Motherboard Dies after replacing Hard Drive

[techyguy717]

Model HP Pavilion DV7. 3 - 4 Years old.

Replace Hard Drive with Samsung 840 Evo SSD. Clone image to new drive. Customer reports Laptop works 2x - 3x times faster for 1.5 weeks, then system will not resume from sleep after sitting overnight. No power, no lights. Completely dead.

After testing, I determine that main motherboard is bad.

I know that Pavilions can go bad after 3 years, especially considering customer is very heavy business user.

Could this be related to the SSD replacement in anyway?

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Doubt it. Besides you don't really know how the system was treated. I mean if the guy is a heavy business user, and the pc started going faster, he may have started pushing it to it's limits and it might have overheated. Especially if he was not shutting it down overnight, you don't really know all the variables there. Have seen HP's with bad power supplies/fried boards after 1-2 years. Wonder if this system was one of the ones with infamous nvidia graphics?

 

[joydivision]

Only if the SSD consumed a lot more power than the hard drive which I doubt as they generally consume less power.

It is a DV, I assume with an Nvidia chipset, they just eat motherboards like F1 drivers eat tyres.

I am personally weary of repairing older DV laptops with Nvidia chipsets because I know they have a habbit of severe over heating.

 

[techyguy717]

Motherboard is fully AMD, which is why I agreed to motherboard replacement, considering big projects that need currently configured software.

You are correct. He needs to bite the bullet in the next year and buy himself a business laptop. But he loves his mobile 17 Inch screen, and those are becoming rare.