I had a DV9205US, until last night when I tried to hook up an EXTERNAL MONITOR to the notebook, it started to smoke! No power was turned on for the notebook or monitor. The monitor had a power cord hooked up to it and the notebook had the power supplied with the unit! I'd had never hooked up an external monitor to the notebook since the day I bought it at FRY's.
I recall HP having problems with the video etc., from day one regarding this particular notebook! I believe this was one of those unfortunate units. As I stated NO POWER was turned on and yet it took a few seconds for me to smell that something was melting so as soon as I saw the smoke coming from the VGA port I knew something wasn't right! And there is NO way anyone is going to tell me that this is something that should have happened by connecting a monitor to an external VGA port. I expect to hear from HP to make arraigments for the shipment of this OUT OF WARRANTY but none the less DEFECTIVE NOTEBOOK WHICH I PAID OVER $1200.00 several years ago.
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To say I'm pissed is an understatement! Had I have owned the unit for 50 years there is no way in HELL anyone is going to tell me that simply by pluggng in a VGA monitor cable into the notebook it should, would, could, have a melt down! That should never happen under any circumstances for the life of the notebook! Any computer a consumer purchases should never have what happened to me under any conditions. There was simply something faulty and the only company to blame is HP! This notebook operated great and ran likewise for the entire time I had it until last night! I don't care if it's replaced with the same model as long as the spec are the same or a different model! I just demand that it be replaced by HP! Let me also state that I'm the only user this notebook has ever had, and I've never modified or changed anything on this notebook since I boughtit! And YES I do have the original receipt!
One last note I came on the web site to look up all of the recalls etc., for this unit and now there aren't any? BULL**bleep**!