My office bought 23 HP's, and all of them failed in the first year.  Some failed several times.  These had 700 mhz celeron CPU's with 10 gig drives. They all sucked, and had to be repaired all the time.  Dump 'em and get something decent, they'll never stop failing.

>My school purchased some HP Pavilion celeron computers (against my
>recommendation).  The warranty on all of them has expired and now, one by
>one, they are quitting.  By that, I mean they come up with the "no operating
>system found" when trying to boot.  Did all the fdisk/format routine, but
>the bios will not recognize the drives.  Put them in my own computer and
>same thing.  Fdisk will not work (message says there are no fixed disks).  I
>put my own hard drive into each of the computers and they worked fine.
>
>I noticed that these computers have no power supply fan nor any other
>cooling, except for the cpu.  I'm thinking the hard drives are overheating
>(classroom is warm too).  I've never seen a computer power supply without a
>fan.  Does anyone think it would be a good idea to replace the hard drives,
>along with a cooling fan installed?
>
>Has anyone seen this problem with HPs?



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