HP Pavilion md5880n 1080p DLP TV

The image reflects a double and triple picture along with horizontal thin white lines across the screen. Do I need to change the bulb or is this more of a tech problem and would need to be serviced. If so, what is the most probable item that needs replacing. Can I order this piece through you ? thanks

i have thesame problem, it just started. were you able to fix the tv? if so was it worh the price?
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Hello @RyoX,
I see that you're looking to upgrade the display. I will try to assist you with this.
I can provide you with a this link, to your Maintenance and Service guide. What is listed here would work with your notebook, there may not be upgrades. I'm not sure if the one you've listed will work or not.
Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.
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Hello Whoissyntax,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
In terms of the video pixel issue, it seems like there might be a hardware failure. You have also done the majority of the troubleshooting. The only other steps I can suggest are here: Display Quality Issues
If you are not satisfied, I would contact HP phone support, or return the product if possible. You can utilize this website to learn how to contact HP appropriately, based on your region: Contact HP Worldwide
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Overscan with 1080p Mitsubishi 57731

I've read alot about HDTV's having overscan occur when hooked up to a computer. I have my Mac mini hooked up via the DVI input with 1080p accepted as native resolution. Overscan occurs and I'm forced to format a 1080p reduced mode to remove the overscan but it does take about an inch away from each area of the screen. My problem is the reduced mode isn't nearly as sharp the normal 1080p(I'm older and my eyes strain more now). Anyone have any experience with this brand TV(Mitusubishi 57731) or using the switch res program to remove the front porch settings etc? Also if I change the front porch settings etc will that prevent a full 1080p signal?

+I've read alot about HDTV's having overscan occur when hooked up to a computer.+
Yes, and this is especially true of DLPs and other RPTVs (rear projection TVs) because, by design, they are set to have overscan. They never actually show their true resolution on the screen. So even though your Mits has a 1080p engine in it, you never see that many pixels on the screen.
+I have my Mac mini hooked up via the DVI input with 1080p accepted as native resolution.+
Well, from reading your TVs user manual on-line, I'd say you are lucky to have gotten that far. Pages 89 and 90 do not present a very rosy picture for being able to do that. For example, page 89, under section titled "PC Viewing" it says, "Your Mitsubishi TV can display resolutions from standard VGA (640 x 480) through XGA (1024 x 768) 60-Hz refresh rates only." So that's good you got it to run from 1080p from the mini. The manual for that TV suggests that shouldn't even be possible.
+Overscan occurs and I'm forced to format a 1080p reduced mode to remove the overscan but it does take about an inch away from each area of the screen.+
As stated, in a DLP set, overscan is always present. It's just not obvious with typical source material like TV and movies because you can't tell where the edges are to begin with. A computer's output is totally different in that regard because where the edges are is made very obvious by things like the OS X menu bar and dock.
+My problem is the reduced mode isn't nearly as sharp the normal 1080p(I'm older and my eyes strain more now).+
That's because scaling is taking place and there is no longer a one-for-one relationship between pixels in video memory and pixels on screen. The 1920 x 1080 pixels are being squeezed into a reduced area and the clarity will suffer.
+Anyone have any experience with this brand TV(Mitusubishi 57731) or using the switch res program to remove the front porch settings etc?+
I own a Mits LCD 1080p TV that I have hooked to my mini and it's working nicely, out-of-the-box, and I didn't need to use SwitchRes X. But I don't own a DLP set so can't comment specifically on configuring SwitchRes X or DisplayConfigX to try and get the display working better. It may not even be possible. Certainly you cannot get true 1080p to display native with all the pixels on the screen. That just can't happen.
+Also if I change the front porch settings etc will that prevent a full 1080p signal?+
No, fiddling with porches does not alter the original format. But neither does it typically have any predictable affect on the image size displayed on a digital TV set.
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=722331&highlight=57731
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=581433&highlight=57731

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Hello everyone, I found this forum after some searching around, I figure it's the best place since it is Toshiba itself, rather than a forum with all TV's. I'm very sorry for the long message, but I wanted to share everything so that you have all the info. I know it's hard to read through all that but I hope someone with know-how does and helps me.
My TV: Toshiba 62" DLP (62HM84) connected through HD cables of high quality (RGB), not HDMI (I found the former is better on this TV for some reason, maybe due to the latter being new at that time)
I bought this TV within months of its release, so I've had it for a very long time, and have experience with its functions as well as how it's supposed to look like, and of course how much life to expect from the lamp/ballast.
The first lamp lasted almost 2 years, and I replaced it. Since then I replaced the lamp on average about every year and a half (acceptable, perfectly, as the TV is on all the time).
So, after about 4 lamp replacements, it exploded again. This time the new lamp would not work, and I found out it was the ballast. $300 later, it was on again and working fine.
Since this last replacement, which was well over 2 years ago now, closer to 3 years, by far the longest of any before, it's still going, minus the darkness problem, described below.
In the last few months I have noticed the TV is noticeably darker, at all times. It was never very bright in daylight, but now it's almost impossible to watch in the day, and at night, when usually everyone who came over told us that our TV is by far the most beautiful as far as picture goes of all they have seen (even compared to new 1080p LEDs and plasmas, I guess they just don't know how to set them up properly), at night it is just nice now, no longer bright and beautiful, but just nice. Still looks great in HD, but for some reason it's just dark.
Contrast, brightness, HUE, Color, everything is set perfectly, I tried film/movie/video modes, LOW/HIGH (it's always on high now), and nothing. It's still very nice, but dark, much darker then ever before, even if still very sharp and colorful. When connected through HDMI and my laptop, it's almost unwatchable, the dark scenes are so dark you can't see anything, but I don't think that is related because on HD channels the problem is not that bad, it's dark, but watchable, and dark scenes are still normal, just not like they should be.
I am just wondering basically if this problem is an old lamp problem, which is what I'm hoping. I can't see it being the color wheel, the colors are great and my searches brought up no such hits. But I can't wrap my head around a bulb losing brightness over time, I always figured it's either working or not, over its lifetime, it's the reason why I chose DLP over Plasma/LCD (at the time, my next will be a LED for sure, maybe Toshiba, have to do research)
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
PS. How important is it to buy an OEM lamp rather than one that is made by a third party? I don't even know which I have now, or if Toshiba even still makes these, or if they ever did (the color wheel is Samsung, I don't think Toshiba makes any parts at all, only puts them together, but I don't know for sure, and I've always had Toshiba tv's in the past, so I'm sticking to what I know, but that may change). When I buy the lamp, I just go by the code on the lamp, I forget it now (TB25-LMP , I think)
I just did a search for lamps, and it seems there are big differences in prices, from $72 on newegg, to $150 from some Japanese named company which claims the lamp is extremely high quality.
If it is the lamp, I mean my problem, I want to get the best possible, if it makes a difference, the make of the lamp I mean. Please, any help.
I'm very sorry for the long message.

did changing the lamp resolve your problem with the picture being dim?

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I am one of the many unhappy customers who bought this piece of junk (Pavilion Elite e9180f) and waited too long to return it because in my naivete, I thought it was some kind of simple software issue. Nope! It's definitely something wrong with the hardware, because the freezes and crashes have been happening since day 1, right when I took the thing out of the box.
Yeah, the system is fast and runs Windows Vista great, when it's actually WORKING, which is usually only guaranteed for about the first 5 minutes after you power the system on and boot windows. After that, it's just buying time before it crashes again. Forget trying to get anything done on this computer. Forget about asking this PC to play a video or music file without the files "stuttering" during playback. Even my 7 year old Sony Vaio which is running XP can handle playing an MP3 file without stuttering and crashing!
Like everyone else, the freezes and crashes happen either one of two ways:
1) The machine begins to "stutter", stutter more, then freeze/crash. When I say stutter, I mean I move the mouse, the pointer graphic will hesitate on the screen and lag behind. If you start to play a video or music file, this manifests in an audible "stutter". The stuttering gets worse and worse as minutes pass until eventually it freezes for good, blasting that 1/50th second moment of audio into infinity. You have to reboot immediately if you don't want to go deaf or be driven mad.
2) I will be doing nothing at the time (example, I close all programs out and leave Windows sitting on the main desktop screen), I'll walk out of the room for a minute, then come back and find I can't move the mouse. This system will often lock-up without any warning!
Sometimes I'll get a BSOD or error screen, sometimes I won't (in which case your only option is to do a cold re-boot.) When I do get the BSOD, the error is ALWAYS the "did not get a response from the secondary processor" yada yada. I wish HP would just admit they shipped this model out with a bad processor/motherboard/whatever and do an official recall. I have owned PCs for the last 13 years and this is the worst and most consistently disappointing experience I have ever had.
What is the hardware issue? Which part is the lemon part? The motherboard? The processor? The BSODs seem to indicate a bad processor. I do have the Pegatron Truckee version 1.03 motherboard. Is that the problem?
P.S. I have contacted HP on many occasions about this, literally stayed on the phone for hours with "customer support" (according to one HP rep, 80% of their customer service reps are based outside of the United States...good luck getting any "technical" help from them) to no avail. I did talk to one nice tech support guy in Canada who said "it sounds like your unit has a bad processor", so he had HP send me a box to ship my unit to their repair center so they can replace the processor. However, I have also had HP reps tell me it could be anything from the memory to the hard drive. Multiple HP reps claimed to me that they have "received no complaints" about this system. One guy told me he "thought he got an email last week" regarding "something" about the system, but couldn't remember what it was and he put me on hold while he searched for the email. He never found it. What a joke.
EDIT: Just to clarify, the crashing issue has been happening since day one, but initially I thought it was an issue with Vista. I had never owned or used Vista before, so I thought maybe Vista was just unstable. Nope. I know several people who own Vista and have never experienced these issues. I have downloaded every update from Microsoft/Windows Update. I have upgraded to Vista SP2 with all the latest drivers and software for all of my hardware. No luck. It is definitely a hardware issue. Thank god HP's warranty is good for 1 year (I bought my Elite in July).
Message Edited by Doonyman on 09-24-2009 02:58 AM

Unfortunately I have to add my disastrous encounter with HP's E9180F a true lemon HP is selling. I must take some responsibility for not carefully researching this model before I purchased, but I trusted the HP name and got stung- big time.
The scoundrel :
HP and its Pavilion Elite e9180f
Windows 7 64bit
motherboard - Pegatron Truckee ver 1.03
BIOS ver 5.22Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
Memory 9206 MB Ram
As so many others have reported my HP E9180f started locking up and going to BSOD right out of the box. My first freeze-up came when I was doing the Windows update process. At first I didn't think much about it but I started getting random freezes a couple time a day. At that point I went online to see if others had experienced the same problem and perhaps had a fix. What I found was very troubling; I found extensive documentation describing my exact problems and what was really horrifying was the reports of how ridiculous HP's help services were treating people with the problem. At first I didn't totally believe what I was reading on HP's own customer forum; I do now.
·         I've went through the total recovery process three times now, HP techs have spent hours remotely running my computer, (yes it did lock up on them to)
·         I had to upgraded the BIOS. (HP tech tried, said he had, but he hadn't)
·         I was directed to clear the BIOS (luckily for me I had the tools
·         Updated all drivers again and again.
·         Next I was asked to remove the video card, memory, and motherboard power cable and reseat them. I declined because I didn't want to give HP any reason to void my HP 2 year House Call Care Pack which covers this unit. When I invited HP to send a service tech out to perform these tasks, they said that house call only covers part replacement, we weren't replacing a part. I couldn't believe what I was told. Are you feeling my frustration?
Keep in mind that each time HP requests that I make changes, they then ask me to test the system, which I did and each time with the same result, BSOD
I'm heading into my fifth week of working with HP to fix this problem. and I still haven't even been able to get my case moved up to a senior case manager, what a joke HP's help process is.
One conversation I loved was;
HP tech: "I'll have a senior case manager call you within 24 hours."
Skeptical me: "What should I do if I don't get a call?"
Silence, no response.
Me again: "What should I do if I don't get a call?"
HP tech: "That's an impossibility."
Guess what? The impossibility became reality (I bet you guessed) .
HP's last stall tactic was to have me fax them my proof of purchase and invoice and call back in 24 hours. Where have I heard that before? Apparently nothing can go forward until they receive it. So I faxed them the stuff within 10 minutes, and when I called back 24 hours later, guess what, you're right it wasn't on their system yet. I asked couldn't I be escalated to a senior case manager (it's apparent that only a senior case manager can do anything). "No," was the tech's reply, "call back again later".
Please if anyone out there knows the secrete to getting a senior case manager, or an HP tech support number here in the U.S. so I can get this thing fixed I'd love to know it.
Fast becoming HP never again.

Possible to connect an external monitor to HP Pavilion dv4t-4200 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC

I have a HP Pavilion dv4t-4200 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC model # A1M02AV and it has a VGA port, one that looks like a phone/broadband cable port, and one that looks like a USB port but indented on either side at the bottom. Can I even connect an external monitor? How do I find out if I have more than 1 video card? Besides the usual USB/headphone ports, I don't have any other ports. It says my drivers are up to date...but I don't even know what I should be looking for. Do I need to install something or buy some sort of adapter?
I am trying to connect a Dell external montitor via the VGA port with a VGA cable. The monitor has power but my notebook does not recognize/detect it. However, when I first plugged it in, my notebook display shrank into a square (vs the whole screen) so it recognized something...but nothing happened on the external monitor.
I tried detecting it via my display settings, but I accidentally changed some dispaly setting so that the home desktop only shows on monitor 1, but unselected my actual notebook display or something or changed it to be monitor 2 (even though monitor 1 does not exist), so when I plug the cable in to my notebook, all of a sudden my desktop goes away and it's a just a blank background screen - and I cannot access the computer display settings or anything.... when the cable is unplugged this setting looks normal, so I can't figure out how to fix it.
Sorry, I have no idea what I'm doing here - please help!
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Hi,
All Dell monitors come with CD's for drivers. Your laptop may not know the monitor w/o its driver, it won't install automatically. Please check:
Ringht click a blank space on desktop,
Click Personalize
Click Display
Click Change display settings
Can you see BOTH laptop screen and external monitor in there as shown on the following image:
For testing, I put my Dell monitor is my main display. If I can't see 2 monitor, you need its driver first and then check the cable.
Regards.
BH
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Is it possible to upgrade/add a graphics card to a Pavilion dv7-7000 laptop?

I've been doing a lot of research lately, to mostly no avail, about whether or not my HP Pavilion dv7-7025dx laptop can have a dedicated GPU added to it, as currently it only has the integrated Intel HD 4000 Mobile graphics card.
Mostly I've come across the unfortunate agreement that most laptops cannot have their graphics cards upgraded/swapped out, since the graphics card is soldered on to the motherboard. However, after talking to an HP "support representative", they said they believed it was possible to add a graphics card, as long as it is compatible with the HM77 45W UMA Motherboard my computer has.
Furthermore, after finding the maitenence and service manual online for my computer ( http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03221579.pdf ) it says that it could have come with switchable graphics, specifically the Nvidia Geforce 630M or 650M.
So I am wondering, is it really at all possible to add a dedicated graphics card, either by having switchable graphics or something else? Or am I stuck with the integrated Intel HD graphics?
If I can upgrade/add a new card, where would I be able to find/buy a compatible one, and would I be able to install it myself or would I need to go to a local computer repair?
My laptop is the HP Pavilion dv7-7025dx Entertainment Notebook.
It has an Intel Core i7- 3610QM CPU @ 2.30 GHz, 8GB memory, 750GB hard drive (5400 rpm).
I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit).
Any other specifications can be found here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5263030
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I've been doing a lot of research lately, to mostly no avail, about whether or not my HP Pavilion dv7-7025dx laptop can have a dedicated GPU added to it, as currently it only has the integrated Intel HD 4000 Mobile graphics card.
Mostly I've come across the unfortunate agreement that most laptops cannot have their graphics cards upgraded/swapped out, since the graphics card is soldered on to the motherboard. However, after talking to an HP "support representative", they said they believed it was possible to add a graphics card, as long as it is compatible with the HM77 45W UMA Motherboard my computer has.
Furthermore, after finding the maitenence and service manual online for my computer ( http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03221579.pdf ) it says that it could have come with switchable graphics, specifically the Nvidia Geforce 630M or 650M.
So I am wondering, is it really at all possible to add a dedicated graphics card, either by having switchable graphics or something else? Or am I stuck with the integrated Intel HD graphics?
If I can upgrade/add a new card, where would I be able to find/buy a compatible one, and would I be able to install it myself or would I need to go to a local computer repair?
My laptop is the HP Pavilion dv7-7025dx Entertainment Notebook.
It has an Intel Core i7- 3610QM CPU @ 2.30 GHz, 8GB memory, 750GB hard drive (5400 rpm).
I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit).
Any other specifications can be found here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5263030
Hi,
You can't add a dedicated graphics card to the system like this. The vga is soldered to the board so no way you can just plug it in like on a desktop. However, you can buy a new motherboard with the dedicated graphics card on it. It also requires a new heat sink.
Manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03221579.pdf
You need a 682040-001 board plus 682061-001 heat sink to have a dedicated graphics card on your laptop. Have a look on ebay for the part numbers.
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