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What an incredible buy!!!! The monitor adjusts, the screen is huge and clear and simple. Everything about it makes this an excellent purchase.

I bought my hp Desktop and it came with the f1703 screen. It is 5 years old now. Almost 2 years ago I decided to find out the public opinion of these screen and found two types of reviews: "Great screen" and "Blackout problems" Well, it worked perfectly until 1 month ago when the blackout issue started. Fortunatly I found out years before how to solve it. The problem is that the solder of some coils is not the best in these screen, seems to be a manufacturing problem. To fix it you just have to open it resolder and put it together again. There are some good walkthroughs out there in the Internet, just a matter of finding them. If these happens to you, try to resolder as fast as possible, if not, the coil migh start to melt the plastic case. My dear screen stoped working for one day, and I got it working in just a days work and 20 pesos, less tan 2 dollars. It works perfectly now. No dead pixels.

The April 2008 review is either an after-the-fact HP plant (or the person is confused).

The hp pavilion f1703 (sic) that the people are reviewing here is a monitor; not a computer; and it is indeed awful. After owning a flatscreen from a different vendor (and being impressed with it); I added the HP f1703 in 2005.

I was shocked to encounter a: the screen blacking out issue reported by many, and b: the same poor, denying culpability, HP support. After many calls, I *finally* got through to the one :-) HP person that understood.

I was able to trade the Brand New f1703 that I had purchased, for a used, refurbished one, from someone else; that included a few (annoyingly placed) dead pixels upon arrival.

I recommend hardware to customers.

The f1703; dead IPAQs; and a huge 4500n color laser that came dead on arrival has caused me not to recommend HP at all in 4 years. I used to be a big HP proponent, before seeing their quality fall off a lot after 2000.

I bought the hp pavilion f1703 4 years ago and am currently using it right now.it has been the best comp i have ever owned.there has never been any problems at all.this comp has stood the test of time,and will support any new game or video out there.i would suggest buying this computer for the low price if u cant afford a new one.

Was okay while it lasted, but we bought the monitor in June 2005 and it is now dead (in July 2006). Very disappointing.

The monitor comes on for a few seconds and then goes off. It is exactly what is described in HP's product alert "HP Pavilion f1703 LCD Monitor - Intermittent Video, No Video, No Backlight" except that their replacement only covers monitors manufactured from October 2003 through June 2004. Despite the fact that it appears to be exactly the same problem which they apparently didn't fix in later revisions, they will not replace or repair our monitor, so it is now useless.

For this reason I recommend staying away from this product.