What's wrong with this HP...

This is not mine, my friend brought this brand new laptop today. I have never seen anything like this, and I certainly hope this is not the norm on the PC market.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hp
• paviliion
• dv6000

[douguk47]

Dont listen to macward this not the norm!! Looks to me like there is test diagnsotic software on this machine which is not meant for the consumer.

[DrSunnz]

lol I think macward is one-starring my videos anyway, but yeh me and my friend returned the laptop today and got a full refund, not hassles here.

[Whatevernever001]

My thinking is, HP screwed up with their drive images. All computer OEMs (this includes Apple) have drive images set up for each model/type of computer, saves time (and money) manually installing applications and configuration for each machine that goes out the door. They also have preset "diagnostic" images for testing/repair purposes. If they bundled Restore discs, you could wipe it and fix it. But yeah, someone accidentally shipped out that machine with a diagnostic image. Pretty weird.

[DrSunnz]

It didn't come with restore discs, which are unfortunately becoming the standard practise... or has it already became the standard? I haven't seen a Windows restore disc for a long time to be honest, they seem to only come with a restore partition these days...

[tnoyca]

Someone at HP obviously goofed on this. All OEMs will have a few different drive images that are used for hardware testing and diagnosis. There are likely a lot of HP internal applications and debugging tools there, too, some of which may provide rather deep hardware-level access. Poke around at whats there, you're bound to find some interesting stuff.

I've seen this happen to a few different OEMs, including Apple.

[DrSunnz]

Oh I would love to poke around and stuff and I did a little... but this is really not my toy to play with so I couldn't really dig too deep. Me and my friend have returned it for a refund today and I will do an update video of what happened. We'll be shopping around for a new laptop tomorrow.

[JamesManes]

Fuck HP in the ass. If I got that I would shit on HPs doorstep.

[zoulkyud]

To be honest I always flatline my laptops when I buy them. I always install a clean version of the OS and reinstall the extra software that I want that came with it afterward.

[geekfreackz]

A friend told me he had to burn the recovery discs himself... Windows notified him (about having to burn the discs) the first time he booted his laptop.. or smth like that.

[mustiwii]

shhould of went into Run, typed Msconfig, and click startup, and tick what you want to start up or not.

[Jullzzzz]

format it with windows 7

[RPCJerkobi]

The DERP is strong with this one.

[MinimeDrummerBoi]

Calling DrSunnz an idiot? Look in the mirror first before you start calling anyone an idiot macward.

[douguk47]

dont think macward can figure out the rating system. choice of 5 options??? nah he will fail

[Whatevernever001]

I agree, some employee building/prepping the machine made an obvious mistake. I can see him now going "OW! Thank you sir, may I have another?" lol.