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    Battery and HDD and F2.A firmware for DV2700t

    Discussion in 'HP' started by maxo777, Jun 10, 2008.

  1. maxo777

    maxo777 Newbie

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    Hello ..

    thank you in the first place for some great tutorials for isntalling XP on dv2700t notebook .. finaly there is stability .. and power .. but .. what i can not understand ..

    why is my hdd still making some acces ? and reading when there is nothing to do :) or how to discover what is my hdd doing .. 250 gb hitachi 5400rpm .. or how to make him quite ..

    second q. is that i am using F2.A firmware .. and there is F2.B newer firmware on HP site .. what are your experiences with this newer firmware ?

    third and final .. in vista i could not see the estimation of time till my battery is discharged .. not ewen in XP i can see that .. my device manager is showing Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller and Microsoft but my RightMark CPU clock utility says that it is AKITA .. :)
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    1) If your using Vista then yes, its known to thrashing the disk. It is usually making shadow copies, system restore points, defragging etc. Theres alot of process that run on the background

    2) F.2A is pretty much the same as F.2B, it just came out a month later. It just adds a small enhancement. The fan algorithm will still be the same as F.2A

    3) Have you tried using NHC on XP?
     
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    maxo777 Newbie

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    I am using XP now ..

    The new bios I will not ugrade ..

    and my HDD is making noises even after Disabling Indexing like a time bomb :) Tu du .. Tu du .. Tu du .. it is a little bit anoying .. ;-) I know when the hdd is accesed with some program .. and then in iddle it is like write and park .. write and park .. something i dont know ..

    is there a program .. whitch could show me what is the hdd doing ?
     
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    NHC (notebook hardware control) will stop the HD noise
     
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    I cann not imagine why should this program stop some noise .. the hdd is silent .. but still working on something .. that i dont know what it is .. some system fukc file is accesing it .. and making sure that the hdd is still pluged in .. :)))) maybeee .. hahah

    i am an experienced user .. and i know .. that it is some files in system . that are accesing the hdd .. and there is no need .. for that .
     
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    NHC can tweak the HD's acoustic settings. Alot of people with the same issue used NHC as the solution. I suggest you try it..

    Alternatively you can try updating your HD's firmware
     
    flipfire, Jun 11, 2008
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