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    dv5000t upgrade to 7200rpm

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nikkool, Aug 31, 2007.

  1. nikkool

    nikkool Notebook Enthusiast

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    I wanted to upgrade my 5400 rpm drive to 7200 but hp claims the motherboard will not support it. Is there such an issue where the motherboard wont support a certain spindle speed?
     
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    Incursis Notebook Evangelist

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    I find that claim by HP to be hard to believe. I don't believe the BIOS can detect the rotations per minute (rpm) of a hard drive.

    I think they got confused with the type of interface such as SATA or PATA. Those are the compatibility things you should worry about.

    I'm curious about this. Do you have a link where I can read this?
     
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  3. nikkool

    nikkool Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry no link, this was during a customer service chat, during which the first agent claimed my drive was pata, when the clearly the model number showed up on fujitsu's site as sata(not to mention hardware detection programs). The second agent got this right, ,but they both claimed that 7200 rpm would not be recognized, which i found shocking, as like you i believed the bios didn't care.
     
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  4. j0rdy

    j0rdy Notebook Consultant

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    erm..you DO know that they pay these people a pitance in bangladesh or wherever they are - right?

    i.e. not many knowledgeable or highly skilled staff are going to put up with low wage jobs..which should indicate to you how knowledgeable they may or may not be :rolleyes:

    in any case, I'd refer to the specs of your laptop on the HP website, it should state either on the product page whether or not the hard drive is Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE; after that it's just a matter of purchasing a 7200rpm unit.

    The only thing that matters when it comes to hard drives are the interface and whether or not your motherboard supports IDE (aka PATA), SATA or SCSI.


    - Jordan
     
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    Tneet Newbie

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    I have a new HP laptop that I wanted to upgrade for Vista, to my suprise it

    Turns out that the SATA drive format Hp uses on my Laptop (DV6135NR) is

    propriatary and can not be interchanged with a standard SATA 2.5" drive.

    I took out the drive to look at it and it was not a standard interface, there

    were small vertical copper fins in place of the usual flat tabs that make up a

    standard SATA interface. The motherboard had a reverse image pattern.

    If the Original drive had failed for some reason, the only option is to replace

    it with an OEM unit. I don't know if that applies to your laptop. Tim
     
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