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Change HP Pavilion DV4 1103TX OS Vista to XP

After several hours practice, I have successfully changed my HP Pavilion DV4 1103TX OS from Vista to XP. Now let me introduce my experience when you install the XP OS to your Pavilion DV4 1103TX.

I bought my HP Pavilion DV4 in April 02 in HP store. To avoid some trouble, I decide install XP into my Notebook in April 19 ( 15 days after I buy the notebook, as the HP supply the 15 days free replacing ). Please notice this :The HP Pavilion DV4 hard disk is the ICH9 SATA DISK. Some XP OS edition driver cant support the ICH9. I tried many XP OS edition to face the situation. Not all the HP Pavilion series laptop are ICH9 SATA disk, that means you dont need to special download the ICH9 XPS SP3 for Pavilion DV1000 battery, Pavilion DV2000 battery, Pavilion DV4000 battery, Pavilion DV6000 battery, Pavilion DV8000 battery, Pavilion ZV5000 battery, Pavilion zv6000 battery.

To ensure the OS change cant effect the HP quality warranty. I called the HP customer center to query the problem. They said that they are not accountable to the broken of userself bios fresh, but they say I can change my notebook OS to XP SP2 without bios freshing. But when I finished my XP SP2 install, the voice card driver cant work. So I must fresh my bios, you only need to notice that dont interruption of power supply when you fresh BIOS.

Please notice that : Please fresh the F11C BIOS program before you install the XP OS, or you must reinstall the OS again.

Now let me install the XP SP3 into my Pavilion DV4 step by step:
• First download or buy ICH9 XP SP3 CD (the CD must be ICH9 XPS SP3), you can google it
• Then prepare the F.11C-BIOS fresh program. Fresh the F.11C-BIOS here : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59726.zip

  The BIOS only can be freshed in DOS.

• Next you only to install the XP SP3 into your notebook in standard step. Dont care of the black screnn when installing.
• After finish the install, you can go to XP edition desktop to fresh all the driver.

  Chip set : http://h30445.www3.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39001-39500/sp39316.exe

  Video card Driver : ftp://file6.mydrivers.com/display/nvidia_gfgo_17637_xp32.zip

  Card reader driver : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59729.zip

  Hotkey driver : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59735.zip

  Finger driver : http://www.icare.hp.com.cn/TechCenter_StaticArticle/45904/59810.zip

  Net work Card Driver : ftp://file6.mydrivers.com/net/realtek_rtl8100e_702_xp.zip

  WLAN Card Driver : Intel ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp40001-40500/sp40120.exe

  Broadcom ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39912.exe

  Modem driver : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39689.exe

  Voice card driver : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp38501-39000/sp38558.exe

  Please Notice this : as I install the XP SP38558 OS, first we must uninstall the originally voice card driver. Then install the download voice card driver. Also you can install XP SP3 in to you pavilion DV5, pavilion DV5T, Pavilion DV7.

In the end fresh the F11C BIOS, restart the notebook , then you will find your notebook works fine with all drivers. You can update your Pavilion DV1000 battery, Pavilion DV4000 battery, Pavilion ZV5000 battery, Pavilion zv6000 battery XP OS to XP SP3 without redownload all drivers and BIOS.

The simple test of HP Mini 2133 battery

Let us take a look at this HP Mini 2133 battery life. From our point of view before the media coverage of such Internet features of this product is any time a free tour of the Internet. This function perfectly or not, is bound to need strong support of the power system. To this end, the HP Mini 2133 is equipped with a three-core 10.8V 28Wh lithium ion battery, the life test results are as follows:

The final results, in the full-torn BatteryMark 4.0.1, the piece of the battery capacity of adhering to a moderate 73 minutes (in this test phase HP Mini 2133 to 70% of the screen from top to bottom, and power management in XP system on the all power-saving features of the option off). If the day-to-day use, can reduce the screen brightness, and then associated with energy-saving function of the operating system, I believe that this battery may last 100 minutes usage time, the same time the satellite A300 battery can work 250 minutes.

Evaluation of a line of the products are excellent, I believe that their long working hours under the state of the performance of body temperature can also be regarded as one of important criteria. After all, no one is willing to use a long period of time may be the Internet version, the body temperature to achieve the degree of fried eggs. To this end, the author carried out in the HP Mini 2133 battery life test, the use of the testo 825-T2 Infrared Thermometer their body temperature was tested (the testing process in the basic maintenance of the indoor temperature around 25 degrees Celsius ).

To the final testing results, HP Mini 2133 battery in the performance of body temperature can be used in this part of “disorder” to make an assessment. The main heat source is basically in the left side of the keyboard and the left side of the fuselage cooling air vents, under the late拆机inspection, the region where is the processor. VIA C7M processor so “hot” performance really let my accident. In addition, the HP Mini 2133 notebook cooling Apple Design and passive fanless cooling body has some similar, are relying on the most metal body heat away. Therefore, HP Mini 2133 in the use of process engineering plastic materials than other Internet users this will bring the feeling of heat.

Might see here, there will be readers to PC Mark05, 3D Mark06 Although the classic, but I do not know this will be the actual performance of the notebook is. You can not come to the actual point? OK, of course, no problem! The needs of readers, that is our goal. Next, I look for you to display the HP Mini 2133 HD video decoding ability.

Proficiency test in high-definition decoding of H.264 I selected encoding format, video resolution of 1280 × 720 specifications “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” to carry out the tests. As shown in the following screenshot, HP Mini 2133 in the performance tests can be described as barely passing. But its good sound, images can be synchronized, the screen is still a natural transition. During playback, HP Mini 2133 occupancy rate of the basic processors in about 90% of the entire process. Used as a VIA S3G UniChrome Pro II integrated GPU, system bus frequency is only 400MHz notebook, this performance is still talking about the past. HP Mini 2133 is HP addtion in netbook to support HP Pavilion DV1000,Pavilion DV3000, DV4000, DV4, DV5, DV7.

As shown in game screenshot, HP Mini 2133 in the performance of the game is also still far from satisfactory. More than two games in high definition is not set up the premise, can smooth out the feeling. Perhaps this author is really some redundant tests, select Netbook “Internet of the” consumer products more convenient for a working or living conditions, most of them has been interested in the age of the game. However, I would like to express here is that, HP Mini 2133 in your spare time can also become a tool for your entertainment pleasure. Perhaps it is not strong enough performance, but occasionally or inadequate.

As HP’s first ultra-portable mobile notebook, HP Mini 2133 HP carried on “with the most user needs for a wide range of mobile solutions,” the commitment to “full-function ultra-portable + + the best experience” to meet the unique advantage of increasingly strong The ultra-portable mobile needs. Its elegant exterior design, whole weight of only 1.19Kg, measuring only 27mm (positive) × 255mm × 165mm, its concise and well anodic alumina shell design, while ensuring at the same time compact and durable machine can reduce the weight of ; in the main configuration, equipped with 1GB or 2GB of memory (only has one memory slot settings), Genuine Windows Vista Home operating system, as well as standard disk drives, can provide fairly good experience.

HP Mini 2133 Review of the advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages :
1, many of the products in the Internet the only model of a metal material, and excellent mold design

2, speaker sound quality on both sides of the screen, in many of the Internet’s most successful products

3, such as 3D DriveGuard with hardware and software protection system hard drive, hard drive data more secure

4, key-bit layout is unreasonable, moderate-size keyboard, excellent use of hand

5, to break the trade restrictions, the provision of 2GB memory as XPS M1530 XPS M1730 PC, 160GB hard drive configuration

1, the normal body process of high temperature than those for similar models, the use of higher ambient temperature

2, pre-installed Vista system, the current allocation of the burden too heavy

3, six-core version does not provide battery life is too short

The HP notebook Problems

Problems with faulty Nvidia graphics chips that caused large numbers of notebook computers to fail last year may not be over yet — at least for some.

Some HP users are complaining that their laptops, which were not included in the company’s official list of affected machines, are facing problems similar to what other users experienced last year.

“When I boot up my laptop, it says there’s no driver and I can’t install one. That means my machine locks up and shuts down,” says Dana Hight, a HP notebook user who runs a web development company. “It is clearly related to what happened with Nvidia chips last year.” Hight has bought his laptop about a year and half ago.

But he, along with other users in one of HP’s online support forums, say the company won’t recognize his laptop model as one of the versions affected by the faulty Nvidia chips. Hight has the DV9549US model. HP did not respond to a request for comment about the complaints. Now Lenovo update its ThinkPad X200 to solve this probelm.

Last year many consumers saw notebooks and desktops PCs that refused to boot up, did not detect wireless networks or offer any video on the monitor. HP acknowledged problems with about 38 desktops and 14 notebook models, Pavilion DV5 battery. In October, 2008, HP issued BIOS fixes and a limited extended warranty for these machines. Nvidia has said a problem with the packaging material for some of its chipsets led to the high failure rates. Dell and Apple also reported problems with Nvidia chips in 2008.

But Hight and other users in HP’s forums complain that their notebook models from the dv95xx series are facing similar issues.

“About two months ago I started noticing flickering and the system locking up, shutting down and rebooting,” says Hight. “It started getting worse but HP told me their technicians are not aware of anything with my chipset for HP newest notebook Pavilion DV7.

Hight, who had bought extended warranty with the now bankrupt Circuit City says he has two options: to pay up to $400 to get a new motherboard, but with the same chipset from Nvidia; or buy a new machine that will cost hundreds of dollars.

A quick look through a thread on one of HP’s online support forums reveals similar complaints. HP technicians, say the users online, will not acknowledge their problems as being related to the bad Nvidia chips.

HP has not responded to Wired.com’s request for comment. Pavilion DV4 battery

Hight says HP should step up and replace the faulty laptops instead of offering piecemeal fixes. “I would expect HP to give us a solution,” says Hight. “Why should users who paid $800 to get a HP laptop have to pay now because they got a bad machine?”

The article is from http://blog.wired.com/