HP Pavilion DV1000
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HP Pavilion DV1000 Introduction
The perfect blend of mobility, style, and performance. This notebook PC will become the center of your digital entertainment universe, whether you’re home, at school, working, or on the road.
HP Pavilion DV1000 Design
Overall, the HP Pavilion DV1000 is a striking compact multimedia notebook with an impressive emphasis on design. And though performance is not as impressive as other comparable systems, the unit will do just fine running your everyday applications. The big draw here is playing your DVDs and MP3s on the road without having to boot up and watching them on that gorgeous widescreen.
HP Pavilion DV1000 Features
Weighing in at 5.5 pounds, the laptop runs 13.2 inches wide, 9.3 inches deep, and 1.5 inches high. The Pavilion dv1000’s 14.1-inch wide-aspect panel, with a 1,280×768 native resolution and the BrightView technology makes for an especially vivid picture. The standard configuration is loaded with Windows XP Home, the system features a Pentium M processor running at 1.5GHz, 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz, a big 40GB hard drive spinning at 4,200rpm, and an Intel 855GME graphics chip that uses up to 64MB of the system’s main memory.
HP Pavilion DV1000 Performance
There’s a lot to like about the HP Pavilion dv1000. Including, its attractive and lightweight 5.5-pound case, an abundance of handy buttons with soothing blue backlights, and an acceptable (if not stunning) overall performance.
Whats included in the package
HP Image Zone Plus
HP QuickPlay: Enjoy movies and music without standard boot up!
Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 (includes 60 days of complimentary live updates)
Sonic RecordNow 7.x
InterVideo WinDVD
InterVideo WinDVD Creator (when configured with a DVD+/-RW)
Apple iTunes for Window
Muvee AutoProducer DVD Edition 3.5
Microsoft Works 8.0
Microsoft Money 2005
Microsoft Office Trial 2003
Conclusion
The HP Pavilion dv1000 is a solid and sensibly priced system for students, families, and small-business users who want to work and play on the road. You may not even notice that you’re carrying this lightweight, thin machine as you zip around town.
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April 1st, 2006 at 8:34 am
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June 29th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
i am unable to change the resolution on my laptop hp pavilion dv1000. can any body help how to reduce rcontrast
July 8th, 2006 at 10:18 am
don’t know if this helps but I have my settings at: “True Color”, 1280×768, 60Hz refresh rate.
December 15th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
PONGAN LOS DRIVERS ORRESCTOS HIJOS DE SU PUTA MADRE DE LA PAVILION DV1000
April 15th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
i had changed the hd to 120 gb hitachi hd but the laptop didn’t see it
October 7th, 2007 at 9:29 am
i have formated my laptop wiyjhout taking its backup for recovery system softwares,i have lost all my softwares especially drivers.how can i get these drivers specific for my laptop model dv 1000
October 7th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
When you bought the computer it should have come with the original CD’s to re-install everything in the box.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:59 am
it is a good computer but i have this problem where it starts to shut down because the cpu is over heating. I think this a flaw in the design because the cooling fans are on the bottom of the laptop and it cant get any air.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I have the same laptop but I don’t have that problem. I’d suggest getting a laptop cooling pad with a fan on it. It’s thin and you place it directly under the laptop. You connect it to the USB port and it’ll cool down your laptop.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Another thing you can do is just elevate the back of the laptop a bit so that it’s not touching the desk evenly, in order to allow the heat to flow out.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:35 am
I have formated my laptop without making its backup for recovery system softwares, I have lost all my softwares especially drivers. How can i get these drivers specific for my laptop Model HP dv1000. My system did not come with recovery disk. What do I do now.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Follow-up to “I have formated my laptop without making its backup for recovery system softwares, I have lost all my softwares especially drivers. How can i get these drivers specific for my laptop Model HP dv1000. My system did not come with recovery disk. What do I do now.” My recovery partition is still in tack. How do I access it F11 will not work.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I found some drivers for the dv1000 here.
November 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am
i have this problem where it starts to shut down because the cpu is over heating.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I bought the HP Pavilion 1000 about a year and a half ago. I unfortunately did not purchase an extended warranty and am currently out hundreds of dollars and still do not have a working laptop. I have gone through 3 hardrives, 2 in the last month. The HP support number, which you have to pay extra for, is no help at all. The “support team” reads off a script, has no real knowledge of computers and refuses to let you to speak to supervisiors. The 2 new hardrives were bought according to the support teams guidence. After a 3 1/2 hour phone call, most of which I was on hold, the man I was on the phone with told me it was not the hardrive but the software. Because I did not buy an exteneded warranity I am expected to pay more money, with absolutly no hope of actually having my computer fixed.I am a second year college student, work two jobs and have no time or money to continously be lead on by HP. The customer service is not worth the hundreds you spend and it seems rather fishy to me that barely a month after my one year warrainty ended is when my computer began having these problems. It is almost as though there is an interal clock built in so that you will have to spend more money. Take it from a broke college student who was lead on by a support team who simply reads off a troubleshooting sheets, which can be found on the internet, do not buy HP. I thought I was buying a quality laptop based on the HP name and reviews. I have been lead on and suggest that no one wastes their time and hard earned money on HP computers.
December 9th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Hey,
I have a HP Pavillion dv1000 laptop and it’s not working what it does is I turn it on and it starts up with the HP invent then goes to this screen that reads all this stuff about you didn’t shut it down proberly before and it has the options
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Last Know Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked)
Start Windows Normally
then I click one and it says Seconds until Windows starts:
and it takes a little while then it goes Microsoft Windows XP and loads then it goes to this blue screen with white text but it goes off too fast to read it then it shuts off and re-starts and does the same thing all over again!
Can someone please HELP me to get it to like a NORMAL mode or something???
Please e-mails me at c94xo@hotmail.com or leave a message in here ASAP!!!
thanx,
byeee.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Its a Shytyy laptop ever. Dont ever buy this
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
yea tell me about it.
My laptop is now getting fixed.
so pease don’t e-mails me about the comment I left before (comment 16)
February 17th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I have a HP dv1000 for 2.5 years. suddenly my monitor is dead. not completely, I still can see a very vague images in the dark screen. it works fine if connected to an external monitor.
any idea?
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 am
@MaxPhil: The backlight is dead. You’ll have to replace the screen.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Not impressed by this laptop at all. Slow RAM frequency. Low RAM in general. Lots of extras expansion slots and shit like that but overall performance is poor. Single core processor rather than dual. So if u have one get rid of it as soon as possible, the sooner the better, seems most of these are defective. Writing from my workplace now and found this site after uninstalling the sound drivers by mistake (touchpad is shitty and clicked the wrong place (never asked not to uninstall it just deleted it)) Tried the HP DV1000 standart drivers from their site. They simply wont work nice aint it ? Still there is a chance with the recovery discs i have at home.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I have a laptop Hp pavilion dv1000. Last time, my laptop have problem about virus and i have to format hard disk. I have lost all infomation about driver.
Please help me!
Thank you very much!
March 17th, 2008 at 5:24 am
very nice..
soft an easy touse..
cool looking
March 17th, 2008 at 5:27 am
i hav lost my driver CD of HP Pavilion dv1000..
plz help me.. hw can i download the drivers and when i can get it..
Thanks
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 am
Follow-up to “I have formated my laptop without making its backup for recovery system softwares, I have lost all my softwares especially drivers. How can i get these drivers specific for my laptop Model HP dv1000. My system did not come with recovery disk. What do I do now.” My recovery partition is still in tack. How do I access it F11 will not work.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:30 am
you can find drivers at the hp website just type your model number and drivers on the search box
March 24th, 2008 at 8:33 am
you press f11 immediately when you start up
April 1st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hey man, you are saying I can find the driver on the search box of hp?! I tried, I even chated with one of supporte staff and guess what was the price she/he gave me? 400 DOLLAR!!!!!! Come on man, my note book doesn’t worth so much
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
I do agree with the Nicole’s post on November 26th, 2007 at 6:23 pm. I bought an extended warranty for the HP pavilion dv 1000 because since the begining it had severe problems. I sent it twice to HP techinicians so they could fix the problem. The second time sent, they replaced the hard drive. Now, that the extended warranty has ended it has a hard drive problem again. They are suggesting buying a new HD, a ‘genuine one’ they said. But I had 2 genuines before and they came with failures. It seems like the computer is just waiting for the warranty to be expired to colapse again. Don’t buy this computer.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:59 am
i cant find driverz of ma dv1000 lAPtop i had these bt not working when installed
June 26th, 2008 at 6:06 am
I’ve had this laptop for about 3 years now, and it has required a new hard disk and a new lcd, (I think the hdd was my fault, as I sometimes left it on in the bag, and I’m lucky the cpu didn’t fail), I still feel like it’s a solid laptop. It hasn’t needed any other maintenance and has never bsod’d.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
how much is dv 1000 laptop? can u please tell me how much is it??
December 14th, 2008 at 5:05 am
I bought an hp pavillion dv 1000 s/n:cnf52404rn,p/n:ec137UA#ABA new.This purchase was made about three years ago and i dont think i got ten months service from it .After first four months it was a total power lost took back and only lasted about five months and its same problem again .I will like to have it repaired the only hassle is that i live in Trinidad West Indies I will appreciate any advice on this matter ps i no longer have any warranty
December 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
unfortunately the problem with laptops is that often times it costs more to fix one than to just buy another one.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hi guys, this is a good laptop. Up to now, after 2 year using, I have no serious problem with it. It’s still working in good performance
January 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
i need the LAN driver
January 14th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I have one with 100GB hard drive, i don’t know how…
i wanna expand my RAM memory but i don’t know if i can buy 2 x 1GB or just to add 512MB more? and i don’t know which one i can use? can i use 1GB DDR-333 (PC2700) or it has to be PC2100?
January 15th, 2009 at 8:44 am
My son was playing with my laptop last night and when I turn it on now it asks for a password. Don’t know what it is. How can I bypass the password and get back nto my computer? My son is 6 and dosen’t know what he did.
January 19th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
i am getting a “power save mode” message on my monitor. monitor cables are connected correctly. it appears tht cpu is in some sort of sleep mode. Upon boot up, i momentarily see my desk top screen, (for about a second), then cpu goers into “power save mode. i have tried holding “F8″ button during star up and i receive the same menu as message 16 in the above list of questions. HELP PLEASE
January 19th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
i am being told that i could be having this problem due to “the battery in the motherboard being dead”. Has anyone ever heard of this? Where is the Motherboard located? Can i replace the battery myself?
January 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
slt j’ai un prob concernant mon pc pavilion dv1000 car il m’affiche une ecran blue affirme k’il n’ya aucun disque dur detecte.aidez moi svp!j sais est c k question d hard ou soft.et cmt resoudre le prob!merci d’avance.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
i got hp dv1000. when i install xp sp 2. installation is very fast but when start up very slow. the start up bar take 55 times then only window appear. i already change the ram, harddisk but still the same. its not because of virus. its maybee the hardware itself. why the cmos in hp dv1000 very less compare to other laptop. there is no way to disable hardware in hp dv1000. please advice my regarding this problem
February 7th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I bought this PC around summer 2008. It worked great. But recently, possibly due to Virus, it took a long time to start up or launch an application. Can I re-install a new xp operation system to get this addressed, and if so, where can I get the system CD?
February 12th, 2009 at 2:24 am
thanks for HP,, good luck
March 14th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
well,, im haveing a problem with mine as well,, this is the second time im haveing this probelm, where the laptop jsut turns off,, start it up then mabe 10mins later of even a few secs it just shuts off,, now what i did to fix the problem befor was replace the motherboard with a v2000 compaq, fits nicely, just difrent color leds on the board, well, its been about 4 months now and im haveing the same problem, i think it may be the harddrive, because i can take it out and the thing will stay on all day in bios, but if i losen 3 screws on the back, its fine,, but may still shut off after a few mins or a day? anyone haveing this problem where it jsut shutsdown randomly? and has found a fix for it?
p.s i may buy a harddrive new and see what happens,,
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
I had this computer but one of my freind forced me to sell it on him as he was my good freind so i sell it on him but till today i never find any other computer like HP Pavillion DV 100, that was really the one.