HP TX-1000 problem solved

Note:  Old laptop = Adam; New laptop = Eve

Alrighty.  So, Adam finally broke down after all these years.  I took it to Fry’s Electronics, since I had bought it there several years ago, and took it to their service department.  It cost me $75.00, but I left Adam there for a diagnostic and waited, semi-patiently, for the call that would give me hope or destroy all.  The reason I say “semi-patiently” is because after several hours of sitting at home, waiting for the call the following day, I finally turned off the television and drove back to Fry’s and bought a cheap $300.00 laptop which I called Eve.

Note:  My first laptop was a Compaq Armada that my mom saved for several months in order to get it for me.  I’ve been a Compaq/Hewlett Packard person ever since.  I guess right about the time HP acquired Compaq, mom bought me that Compaq.

Anyway.  Back to my story.  So I get home and I play with the Eve.  The next day, I get the call that Adam is ready and that the motherboard is fried.  I jump online, using Eve and google the symptoms that Adam had.  Almost everything that popped up stated that the issue was the NVidia chip.  The TX-1000 seems to be plagued with this issue.  I watched a youtube video showing me how to fix Adam and I rush back to Fry’s to pick up Adam and speed home to try the cheaper fix.  The guy at Fry’s had said that a motherboard would run me about $200.00 and instillation would run me $180.00.  Total price for Fry’s to install new motherboard in Adam would run me $380.00.  I get home with the supplies the video said I would need and proceed to take my laptop apart.

I am writing this entry on Adam and the cost was $9.99 for the thermal compound and $1.99 for a small screwdriver set.  I also spent two pennies that are situated over the NVidia chip inside my laptop after I heated the soldering and pressed the chip back into the motherboard.  The pennies keep the chip from slipping back out.  Wait…I also spent $0.99 for gummy worms.  You can’t open a laptop and mess with the internal workings of a machine without gummy worms.