a long time ago, I got a free laptop. It is a HP Pavilion dv7. Pretty neat computer IMHO, it has a mouse pad and stuff so it works. well now it does. When I got it, it didn't turn on. So it rotted in my basement for a few months. Then I got the courage to open it up.
The RAM was shattered. Seriously just there was pieces of it everywhere, a few minutes of tweezering later, I got the RAM cleared out and put in 2x2GB RAM. I blew some chips out and then closed it back up. Then I looked at the wires of the screen that were squirting out the sides. I took the bezel/bevel whatever you call it off it and had a local technician resolder it on (my soldering skills need work).
Then I put the plastic cover whatever the forget you call it on the top and turned it on. Woohoo! it had some crappy Windows Vista Starter Edition. Oh and let me mention it took 3 days to turn on. So after that I realized it has to be a different problem. So I turned it off (MISTAKKEE) and completely took the bottom off. It was all gunky and stuff but nothing seemed to be broken. I double checked everything and nothing seemed to look at all damaged. I scrapped it back together and took out the battery. This time it turned on in 2 hours! So I realized it had to be the battery doing something loving weird. Then I accidently did some update thing and it had to restart.
forget. Wait what? If the software restarted the computer, it would restart fine. Though if you restarted it with the pwoer button it clunked out. Interesting. I put the battery back in and turned it on. When it came on I found out WITH THE BATTERY IN that my laptop didn't recognize it. An order later (it was like 30 bucks) I got the new battery and it turned on in 30 seconds, which was great. So I wiped it and put on Ubuntu and did my little customizations, and now I have my little Bubuntu Laptop updating (203 updates, yikes!) besides me.
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