god has taken my precious hp dv9535 17" laptop from me. i installed sacred 2 on it, fired it up, the visuals suddenly artifacted, and several reboots later, i still can't make anything come up on the screen. the 8600M video chip in it has fried, and that's the one part i can't replace. even worse, it's out of warranty. EUROPEAN DIABLO CLONES WIN AGAIN!
:'( :'( :'(
best laptop i ever owned, and i put that thing through hell -- used it far more than myown desktop. hell, i knew the 8X00M line of mobile video chipsets were crap -- nvidia had a recall on 'em -- but this baby kept on chugging through games. i'd even swapped about the godawful t5250 proc with a t7500, so i had some skin in this one.
:'( :'( :'(
bad times. if i could sacrifice arvie or methodis to resurrect it, i would!