HP held a contest in conjunction withMTVto help design a special edition HP notebook case artwork. The contest went from September 5, 2007 to October 17, 2007 and over 8, 500 designs from 112 countries were submitted. "Asian Odyssey" by João Oliveira ofPorto, Portugal, was chosen as the winner of the competition and featured on the HP dv2800tae Series Notebook.[3][4]In another competition, “Engine Room”, a design by Hisako Sakihama, fromJapanwas chosen to appear on a HP notebook.
Many notebook owners experience hardware failure in various Pavillion models due to overheating. The first symptom is usually a disappearing Wifi. Later failure of the graphics system and booting problems. HP does acknowledge this as a "hardware issue with certain HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000" notebooks, which is eligible for free repair.[7]Other users recommend a "resoldering" of the nVidia GPU on the motherboard.