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HP Pavilion DV6810US 15.4-inch Laptop (AMD Turion 64 X 2 Dual Core TL-60 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)
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(1 out of 5) by LBC on May 25, 2008 (Pennsylvania)A year and a half ago I bought a HP Pavilion dv6140 running Windows XP Media Center Edition with an eye toward putting my records onto CD. It took months to find a way to import analog music into this computer as the drivers supplied with most boxes that fed in through the USB ports weren't compatible with Media Center Edition. I finally bought one that actually worked feeding in through the Firewire port.
I experienced a period of annoying random screen lockups which required installation of an upgraded BIOS downloaded from Hewlett-Packard.
The computer came with built in wireless capability. I didn't know this feature never worked from new until I got a wireless router and found out I couldn't go online via wireless. HP knows this is a problem and has extended the warranty a year to get this fixed. I haven't sent mine back yet.
Microsoft's crackerjack operating system has refused for the past few months to recognize the built in Lightscribe DVD writer as a writable unit, which meant no saving anything to CD or DVD. Popular online fixes for this problem did not work. I recently downloaded Service Pack 3 which restored the DVD drive write recognition.
At this moment my dv6140 sits idle next to me. This morning it refused to boot up. The hard drive access light never comes on.
This has been my experience with a Hewlett-Packard laptop computer. Take from my experience what you will.
I experienced a period of annoying random screen lockups which required installation of an upgraded BIOS downloaded from Hewlett-Packard.
The computer came with built in wireless capability. I didn't know this feature never worked from new until I got a wireless router and found out I couldn't go online via wireless. HP knows this is a problem and has extended the warranty a year to get this fixed. I haven't sent mine back yet.
Microsoft's crackerjack operating system has refused for the past few months to recognize the built in Lightscribe DVD writer as a writable unit, which meant no saving anything to CD or DVD. Popular online fixes for this problem did not work. I recently downloaded Service Pack 3 which restored the DVD drive write recognition.
At this moment my dv6140 sits idle next to me. This morning it refused to boot up. The hard drive access light never comes on.
This has been my experience with a Hewlett-Packard laptop computer. Take from my experience what you will.