The HP ProBook 5310m Owners' Club

Somehow I thought that it will be possible to put standart external 3,5 mic into 5310m for better quality. But it does not work for me. When I put in the microfon jack, HP thinks it is headphones and that is it.

 

Hi, as far as I can tell, all the Sp9300 version should carry the Intel 5100 card with wireless N. Are you in the Ukraine, perhaps the configuration are different there? If you just check your devices in the control panel, you'll see if you have the Intel card or the Broadcomm card (no wirerless N).

 

What is the model number for your configuration though (assuming you bought a preconfigured model)?

Stopping the fan blades is a good idea. I actually blow compressed air in both ways, through the side and the bottom. I start with the bottom. It is a safe procedure in general. Just make sure that you hold the can upright otherwise you will spray some liquid out . . . not good. On occasion I forget.

Do you have an 8GB+ USB flash drive or external hard drive? You could install Windows 7 that way.

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My Hitachi 500GB 7200RPM drive arrived this morning, I cloned over my Seagate and it is running beautifully. Quiet and essentially vibration-free . . .

 

So my 5310m just came in. I'm probably being really nitpicky but I noticed that my lid sits every so slightly off center, about a 1/2 mm to the right. So if you were to run your fingers along the sides when the notebook is closed it won't feel completely flush.

I also have the flexed arch in the middle which everyone else appears to have. But the right side of the hinge seems to be a little weaker or something which can be seen if you try this test: Just stand the notebook on it's behind (where the hinge is) and look at the gap between your lid and the palmrest. By standing it up on its behind the lid naturally opens slightly but on my notebook the gap opening is much larger on the right than on the left (which is practically still flush).

Does anyone else have this issue, especially the off center lid? If this is normal I'll let it go, but I'm pretty OCD. Thanks!

 

my edges are flush and perfectly aligned...and actually my lid is also perfectly flush without an arch....

 

My 5310m was bought from the UK HP store. It came with no recovery discs. I emailed HP's UK supplier for a price on a set of discs - never heard back (their website had no info for the 5310m at the time).

I messed up my Win 7 install and tried to recover using the boot options - nothing worked.

I read the .wim stuff and it looked to be a huge pain in the rear, time is money etc.

In the end I had to track down a Win 7 Pro iso from the net, and hope that my 5310m product key would pass Genuine Validation blah blah blah. It dodn't online, but did via the automated phone system.

The only upside was that I had zero bloatware on my new install, but I would rather HP UK had spent a few pence more on including recover discs. Yet again the UK is given shoddy treatment - it's a bloody shambles.

 

Hey Desimaj, just curious but which retailer did you buy yours through?

Also, just FYI guys, my notebook still has the spacebar problem. Although it doesn't seem to affect me since I hit the bar with my right thumb close to the center where it still registers.

My fan is also pretty quite and at low speed the majority of the time, both plugged in and not plugged in. I don't really notice too much vibrations with the harddrive, unless it's sitting on a solid table. And noise-wise it doesn't seem that noisy, but than again this is my first laptop so I have no reference point other than my desktop.

 

Tigerdirect

 

Someone asked about GPS many pages ago but i didnt see any responses.

From what I can figure out the WWLAN card in the 5310m is the HP un2420 which uses something called a GOBI 2000 chipset. This hardware has a GPS reciever in it. BUT it seems like there is no firmware or software from HP to activate it..

does anyone have any information about this? You can see from this page of specs on an HP site that this card in 5310m should have GPS:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13394_na/13394_na.HTML

thanks for any help on this, id love to get GPS working

 

Yeah, remove the harddrive and check the noise.

For me it was perfect too, but the fan noise was too much for me, so I returned it.

 

My 5310m is built the same way, concerning the off-center lid. I believe (or perhaps am just hoping to believe) that this .5mm offset is just a slight result of how the hinge is built asymmetrically [you can tell upon close inspection of the spaces on either sides]. In other words, you shouldn't be worried about this problem.

Concerning the strength of the hinge, however, I do not feel any weakness in my model at all [although it just came in last Friday]. Travel has a very nice high-quality resistance to it, and no matter how my laptop is rotated, the screen stays nice and tight at the angle I left it.

 

OK, I have answers.

1) Yes, the Razer Moray+ work with the iPhone, mic and headphone.

2) The way it was explained to me: a passthrough would just sending the signal through without converting it, and the converter does just that - convert the signal. Not an expert on that so . . .

 

Thanks. As far as I'm concerned, I don't see any loss of quality from the cable vs. the (cheap) adapter that my roommate had when hooked up to his monitor. He is now using an identical cable instead of the adapter.

The only thing I was concerned with was that the resolution was all wonky with my TV. At full resolution, the screen extended past the edges of the TV display, so I couldn't see the taskbar at the bottom or the window bar at the top, as well as cutting off scroll bars at the right and some information on the left. When I bumped down the resolution, it left black edges on the TV display around my desktop. Any quick fixes for that?

 

Does anyone here have the 5310m with a SSD?

 

Did HP refresh the 5310m in Jan with new processors?

 

No. The 5310m is based on the Intel CULV platform, and if it ever gets updated, it will not get updated until Intel updates that platform. Right now the CULV platform is still in its 'golden age' and is maintaining a high market adoption rate.

 

I got a Intel X-25M G2 160GB in mine.

 

I just ordered a 5310m from HP with the configuration below, and other than being bummed by the est. delivery date of March 2nd, I'm curious as to whether the 6-cell battery has different physical dimensions than the 4-cell battery. Anybody have any ideas? Also, has anybody tested the battery life with the 6-cell and a SSD?

SP9300
4GB RAM
80GB X-25m G2 SSD (ordered separately from NewEgg)
6-cell 62Whr battery

 

Whats the noise level? Can you tell when it's on? By all accounts a 5310m with ssd should be silent.

 

That is the SSD I'm planning, how are the noise levels from the laptop?

 

In case anyone wants to know,
I recently bought a 8gb usb so that I switch from the preloaded xp to win7 using the disks that came with the laptops. Everything went smoothly and it was nice to see a clean install of win7. What I wanted to mention was that I feel the noise level has dropped a little bit to the point that I dont think about it anymore (or maybe I just got used to it?). Also, the su2300 in win7 seems to run as fast or faster than in xp (including similar boottime speeds of around 30secs). Battery life also feels alittle bit better in win7.

My 2 cents.

 

I'm curious about that one too. I just called them and the rep couldn't get any specific measurements but he did say that from a picture it looked like it stuck out the back a little bit. I'm a little conflicted on that thought because if you look at some of the review pictures, it doesn't seem like the back wall would prevent a battery from sticking out the back. I think it could protrude out from the bottom a little but I'm not sure about the back.

 

Yeah, from the pictures I'd expect it to be a bit thicker (and thus, protrude a bit from the bottom). As long as it didn't protrude below the "feet" on the bottom - and I can't image it would - I wouldn't expect it to be a problem. I'll be anxious to see one way or another.

 

It looks like the 6-cell 62Whr battery is now available. Does anybody have any experience with this battery? Any comments on battery life? Does it sit flush?

 

A refresh is on the way for 5310m:

SP9400(2,40 GHz 6 MB L2 cache 1066 MHz FSB)
4GB RAM

 

Very nice! March 2nd is a long ways away, but if you did your research and the 5310m fit the bill I think you will be very satisfied.

Where did you get that info, if I may ask? If it's only getting a bumped up processor that's not much of a refresh. There won't be a perceivable difference between the current SP9300 and the SP9400.

I am interested in this too - also, does anyone know the P/N of the 6-cell? It is not listed under 5310m accessories on HP's site yet.

 

I have been running with an Intel X25 disk for some months now.

And it is silent. I never notice any noise from the fan.

 

A couple of questions about shortcuts and buttons:

1) is it possible to change what the quicklaunch and quickweb buttons do?

2) how are you supposed to use q menu?

3) is there a way to set up macros to HPs functions - for example can i make a single key disable wireless and also activate an external screen?

thanks very much for any help!

 

hello,is there anyone encountered clicking noise and freezing of the st9250410as hard drive? I used three 5310ms,the first one has clicking noise,the third one freezed once,and i updated the firmware of the hard drive using firmware released by dell,which is also applied to hp oem st9250410as,now freezing disappeared,but everest can't detect the temperature of the hard drive or provides the wrong number


anyone can help me? thanks

now my hard drive firmware revision is 0005SDM1,the original may be 0003HPM1 or others

 

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/e...57-64295-3955552-3955552-4021356-4133072.html

 

Nice - thanks for the link. It should only be a matter of time before it shows up on the U.S. site. I wonder if the SP9400 will completely replace the SP9300 or merely be offered as an upgrade option. Considering the CPU is soldered to the motherboard . . . the SP9400 will likely replace the SP9300, no sense in HP keeping three different motherboards around.

To make the buttons act as a macro for more than one thing you would likely have to write up your own script or download a custom utility . . .

To my knowledge no one here has a 5310m with a Seagate ST9250410AS hard drive . . . they are either ST9320423AS (320GB 7200RPM) or ST9160412AS (I believe that's the correct 160GB 7200RPM drive). Did you buy your 5310m with that drive or install it yourself?

In this thread there have been no reported posts of the stock Seagate hard drives freezing . . . some noise reports but it is simply a fact that the Seagate drives, at least the ones HP puts in the 5310m, have a relatively high ambient noise level.
I don't know why you would flash a hard drive with a firmware from another manufacturer . . . if you could see the drive before and can't now, the firmware flash is why. Install and run HDTune:
http://www.hdtune.com/
Click on the Health Tab and see what it says . . .

 

thanks for your quick reply, st9250410as is the model in China, i can use the hard drive as normal, i just worry about the wrong temperature, what's the firmware revision of your drive?

 

Hey guys, I'm new here but I had a quick question about the 5310m. I am highly considering purchasing this laptop (build quality + matte screen are key selling points for me) but I had a question about the Quickweb button. If i were to upgrade my harddrive to an ssd wouldn't I lose the capability to boot up with the Quickweb button?
I really like how they added that quickweb feature but I would like to still have that capability after upgrading to an ssd (which I assume would only make the quickweb book even quicker, providing for almost instant internet access)

 

ahh... any pointers on what sort of script and how to write it or what software would recognise these HP keys?

 

Hi!

I would appreciate if I could get some help about installing Linux on the laptop. I tried it once and that resulted in not being able to boot the computer. I'm interested in a dual boot setup with windows and linux.

I have installed linux (Fedora) a couple of times before on my old laptop successfully. But on the pro book it just does not work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I made a partition in windows for the install and booted into a live cd. I set the installer to use the partition I created in windows. I put the boot loader on the same partition, I'm planing on using the windows boot loader. When I rebooted I got the error message "Non system disk or disk error".

What can I mess up so the laptop will not boot anything?

Any help is welcome.

 

I dont see any reason why you'd lose the ability to use QuickWeb with an SSD drive. QuickWeb is esstensially just an application, and you get software along with your driver CDs. QuickWeb works quite well, id geuss about 10secs for it too load completely.

 

Ohhh, i didn't realize it was an app, i was under the impression that it was a linux modded internet based os. But if they include the software with the laptop I guess it shouldn't be a problem. And yeah the combined quickness of the QuickWeb with an SSD should be blazing fast!! Ahh I'm so excited, i just need to get rid of my current POS laptop.

 

Well actually I think QuickWeb is probably a linux based os, but what I meant is that installs and acts much like any normal app. You just click to install off the cd, and too remove you just go to control program uninstall.
That said, I dunno how much other people use their QuickWeb, but I hardly use mine despite the fact that it works quite well. Normal boot is only about 30secs for me, saving 15-20secs....not a big deal.
The 5310m is great, no regrets here.

 

How do I find the firmware revision?

As noted, the software is included in the recovery media with the machine.

I am not sure if there any implications to cloning regarding SSDs, but I have swapped hard drives in my 5310m several times. I used Acronis to clone the drive over, plugged in the newly cloned drive, and kept going.

I actually never used mine . . . I wiped my 5310m when it arrived and forgot about it. The 5310m boots very fast, especially with the 7200RPM hard drive . . . my boot time is sub-30s to the logon screen and it takes about 10s from there to get to the desktop. Not a long wait for a much more functional operating system.

 

hd tune pro->information tab->firmware version,may be firmware revision

 

Is there any reason why you plan on using the Windows boot loader as opposed to GRUB? I know with Ubuntu, when installing a new fresh OS, it automatically defaults to GRUB, and when you remove it you render your computer unbootable until GRUB is reinstalled or the Windows boot loader is restored.

If you do want to use the Windows boot loader, you'd have to install Fedora and use GRUB, repair the Windows boot loader with a Windows CD (which will cause your system to boot exclusively into Windows and ignore the Linux partition), then go into Windows and manually add Fedora to the Windows boot loader (which I don't know how to do, or if it's even possible).

 

OMG these numbers are making me drool... I actually have the budget to upgrade to a 128gb SSD so just thinking of what my boot time would be is just driving me insane!! K i have two quick questions and I'm pretty much fully committed. Do you guys think the integrated graphics card could handle just regular CS? I'm not that big of a gamer but my old high school buddies (i'm in college now so we'll all over the nation) occasionally decide to get together online... Also, could someone post up their Windows Experience Index numbers? Just so I can put it in perspective with some other laptops.

 

Okay guys, so i just managed to remove my keyboard. I will post a hopefully useful guide tomorrow with some pics. It was difficult and scary to pry off the keyboard (which is the whole shiny plastic piece along with all the keys). There doesn't seem to be a way to separate the plastic from the keys easily other than removing all the keys individually.

Anyway, I broke a "clip" in the process. The pictures will show this.

On another note, I ended up exchanging the laptop in an attempt to get one that's flush. It didn't happen, this time instead of the lid being off-center to the right, it is off-center to the left. So I've decided to live with it, or if I can I will try to take it down all the way to the hinges tonight and see if I can reposition it.

One thing I noticed from dates on the box and laptop are that I seemed to have gotten a newer production round. I also have a different stickers like a Core 2 sticker instead of the Centrino sticker. And most importantly the space bar on this model came fully fixed. It works along the whole range. So looks like HP may have been listening.

I'll have a more detailed post tomorrow. Wish me luck.

 

The new 6-cell 62Wh battery bears the part number VV943AV.
If anyone comes across any information on weight and size of this battery, I hope you will let the rest of us know.

The standard battery: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/e...23-329260-329223-4017562-4017691-4017697.html

 

No particular reason, I can use GRUB. But will it boot? Will I get the same error?

I need to back up my data before I try again.

I know how to deal with the windows boot loader. I use EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1.

Thanks

 

Im geussing CS is counter strike? Im not a big gamer myself so I couldnt tell you personally, but a quick search on these boards brought up this quote:
"I can personally attest that Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: both run quite well on the 4500MHD at 1280x800, if that helps at all."

For the Experience index, I have the su2300 culv.
cpu:3.8
ram:4.7
gaming:3.4
graphics:3.3
hdd:5.7

 

The boot time would probably be (I am estimating) around 10 seconds with an SSD. HP worked with Microsoft to optimize this machine for faster booting; from the time the power button is pressed to Windows loading is less than five seconds which is very impressive.

As far as it handling CS - this machine actually plays CS: S just fine so regular CS will run without any problems.

Check the 5310m link in my signature for my review - it has WEI I think and some other benchmarks.

Aww, I was hoping the shiny plastic surround could be removed. That would make an application of InvisibleShield so much easier (and practical). Thanks for the info anyway.

About those stickers . . . interesting you got just a Core 2 sticker. It should have a Centrino sticker if the machine has Intel CPU + Intel chipset + Intel wireless. Not a big deal I guess - just a sticker after all, not some magical badge.

Do you notice anything else new/different about the replacement machine? Also when you say the lid is off-center, do you mean that it does not match up with the corners of the base of the machine when closed? My machine doesn't have that issue.

Yes thanks for the P/N. I may contact PCSuperStore.com, where I bought my 5310m from, to see if they know about it.

 

Mine matches up at the corner perfectly also, although the lid does have a slight arch at the center.

 

I'm about to have the upgrade of my life!!! (my current HP Dv2 takes well over a minute to boot up to a usable mode)

I just asked an HP representative about the 6 cell and at first he said it was the same size, which had me sold. then he said it would be built in/non-removable, which would not make sense cause it would require a whole new chassis for the laptop. and then he said it would probably be external and bigger. conclusion: hp sales reps don't know jack.

 

I don't see why it wouldn't boot with GRUB if you just let the installer do its thing. I've never used Fedora before, but I'm assuming it's similar to Ubuntu, and if you get the mount points correct, then there should be no problem installing. You'll probably have more success in finding a more specific answer on a Fedora forum, as I highly doubt this is a 5310m problem.