Probably the main reason I consider HP Pavilion laptops worth buying is that they can be opened and disassembled very easily. This enables you (or your local computer repair shop) to perform a whole set of maintenance activities and to upgrade most parts without needing to send the laptop to some far HP authorized center. [...]

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Today I’ve found this page, I have to admit this guy is indeed clever! Laptop Cooling. It is the strangest thing that all laptops have the same design fault. If operated on the “lap”, the needed cooling will be blocked off, it will overheat, and may eventually abruptly halt. Here’s how I modified mine so [...]

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There are controversial statements concerning the compatibility of Intel WiMax 5350 Pci-Express card with HP Pavilion laptops. I haven’t tested it myself yet, however if you had the chance to please drop a note! Apparently the main reason why most of the cards out there are not compatible with HP and Dell computers is due [...]

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Some HP Pavilion standard 6 cells batteries apparently use the same ID of 12 cells batteries. This would lead GNOME to display the following notification at every login: Battery may be broken Your battery has a very low capacity 48% which means that it may be old or broken.

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Driver 169.07 featured some performance enhancements for GeForce 8 series onwards, but above all features the linux port of PowerMizer powersaving feature. PowerMizer is NVIDIA’s name for the power management features of their hardware, whose primary purpose is adaptive clocking of the core and memory to save power. The current series of NVIDIA drivers for [...]

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On some recent version of linux xorg synaptics driver two-fingers scrolling support has been added. This is a great feature that was first introduced by Apple Macbook laptops and that still the Windows version of synaptics driver for Pavilions does not have. Let’s see ho to enable it!

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Phoenix Technologies (produttore di tutti i BIOS dei computer HP Pavilion) sin dal 2003 parallelamente all’adozione delle specifiche TCG (TrustedComputing Group) ha sviluppato una propria piattaforma compatibile con le specifiche del Trusted Computing. Questa versione prende il nome di  “TrustedCore” ed è presente di default su tutti i portatili  HP Pavilion. (Immediatamente dopo l’accensione del [...]

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Phoenix Technologies (maker of all HP Pavilion’s BIOS) since 2003 along with adhering to TCG (TrustedComputing Group) specifications has developed its own version of Trusted Computing compliant platform. This version is called “TrustedCore” and is default on all the HP Pavilion product line. (Immediately after booting your laptop repeatedly press ESC key and you could [...]

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NOTE: This is a very interesting post by Rickard Holmberg I decided to mirror since the original is no longer online. It concerns hacking HP Pavilion BIOS in order to lower the CPU and GPU clocks and thus let the laptop fan make less noise. I found it a pretty interesting post, especially for those [...]

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It’s been almost an year since there has been some turmoil over the failed HP Pavilion laptops due to the defective nVidia chipsets. These notably used to have a defective packaging that at temperatures over ~70°C turned unstable preventing the GPU from dissipating heat effectively and eventually letting it to burn. [nVidia source]

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