Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

[reaper57]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Yeah UEFI really sucks. I don't really find it useful for almost anything.

mmartell did you try to format the drive the way I told you? And did it work?

[Agent24]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Have you got the latest BIOS?

I had an HP laptop, an old ZE4201, HDD was dead, put a new one in, but CD wouldn't boot anything, not even the official HP XP restore CD that came with it. Thought the drive was bad, tried USB drive, doesn't work either. Floppy doesn't work.

BIOS is like 5 years out of date from latest version.. but I can't boot a floppy or CD to update it! Lucky it's socketed and easy to get to.. pull the EEPROM and update manually with my Willem. Now CD and floppy boot anything I throw at them! (WTF HP?)

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

did you set the boot order in the bios?

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Ya the boot order is very simple and does not specify booting from Primary or Secondary.

I believe this was formatted as one partition originally.

I do remember now what happened last time I messed with this. The drive was not seen by the system so I moved it to the secondary bay and that allowed me to install Win7 to it but it wouldn't boot from there. Moving the drive back to the Primary bay gives the "No OS Found" message.

Gonna mess a little more with this in a bit.

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

As far as bios goes I think it will only flash from Vista and I'm having enough trouble as it is atm lol.

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Also the bios makes no mention of AHCI if that's important.

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

What is the make/model is the drive?
What exact model is the HP? There several variants of the DV9000 designation IIRC.
These things may make a difference.

BTW, I forgot to add that AHCI is a controller specification for SATA drives but is not a requirement for SATA drive operation. It may or may not be supported by the motherboard chipset.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

There's A TON, not several variants of the DV9000. I know of 6 major variations, there may be more than that. If it's an AMD version it's going to have nvidia chipsets everywhere - those are known problematic so it could be a hardware issue.

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Yes it is the amd version with Nvidia but...

As it turns out there is a more mundane explanation.

For whatever reason the adapter when seated wasn't making a connection inside the socket so I wedged it out some and it gets recognized by the system now every time.

Is Ubuntu a good "starter linux" or any recommendations ?

[stj]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

you should start with Ubuntu or Mint
but with one important point.
choose the version with the KDE desktop, not cinamon or mate.

oh, you need a minimum of 1gig of ram for the Mint installer - not sure about Ubuntu

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

What does it mean to choose a desktop ? Is that just the gui, like a theme or a layout ?

[stj]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

exactly, it's the GUI.
KDE is very much like windows - you wont have any trouble trying to find things.

[Agent24]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

I personally use XFCE, it has a nice classic Windows look. Definitely stay away from Unity, unless you are the kind of person who loves Windows 8 and Metro.

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Ok thanks for the tips!

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

Now, I've read it's wise to keep the firmware updated on an ssd so how come there is zero information about doing that on the PNY website ?

Model is 69D03092-T.

[stj]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

probably because they have not found any bugs.
i mean, if they cant find any problems - what's to update!

[Agent24]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

probably because they have not found any bugs.
i mean, if they cant find any problems - what's to update!

Sometimes firmware (in general) is updated for performance or to add features rather than fix bugs.

[diif]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

PNY do have some firmwares on their website for SSD, i think they've just dropped support for them.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

sounds like you need sata drivers during the install.

[mmartell]

Re: Will an HP DV9000 Boot from SSD ?

PNY do have some firmwares on their website for SSD, i think they've just dropped support for them.

Where do you see these ?