the Motherboard and gave me it back. Last hp bit of kit i purchased and now gone dell.
Their newer stuff seems to be a bag of shite.
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jamied
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I have to agree, my last few laptops have been HP and they have worked brill (forgetting the first which had fried itself and I got a refund and the 2nd which overheated and had a new mobo/cpu
i have now got a hp mini note so lets hope this is ok lol
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