hp dv6 2154 CA and upgrade to 7200 rpm drive + mobo q.

Hi all,

Please don't flame. I have spent the last 3 days searching the forums on this site and chatting/talking with HP support and have yet to find an answer. If someone here can help me, please:

So i have a HP dv6 2154CA
it has a quad processor, 4g of ddr3 ram, 1 g nvidia 230 M and a 640gb 5400 rpm hdd


i just bought the comp and I wanted to buy a 7200 rpm HDD for the comp as rite now the hdd is the only bottleneck..

However I am unable to find out anything about the mother board of this particular comp and HP support says I can't install a 7200 rpm drive on this computer!

now i have seen plenty of dv6 comps on hp's site with a 7200 rpm drive but they have a diff cpu or the mobo is diff.

I just want to know if I can swap my hdd for a 7200 rpm drive? please help me, please let me know if there is any other info that is required.

 

yes you can fit a 7200rpm hard drive in your computer. As long as it's 9.5mm in height, is 2.5", and uses SATA connectors(which it does), it should work. Go a head and swap hard drives

 

thanks mate, do you by any chance know how to find the mobo info?

on a lighter note, HP thinks this is what my motherboard is:
"Intel Core i5-430M processor 2.26GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.53 GHz"

hmmm no wonder they got non existent support the reps don't even know what the diff btw a mobo and a cpu is! lol
HP= good computers and no support.

 

Hi.

So I ordered a hitachi 250gb 7200 rpm drive. I am going to turn my original 640GB into an external storage drive. I read all the instructions and posts about the matter and have a question:

i was about to buy an enclosure and some of them say that they support max 500 gb drive or a 300 gb drive etc... I haven't found any that go upto 640gb!! am I out of luck or can I just buy any 2.5 enclosure with the usb/sata interface?

thanks again for your guys help