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thanks
where can i find this port?

edit: found it under the keyboard...should i use a resistor or just connect them? :-/

edit2: could i use a 2k resistor between R195 and R197 to get method 2 working?

 

R195 - 2K2R2J-2-GP set to "1"
R196 - 10KR2J-3-GP set to "0"
R197 - none

So i need a 2k2 resistor and connect it between R195(2) and 197(2) to get a "1" on FSB.

o-[R197]-o-----------|
²²²²²²²²²|²²²²²²²²²²²|
²²²²²²²²²o-[R971]-o--|

 

could you explain method 1 for acer aspire one nav50 (pll ICS9LPRS387BKLF)
cpu is atom n450
original bus is 166, speed is 166x6 and 166x10 (1 core 2 threads)
dont know which hex values i must input for setfsb pll diagnosis
thanks

 

Hi all,

Based on what I read on this forum, I recently purchased an MTRON MSD-PATA3018 32 GB SSD for my 2710p when my original hard drive. I installed it, but the BIOS keeps returning an error (1781 - Disk 1 Failure - Run Startup Check). The Startup Check tests my system memory (4 GB) and SSD, which passes the test.

I suspected a problem with the drive, but my OS loads fine (Ubuntu 12.04 x64).
Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm also running BIOS version F.15. Thanks in advance!

 

I was unable to get the second part of method 1 to work either in my 2710p. R279 is populated by default while R280 isn't. Removing R279 didn't change the TME status bit, it still reported as 1 by setFSB. Same if I moved the resistor to the unpopulated R280 slot to route that pin to ground. So i'm not sure why it didn't work. Actually shorting pin 2 in the debug header to ground should accomplish the same thing, since they're electrically connected, according to the schematics.

I'll probably just put the resistor back on R279 and just use the modded bios for the extra multipler and just live with that.


**edit**

Ok I'm an idiot. I wasn't using setFSB right and had the wrong clock generator selected. After selecting the correct one. the above mods work fine. Moving the resistor from R279 to R280 allows me to change the FSB using setFSB..... HOWEVER. the previously mentioned bits to check for to see if TME is disabled.. still show 1.. meaning it still says TME is locked.. yet now I can change the FSB??? No clue what's going on, but so long as it's working, i'm not going to complain.

**edit again**

Most I could get out of this 2710p with a u7600 is 1.5ghz. 150mhz x 10.. It craps out at 153mhz regardless of how high I try the voltage, so I left the fsb at 150mhz.

anyway. 'stock' WEI scores: (windows 7)
CPU : 3.8
RAM : 4.2
Aero : 3.2
GPU : 3.0
HD : 3.7

'overclocked' WEI scores
CPU : 4.2
RAM : 4.4
Aero : 3.3
GPU : 3.1
HD : 3.7

 

Hi all. I'm glad I found this forum, as was beginning to give up hope. But, after reading through some of the threads on the issue, I'm not sure what my solution is.

Here is my situation:

I have several of the HP 2710p laptops that I bought unseen at an auction. The seller had removed the hard drives, and the hard drive cables. I also had a 2730p, so I purchased a bunch of mSata hard drives (Samsung model HS12VJF) thinking they would work for all the laptops. I bought some cables on line as well. All worked well for the 2730p. But, of course, not for the 2710p.

So, my question is - will the mSata drives work in the HP 2710p, or do I need some other solution? I see there is a zif SSD as well out there, but I've already spent so much on these laptops, I'm not sure if I can afford much more if I am to sell them at a slight profit.

thanks,
Jonathan

 

Hi everyone, I am working on a program for linux to overclock the CPU/front side bus of the 2710p through software, with no hardware mod required. However I am stuck at trying to unlock the TME mode of the PLL chip (which is preventing any overclocking.) I have already tried the PLL1/3 swap method used to unlock the 2510p but with no success.

If someone who has access to SetFSB (a recent version supporting ICS9 LPRS 355BKL) could provide before and after screenshots showing the register values, (diagnosis page) it would probably help a great deal.
Please note that this has already been done for the 2510p, which uses a different chip. I am only interested in output for the BKL variant (which if I recall correctly is also used in the 8710p).

Hi, there has been a lot of discussion of this, mostly because newer SATA SSDs are cheaper/larger than PATA ones. The 2710p does not have a SATA port, so you will need an adaptor from SATA to PATA. The problem is any adaptor will only barely fit in the space available. Aside from that, I doubt you could get the adaptors cheap enough for what you're intending to do. Please read more here

 

As I have not seen it anywhere else, I would like to confirm that the 2710p can support 8GB of RAM. I was able to use 2 x 4GB Crucial PC2-6400, which is about 10% cheaper than 5300 and backwards compatible. This enough to cache everything to RAM rather than swap, making the processor the bottleneck when editing large images in GIMP.

 

i wonder if anyone still has a modded bios for 2710p.
the link here (2710P_F15_sp47272_SLIC21_no_whitelist_dualIDA.rar) is not working anymore... thanks in advance!