*HP 2510p Owners Lounge*

[li8w8]

one question:

someone from germany here to sell me a

Switch cover (includes LED board and cable)

(ptnr is 451717-001)

for my 2510p

?

best regards li8w8

[stuartdb]

Hi, just a quick hello..

I have just bought a hp2510p with no charger and hd (+ broken lid catch). It seemed a reasonable price.

I recently bought a lovely little dell x300 it ran beautifully - but I wanted to try using a CF as a boot drive and eventually damaged the mobo (silly mistake from a begineer as the CF was faulty doh, but all the swapping around eventually broke it.)

I already have a 2.5 sata disk and have ordered a charger and 9.5mm sata caddy from ebay.

I have scanned through this excellent forum and guide and seen lots of talk about SSDs, but I was wondering whether it is worth buying "another" CF adapter, to reuse the CF connecting to the ZIF drive? I was considering installing the operating system but switching the temp files to use the sata drive if that is possible?

I am also planning to update the modded_bios, but I am unsure of whether I can update the bios directly from F05 or whether I need a newer starting point.

Although the catch is an imperfection, the replacement part is pretty expensive so I will leave it for the moment.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.


Stuart

[li8w8]

Hi, just a quick hello..

I have just bought a hp2510p with no charger and hd (+ broken lid catch). It seemed a reasonable price.

I recently bought a lovely little dell x300 it ran beautifully - but I wanted to try using a CF as a boot drive and eventually damaged the mobo (silly mistake from a begineer as the CF was faulty doh, but all the swapping around eventually broke it.)

I already have a 2.5 sata disk and have ordered a charger and 9.5mm sata caddy from ebay.

I have scanned through this excellent forum and guide and seen lots of talk about SSDs, but I was wondering whether it is worth buying "another" CF adapter, to reuse the CF connecting to the ZIF drive? I was considering installing the operating system but switching the temp files to use the sata drive if that is possible?

I am also planning to update the modded_bios, but I am unsure of whether I can update the bios directly from F05 or whether I need a newer starting point.

Although the catch is an imperfection, the replacement part is pretty expensive so I will leave it for the moment.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.


Stuart

better get a small 1,8 ZIF SSD or DOM (need to isolate nd fix somehow)

thsi works better and after all you keep the 2510p benefit, the optical drive!

CFcards are bad harddisks they die fastly if not SLC memory

[User Retired 2]

Although the catch is an imperfection, the replacement part is pretty expensive so I will leave it for the moment.

Cheap replacement latch: HP Compaq 2510p Series LCD Latch

As for cheap storage, these are my recommendations in order of cheapest/least technical to most technical:

1. Install a 2.5" SATA SSD in the optical bay. Recommend an ebay caddy if doing that as they have no bootup delay issues.. Can use the 1.8" HDD as auxilery storage jumpered as slave in spindown mode when not in use or sell to recoup costs.

2. Install a 1.8" ZIF SSD, they are reasonably priced now.

3. Try a uSATA-to-ZIF adapter with a mSATA/uSATA SSD [medium technical level]

4. Try the 2510P SATA_retrofit [highly technical], routing the SATA linesto either the WWAN slot as mSATA, ZIF slot as uSATA or to the optical bay as 2.5" SATA.

I also recommend doing the 166Mhz_BCLK PLL pinmod to overclock U7600 2510P to 1.5Ghz/1.66Ghz (dual-IDA) without needing any software. A 2510P modded_bios is a must and NEVER upgrade to F.20. F.20 is HP's effort to stop the non-whitelist, dual-IDA, SLIC 2.1 and fan quietening benefits to the Santa Rosa/Penryn series business range that are in dual-IDA/quad-IDA BIOS for HDX9000/87x0/85x0/6x10/27x0p/25x0p .

Worth noting HP's latest 13" Folio 13" and 11.6" 2170P is receiving a lot of praise. Those systems are similar size and weight as a 2510P but neither has an optical drive!! I still prefer the ergonomics of a $150 2510P to a $800+ Folio 13. Wish we could get a retro re-release with latest tech in it.

[stuartdb]

thanks for the replies.
@li8w8
Yeah I think I worked out the CF was a poor replacement in the trials with the x300 and then an older dell notebook. but assumed it was the old notebook I will avoid that and treat it as a bad move.

@nando
I will check out the replacement latch thanks for the link and I think I am aiming at the easy route of 2.5 sata in a caddy and then give the machine a test to make sure it is all working properly first and then go for the 166Mhz PLL pinmod and the modded bios, I assume you wrote this bios yourself nando as I have followed through the thread and other items in the forum most of these articles are a little out of my ability everything looks too tiny to solder and experiment with so I will try and keep to simple mods.

I will give back some feedback on what I have managed or put my hand up if I am stuck, if that is okay?

I did read your comment about the newer machines and to be honest I was convinced I was going to be buying a new mac air book 13.3, but I only use the littles ones for internet+email or VPN to my work machine - I as a hobby already buying a quick machine doesn't feel as good as getting all thats needed from an old one.

Thanks

Stuart

[_Cyber_]

hi,

after the painful death of my nc2400 mainboard i have ordered now (beside a new mainboard for nc2400) a 2510p.

some questions where I think I can get great help here:

1) BIOS. regrettably already F.30 is flashed, so no downgrade is possible to flash a modded one.
I read in another thread abour reflashing the chip with this.
But, at least in my nc2400 I can see the bios chip looks like this on the mainboard (have not opened the 2510p for now ...) - or is this not the part of the bios which I have to reflash?
If it is, how does the "adapter" look like to fit in the flash device from above?

2) resoldering the LAN-port: steh 2510p has a damaged lan-port, it looks like "the cable was stronger". - the dead mainboard of the nc2400 has a working LAN-port, has already anybody tried to solder-out and solder-in of such one? I am not sure, I think I am able to, but the size does matter here - below 0.7mm I have never tried to, especially soldering out parts ... or should I just leave the lan-port (it is still working, but the cable cannot "click" in any more and it looks like ... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

3) the part with which the screen holds down if the notebook is closed (the part which you are touching and moving if you want to open, not the part which is holding down the display). quite often used, so I would like to change. does this part from the nc2400 fit in there? or can I buy this part seperately, how is it called?

Thank you.

[stuartdb]

Hi, I am still awaiting the arrival of the ebay 9.5mm caddy so have not done much yet apart from running ubuntu from the usb and checking out the little laptop.

Once I get the caddy I will put in the 300gb sata hd, but I am flumexed regarding a suitable operating system, I know it works with ubuntu, but it just feels a little "overpowered" for ubuntu I tend to put that on older laptops like hand-me-downs for kids or when xp pro took 3 minutes to boot up my Dell 510m. Also I cannot seem to find anything to use the "fingerprint" toy on the laptop for ubuntu, or any equivilent to setfsb in order to see whether I can make the hardware change to 166 fsb.

I have licenses for XP PRO although no install CD, it was in the period when Dell did not distribute the OS on CD with their machines.
I have a COA sticker on the bottom of the laptop for vista business but obviously no install dvd.
I do have my own dvd install for vista home premium which although was appalling when first released was not "all that bad" at the end.

Would I be better off buying another copy of windows 7, or should I use one of my old versions of windows, I am interested in trying out the DUAL IDA throttle stop change to allow both cores to run at 1200 for example rather than 1 @ 800 and 1 @1200 which is the current situation? Which I believe is a windows program.

Does the throttlestop program only change the settings for that session or in someway update the hardware to stay running both cores with full speed available?

Sorry so many questions, I got the little laptop as a project plaything, not a simple netbook.

Thanks for any input.

I am getting less keen on doing too much permenantly with a soldering iron, it will really anoy me if I break another laptop being overzelous.

[User Retired 2]

hi,

after the painful death of my nc2400 mainboard i have ordered now (beside a new mainboard for nc2400) a 2510p.

some questions where I think I can get great help here:

1) BIOS. regrettably already F.30 is flashed, so no downgrade is possible to flash a modded one.
I read in another thread abour reflashing the chip with this.
But, at least in my nc2400 I can see the bios chip looks like this on the mainboard (have not opened the 2510p for now ...) - or is this not the part of the bios which I have to reflash?
If it is, how does the "adapter" look like to fit in the flash device from above?

2) resoldering the LAN-port: steh 2510p has a damaged lan-port, it looks like "the cable was stronger". - the dead mainboard of the nc2400 has a working LAN-port, has already anybody tried to solder-out and solder-in of such one? I am not sure, I think I am able to, but the size does matter here - below 0.7mm I have never tried to, especially soldering out parts ... or should I just leave the lan-port (it is still working, but the cable cannot "click" in any more and it looks like ... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

3) the part with which the screen holds down if the notebook is closed (the part which you are touching and moving if you want to open, not the part which is holding down the display). quite often used, so I would like to change. does this part from the nc2400 fit in there? or can I buy this part seperately, how is it called?

Thank you.

The bios chip is socketted and can be accessed via the 1.8" drive bay. You can see it in the bottom right corner of the image below.




Unfortunately I never took an image of the 2510P bios while I had one. Grains bios repair in the UK can send you a pre-flashed bios chip if you can't get a pre F.20 one off another 2510P. HP Compaq Notebook BIOS Chips-EEPROM

If you do grab the 4MB image of a pre F.20 bios from a 2510P then please link here for others to access in case they fall victim to HP's attempt to prevent modded bios starting with F.20 and onwards. 51nb.cn users refer to F.20 flashers are incurring a "a great tragedy" . . .

I spoke of the LCD latch that holds the LCD down a few responses up. Please read.

Would I be better off buying another copy of windows 7, or should I use one of my old versions of windows, I am interested in trying out the DUAL IDA throttle stop change to allow both cores to run at 1200 for example rather than 1 @ 800 and 1 @1200 which is the current situation? Which I believe is a windows program.

Does the throttlestop program only change the settings for that session or in someway update the hardware to stay running both cores with full speed available?
..
I am getting less keen on doing too much permenantly with a soldering iron, it will really anoy me if I break another laptop being overzelous.

The F.13 modded 2510P bios provided dual-IDA, SLIC 2.1 (Win7), no whitelist and modified fan profiles. That should sort your issues out.

By the sounds of it you are running a U7500-1.06 (7x133). That CPU will have no problems running at 1.16 (7x166) or 1.33 (8x166 - dualIDA) using either setFSB or via the 166Mhz_bclk mod. Only thing that you will probably need to do is change the 266Mhz SPDTable RAM entry to run at CAS=5 rather than CAS=4. If you don't want to do that memory mod, or have RAM that is write protected then consider doing the 200Mhz_bclk mod instead. There your U7500 would run at 1.2Ghz, with all the other IO running faster than they would with a 166Mhz_bclk mod.

[_Cyber_]

thanks nando4, LCD latch ordered. (:

maybe you know, does bios-repair.co.uk email such images maybe? or, on ordering on bios-repair.co.uk is it possible there to wish the wanted bios version so I am sure I get one pre-F.20? nearly 20$ are not less just for a bios ....

Maybe somebody here wants to help me, means sending me a pre-F.20 bios chip from which I can clone? Or maybe somebody in here has already an image?

[stuartdb]

Hi Nando,

No, I have got a U7600 1.2

the system info is
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU U7600 @ 1.20GHz × 2

but I am sure I look at one screen that showed 1*1.2Ghz and 1*800Mhz, which is what I thought highlighted that one core ran at 1.2Ghz and the other had a maximum speed of 800mhz - which was my understanding regarding the dual ida, maybe I dont really understand it well enough.

I cannot find that at all now? very strange the system monitor shows both cores at 1.2Ghz

I will try and put the modded bios on this evening.

So in your opinion can I try the 166 FSB hardware modification rather than trying to use setfsb first as a test, if the u7500 cpu was okay with it.