Trouble shooting my HP laptop...

[recycled sixtie]

I have an HP Presario 14 inch laptop that I bought 16 months ago. It has windows 8 and my printer is an older HP Photosmart C4580.

There is a shimmy on the bottom right hand corner of the screen making the icons virtually unreadable. There is no sound at all either. Are these kinds of faults related?
Any suggestions on a fix? Does HP have a bad reputation?

Any suggestions for a non Apple/ibm compatible laptop computer that I should look at in the next few months? I just use a laptop for leisure, emails etc. Use it about 3-4 hours a day.
Your thoughts are appreciated!
Guy

[fred cook]

Just stand closer or shoot from a rest. Take careful aim and squeeze the trigger. Works every time!

[Aragorn]

If I had to guess on the screen issue, I would say it is something in the cable that connects the screen to the motherboard. Either the cable (most are flex cables that look like copper wires in plastic film) has a break or the connection is loose. Overcrank the hinge or slightly torque it and you can get a break.

No sound sometimes can be something simple like one of the audio controls set to mute. I think my old HP laptop had some special speakers and had two or three audio controls and settings. Hit the mute on one and it affected the sound overall.

[wildthing]

Originally Posted by fred cook

Just stand closer or shoot from a rest. Take careful aim and squeeze the trigger. Works every time!

If I was drinking, I'd have the drink flowing back up my nose.

I was going to ask why he needed to shoot the laptop.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by fred cook

Just stand closer or shoot from a rest. Take careful aim and squeeze the trigger. Works every time!

Beauty.

I can tell you that my wife has had a Surface for over a year and loves the thing. We are a bi-OS/MS family so I feel comfortable comparing Apple and Mircrosoft machines.

She works for the government so MS was a requirement for her. The Surface is a ral pleasure.

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Beauty.

I can tell you that my wife has had a Surface for over a year and loves the thing. We are a bi-OS/MS family so I feel comfortable comparing Apple and Mircrosoft machines.

She works for the government so MS was a requirement for her. The Surface is a ral pleasure.

Two of the dirtiest lines I have read on Pelican in a while.

[rusnak]

I would see if they could cover it under some sort of warranty. If not, then the mode of purchase (Visa, MC, etc) may have some sort of warranty. I would definitely get working on replacing the machine asap.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by fred cook

Just stand closer or shoot from a rest. Take careful aim and squeeze the trigger. Works every time!

I am happy that you could find some humour in my spelling of troubleshooting. There is not a day goes by that I don't learn something from you all. Keep it up!

[john70t]

Aragorn probably has it right. I'm an idiot and this is foreign language to me.

It might be the video card, connector, or the screen itself for the wiggling display portion.
Occams Razor.
Only part of the display is affected.
But then add in no sound and it might be a common source like the mother board or internal connections.

(geez people cut the chatter and help this guy)

[Joe Bob]

The HP laptops are too heavy to skip, they just sink. The printers will float if you take out the ink cartridges and burn them.

I bought a Lenovo....cheap and I don't care if it blows up. I back everything up once a week.

I will NEVER own a HP anything again.

Tech support sucks donkey balls. Hello, this is Dave in Bombay......yeah right.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

I bought a Lenovo....cheap and I don't care if it blows up. I back everything up once a week.

Dispose of poisonous electronics frequently.
Trust personal information to be secure in 'the cloud'.

Do not like.

[Joe Bob]

Cloud? Hell no, unconnected hard drive that has no way to be accessed except by me. I don't allow pics of myself to last more than 3 days on the web.

[porsche4life]

I could make peace with using windows, but if I had to use an HP ever again, I'd take up carving in stone tablets....

[jyl]

The last good HP laptop was the HP200LX.

[porsche4life]

Haha!!

[fred cook]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

I am happy that you could find some humour in my spelling of troubleshooting. There is not a day goes by that I don't learn something from you all. Keep it up!

No offense intended. Just saw that as an opportunity for a bit of humor! Good luck getting your computer problems resolved!

[Arizona_928]

I use an Accer for my vagcom. Super cheap. Slower then snot, but works. Even has an amd haha

[jyl]

Originally Posted by AZ_porschekid

I use an Accer for my vagcom. Super cheap. Slower then snot, but works. Even has an amd haha

You have a vagcom?. What is a vagcom?. Is that some transsexual lingo?. J/K. But seriously, what is it?

[berettafan]

stand a little closer to it. use both hands to steady the gun.

[rick-l]

Originally Posted by jyl

You have a vagcom?. What is a vagcom?. Is that some transsexual lingo?. J/K. But seriously, what is it?

Ross-Tech: VCDS