NEVER TOUCH ANY HP HEWLETT PACKARD PRODUCTS
 

So this company makes lack luster products and has been pissing me off in the little i have had to deal with them.
For a simple story and i will note it like this

-Girlfriend gets hp laptop as gift

-hp makes shitty product and when she goes back to school a year later and uses the laptop more it breaks

-apparantly her series is notorious for motherboard overheating issues and it causes deterioration of the wifi card causing it to be spotty for a few weeks then transitions over to not working. And eventually stops working all together.

-so it was recalled and they replaced the motherboard for free

-2 weeks later this "so called revision" in the motherboard that fixes the overheating issue really just means they replaced it with the same board as before.

-so i get a case manager, they tell me that within three days i will have a fedex box with shipping materials and that it will be free of cost

-so 2-3 weeks have gone by and im on the phone with them right now, with a case number that now apperantly doesn't exist and they are asking for 541.38usd to repair the laptop.

Cliffs*Hp go die like GM just without the goverment subsidization
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HP=Fail.

DV2000/6000/9000? I've heard the TX1000s are bad also. We repair a TON of them.

hp suck a**

I'm typing this from a HP laptop, it's been running well for the last 3 years. It's never moved from this spot, but, it's still going...

HP camera here . peice of crap first 1 broke in a week lens wouldnt retract and this 1 takes crappy pics without a tripod . just a bad deal all around.

just picked up an hp laptop bout 2 weeks ago and it already failed

I`m on a paviolion ze4900 right now, when it overheats it locks up. It is bad ass. When the display backlighting went out I had to replace the bulb - not a simple task.

i have a hp dv6000 and it seems to be working ok for me havent had any problems and have had it over a year

all my hp printers are bad news.

had 3 hp lapbtops now i switched to mac its like night and day

pc to mac will be a huge change alone

gratz on the mac

yea, iv went through 2 and they both sucked!!!1

Usually when my computer fucks up, I can trace it back to the hp drivers for this ------- hp psc all-in-one nightmare.(printer/scanner)

that blows

bought a brand new hp pc... works for 5 months literally then just stops connecting to the net.. i tried renewing ip and all that crap and still didnt work so i had to put windows BACK on the sob! it works then out of no were the network just stops working then i have to fukin restart the damn thing... FUKIN NOT EVEN A YEAR OLD! FFFFUUUKKK HHHPPP!!!!! I FREAKIN HATE WINDOWS VISTA TOO!!!! DAMNIT!!! GIVE ME XP BACK!!!



yea i so want to go to mac!!

Have two HP laptops, the older one is tolerable. The new one right outta the box dropped wifi connection for no reason. Was recalled, sent in & fixed. A year 1/2 later it's doing it again. I've had more HP come across my bench than any other computer, customer support is worthless, and the quality sucks ass. Maybe more HP's are sold which explains the rediculous number that are broken? Hmmmm.
My 1st computer was an Acer, had 0 problems w/ it the 5 years I had it. Bought a new Acer a few years ago and the only problem was the DVD burner that came out of a HP computer, lol.

Had an hp dv series after 1yr the mother board went bad, replaced for free after argueing with the people from india before I could get state side help got computer back 1 month after they already had it. two months later harddrive died again agrued with people in india and then got to talk to someone stateside. again 1 month later hard drive went bad agian argued with hp in india then got someone state side. HP is a joke threw the damn thing away and bought a dell, no problems so far. STAY AWAY FROM HP AND THEIR CRAPPY CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Uh Oh.... I would say Dell is a close 2nd as far as quality goes. In our office we got all new dell equipment around 2 yrs. ago, probably around 30-35 desktops and a few laptops. So far, more than half of the power supplies have gone out, some have went out twice (they claimed they fixed the problem w/ the new supplies, but didn't). My hard drive went out twice (forgot which brand HD they put in, western digital maybe?), and one other. Most of the CRT monitors have problems to the point of replacing them. We got the CRT monitors for the engineering department because they had the biggest resolution. The ones that went out were replaced w/ nice big flatpanels, however we are already having problems w/ them. I know one of them has what looks like a smudge, but it's under the screen, it's a defect. There have been many more problems that I don't want to get into... i.e. blue screens, software problems, hardware problems, etc. even when nothing has changed on the computer since purchased. Luckily since we are a business it's not hard to get through customer service, but I know if you are an individual, forget it. You can't get anywhere w/ them.

SlowSl that is true about their customer service heard that before buying laptop. My wife has one and it has taken a beating over the years and still works. What hardware issue have you had with dell computures if you don't mind me asking.

I'm not saying they are all damned, asside from the power supplies the ratio of working to broken computers is in the favor of the working, however it's still a staggering number of our computers that have had major problems. Your wife is one of the lucky ones. I would have to ask our computer guy, but from conversations I've heard.....

Ram failure caused some kind of bios startup fault, replaced ram & fixed it.
DVD-rom failure
power switch intermittently working

More windows related are the blue screens of death that many have encounterd on a monthly basis. I know it's a windows fatal error for some hardware problems, or hardware assignments, etc.

I don't know what happened to our server computer, but it's gone out from time to time, as well as the server battery backup, it took a crap and it's less than two years old.

If you buy a dell, you have a good chance of getting one of these nightmares.

I work on a lot of computers for friends & family. HP seems to be the most broght to me. It probably has a lot to do w/ how many people own them, they are cheap and every store sells them, but man. One computer shop in our town said they get more HP's than any other. My laptop when brand new had a problem that it would randomly drop internet connection. I called & called & called and they ran this test and that test and kept insisting that it's fine & wouldn't do anything about it. Finally, after about two months they actually admitted that it was a problem that they were getting swamped w/ calls & that they would honor the warranty. Sent it back and they fixed it. When it was returned there was a huge scratch/gouge on the top of the laptop & it took hours of arguing and pushing for them to replace what they scratched. A year later it's doing it again. On top of my DVD burner went out. Replaced it and still no-go, the pins, or one of them had broken off the board, and disconnected contact. Junk. Pieces of ----. E-machines & alienware seem to have a good reputations. My moms had an E-machine for 6 years now and not one problem. I'm not even going to mention the details on my old HP laptop is now having w/ a bios error..... My 3rd, old old Dell laptop I use to tune my car had the power board fail shortly after buying it, so it is it detects a 70 watt instead of 90 watt power supply & goes into system optimized power save mode & does not charge the battery. Customer support said to replace the board & it will fix it. So I buy one and replace it..... Dont get an awful gray screen anymore warning about the 70 watt, but then still goes into power save, & now it charges the battery, but only 10% and it takes overnight...... a few months later that board failed again. The power plug jack also broke two of the pins, due to the crappy engineering of the casing allowing it to flex all to hell. Had to fix that., ugh.

Thanks for the heads up on the issues with some of the software. Just asking due to having problems with it running slow and not wanting to get onto yahoo mail, but other than that it runs like a chance. Thanks again for the info.

shut the ---- up whiner.

I am typing this on a hp netbook I got for 180 bucks (refurb).... works like a charm.... but if you want a good REAL computer build one with brand name parts.... it's not that expensive and if you use http://www.tigerdirect.ca/
and buy all the parts as a kit and build it yourself it's 100 times better.

Thought you all might find this humorous. My mother in law ordered a HP desktop online, AMD quad-core, 6GB ram, 1.XX TB HD, etc. etc., great specs. It was put on back order and she ended up finding the exact same model at another store in stock. My fiancee ended up buying this one off of her for some reason.

Her computer went out, so just to get her by I found an old junk 10yr old computer and set it up so she could use it for work. 1st thing when she gets the new HP setup, the internet is noticeably slow. as an example, testing the old computer, her old old computer, and the new HP, using the exact same router, modem & net. adapter, the HP is less than 1/2 the speed. As an example, on the HP, most youtube videos buffer every few seconds, it can't keep up. She upped her service through verizon to double the speed, and it still is exactly the same. I don't have a clue how that could be, but it is.

2nd issue, we get my fiancees HP setup, and put in a dvd, and nothing...... The computer doesn't recognize the drive. After quite a while w/ customer service, we pop open the cover and check on things, the ------- SATA wire wasn't all the way plugged in, I mean come on, WTF. Pieces of ----. BTW, same thing at our house, with comcast's 20+mbit service, internet is slow, and all streaming vids buffer every few seconds.


I couldn't agree more. I had built a monster for around $500 about 5 years ago w/out any problems w/ it. I just watched for a few months and jumped on the deals.