i do notice when you push the wifi/bluetooth button on the laptop, both will activate, anyone know if i only want any of it to be activate but not both at the same time.

most probably the same, but can get cheaper.

i've upgraded to 4GB 800mhz, but i found out it should be up to 8GB max.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/my/en/ho/WF...18-3752105.html

2 slot

i'm using kingston value 2x2GB 800Mhz

to get 8GB need 2x4GB la, anyway 4 GB should be enough to use.

found a website for the review with benchmark of this notebook, for those who want to know the performance of this notebook can see see. but only in chinese, maybe can use google to translate.

http://www.zdnet.com.tw/review/notebook/0,...20060095,00.htm

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Added on October 15, 2008, 2:05 pmya, this notebook got softstylus like writing pad, but have to go find the software. tonight will try out how

This post has been edited by Vernon: Oct 15 2008, 02:05 PM

anyone know where to get the softstylus software?? i can't find in the internet. or someone can try install the software on this notebook and try see if it works.

about the hybrid crossfire, i can't any info also. i think we will need the official bios to enable this function, if they dun want to enable this function, i think its not worth. cos since we got the hardware but we are not able to fully utilizes all the function this notebook able to, its a waste.....

i dun mind the power consuming that much cos if i'm at home i'll plug the AC power. if at outside i dun think i have the mood to play game.
and compaq should let us have the setting to enable or disable it, just like desktop bios, the bios is too little setting other than only the boot sequence....

just received my new notebook that exchange with them. the bios ver is F.22 but still theres no option/setting for graphic card...

ya, just "hope"....
can we change the graphic card ar? is it using MXM socket?

this laptop is indeed really hot.... and batt life short...
i think theres the 2 cons for this lappy... and with that price dun expect too much
anything can be sort out, like me, the laptop hot, jack up your laptop, batt life short, use AC power whenever there has a plug, the batt is like a backup power for me. if use batt frequent, then buy a bigger cap when there is any in the market or buy an extra batt, but the price is.....
overall the laptop serves me superb.

Pros:
with RM20xx, you can't find a new laptop with Griffin 2Ghz proc, 250Gb Hdd, a lightscribe dvd-rom writer, of course a dedicated class3 256Mb graphic card ATI HD3450, BT & wifi somemore, 3 USB port, even a HDMI port , i'm wonder when will i used it anyway it's a PUMA platform but without the function of hybrid xfire...
it's already enough for daily usage such as, movie, surfing, chatting, and games... of course not in high detail but all are playable. if wanna get full high details then you have to pay more, "1 sen 1 goods" it really suit a student or light gamer. i admit that intel mobile proc are far far... better then AMD. it's faster and save power. but all the laptop with intel proc are not in this price and with a not so good graphic card.

The Cons:
As all know, this lappy is hot!!
batt life is short. average 1 hour and 30 minits for balance power setting in vista.
driver for win xp is hard to find but not in vista.

overall, the price/performance is really worth. for ppl that has low budget like me and a bit gaming.
if want a really good performance laptop, the price would not be that little. or better go for desktop

thats all, try yourself in any store. research as much as you can from any source like internet or friends.
you have to know a laptop is not cheap and can't comparable with a desktop no matter performance of flexible, desktop, you can change any of the hardware you like but a laptop is limited.

think twice before decide to buy a laptop.

ya, what i mean the hot is when the laptop is heavy usage like play games.

hmm... i will try download the driver see see.

anyone found the softstylus software? can share?

wah, so long didn't came here and the pages is 50 something liao ar??

the price of the cq40 is dropping fast man......

and i notice a lot of ppl didn't read tru the 1st page..... asking the same questions..... again and again.....


for now the tech is so fast and great, any laptop with 2Ghz and 2 GB ram will do anything for u, like documents, movies, games(depend on the graphic also), presentations, surfing nets, programming, encoding, decoding.

the matter is about money..... got budget get Intel proc, cos they really great in this field. low budget like me stick to AMD, this proc already can do those things.
Intel proc really faster than AMD when both are same speed GHz. do google for comparison...... google..... things that dunno read more and google. just dun repeat the things again and again, that double works.....

the hard disk can always change if u like or wanna upgrade, be sure its SATA or IDE, the ram is 2 slot for a lot of laptops. but i dunno read from where that this laptop with rs780 chipset can support till 8GB ram. should be the white paper of this laptop... forgot. so 4 GB is not a problem for this laptop, i myself are using 4GB of rams.

honestly cq40 is really a hot lappy, mine when gaming will probably go to 100++celcius, when playing nfs undercover. other game is around 90++celcius. somemore in aircon room.... but i do believe that no more than 110 celcius is ok cos the pc components can tahan more than that.

games that can play on this lappy:
Counter Strike
Warcraft 3, this included DOTA...... :Mid settings
COD4: low settings
NFS MW: low settings
NFS Undercover: low settings
Bioshock: low settings
But dun expect to set the settings to max... of course do off the AA effect in CCC and in game.

why not choose nvdia graphic card?? cos their graphic card cannot tahan high tempreture, why? cos their soldering on the board got problems. there already a lot of news about this incident. do google. cos i scared they will appear on the 9200 series, so i choose ATI insteat of Nvidia, i dont want to return my laptop to hp as i'm overseas now, its too frustrate when u are waiting ur laptop back from service center and will dunno take how long....

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Added on December 7, 2008, 2:13 pmi'm curious why a lot of ppl say 64-bit OS no go???
i'm using it now, and its just same as 32-bit OS.... driver is not a problem, u can always download from hp support page...
the software?? there is WOW64 for 32-bit software to use....

This post has been edited by Vernon: Dec 7 2008, 02:15 PM

i think its ok for vista sp1 64bit, anyway i'm using it too and doesn't have any problem
download from the ATI website and mod it using mobility modder.
the graphic driver, yes, u can use the modder in 64bit
oh ya, anyone notice after u on ur wifi/bluetooth in the device manager will appeared 3 bluetooth peripheral device
what is that and what is the driver?
this problem only appeared when i on my wifi/bluetooth

mine model is cq40-125ax

http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php

this is the software to moddify the ati graphic card driver to use on notebook. cos ati no more provide mobile graphic driver.

just dl the normal 64-bit graphic card driver and then use the modder to modify
just follow the instruction.

x86 means for 32-bit OS, x64 and ia64 means for 64-bit OS. depends on what ur OS is.

try to install latest directx9.

for those who have issue with the IDT sound problem, don't ever update the IDT HD Codec driver from microsoft updates.....

those have updated just rollback the driver.

that will fix the no sound issue.