Neil Cooper

thanks for the help Nev i will tell him this as me with a soildering iron is a joke. Thanks again Neil

Okay i have it figured the laptop has to be on charge for 30mins before can turn it on strange

Hey Nev, it only has 3 indicators Power(as in on off) battery (pluged in and charging fine no flickering) and hdd after you turn on and does its turn off the charging light goes out and you have to do all that above to get it working again

Okay best to describe this in steps okay first everythings plugged in as normal E.G. charger however thats were everything changers 1. turn on (this usually takes a good long 3sec pressing down on the power button before anything happens) 2. it will turn on and then straight away the caps lock, num lock, and fuction light comes on for a split second and then turns off. To get it to even turn on again requires you to take the battery out for a minuet or so then plug charger back in and then press the power button like a mad man untill comes on again but it will just do this again. few days ago i managed to get it to successfully boot a few times after removing the RAM and Re-seating it that seemed to work. only now tried to turn it on today was working for about 30mins then all started again. its been taken to a few shops before me and my mate was told was a problem with the switching between battery and power cord (thats confusing me cause i had it working by re-seating the RAM) I just want to know is it a power issue or a RAM issue or even corrupt BIOS and or does this happen if the wrong proccessor is installed. thanks again. Neil,

hey thanks for the help in the end i had to buy the replacement part cause after looking at loads i figured none of them would line up with the hole for the jack.

Hey ken, hope this photo help although from this side you cant see the damage its on the other side [ATTACH=CONFIG]1366[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]1367[/ATTACH] hopefully you can see it better on this i just need a replacement port however i cant find them anywhere. Thanks again by the way would be helpfull if you could send me the link to the right one cause i had a look and im lost lol only if you have the time dont worry if you dont.

Hey, Im wondering if anyone can help me i need a replacement 3.5mm audio jack [ATTACH=CONFIG]1365[/ATTACH] as you can see next to the USB the problem is the bottom snapped off the port and now needs replacing. The port is a standard female 3.5 mm audio jack with three connections under it running along the middle hopefully you can see it in the picture this is for an LG home cinema MODEL HT304SU-DH. also can i just unsoilder the old jack and soilder on the new one? Thanks guys. PS if anyone can find any on the web can you reply with the link doesnt matter about cost really.

I just thought i should add - this is very normal i have a ATI HD radeon 5770 and i can tell you this very normal mine takes a few mins when i start playing high end games to reach temperatures similar to the one you have - take a look the cards specs on the offical cards page and scrool to the bottom it will tell you there what temperature it can reach with in safe limit http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-560ti-gtx-550ti-us.html , and you other components in the computer have their own cooling example; CPU has its own cooler

Hey, what games are you running when you get these temperatures?

Hi, Try the free version of Speccy http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download

Hey Nev, Sorry to hear about you car. it was sent to toshiba for repair when it was under insurence however its not under insurence anymore :( so i guess going to have to get a new motherboard i guess. If i took it to a repair shop could i pay for them to replace the controller chip? thanks

Both the PSU already installed and the ocz PSU i recommened are ATX so it will fit long as this one is your computer http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...odTypeId=12454, and just follow the instructions in that guide to install the Psu and youll be just fine. I this helps

Hi' id recommend a power supply with a little more kick about 600w and maybe a bigger HDD

thats perfect having the two PCI-e connections. and Kens found a great guide to help replace/upgrade ur PSU.

i think he cant take it off because ?won't this void any warranty? of the company that carried out the upgrade? just a guess ive never delt with being sent away for upgrades sorry if this is wrong........ as like i said there all normal Temps thanks for correcting me Ken on the graphics card.

Is your Hard Drive showing up in your BIOS?

that would do the job for you

Please note; only one 6-pin connector on that PSU you need 2.

sorry just looked at the link i think it does come with a 2 terabyte hard disk drive its in the title -2TB-

Being a gamer i can certainly say games tend to run better on XP i put this down to the areo desktop windows vista and 7 and applications running in the background however you have 4gigs you shouldnt see any problems with lagging or sluggish gaming. Ken is right Win7 is the way forward they will stop making games that support windows XP with in a few years and then you'll be forced to upgrade to windows 7 also if i was you id upgrade to windows 7 64 bit. also id upgrade my HDD to 1 terabyte as games take up space. as you can see i only have 2GB in mine and i can run just about any game including the new COD MW3 in medium and alot of games in High.

Hi Graham, welcome to FPCH Your Power supply wouldn't be powerful under the Nvidia Recommened Power supply wattage sorry. Below is the recommended PSU 500w you existing PSU is only 460w also you will need a PSU that has 2 6-pin pci-e power connections to run the nvidia geforce gtx 560 ti 1gb. i can give you the link to some PSU's (This is the sort of PSU you want look at http://www.ebuyer.com/269259-corsair-600w-cx-series-v2-psu-6x-sata-2x-pci-e-cmpsu-600cxv2uk or http://www.ebuyer.com/174182-ocz-modxstream-pro-600w-psu-80-sli-certified-atx12v-ocz600mxsp-uk second is better) Thermal and Power Specs Nvidia: [TABLE=class: specTableSquare, align: center] [TR] [TD=class: innerDark]Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) [/TD] [TD=class: innerLight]99 C [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: innerDark, width: 300]Graphics Card Power (W) [/TD] [TD=class: innerLight]170 W [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: innerDark, width: 300]Minimum Recommended System Power (W) [/TD] [TD=class: innerLight]500 W [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=class: innerDark, width: 300]Supplementary Power Connectors [/TD] [TD=class: innerLight]Two 6-pin [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

it depends i would say buying one would keep the components like ur CPU and the internals a bit cooler but not much cooler its all about the air flow, just like how heat rises, but id say if its getting that hot and its affecting just the top of you case its the PSU and it just being upgraded means there more chance of that. PSU's are fitted with there own fans mine has two one thats visible inside the case and one thats blowing the hot air out the back if they failed or even just one the temp would get seriously hot its why there there. so adding a fan to ur case isnt going to solve that problem. you PSU getting that hot to me is either a Faulty fan or a Faulty PSU Put ur hand to the back of you computer were the PSU is and tell me if you can feel the "warm" air coming out. It should just be Warm not hot tell me if its HOT or if its WARM air thats being vented? Is ur graphics card 72c idle or 72c while running games? and like Ken said is it just were ur PSU is? if its getting that hot its dangerious protenchially a fire hazard as cables burn.

are you using a Stock CPU cooling Fan? a fan that came with the computer usally if its a AMD system they say AMD on the fan? there normal operating tempertures for you CPU and Motherboard far as i know specially if you using a stock CPU cooling fan (look above for example)http://www.jbtech.com/shop/images/atrex/cpu%20fan%20amd.jpg and for your Graphics card (what game are you running at the time you got these temps) the more immersive games can heat ur card high (mine runs about 46 degrees in idle just at the desktop) ive just looked ur Graphics specs your save to reach 99c http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-560ti-us.html One question and only do this if you feel safe doing, dont do it if you have no idea what you doing! just take the side panel off you computer (if ur looking directly head on to ur computer should be the left side panel) and tell us ur PSU power in WATTS, hight Wattage usually means highier tempertures but should not be burning hot , also put ur hand at the back of the PSU there sould be a fan on tell us if its working. as ur the temps you have put down are normal id say has to be ur PSU......... Make sure you unplug the power cord from your computer.. you say you had the computer upgraded did you also have the PSU upgraded and if so to what Wattage, what game did you use and for how long did you run the game for? One extra question where do you have Fans and were do you have spare fan vents?

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