Author Archives: Jason

Purple vertical line on the Laptop Display – HDX16 CTO 1200

Just bought my HP HDX16 CTO 1200 (Intel P7450)  on 19th September 2009. Just yesterday (25th August 2010 – i.e about 11 months later )  a single purple vertical line appeared on a  the screen. I have not used my … Continue reading

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Drawing Between The Lines – zd8302ea

I own a zd8302ea HP pavilion. I have it for more than 4 years. Apart from changing the hard drive twice and the dvd recorder(MAtchita sucks) did not have any problems. But in the last 2 months it developed more … Continue reading

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Vertical Lines Getting Worse – zd8480ea

My laptop is about 2 1/2 years old . Vertical lines started to appear about 5 months ago. Now, a few months later I have about 12 vertical lines, and a whole coloumn of dead pixel. and a 2 inch … Continue reading

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Right out of the box… – ze4900

Right out the box this brand new hpPavillion was plagued with freezes, hangs, slowdowns & BSOD’s upon or, shortly after boot-up. It took me 5 days to clean up all the crapwares and useless, totally unnecessary, resource hogging background software … Continue reading

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Vertical lines and others – zd8000

I bought this computer in 2005 from HP site with TV receiver etc. full loaded. It ran perfect for only one year and after that overheating started. Secondly vertical lines appeared to start and now its total gone. I have … Continue reading

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Vertical lines suck – dv5000

I had the same problem with 2 different computers vertical lines one of the computers started with one line and then started to appear more and more every day until most of the screen is full of lines. Submitted by … Continue reading

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Every Thing Gone Wrong – A6500

I have a friend that asked me to fix his Pavilion A6500. It was booting to the blue screen of death. I ran Diagnostics and found that the Ram was bad and had an error with the Hard drive. I … Continue reading

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Maintenance Important – zd8000

Hi, I got my zd8000 in 2005 brand new on HP’s website, and it has served me well until this past year when I noticed little lines starting to appear on the screen. As of this writing, there are six … Continue reading

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Six vertical lines on my replacement screen – dv3315nr

I have six vertical lines on my replacement screen. I got my laptop back in 2007 from BestBuy. The original screen was replaced for an unrelated issue thru BestBuy’s extended warranty. This was my last “free” fix too. About a … Continue reading

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Welcome to HPVerticalLine.com

Thank you for visiting HPVerticalLine.com!  The purpose of this website is to educate consumers about Hewlett-Packard’s faulty hardware issues in a growing number of their computer models. Hewlett-Packard computers are increasingly notorious for suffering short lifespans, overheating, LCD display failures, and multitudes … Continue reading

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