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    HM65 Chipset Questions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Zamtar, Oct 24, 2011.

  1. Zamtar

    Zamtar Newbie

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    I was sold a Hp Pavillion DV6 on the 9th of september in pc world. The manufacture date was around the time of the recalls of the HM65 chipset; which i have. I havn't had any trouble with it yet what should i do?

    Also does this chipset support crossfire between ATI6490m and Intel HD graphics (both 1Gb)
     
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    If it was manufactured after February 2011, you should be fine [recall was made January 31st 2011]. If it was manufactured in February, then I don't know; contact HP.

    No, requires 2 separate AMD Radeon cards for Crossfire [probably have to be identical cards].
    http://sites.amd.com/us/game/technology/Pages/crossfirex.aspx
     
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  3. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    If the system doesn't offer an eSATA port and offers only a single storage drive bay and the optical drive bay will not be used with an adaptor to convert it to a second HDD bay, then it doesn't matter when the system was manufactured as the symptoms will simply not show up in this use. A lot of systems that were physically limited like this were sold with the 'defective' chipset and they will never experience any problem - if the storage drives are connected to the only two SATA3 ports (internally).

    If you do have aspirations of modding your system to make it dual drive capable and/or it has an eSATA port (that by definition has to use the defective ports on the SATA2 channels), then I would not stop until this system was replaced (I would not trust any sort of 'repairs' at this point).

    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Oct 24, 2011
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  4. Zamtar

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    Ok then that answers both of my questions thank you to ye both happy halloween!
     
    Zamtar, Oct 25, 2011
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    You're welco... BOO!

    :) :) :)
     
    tilleroftheearth, Oct 25, 2011
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