HP laptops with AMD motherboards are all defective garbage

Why does HP continue to use these notoriously defective AMD boards? You're lucky to get a year out of them, and then convienently just after the year warranty is up they die. Windows has a blue screen of death, I think AMD HP's should be called the black screen of death. I have a G7-1330dx and the motherboard failed. It would not charge or recognize a good ac adapter (tried 3 good ones). So I buy a used motherboard on Ebay, that's they claim was tested. I install it and guess what.....black screen of death. There's currently 9 of these specific motherboards on Ebay and 5 out of 9 are dead, and one untested, which probably also means dead. First it was the dv2000, dv6000, dv9000 etc series that had the black screen of death, then it was the dv5, dv6 etc......Now HP keeps it's horrible reputation going by using the same defective junk in the G6's and G7, and who knows how many more models. I am returning this dead mb to the Ebay seller, I will buy another used one on Ebay and once this piece of crap works I am selling it and buying a Dell with an Intel. Here's my advice to anyone that reads this that was thinking about buying an HP.....Don't do it, you will be sorry. Buy a Dell. I will share this advice on Facebook and fill out numerous reviews, hopefully I can prevent someone from getting robbed by HP.

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Why does HP continue to use these notoriously defective AMD boards? You're lucky to get a year out of them, and then convienently just after the year warranty is up they die. Windows has a blue screen of death, I think AMD HP's should be called the black screen of death. I have a G7-1330dx and the motherboard failed. It would not charge or recognize a good ac adapter (tried 3 good ones). So I buy a used motherboard on Ebay, that's they claim was tested. I install it and guess what.....black screen of death. There's currently 9 of these specific motherboards on Ebay and 5 out of 9 are dead, and one untested, which probably also means dead. First it was the dv2000, dv6000, dv9000 etc series that had the black screen of death, then it was the dv5, dv6 etc......Now HP keeps it's horrible reputation going by using the same defective junk in the G6's and G7, and who knows how many more models. I am returning this dead mb to the Ebay seller, I will buy another used one on Ebay and once this piece of crap works I am selling it and buying a Dell with an Intel. Here's my advice to anyone that reads this that was thinking about buying an HP.....Don't do it, you will be sorry. Buy a Dell. I will share this advice on Facebook and fill out numerous reviews, hopefully I can prevent someone from getting robbed by HP.
Hi,
I have bought a tested mtb (Intel) off eBay and it was also defective. Not dead but couldn't pass through the POST. G6/7 series are budget laptops!! If you want a decent laptop buy an Envy. It's still cheaper with the same or even better configuration than a Dell laptop.
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