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Yes.. I know I said I WASN'T updating this week, but I'm stubborn. My Tablet PC is giving me a LOT of problems (Do NOT buy an HP TX2000) and has for awhile. It melted itself last summer and is working its way there right now, although I AM going to take it in and have it looked at as soon as the people I contacted contact me back with information on when I can take it in for them to look at. I'm HOPING that the only thing wrong with it is that it needs to have things soldered back onto the motherboard. (It tends to melt the soldering on the WiFi, then other parts of the motherboard, which is causing the biggest issues... after the heat). I ran across a temporary and simple fix - yeah.. run it on POWER SAVER ... 9.9 So I got this nice tablet that is not to be used to the fullness of its design because some brilliant person at HP decided to put a falty nvidia graphics card in it that has the potential to EXPLODE.. yet there isn't a recall ... (I did a LOT of researching to find something I could do to make it so that I could work and use it.)
I'm not done with HP, because every machine in my apartment is HP and they all work fine, other than being a little old... like that 7 year old laptop that keeps plugging along without a single issue. I have been reading the reviews on the current (fixed) version of my tablet, because I suddenly realized, wait.. if I get a Cintiq, I won't have anything to carry WITH me when I leave the apartment... I wasn't actually carrying the TX2 a lot until a few months ago when I got over my fear of dropping it and visualizing it shattering into millions of pieces. :D The new version is the HP TM2, which runs cool... and costs around $700 depending on what new coupons there are. (Someday, I DO want that 12" Cintiq, but it costs so much more). Don't particularly want to lug around the 10 lb Pavillion laptop that I set up for Kim to use. :D I'm hoping it's going to be in the shipment of tablets that Best Buy told me they're getting in on the 15th. They also mentioned ASUS and I want to see some tablets now that people are starting to use them more. I'm so happy that they are ... why yes, thank you Apple, and that's the only thank you, you'll see from me! The glory of the tablet is for all to experience! (With a stylus, not your fingers... *shudder* I hate touching smooth hard surfaces with my fingers, it irritates them after awhile.)
So plan is - now that my current Tablet is useable, use it on the power saver setting, which isn't giving me any noticeable issues with Manga Studio, get it looked at and hopefully fixed for as little as possible - save up for new Tablet PC in the interim.
I SHOULD be recovering my pace soon.
- Tiff
9 thoughts on “11/10/2010”
ailruby
Those two look great to together, very cute and cheery. Also I love the fur detail.
Snake
its been a while since I last said anything, sorry to hear about the Tablet trouble Tiff.
Stuart Gathman
Last time I bought an HP laptop with Nvidia, I returned it within a week because the GPU ran at 85°C, uncomfortably close to the solder melting temp of 90°C. I’m reminded of the userfriendly.org cartoon where AJ gets a new super graphics card that requires 2 cooling towers (shaped like nuclear power plant cooling towers).
admin
I’ve learned my lesson. 😀 I’ve been perfectly happy with my tablet outside of the Nvidia graphics card and will likely pass on any laptops with said brand onboard. There were a LOT of recalls on Nvidia cards – sadly … none involved the tx2000, just the tx1000 line.
With it set on power saving, it’s working fine and not overheating … and I’m not really noticing a lot of slowdown. I’m avoiding multitasking.
KE7EHA
Hmm… well, considering this tablet was built in the past few years, they probably used lead-free solder on the board (RoHS, as directed by the EU limits the amount of lead you can use in electronics). Most lead-free solders have a melting point significantly higher than SnPb 63-37 solder, which itself melts at 183C. If it’s getting hot enough to melt solder connections, the tablet has some serious heat issues. Like fire hazard heating issues. Like design defect heating issues. Perhaps even potential lawsuit heating issues? Might be a way of getting it repaired and/or replaced.
Please note that I am not an employee of HP, and while I am an Electrical Engineer, I cannot give a professional opinion in a court of law due to the fact that I do not yet have a professional license. The above statement reflects my personal opinion on the subject, though.
Me
O_O Her fur is the color of cinnamon flavored pop tarts (on my computer). Now I’m hungry.
Chaos
HP wasn’t the only one having issues with the nvidia chips, Dell got hit by them too. I got something in the mail a while back concerning a class action lawsuit involving the faulty nvidia chips (which I luckily did not qualify for, as I got the Intel graphics adapter), but it might be worthwhile to look into what chips everyone was having problems with. Who knows, you might have the same POS.
admin
I’ve checked that list several times and mine isn’t on it… which is sadly amusing because I’ve been told that the tx2000 has the exact motherboard/gpu setup as the tx1000 that IS on the list, yet for some reason they excluded it and now that it’s been over two years, speculation is nothing is going to happen.
Better yet .. check this link out about suing. I have grounds to sue HP.
holden
do you think that may be why my computer wireles capabilities stoped working
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