Need to clarify something from all the sifus here...

My wife have this HP COMPAQ V3000 that she had from her student days...
It is working OK...but sluggish...well it is an old laptop...
Been thinking about buying her new laptop but she say no need, she seldom use it anyway.
She just love that old laptop...

Was thinking about replacing the laptop HDD with SSD. Is it possible?
Any compatibility issue?
Anything to relook/rethink about replacing the HDD with SSD?
Does the BIOS will recognised it once the HDD replaced with SSD? Do I need to re-flash the BIOS? Is it possible to re-flash the BIOS?
And is it possible that the SSD is installed with Windows 10 and be used on the V3000 laptop? It currently run on Windows XP.
Will there be a driver issue?

Seen a DELL Latitude replace with the HDD with SSD and install with Windows makes me think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D91VxfK8h5k




p/s: eventhou I have been around quite some times...never embed a video...

This post has been edited by andcorps: Jan 23 2016, 11:15 PM

i had a slightly newer CQ40.
replaced the original HDD with a SanDisk SSD 3-4 years ago......felt like a completely new laptop with 12 second boot up time with WIn7.

then the motherboard died and ever since then,I have 2 SSDs in my desktop

seriously, short answer is yes

How to identify suitable SSD?
Does your BIOS need to be modified?

I read somewhere in the HP Forum that the BIOS need to be modified to be able to boot on AHCI instead of IDE boot..
Please enlighten more on this...

identify your current hdd

in order for your potential ssd to work your current hdd must be a SATA hdd

if it is already currently plugged into your laptop board on the SATA port then your new SSD wihich you will buy will also be plugged into that same port hence replacing your current HDD

simple to understand or not?

nothing else need to do - if it connects then it will be seen in BIOS and you can install any OS you want to into that new SSD

Seem simple enuff...
Just plug n play...
Will try it once I got myself a SSD

You can install Win10 with V3000, just you need >2GB RAM for everything to be smoother imo.

You can try find a cheap old 2nd hand SSD with low Total HOST/NAND writes, no need to get cream of the crop SSD because that laptop Sata port only support Sata 2.

Thanks...

Based on the previous setup (OS 32 bit XP) of the model it supposed to support up to 2GB RAM only. What determine the volume go RAM supported? Is it OS or BIOS?
And also what version of the WIN10 should i install on the laptop? Is it 32 bit or 64 bit?

Supposedly I replaced the HDD with a SanDisk X300 128GB and replace the 512MB RAM with 2 x 2GB RAM, is it possible?
V3000 have 2 RAM slot.

This post has been edited by andcorps: Jan 25 2016, 04:05 PM

I would say for RAM is the motherboard/BIOS followed by the OS.
For new laptops, it's the OS, but since it's old, no idea what was the motherboard spec on supported max RAM.

If you have the option, go with 64 bit OS.... but can you get drivers for all the laptop hardware is the more important question ?

Usually 4GB max, 2x2GB. Some support 2x2GB but only on a couple of RAM brand like Kingston, Corsair. Some older model with older BIOS only support 2GB max, best to take it to computer shop and test it on the spot.

If you can upgrade to 4GB then 64 bit is better.

Thanks...

For the driver, I have to lurk around the website...

But anyway thanks...