Hi everyone, this is not so much a cry for help as a quest for opinion
This is a problem I've been trying to sort for a while and I've added issues on to the original problem haha. It's a bit of a long one, so here goes...
It started when my friend gave me a laptop (Hp Compaq 6735s) to sort out because it was having display problems. It would work ok but sometimes the screen would go dim. He thought it was going off altogether but when I looked at it in the right light I could see the desktop. After having a look around I figured it was the inverter so I replaced it, which didn't solve the problem. I then thought it must be the back light on the screen itself, so I bought a new screen and replaced that. Still didn't seem to solve it, so I fiddled around and did a fresh install of windows and then it seemed to work ok.
I gave it back to him and said "all sorted."
He gave it back a week or so later and said "Not sorted"
Lol I didn't have much luck with this one.
I hooked it up to an external monitor to see if it worked on that and when the laptop screen went dim the external monitor was still ok, so I thought I could rule out the graphics being a problem.
I then tried it out with a Knoppix live CD and it seemed to be working fine while I was using that and didn't go dim at all. I again thought maybe it was windows and started to do another fresh install.
That was when it went bad! Half way through installing windows the whole thing went dead. When I turned it on the HDD light was flashing orange and the DVD drive was going and the caps lock light flashed 4 times. Looking on the HP website it said that means a GFX issue.
So, as a last resort I stripped it down and stuck it in the oven at 200 for 10 mins. When I put it all back together it worked fine and I thought it was all sorted finally. I then went about installing windows for the millionth time and was thinking I could give it back to him after that was done and I tested it a bit. Had trouble installing all the updates and was just getting to be close to finished today when the whole thing went dead again, same as before.
So now I'm guessing that it'll need a new motherboard, but just wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas or there wasn't something I'm missing before I get one.
Thanks for any suggestions![]()


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