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what a ridiculous piece of donkey **** this computer is. **** everything about it. **** its inordinately high operating temperature, **** its wanna be "touch" functions, **** Vista, **** HP, **** the $1200 I paid to basically lease this plastic rage-inducing heat sink of an ITT-Tech-Electrical-Engineering-Dropout-designed-this-while-high-on-mescaline-****-****-poor attempt at an actual marketable piece of electronics, **** me for not buying the hello-you're-about-to-buy-a-useless-hunk-of-****-that-will-break-in-366-days protections plan, **** me for thinking I could actually unfuck this masterpiece of shittery. You won this time you hewlitt-packard, facist, nerd-nazis, but you will not- nay, I say NEVER, **** ME AGAIN.
**** YOUR BRAND
**** YOUR YOU-SHOULD-HAVE-BOUGHT-A-COOLING-PAD-AND-NEVER-RUN-YOUR-COMPUTER-ON-ANYTHING-BUT-POWER-SAVER-AND-WE'RE-GONNA-PUT-THE-VENTILATION-SLOTS-IN-EXACTLY-THE-RIGHT-PLACE-TO-BE-BLOCKED-ANYTIME-YOUR-DOING-ANYTHING-BUT-LETTING-THIS-PLASTIC-****-BRICK-SIT-ON-PERFECTLY-FLAT-STURFACE piece of no-worth hell.
**** THE tx2.
rant over.
*SIGH* Well, once again I find my HP tx2-1020us on the fritz.
I need help determining just what exactly is wrong. About two weeks ago the display started doing something odd. I'll try my best to describe it. At first, these lines form. Its not the two line that I've read is a common problem. This is more like the columns of pixels on the screen rearranged and scrambled. Sometimes there are enough columns in the right place that you can tell what the image on the screen is supposed to be. However, it doesn't really matter because the computer pretty much freezes at that point.
Next, it will often go to the blue screen. So I restart. Sometimes the restart will actually load Windows, and when it does there often these vertical columns of checker board patterns. Each column is about three "checkers" wide, so its not like the entire screen is one big contigious checkerboard. Often when I see this on restart the computer will lock up and blue screen, again. This restart and blue screen can go on infinitely if I don't boot in safe mode.
The computer will come up in safe mode and you can still see some lines jumping around, but its different than when its in regular windows. Its more like discolored rectangular lines on top of the image, rather than scrambling the pixels that make the image.
I took it in to a local repair shop and the guy unistalled and reloaded the driver (which I had already done) and said he updated a few other things. He had it running all weekend and was watching video, using the touchscreen, listening to music, letting it sleep and waking it up, and said that it was working fine. So of course, the very second he hands it to me to check it out is starts screwing up again.
So I brought it home and I booted it up in safemode this afternoon, and it was doing the display thing but I was still able to get all my info backed up onto an external harddrive. Since i was backing up like 180 GBs it took a while. However, when I came back I noticed that it was no longer doing the display thing. So I restarted it and let it load into regular windows and its working fine, now. In fact I'm typing this on it now.
I'm sure the problem will recur, so does anyone have any opinions on whats going on? Is my motherboard about to bite the dust? Is there anything I can do? I'll be glad to post video/pics if you guys think it will help you decide whats going on.
THANKS!!
edit #1 - well sure enough it did it again, I uploaded some pics of it this time. hopefully that will help someone tell me whats wrong.
Hi there, i've experienced for the last week almost the same problem and even worse! When I started playing videos from youtube or other sites, I get those lines and the lcd start flickering and finally ,and before restarting the system due to system crash, I get this message in the start bar " the display driver stoped responding and recovered " OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS NOT SURE! And suddenly a blue screen with( system crash screen) with some text that barely could be read and again the system restart itself over and over till a log in into safemode :'( .
So I started digging around and looking for a solution one of them is to disconnect the power a dapter and keep runing on battery, theother thing I found a complete giude somewhere on amd website for troubleshooting such problem, I will post the link here coz i 'm using my phone now instead of my paptop.... What I figured out was the problem is more likely related with overheating of the AGP.
Thanks man, that would be mucho appreciated. I'd love for my tx2 to work, its a nice machine when its not constantly f'ing up. I think I've tried the power adapter disconnect and it didn't work for me. I also think it has something to do with the heat, but I've googled and googled and can't find anything on this. Most people just have the black screen with blinking LEDs, maybe this is precursor or variation on that.
thanks for any help you can offer!
p.s. that last post was mostly the tequila talking.
View unverified member's comment - posted by eugene_
Eugene, graphics and GPU failures on the TX2 are unfortunately common, there' s thread http://www.touchsmartdevzone.com/forum/thread/3501/How-I-fixed-my-dead-TX2-bl... which has dealt with multiple attempts to repair them.
Sometimes a design just doesn't stand up to the test of time, and the TX2 seems to be one of those.
UPDATE!Hello everybody now I'm writing again from My beloved Touchsmart TX2 1250ee... recently I couldn't get into the log in screen because of the messed up screen errors and BSOD!! but I realized that the cause of this error is nothing more than excessive heat which cause to chip functionality failure.. so what i did is I bought from ebay a copper shim of 1.5mm thickness and installed it beneath the thermal pad which already exist on the fan module. after assembling the laptop again, I could sign in and watch videos on youtube in 720 quality, BUT!!! the problem still exist with less impact, I mean that i'm still getting the message of ATI radeon family driver stopped.....etc but no BSOD and no system crash so far.
Put the igp into power save mode in Window's advanced power options, and right click the youtube video, choose settings, and disable hardware acceleration. Also disable Window's Aero.
That should keep the igp cool enough. Really though, you should not have left that spongy pad thing on if you are using a shim. You need a thicker shim if there is room enough for the thermal pad. Don't forget to use a little thermal compound too.
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I called HP and they were nice enough to send me some restore disks. So last night I cleared everything with the system restore disks. I've been using the computer non-stop since then doing all kinds of updates to the system with many, many restarts.
It seems to have solved the problem so far. One of the odd things about the issue was that it did seem to appear without any consistency, so I'm still a little anxious as to whether or not the issue will reappear, but for now it seems that the restore did the trick.
I can only guess after a year of constant use that maybe something got corrupted or perhaps the heat damaged a driver somewhere (if that's even possible). For now I'll just try to be aware of how hot the thing gets and keep my fingers crossed that this problem doesn't reappear.
tl;dr: I am the only person I know for whom re-imaging the harddrive actually solved their problem
edit: IGNORE EVERYTHING ABOVE, if you have a tx2, abandon hope, melt your computer down now and sell the rare earth metals for whatever you can get for them. Take the remaining plastic and pour it into the shape of a ***** and bend over so that you can finish the job HP started the second you paid for this embarrassment to capitalism.