2710p Thread

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)

1.8" ZIF PATA bay Other mods bigted ssd: wwan:MC8775/mPCIe

- 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.