tx2500 no screen image :(

[biscuit6447]

i have had my tx2500 for about 16 months. just today when i went to work it was normal.... 4 hours later i came home and the screen was blank.

i restarted it, but the screen doesn't even power on. all the drives work (i can hear them), the lights on the edges of the screen work, but the screen does not come on at all....

no damage at all. no cracks, dents, water damage, nothing.


anyone else ever had this problem??

thanks, Josh

[Frank]

Does it boot up?
Does an external monitor work?
If you look very closely at the display can you see something? Maybe the display back light doesn't work any longer.

[Dr_Observer]

Good day

My 12months old tx2510us had the same problem !!!

It was working fine yesterday and when I tried powering it on today, it did exactly like yours:
- All the light indicators are on, the caps lock and num locks lights are flashing contentiously, but the HD light indicator is off
- The DVD drive is active and can be ejected
- The fan is revolving,
- But the screen is totally black,

I can assume it does not pass the booting sequences
I can confirm it's not responding to any inputs, except to the power-off key

I hope anyone has any clue to what's going on

Thanks

[Dr_Observer]

Ahhh

I sent it to HP and they told me that the motherboard is fried out.

and since its warranty is expired 2 weeks ago, i have to pay the full price of the new motherboard.

[Tiezep]

holy crap, I thought the amd/ati board wouldn't have the same problem as the past models.

you could try re-soldering the gpu and try applying the 1 mod to rule them all, other wise you could check ebay for tx2500 or tx2 board (both had extremely similar cases, I would guess even a tx2000 board would fit in the case too) and while putting in a board I would also do the the 1 mod to rule them all and undervolt the turion ultra while using windows.

that or it seems like a bunch people will be moving on to the tm2 or simply moving away from hp

either way, your choice, if I can find any cheap mobos I guess I will post them here,
-Tyler

[Tiezep]

upon further investigation I'm really starting to think the tx2 and the tx2500 had the same board, but a tx2500 board will run you around $145 and the tx2 board is still at $180-$210

I can send you a link via pm if you request it,
-Tyler

[Juke]

Try fn+f4
Hope it helps.

[outermarker]

you could try re-soldering the gpu and try applying the 1 mod to rule them all,

Tyler, what is the 1 mod to rule them all?

[Tiezep]

Tyler, what is the 1 mod to rule them all?

Modding the Tx1000 part 1 (changing the thermal compound)

everything you need to know is in this thread.

but basically the procedure is to remove the black paint from the heat sink, remove hp's cheap thermal paste and replace it with artic silver 5, and to replace the weird gel pad used on the gpu with a makeshift copper plate (makeshift because most people sand down a penny) which you sandwich between arctic silver 5.

I call it the mod to rule all mods to honor the way the original author of that thread wrote (kinda writes like its lord of the rings), also because it's simply the best thing you can do for any tx tablet

hope you consider this mod as an option as it increases the life expectancy of your tx tablet, and decreases your max temp.
-Tyler

[Tiezep]

uh oh, starting to fear for mine now.

I had it downloading a linux distro over night and woke to find the wifi out.

I restarted and it worked perfectly so I left it to DL while I went to school.

came back to have my compy with a blank screen and restarted again.

boots up and runs fine on this restart.

I'm hoping these are undervolting issues like the ones I've seen before and not a mobo issue.

strange thing is that it has been running cool, even when gaming after I modded it.

also I'd hate for it to die on my b-day, especially with ram and a new palm rest in the mail for it,
-Tyler

update: it did the black screen thing again and it resumed after I clicked the actual mouse button... earlier I hit the keyboard and flicked the switch but I didn't click...

sigh of relief now /sigh