- Aug 4, 2018
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Hey guys, thanks to anyone who has ideas/solutions, it's appreciated.
My Pavilion Laptop (Pavilion dv6-7138us Entertainment PC) was a one stop shop for me in college. It played games, edited videos, and streamed Netflix. A decent machine, and I soon got a fan platform to lay it on top of because the PC would get toasty for games and editing. Toward the end of college, it would get intolerably hot, and by the end, it would shut down about five minutes into starting a heavy game like Total War. I remember pushing it at this point to still play games like Jazzpunk and AoE 2 HD.
I wrote it off after college as I didn't need it as much, but decided to dust it off and use it as a blogging platform and maybe play Skyrim again. So I bought a nice silver thermal paste, some alcohol and qtips, and went to town taking it apart to clean the fan and processor/heatsink plate.
I followed several youtube dissections, as well as downloading hp's manual, didn't break anything, cleaned everything with little fanfare, used the dot method when applying thermal paste, and put it all back together exactly the way it came out. The only deviation was that I had lost the screw for my WLAN module. I figured this wasn't a biggie, so I tried out the laptop.
Flipped it over, pressed that power button and held my breath....screen did nothing, power light stayed solid, network light was red, and the caps lock light flashed continuously. To describe the flashing pattern, there were no discernable gaps between groups of flashes, just seemed like one ping. On for a second, off for a second, on, off, etc.
As for troubleshooting I've done so far, I've taken apart the entire thing to make sure I didn't leave anything unplugged or misplaced, guided by my prior experience and the manual, I've tried Ram and HDD seating resets, I've tried the tried and true 30 second reset, and I've tried assuming it's a BIOS issue, which involved trying to hold down the windows button plus V or B or just pressing down all arrow buttons. I also tried connecting it to my monitor via hdmi incase I mucked up the screen connection, and no dice. Finally in relation to BIOS, I tried installing BIOS on a flash drive as suggested by HP, and was met with the same flashing caps lock.
Does anyone have any ideas? This bad boy was like $800 on sale in 2012, and I hate to feel like I only got 3 good years out of it before it started becoming pretty useless. And now thatbI finally got the courage to open her up, it seems like she looks better than she's looked for awhile, but I can't get her to boot!
Edit- I should mention I plan to buy a new screw for that WLAN module in case that is somehow breaking everything, but I imagine that'd only hurt my wifi capability, not prevent a boot.
My Pavilion Laptop (Pavilion dv6-7138us Entertainment PC) was a one stop shop for me in college. It played games, edited videos, and streamed Netflix. A decent machine, and I soon got a fan platform to lay it on top of because the PC would get toasty for games and editing. Toward the end of college, it would get intolerably hot, and by the end, it would shut down about five minutes into starting a heavy game like Total War. I remember pushing it at this point to still play games like Jazzpunk and AoE 2 HD.
I wrote it off after college as I didn't need it as much, but decided to dust it off and use it as a blogging platform and maybe play Skyrim again. So I bought a nice silver thermal paste, some alcohol and qtips, and went to town taking it apart to clean the fan and processor/heatsink plate.
I followed several youtube dissections, as well as downloading hp's manual, didn't break anything, cleaned everything with little fanfare, used the dot method when applying thermal paste, and put it all back together exactly the way it came out. The only deviation was that I had lost the screw for my WLAN module. I figured this wasn't a biggie, so I tried out the laptop.
Flipped it over, pressed that power button and held my breath....screen did nothing, power light stayed solid, network light was red, and the caps lock light flashed continuously. To describe the flashing pattern, there were no discernable gaps between groups of flashes, just seemed like one ping. On for a second, off for a second, on, off, etc.
As for troubleshooting I've done so far, I've taken apart the entire thing to make sure I didn't leave anything unplugged or misplaced, guided by my prior experience and the manual, I've tried Ram and HDD seating resets, I've tried the tried and true 30 second reset, and I've tried assuming it's a BIOS issue, which involved trying to hold down the windows button plus V or B or just pressing down all arrow buttons. I also tried connecting it to my monitor via hdmi incase I mucked up the screen connection, and no dice. Finally in relation to BIOS, I tried installing BIOS on a flash drive as suggested by HP, and was met with the same flashing caps lock.
Does anyone have any ideas? This bad boy was like $800 on sale in 2012, and I hate to feel like I only got 3 good years out of it before it started becoming pretty useless. And now thatbI finally got the courage to open her up, it seems like she looks better than she's looked for awhile, but I can't get her to boot!
Edit- I should mention I plan to buy a new screw for that WLAN module in case that is somehow breaking everything, but I imagine that'd only hurt my wifi capability, not prevent a boot.
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