Gregory's Server
@SwiftOnSecurity my work laptop is fine except for the thing where it will randomly BSOD and once that happens, the bios cannot even find the hard drive to boot from until I leave the device cold for a while. yeah, must be a cursed capacitor…
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 @rotopenguin @0xabad1dea @SwiftOnSecurity I have a refurb HP laptop. Overall it's nice, but HP injects their firmware that you can't turn off that will nag you every single time you start up if you use a non-HP battery. So typical of them. I will never buy another HP pc.  @croyle @rotopenguin @0xabad1dea @SwiftOnSecurity Haven't seen that yet, and we sold a bunch of compatible batteries to clients using HP laptops. OTOH, I will never ever recommend any Envy or Pavillion (or any other made-for-home HP computer) – practically every single one of these we sold had some kind of problem, and the warranty service support is atrocious, completely different from the business service. @jernej__s @rotopenguin @0xabad1dea @SwiftOnSecurity Glad you've avoided it. It's happened with mine and displays the non-HP battery warning every time I boot. HP EliteBook 830 G6 i7. Lots of online references to it happening. |
@0xabad1dea @SwiftOnSecurity I had an HP Envy that was like that. I ended up opening it up and found a few bits of stray metal in there, likely from HP doing a terrible job of countersinking the back case.
I cleaned it out, handed it off to someone else. I hear it's more reliable now, probably. You could not pay me enough to ever look at another HP.