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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
From all the great work done on the HP Forums, it would be redundant for me to restate the past few months of activity. The purpose of this thread is to GATHER everything that we know, everything we D... |
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10-18-2009, 08:21 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Well, the only thing that makes me thing they're doing something, probably not good, is the frequent motherboard revisions. Its pretty uncommon to have 4 board revisions in a month. But I would agree ... |
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10-18-2009, 09:37 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
What Mobo and Bios are you on? |
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10-18-2009, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
If you open up the case of the computer, normally near the CPU socket, it will say Rev. 1.03, 1.04, A05, or A07, the A07 being the most recent. Then to check your bios version, when the HP boot screen... |
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10-18-2009, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Its not just the newer bioses that is doing this. The original configurations for ram was set up properly for triple channel, which seemed much faster on the i7 920. Now they're shipping with only fiv... |
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10-18-2009, 06:49 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Nope, although it probably has something to do with the capacitors on the motherboard not holding a charge, but that's China for ya. |
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10-18-2009, 08:48 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Yeah, I know what you mean. I reccommended to go to 12GB ram for tripple channel performance, revert to 5.13, and just let her rip on speed. Tthen when they release something that isn't garbage take ... |
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10-18-2009, 09:55 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Well you could do either 4x3gb or 2x6 gb, but it would probably be easier and less expensive to populate all the slots with 2gb of ram. Take out the 1gb sticks in there, leave the twos in, and thats h... |
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10-19-2009, 05:47 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Well, theres a lot of good stuff out there, here's an example of a set where you would buy one set, then you would leave the three 2GB sticks in there now, and add the set you choose from newegg. I wo... |
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10-19-2009, 12:25 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Okay, well right now I am trying to convince users to downgrade to 5.13, and make sure they are running in triple channel performance for maximum performace. To keep the computer from crashing you tur... |
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10-19-2009, 04:40 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
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10-19-2009, 04:47 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Well, I'm here to help. I am a super moderator over at biosmods, so I save all of these bioses my friend. Unforunatly I did not make an image for 5.13, but heres 5.18. Follow the USB isntructions abov... |
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10-19-2009, 08:50 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
No! If you could revert your computers bios to 5.13 and send it to me so that all the HP users can revert back I would be VERY pleased. Im not sure if on AMI bioses this can be done, but if you have a... |
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10-20-2009, 04:06 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Interesting results, still looking for 5.13 bios as well.
Thanks for the benchmarks too.
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10-20-2009, 03:13 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Yeah on the HP forum someone has't flashed from 5.13 yet so Im trying to work with him to get the image file for everyone.
keep your fingers crossed!
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10-24-2009, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
For anyone who has a 5.13 bios please report back, follow the instructions posted, and upload the 5.13 bios so that users have some functionality back, and speed!
First we need to prepare a bootable ... |
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10-24-2009, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Update: scores posted on HP forum for 5.22 and 5.18. Pulling the 1GB sticks and putting the 2gb sticks they give you in the blue slots sped things up, and the 5.18 is slightly faster. Hopefully, well ... |
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10-24-2009, 08:08 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
If anyone has the 5.13 bios and would like to help us, we would be glad to walk you through the steps so that other HP users have it.
Tthanks,
Chris
P.S. Having the 5.13 bios will help in the lawsu... |
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10-25-2009, 11:18 AM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Thanks, so much tmozer, I sent you an email.
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Also it be cool if you filled out your computer specs in your User profile in case someone needs a reference to them. |
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10-25-2009, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Post: RE: HP e9150/e9180 Computer Failures
Success! Thanks to David Kim on the HP forums we have aquired the 5.13 bios. We also thank tmozer for willing to help us out.
First, prepare a bootable USB stick with the program to flash the BIOS RO... |
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