expired Posted by dealhunter07 • Jul 1, 2022
Jul 1, 2022 7:26 PM
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Item 1 of 6
expired Posted by dealhunter07 • Jul 1, 2022
Jul 1, 2022 7:26 PM
HP Laptop (Refurb): i5-1155G7, 17.3" FHD IPS, 12GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 2-Yr Warranty
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There's an empty M.2 slot, which can accept a 2280 form factor "gumstick" NVME SSD (but not a SATA M.2). Spend $40 more to get one & make it as the system drive. It will greatly improve the performance of this laptop.
The 1TB "old" HDD could be kept and used as media storage…
<attachment>HDD in green square...M.2 in red circle
AND: This is a 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake processor, so you will probably need this also.
No drives were found during Windows Installation during Setup
[thewindowsclub.com]
Unable to Detect the Drive When Installing a New Windows* OS on 11th Gen Platforms [intel.com]
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Otherwise, this is a great laptop for my needs. With the NVME drive installed, it's fine
This was replacing my old travel laptop which was also a 17inch HP I got in 2018. It was just too heavy with the touchscreen and DVD drive. Neither of which I actually need.
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L92724-005 Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 802.11ax (2x2) and Bluetooth 5 (non-vPro) [newegg.com]
L44796–005 Realtek 802.11 b/g/n/a/ac (2x2) MU-MIMO supported and Bluetooth 5 [newegg.com]
M34029-005 Realtek Wi-Fi 6 RTL8852AE-VT + Bluetooth 5.2 [ebay.com] *
If the Good Lord wanted you to only have one antenna he wouldn't let Newegg sell you two [newegg.com], now would he?
There are conflicting reports about whether the motherboard in this system has a whitelist that only allows certain networking cards to work. For best results always use parts with an HP part number (ie "M34029-005" not just "Realtek RTL8852AE-VT" without the HP part #)
* goes in and out of stock.
How odd.
*Update* Now I know what the issue is. For some reason, the drivers that Windows updates to (The latest Realtek ones) seem to corrupt the WiFi. I reverted back to the original Windows installed drivers and my speeds are back to "normal". I am turning off Automatic Windows Updates to avoid this breaking again.
Smooth as glass
Bought the Lenovo Yoga that was posted earlier this week. After playing with it in store, I am happy.
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Unit is in perfect shape looked brand new.
replaced ram with G.Skill 2x32gb cl22 dddr4-3200 ($149 ebay) -- Works fine but BIOS reports 0 mb. Windows reports 64gb 3200mhz so I am not going to investigate this further,
replaced WIFI with AX210 and an extra antenna ($22 ebay) - No issues (had to install driver) Here it is: https://www.intel.com/content/www...pters.htm
replaced SATA drive with NVME ($75 Sabrent 1TB) (needed to load drivers) - No issues.
Loaded fresh copy of windows 10 on NVME.
Here's the link to intels drivers (I just put it on my USB Installation and navigated to load driver during installation). https://www.intel.com/content/www...?wapkw=RS
HP has little/no support for this laptop (this may improve), Here's the link to what's closest(that I have found)..
https://support.hp.com/us-en/driv...21003714
The f.20 firmware from this page works fine, but offered no improvement in lack of bios options.
The HP drivers page is not great, but using a driver grabber program like Driver Booster simplified this.
BIOS is hamstrung with locked features. Throttle Stop won't work at all on this laptop b/c bios is locked down. Windows is unable to control things like HDD sleep because of lack of bios support. The menu options for advanced sleep settings are absent. I am sure there are plenty of other limitations in bios but these are the ones that irritated me the most, so far. I ended up removing the SATA drive completely since I was unable to control the sleep settings for that drive, and didn't need the battery drain/heat/weight/noise (made a good spot for the 2nd antenna).
That said, it still works well. Fan noise is bearable and much better than the i5-1035-g4 14" I have. Performance is about what I would expect, Passmark 10800 CPU and 2700 GPU.
Oveerall, a great buy for most people looking for a 17" laptop.
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