On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:13 -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote: > > 2. HP of late has a filthy habit of boobytrapping their notebooks to > > not take generic components. My nx6125, for example, will not work with > > any hard disc other than the 80GB Seagate (with HP firmware) that it > > came with. Sure you can put something else in, but it simply disables > > DMA making it hardly usable. This leaves you with two problems. If you > > run out of space, you can't put something bigger in, and b) if your disc > > dies after the warranty ran out, you're going to pay through your nose > > for a new drive. I can also not replace the wireless min-PCI card. > > Mine shipped with a broadcom. At the time, ndiswrapper was quite > > unstable, so I put an Atheros card in that I scavanged from an AP. > > Notebook wouln't even post - says something like "Unsupported PCI > > device, please remove." I thought, OK, I'll buy one from HP - got an HP > > branded Intel 2200 card (which was listed as compatible with my > > notebook) - same story. > > > I have to disagree. Recently bought a dv2130us for around a thousand > bucks, has a Core 2 Duo, 1GB (since updated to 2GB), 14" screen (for > portability) and 3.5 hour battery. Swapped out the harddisk with an old > 40GB Hitachi that was laying around, and effortlessly installed Kubuntu > Dapper. Pretty much everything worked out-of the-box, including > wireless, suspend, hibernate, etc. Frankly, I was floored!
My boss' HP nx9010 is cool with swapping drives too, but mine is not. You're welcome to look up on the nx6125. After buying the HP Intel ipw2200 I phoned HP to complain. They confirmed that it is not supported and at the same time they pulled the page that listed it as compatible (which I had luckily saved when I ordered). My point is that when you buy an HP you don't know if you're going to have issues like that. Incidently, my extra disc is also a Hitaschi 40GB (5400rpm 8mb). The notebook picks it up, but it runs so slowly. I popped in the HP Windows CD when I got home after work. By the time I went to bed it was still busy with the first phase. My extra hard drive worked perfectly in my old Compaq P-III as now in an external enclosure. The Intel card I sold off to a friend who's using it in his Dell. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
