*HP EliteBook 2710p Owners Lounge*

[bigted]

Welcome to the 2710P Owner's Lounge! A place to liase with other owners and draw upon existing useful tips/tricks/mods. Table below showing some of the possibilities.

Example modified 12" HP 2710P tablets by approx additional expense spent (least to most)

benchmark 1.8" ZIF PATA bay Other mods bigted ssd: 32GB ProIV wwan:MC8775/mPCIe

RED - highest performance setup reported

HP_Website: Drivers, Manuals including Service And Maintenance Guide, Media Services Library- disassembly videos.

Tweaks

• quiet_fan: Almost silent fan using a custom ACPI dsdt table (requires 2710P version)
• (2510P) Overclocking in Windows + Benchmarks. Includes Win7 WEI, wprime 32M, PLL pinmod, ram timings.
• Extending Battery Life. Includes power consumption measurement tools.
• Modded X3100 Win7 driver. Increases desktop WEI by 10%.
• Enabling third-button mouse click scrolling with touchstyk
• Disabling AMT and TPM (serial/IDE in Device Manager) permanently

Storage mods

• 1.8" ZIF PATA SSD options
• usb_zif: Convert supplied 1.8" ZIF HDD to a tiny USB drive using a US$10-delivered enclosure
• Add e-sata: Flush-type expresscard for fast external storage
• e-sata/usb cable or enclosure, useful for external e-sata storage
• Enabling and connecting to the ICH8M native sata port. Anyone who can pull this off gets a prize

Storage tweaks

• Manually setting ZIF/IDE transfer mode and standby timeout
• Disabling power saving to increase SSD write performance

Other hardware mods/upgrades

• pc2-6400_RAM: Upgrade your stock 2GB 667MHz RAM to 800MHz for free
• DIY ViDock for desktop videocard (+HDMI) via expresscard slot.

BIOS tweaking/modding

• Workarounds to bios whitelisting of WWAN/WIFI mPCIe slots. To add non-HP WWAN or wifi cards.
• HP Flash BIOS Emergency Recovery

Source: Many from 2510P Owner's Lounge.

[nando4]

• SLIC21 and WWAN/wifi whitelist removed bios
• h/w overclocking the 2710P
• dual-IDA modded bios
• h/w undervolting the 2710P
• F.11 BIOS dump - use a SPI eeprom burner to flash this if you have an admin passwd preventing access. Use the DMI utilities to match your system's model/serial number with the chassis.

[bigted]

Hi there, I just upgraded my 2710p hard drive to a Pro IV and thought I'd post my results here, they are as follows (btw, i used hdparm to enable udma6 on my little beast):

CrystalDiskMark 3.0
Sequential Read : 87.487 MB/s
Sequential Write : 51.250 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 84.396 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 53.569 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 11.765 MB/s [ 2872.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 6.971 MB/s [ 1701.8 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 24.914 MB/s [ 6082.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 7.394 MB/s [ 1805.3 IOPS]

HD Tune: RunCore 32G-C SSD Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 58.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 71.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 69.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 0.2 ms
Burst Rate : 57.0 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 21.4%

so coming from the 100gb 4200 rpm drive, i am in heaving now!

on a side note, i took the 100gb drive and put it into my aging Zune30 and pumped some life back into it!

very satisfied overall with my upgrade.

My full system specs:
HP2710p
Core2Duo U7600
2gb DDR2 Ram @ 266mhz 4-4-4-12
32gb RunCore Pro IV (i use a 500gb Seagate drive for storage)
Intel 4965AGN (Upgrade from the standard WiFi controller)
Sierra Wireless MC8775 (HS2300 clone w/GSM SIM Pay As You go plan)

That's all i've got for now, lets get some 2710p love here!! i'm tired of only seeing teh 2510p when i do searches on google.

PS I submitted the PLL # to the guys at SetFSB so maybe we'll be able to do some overclocking on this excellent tablet!

Originally Posted by nando4

setfsb author has retired. What is the 2710p's PLL? Can you get a datasheet for the PLL? It is likely TME-locked, something you can check using setfsb as shown here. In which case would require a pinmod to unlock overclocking ability. Feel free to copy and edit the information below to be the *first* post of the 2710P Owner's Lounge. (click reply, grab quoted text).

PLL: ICS9LPRS355BKL

[nando4]

Originally Posted by bigted

PLL: ICS9LPRS355BKL

Your screenshot here shows byte 9=65 (bit 6=1, no overclocking), so confirms the PLL is TME (Trusted Mode Enable - no overclocking) locked.

INFO: Overclocking

The 2710P PLL is a ICS9LPRS355BKL confirmed here. The 2510P PLL is ICS9LPRS355BGLF. Both of them in the same datasheet here. We see they only differ in their packaging and pinouts. The 2510P is a 64-pin rectangular TSSOP, the 2710P is a 64-pin MLF, yet selecting the 2510P's ICS9LPRS355BGLF PLL in setfsb doesn't allow overclocking. Can try a few other methods to overclock then:

Method 1: Try to overcome the TME locked state, as is done on the 2510P

We can see from the datasheet that the TME workaround that setfsb uses on the 2510P swaps the main clock from PLL1 to PLL3, and the sata clock to PLL2 below. Can perform these steps or some variation of them to see if can overcome TME mode on the 2710P. Right: 2510P PLL registers before/after setfsb applies TME workaround (OD, OE sets FSB)

Step 1: set TME workaround 0h(0): 31->37 Sets source for SRC Main from PLL1 -> PLL3 Sets sata clock from SRC_Main to PLL2 11h(17): A0->A4 VCO Frequency Control Register PLL3. M Div (5:0) 12h(18): 8F->F6 VCO Frequency Control Register PLL3 N Div (9:0) 15h(21): 00->01 M/N Enable

Step 2: Set byte 0D and OE manually for your desired FSB { FSB, Byte 0D, Byte OE} { 112, 0x88, 0x71}, { 117, 0x88, 0x87} { 125, 0x88, 0xA3} { 133, 0x88, 0xBF} { 142, 0x88, 0xDB} { 150, 0x88, 0xF7} { 158, 0x48, 0x13} { 160, 0x48, 0x19} { 167, 0x48, 0x2F} { 175, 0x48, 0x4B} { 183, 0x48, 0x67} { 190, 0x48, 0x7D} { 195, 0x48, 0x8E} { 200, 0x48, 0x9E}

Method 2: Overclocking the 2710P by TME-unlocking it




2710P PLL pins of interest: RED=TME-unlock PLL | BLUE=set 166Mhz mode

TME-unlocking the PLL will then allow software overclocking in 1Mhz increments. I *assume* that the you'd likely need to select the ICS9LPRS365BGLF or ICS9LPRS355BGLF PLL in setfsb to do that. Unlock TME by grounding PCI2/TME pin11 as shown here.

Method 3: Hardware Overclocking (Advanced)

The 9LPRS355.pdf datasheet shows that a logic of 1 on the PLL FSLB pin would change the u7xxx CPU FSB to 166Mhz on bootup. You *might* need to slow your RAM's 266Mhz timings to CAS=5 with Thaiphoon Burner as shown here for this to work as otherwise the RAM boots up with the faster 266Mhz timings, yet the RAM is running at 333Mhz.

FSLC FSLB FSLA CPUFREQ
.....0......0......1.....133.33 <---- default (u7xxx CPU)
.....0......1......1.....166.66 <-----overclock (u7xxx CPU)
.....0......1......0.....200.00 <-----default (L7xxx CPU)
.....0......0......0.....266.66 <-----b-i-g overclock (L7xxx CPU)

FLSB, pin 64 appears to have nothing connected to it. So not clear if it has an internal pull down resistor. To pull it up would require connecting it to a 3.3V logic point via a 10k resistor, eg: FSLA pin 17 to have hardware overclock to 166Mhz FSB. A successful implementation of this done by tweakertje (though with the 2510P PLL) here.

PLL mod, 200mhz to 266mhz help please thread has more hardware overclocking info.

[bigted]

ICS9LPRS365BGLF or ICS9LPRS355BGLF

these did not work for getting the FSB, so i will not be pursuing it further, this is a work laptop after all, haha

[nando4]

Originally Posted by bigted

these did not work for getting the FSB, so i will not be pursuing it further, this is a work laptop after all, haha

Can you post a screenshot of the setfsb->Diagnosis Window? Select ics9lprs355bglf and choose Get FSB. It might be that the individual settings differ somewhat to what the ics9lprs355bglf PLL has set which was designed to support a 2510P.

[bigted]

there's the diagnosis screen

as a side note, i just got a 32gb SDHC card for my 2710, it's one of those $30 ones from ebay from singapore, here's a screeny of the performance on battery:



some people report problems with the ricoh sdcard reader, only reading at 1mb/s, but that's just what hdtune reads it as, it actually performs much faster

and here's one of the runcore zif drive:

[ZipXavier]

Originally Posted by nando4

Can you post a screenshot of the setfsb->Diagnosis Window? Select ics9lprs355bglf and choose Get FSB. It might be that the individual settings differ somewhat to what the ics9lprs355bglf PLL has set which was designed to support a 2510P.

The above poster seems to have chosen the wrong PLL, here is a screenshot of the PLL you requested on my 2710p.

[evgeniy10]

What you can say about screen matrix in HP 2710p ?

Brightless, contrast, view angles.
2710p has IPS matrix ?

[evgeniy10]

2710p compartible with
Toshiba 160 GB 1.8" HDD MK1629GSG ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Toshiba-160-GB-1...item45f148b24f


Disk form Toshiba StorE Steel 1.8" 160GB 4200rpm (PA4140E-1HA6) ?