Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb View Post
A defective processor is pretty uncommon, but an HP laptop with a dead motherboard is about as common as a belly button. You can probably find a replacement mainboard for cheap on eBay, but it's likely to be a used board with little or no warranty.
It seems to me that most of the models in HP's DV series have been dogs. And in many models, MOBOS have been a major failure point. So, I'm not sure that replacing the board with another crappy-by-design board is the best solution. Personally, I think I'd shoot Old Yeller.