Comments on: Vista Service Pack 1 and XP Service Pack 3 with updated drivers Mini-Note Benchmarks

By: RJHD3

RJHD3 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:31:57 +0000

I have a benchmark question.

Has anyone run benchmark programs or evaluated XP’s performance if you use eBoostr or similar accelerator that takes advantage of an SD card to improve performance by reducing Disk IO or leveraging the available memory better?

http://www.eboostr.com/ Is the eboostr site and I was curious if it would help at all with perf on XP.

thanks.

-RJ

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:11:55 +0000

I just formatted my pc with XP service part 3 but the network is not working.. Why???

By: Xenel

Xenel — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:00:07 +0000

Thanks to Geoff H for the fix on the Driveguard - that was starting to annoy me.

Just to rephrase Geoff’s response, as I was a little uncertain, in Vista, go to Control Panel, Hardware & Sound, Device Manager - View hardware and devices, click on the + IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, right-click uninstall the SATA (bottom) - check the delete driver box when it asks and reboot. On reboot it will (should) pickup the Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller.

Sorry to make Geoff’s simple solution seem overly programmatic, but I suspect there’s a few like me wondering exactly how to execute and whether it will cause major drama if not exactly clear…

By: sleepinglynn

sleepinglynn — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:28:14 +0000

I also cannot enable HP 3D DriveGuard.
My modole number is KX869AT and OS is XP SP2.

Looking forward to the solution.
Thanks a lot!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:28:03 +0000

I have a 2133 running xp as well. driveguard sais my hard drive is not supported. I would also like a print driver that can use the officejet 7310. I tried to install the software and it said my processor wasn’t supported. Any help would be great. Thanks.

By: Gono

Gono — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:19:22 +0000

Just to let you know, I finally returned my mininote and bought an Eee PC 4G. Despite the smaller screen and the English keyboard, the experience is much better on the Eee than it was with the mininote. I know that there is some big differences, that I have less disk space and I am running linux. But the price/value point seems better with the Eee. If HP had put a real CPU in the 2133, it would have been a better choice, but with the C7, it is far from able to deliver what the Eee has to offer in term of performance at half the price. I don’t even what to think of the difference it will be with what will deliverer the upcoming models equipped of an ATOM CPU.

By: pete - www.allitsolutions.net.au

pete - www.allitsolutions.net.au — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:55:48 +0000

the model of mine is: FH44PA.
1.6g / 2gb / 160gb / vista oem business etc…

i run windows xp professional sp2 vista look a like.

i also installed the new drivers and i feel like my mini note is performing slower than with the original drivers from hp.

when installing the new chipset driver, it altered the hard drive bus drivers and now idenifities the hdd differently in device manager and now hp driveguard doesnt work for me either.

i tried rolling back the drivers and it didnt work well for me… so i’ll try a couple of things before i do another clean install.

i do like the driveguard working as im constanly on the move and parks the hdd when i start to knock it around.

according to device manager in xp, my hdd is a TOSHIBA MK1646GSX.

it is the oem hdd that came with mine.

enjoy

By: Ary

Ary — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:12:39 +0000

Hi mate, thanks for all the help you’ve given so far. I installed TinyXP (for better performance) and have the VIA drivers as instructed. However youtube doesn’t play well fullscreen. Before the sound driver patch, I had clipping and noises, even video artifacts as it’s been commented. Now I can play music in Winamp and browse with Firefox with several tabs at the same time. Haven’t tried MSN Live plus FF, plus Winamp, plus Word, yet.

So if you have any hints regarding youtube (and dailymotion) performance I’d appreciate it. Specs are 1.2ghz 1gb ram, planning to upgrade to 2gb (however I don’t see how it should make a big difference since I check on task manager and usually there are 400 or 500mb free).

PS: Speakers have excellent quality for what they are, I have grown to appreciate them so I don’t complain about the screen not being bigger. Also headphone jack is quite good actually, no hiss nor distortion so far (with good headphones). Very nice to configure the display to turn off and change power mode to max battery to extend music playing performance.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:55:46 +0000

my drive guard is not working now after the update
I have a 1.2ghz with a 120HD 5400rpm and 2GB memory
What can I do?

By: Geoff H

Geoff H — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:51:51 +0000

What’s knocking out the HP DriveGuard is the Hyperion update. It installs a SATA/IDE Driver that i guess is incompatible. When you install this update, just uncheck it. If you already installed it and are stuck, goto the device manager (right-click my computer and hit properties then goto the hardware tab) and uninstall the driver for the hard drive (Expand the hard drives node, right click the internal drive and hit uninstall). Then reboot. The driver should reinstall with the correct version (i think mine came from windows update). This happened to me on XP on the 1.6ghz model. I just wish i had figured that out before getting over anxious and restoring my last back-up image. But oh well.