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Me-High

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  1. Hello darkydark, my almost neighbour. I have the i5 3360M on the 8570p and nothing I do benefits more from (lower frequency) 4 cores than from (higher frequency) 2 cores. The computer I use more than 12 hours each day is the Dragon .... yes HDX 9000 with (undervolted) T9300, 8GB DDR2, 256 SSD, 1TB HDD and BluRay. I put 15 Ohm resistors in series with each fan and I ocassionaly game with the wife sleeping litterally next to my desk. Very quiet fans now with 38 - 40 degrees CPU, 45 - 50 degrees GPU - in games. Idle about half. Full load still quiet. I have a script to stop the HDD and it becomes dead quiet if idle; I can hear the coil whine from the display inverter from more than 2 meters ... during the day. Still love my Dragon. I use the 8570p the ocassional week-end. Also have 8460p; same batteries and same dock works on both. The wife uses it. I built myself a 24 cell (4S6P) external battery for about 1 time a year usage (testing not included). Works with EliteBooks, not with the Dragon. All this means I am not in a hurry to buy something unless it brings me something usefull without dropping something I need. Procrastination. I tested another WWAN modem (Option GlobeTrotter GTM 382) in the 8570p and it does not give unsupported device, just quietly cuts power from the 3.3V lines, about 6 seconds after starting. Just as with all unsupported devices, but no error message. Tried multiple times, putting HP un2400 gives error, putting Option 382 never gives error but not working. Option 382 worked in my 2570p for months, until first removed. They work fine on the Dragon when testing them in the mPCIe TV Tuner slot, the only one equipped with USB lines. So anybody with a 2570p or 8470p or 8570p, if no WWAN modem was ever (since manufacture) put in them please put a WWAN and expect to work only if you will never remove it. Just don't take it out ... ever. After you take it out no WWAN modem will work again, including the one you just tested. So choose carefully and please report back. It's too late for me but others may still use a WWAN modem in theirs. If you have an older BIOS, before F50, do not update it. I don't know if it works after F50. I had F46 when I put a modem and it worked. Actually first start gave error, just long pressed power button, started again and It worked for more than 6 months with no error until I took it out unknowingly. Ask back if you are not sure you read this correctly. Do not update BIOS yet.
  2. First of all let me thank you Tech Inferno Fan for all the informations I learned from your posts in the last half decade, starting with your external VGA thread when it was a couple of pages long. Double thanks for still caring for EliteBook xx70 owners. Do you still have a 2570p? After seeing E6440 in your signature I thaught you sold it or something. Triple thanks for the eeprom dump information. I owned 2570p until mid 2014 and I had 2 non-whitelisted modems in it with BIOS F42 I think. Now that you mentioned it I remember when removing first modem and putting another one I couldn't use the first. I think something is broken in their BIOS. They let you use any modem, but if you take it out even once will not work anymore ... ever. Will try today the WLAN with a 802.11ac card. I had lost hope on that one two. I looked for a replacement for xx70 series and came to the same conclusions. I think it's the end of an era and OUR next laptops will have soldered processors, probably soldered RAM, no optical drive. I hope they will put full power CPU, not low voltage, and no whitelist. At least 1TB SSD are almost afordable so single drive can be used. Waiting for more diversity in the 1TB SSD cause I don't trust Samsung with storage.
  3. I am a former owner of 2570p currently owning 8570p and most informations in this thread apply to 8570p also. I believe the last BIOS without whitelist was F46. I flashed BIOS F50 when appeared on HP website some months ago with HP un2400 inside and it worked until yesterday; when I removed un2400 for some other reason. Put it back minutes later and error 703 Unsupported device. Apparently the dreaded whitelist is back with F50 but hidden until first removal of the device. I flashed the new BIOS F61 and I still cannot use HP un2400 anymore. Can anybody with F50 or F60 (or F61 if 8570p) still use a non-whitelisted modem or wifi? I think the smoking gun was that you cannot flash back an older version. Probably my last HP if they did this whit no mention in changes list. They don't have time to fix ASPM but they have time to screw us!
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