*HP 2510p Owners Lounge*

[santzia]

I just upgraded my 2510p with a samsung 5400rpm 120gb harddrive to get it a bit snappier.
Everything works just fine. But i get a 1781 harddriv error when ever I boot.
I have scaned the harddrive in xp and in bios and it comes through error free.
But still I get the error message. True it only flashes by (about 5 sec) but it is anoying.. anyone know how I can fix this?

/Santzia

[sfsilicon]

Originally Posted by santzia

I just upgraded my 2510p with a samsung 5400rpm 120gb harddrive to get it a bit snappier.
Everything works just fine. But i get a 1781 harddriv error when ever I boot.
I have scaned the harddrive in xp and in bios and it comes through error free.
But still I get the error message. True it only flashes by (about 5 sec) but it is anoying.. anyone know how I can fix this?

/Santzia

Are you using a caddy? I get something similar from time to time with my caddy. If you are using a caddy with a bridge chip, I suspect the drive is not yet ready due to the spin-up and other delays related to using a bridge chip. The bridge chip is saying to the bios that the drive is there, but the physical device is not ready yet to be addressed. I normally just power-up again. One way that might avoid this is to introduce a longer boot delay before the notebook checks for the drives. Try 5-10s.

[santzia]

Thanks for the help.

However I´m not using a caddy but rather upgraded the 1.8" zif drive in my 2510p. I can´t get any software to say that there is anything faulty with tha harddrive. But i still get the 1781 error when i boot.
I swapped back my original 4200rpm drive for now. will give it some more testing when I get back from my vacation. Atleast it is working. 9h fligth to New York would be hell without any entertainment...

/ Santzia

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Check the seating of the ZIF cable on both ends. Is there any damage or is it loose? Clean it out since there might be dirt or grease. Are you using the original HP cable or something else?

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Originally Posted by nando4

Some suggestions on how to set the caddy to be slave

1/ Did you use non-conducting cellophane tape? The pic you posted looks like masking tape, which may not be suitable. Worth trying again.

2/ Try isolating pin 47 on the caddy's JAE50 connector AND bridging pin 47 with pin 41 (pin 41 is 5V) in the caddy. That setup *should* do two things:

- the bios will detect an isolated signal on the JAE50 connector, so setup operations for a slave device
- the Marvell chip will receive a logic 1, opposite to logic 0/GND which sets it as master on that input pin and *hopefully* that means it will set itself up as slave.

Finally found some time to open my 2510p again. I went ahead and connected pin 47 to pin 41 and the caddy was recognized as a multi-bay again. But similar to when the caddy is in its default state it doesn't work once I connect the 1.8" ZIF HDD.

I'm typing this after booting up using the old 1.8" drive. 4200rpm feels really slow when booting.

[pocket_geek]

Wow, that's alot of work for all this. Before I'd do all of that I'd just pickup one of the 5400rpm Samsung drives off ebay and call it good. I've seen them for ~$110 recently.

...Although I suppose I don't have much room to complain

[sfsilicon]

I know what you mean. At this point I'd only recommend the caddy approach if you want to get rid of the 1.8" ZIF and DVD. So have a cheap solo SSD or big 2.5" SATA drive. My config will last me till my next notebook and I'll be monitoring the 1.8" ZIF SSD developments for a 80/80 MB/s R/W drive in the 64gb range for <$200.

[pocket_geek]

yeah I saw that awhile back, crashed a test install of XP. I'd rather not mess with it since I'd rather my laptop stay reliable.

[nando4]

Request - can someone with a WWAN system check their pci-express ports

Does anyone on here with a 2510P have a WWAN card installed? If so, can they attempt to disable port1 as shown here. I've confirmed that the wifi card is pci-e port2, The strange thing is if I move the wifi card into the WWAN slot, it is not even detected as a device in XP. Rather strange. The 2510P has 2 enabled pci-e slots as shown in Device Manager on the left. So if you do have a WWAN card can you: 1/ Check your pci-express port listing in Device Manager. Are there more than 2 ports? 2/ Disable port1 as shown here to see if the WWAN stops working after that to ID that as port1.

The relevance here is to understand how the mini pci-e slot is working and whether vendors have possibly combined port1 and port2 into the single mini pci-e slot. That would open up the possibility of a x2 1.0 pci-e link for the DIY ViDock project.

[pocket_geek]

The WWAN module shows up as a USB Device, I'll post a screenshot later.

As for the new Runcore...I wonder if this http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/Pro...AD6-1246485054 Will work in the 2510p...

Edit: Here's a screen shot of my device manager


Disabling port1 did not disable the WWAN card.