** HP Compaq Mini 311c-1010SA Intel Atom N270 ION 11.6" Netbook @ £314.99 inc VAT **

Need some help here! I desparately need the nVidia AHCI Driver (SCSI) to install XP Pro SP3 on my device. Can anyone point me to an online DL of the driver. I've searched but can't find anything.

Thanks.
 
Installing XP Pro on the Mini 311c

For those looking to install XP Pro on this machine here is the way to do it.
Tools for the job:XP Pro SP3 source disc, nLite, PowerArchiver, CD burner and a blank disc, drivers from here http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp_15.46_ion.html.

First, grab the driver and Using PowerArchiver open the .exe file. Sort the files by name and look for all the .inf files. Extract them to a folder on your dektop.
Next, copy the contents of the XP disc to another folder on your machine. Run nLite, select the XP source files you just copied, integrate the drivers you just extracted...do any other stuff you need to...creat the new ISO. Burn it and install with it.

No need to hit F6 during Setup. It works a dream!
Hope this is useful to someone.
 
emmawheatley said:
A week ago I posted on here saying that I'd bought a 2gb stick of RAM from Crucial UK (their recommended one), and after putting it in my mini 311, it didn't seem to recognise it - I just presumed the stick was faulty and sent it back for a new one.

The new one came yesterday and after installing, its still not recoginising it in the "System" page of Control Panel - Could it be a problem with my computer or am I doing it wrong??

Would really appreciate some advice as its quite annoying! I'm realy hoping its not my computer as although it runs Win 7 ok, it could do with being a bit snappier when I run things like MS Office, which isn't that often but would still be nice!

Thanks!

Emma
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Hi Emma,

Its looking like the memory upgrade to 3gb will slow your netbook down. Read above and you will see the problem.
 
Any news from OCuk on these netbooks? It is currently on pre-order (from out-of-stock recently). Is there a chance of getting the newer bundles with win7 as well?
 
Some Benchies - HP Mini 311c with a Crucial 2GB DDR3 stick (as per the advisor) and Kingston SSDNow 60GB

SiSoftware Sandra (Memory Bandwidth Test)

Benchmark Results
Aggregate Memory Performance : 2.81GB/s
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 3GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 2.6GB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth
Assignment : 3GB/s
Scaling : 3GB/s
Addition : 3GB/s
Triad : 3GB/s
Data Item Size : 16bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 72.77%

Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth
Assignment : 3GB/s
Scaling : 2.19GB/s
Addition : 3GB/s
Triad : 2.3GB/s
Data Item Size : 16bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 62.66%

Performance Test Status
Result ID : nVidia MCP79 Host Bridge; 2GB Micron 16JSF25664HZ-1G1F1 DDR3 SO-DIMM (1GHz) PC3-8500 (8-8-8-23 5-31-9-5)
Platform Compliance : x86
Total Memory : 2.75GB
Memory Used by Test : 256MB
NUMA Support : No
SMP (Multi-Processor) Benchmark : No
Total Test Threads : 1
Multi-Core Test : No
SMT (Multi-Threaded) Benchmark : Yes
Processor Affinity : P0C0T0
System Timer : 3.58MHz
Page Size : 4kB
Use Large Memory Pages : No

Features
SSE Technology : Yes
SSE2 Technology : Yes
SSE3 Technology : Yes
Supplemental SSE3 Technology : Yes
SSE4.1 Technology : No
SSE4.2 Technology : No
AVX - Advanced Vector eXtensions : No
FMA - Fused Multiply/Add eXtensions : No
SSE4A Technology : No
FMA4 - 4 Operands Fused Multiply/Add eXtensions : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology : Yes

Chipset
Model : HP MCP79 Host Bridge
OEM Device Name : nVidia MCP79 Host Bridge
Revision : L2
Front Side Bus Speed : 4x 133MHz (532MHz)
Width : 64-bit
Maximum Bus Bandwidth : 4.16GB/s

Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : Micron 16JSF25664HZ-1G1F1 2GB DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-8500S DDR3-1066 (7-7-7-20 4-27-8-4)

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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 100.728 MB/s
Sequential Write : 64.369 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 106.304 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 47.701 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 11.446 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 1.818 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/11/10 19:35:05

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Stock 1GB Ram (extra 2GB removed)

SiSoftware Sandra (Memory Bandwidth Test)

Benchmark Results
Aggregate Memory Performance : 2.8GB/s
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 3GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 2.59GB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth
Assignment : 3GB/s
Scaling : 3GB/s
Addition : 3.11GB/s
Triad : 3GB/s
Data Item Size : 16bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 72.79%

Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth
Assignment : 3GB/s
Scaling : 2.14GB/s
Addition : 3GB/s
Triad : 2.2GB/s
Data Item Size : 16bytes
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 62.22%

Performance Test Status
Result ID : nVidia MCP79 Host Bridge
Platform Compliance : x86
Total Memory : 896MB
Memory Used by Test : 256MB
NUMA Support : No
SMP (Multi-Processor) Benchmark : No
Total Test Threads : 1
Multi-Core Test : No
SMT (Multi-Threaded) Benchmark : Yes
Processor Affinity : P0C0T0
System Timer : 3.58MHz
Page Size : 4kB
Use Large Memory Pages : No

Features
SSE Technology : Yes
SSE2 Technology : Yes
SSE3 Technology : Yes
Supplemental SSE3 Technology : Yes
SSE4.1 Technology : No
SSE4.2 Technology : No
AVX - Advanced Vector eXtensions : No
FMA - Fused Multiply/Add eXtensions : No
SSE4A Technology : No
FMA4 - 4 Operands Fused Multiply/Add eXtensions : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology : Yes

Chipset
Model : HP MCP79 Host Bridge
OEM Device Name : nVidia MCP79 Host Bridge
Revision : L2
Front Side Bus Speed : 4x 133MHz (532MHz)
Width : 64-bit
Maximum Bus Bandwidth : 4.16GB/s
 
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Since I've sold the 311c I no longer need the 2GB Kingston RAM I got for this from ocuk, if anyone is interested in this please let me know so I can put it on MM and link you :)

I'll probably have the Wireless N card as well soon but I need to confirm if the new netbook I get comes with N or not first!
 
Datamonkey said:
I decided against the HP in the end.

Went for the Toshiba T130-11J

Dual Core Pentium CULV 1.3ghz
Intel GMA 4xxxx series gprahics chip (not as good as the 9400m)
4gb of ram
250gb hdd
Wireless n
64bit Windows 7 Home Premium
13" screen 1360x780
8.5 hours on the battery so far with couch surfing and some work and youtube vids.

While not exactly a netbook, the spec and size/weight of it is excellent. Suited my needs more than the hp would have.
Costs a fair bit more than the HP 311c though
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Is that the 4500MHD or just 4500M?


Am I right in thinking that CULV cpu class is on par with core2duo desktop low end chips?

If so that could compensate for the lacking GPU - would be interested in seeing how Flash HD and HD videos in general play for you :)

Edit*

Your one uses the 4500M it seems which is slightly lower specced: http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Satellite-T130-130/1075137/AddID/1075347/

I'm having a look at this one: http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe..../Satellite-T130-130/1075347/toshibaShop/true/
 
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You don't order a kit, you order a stick :p and OcUK only sell 2, the Corsair and Kingston - either of which is fine!

1GB would be the better option.
 
mrk said:
You don't order a kit, you order a stick :p and OcUK only sell 2, the Corsair and Kingston - either of which is fine!

1GB would be the better option.
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I tested with a 1gb stick today and it was slightly slower than with my 2gb stick.

2800mb/s read/write vs about 3000mb/s read/write, that's with a 1gb Samsung stick and 2gb PNY.
 
Rabtech said:
Check my test results above, theres very little difference between onboard ram and onboard + extra 2GB bandwidth wise.
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It's because your benchmarks do not use up all the RAM i guess. Start 3-4 bigger programms and retest. HDD access / swapping should slow it down a lot (1GB). Also you miss +256mb of GFX memory.

The built in RAM has pretty bad CL timings. Is it possible to turn it off and just use 2GB?
 
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Just got in from work and installed my new 2GB Corsair CM3X2GSD1066.

Results from Everest are as follows...

Read: 4110 MB/s
Write: 2840 MB/s
Copy: 2485 MB/s
Latency: 83.2ns

Which is actually a little bit faster than with just the onboard memory, especially the latency!

I would suggest it has an issue with certain types of ram. But I'm happy, it's flying along at the moment :D
 
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