Modding your HP notebook

Do any of you mod your HP notebooks? if so do you try to max them out or will this use up some of the battery power by going bigger and better?

I have in the past with a HP ze4300 AMD socket A upgraded it by pulling the 1.8 ghz cpu out and putting in the 2.3 ghz in it's place. The specs says that it could go up to 2.1, but gave it a try anyway. It works great and a whole lot faster than before. I also upgraded the ram to the max and also pulled the 40 gig HD out and replaced it with a 120 gig HD. I have about 40 -50 programs loaded in this laptop and 1/2 the HD is loaded with karaoke files, and yet this little machine will load up in 30 seconds or less. Now I'd like to try some modding on the my AMD 939 socket 2.2ghz DC dv9000 notebook but the ram is at it's max. 2 gigs and the specs. says 2.3 ghz for the cpu for this board. I also have 2 120 gigs of hard drive and I know I can improve there. Has anyone tried to see how much of a cpu this board can take? I'd like to beef mine up because Vista makes it run like a piece of junk. I've seen older laptops run better than his and I'm talk pre ME with 256 ram and 4 gig HD. I installed XP Proin a dual boot configuration to help speed this up. Man XP is so much better. what was microcoft thinking when they released Vista?? Performance is always better than visual!!! Sure the Vista looks nice but it's going take a 3.2 ghz DC just to do what XP is doing now at 2.0ghz!!!

A side note from above, that 1.8 ghz that I pulled out, I installed it into a desktop and was getting 2.1 ghz out of it by putting in more power and bumping the fsb and mulipler a little. It was the unlocked version of the Athlon.

 

sounds nice

could we see some actual screenshots??

have you run 3DMARKS06?

 

nice..... thats surprising
but yeah... doing that in a notebook takes more power (if you mean OCing)

 

I would love to see screenshots

 

The dv9000z is a Socket S1 notebook and 2.2GHz would be the Turion X2 TL64, one of the fastest CPUs you can get. You can put 4GB RAM in them, I did that with mine, but you'll need 64-bit Vista to access it all. Go find a good price on Crucial 2GB DDR2-667 SODIMMs (Newegg, MWave, ZipZoomFly). Doing a clean install of 64-bit Vista without HP's bloatware would help a little but, yeah, Vista's a bloated pig. See the sticky in this forum for how to do that. Vista reacts very well to extra RAM so upgrading is worthwhile.

 

Well I just did some screen shots but don't know how to post them here. As it turns out it is the barton 2800+ m cpu and it runs at 2.20ghz. this is not overclocked. I confused this with one of my desktop running the same cpu and running it at 2.3ghz. Both setups are stable with no problems. The only this I did notice was if I'm on battery power and seaching the net, I can run full power. I have to back the power down a bit or it will freeze up on me. Must be not having enough battery power to run full tilt, No big deal to me. I run this laptop plugged in most of the time anyway. I have to keep this laptop for it's serial port for my telescopes and imaging devices for my telescopes. I would sale the laptop but I can't seem to find any laptops with this serial port. I've tried to use the USB to serial port devices but they don't work with what I do. I thought that the DV9420us can only run 2 gig of ram, I'll have to check into this. I need to download a service and repair manual for this notebook. Does anyone know where I can find at? Thanks for your replies.

 

hey, go to an image sharing site like tinypic.com, upload the pics, copy the IMG url and paste in your post.......

Edit:

I mentioned in this thread or a similar one, you can use NTune by nvidia to safely overclock your system if you have a nvidia grahics card. It's real easy and it takes about 20 minutes to run the test >> I think it's called a coarse tune, vs. a 3hr fine tune, or the prog also allows you to input your own settings >> but don't use that option unless you know what the heck your doing

 

Service guide: go to the downloads page for your notebook at hp.com and click the Manuals link on the left-hand side.