HP mini Secrets

Today I am going to show you the hidden secrets of the hp mini 210, and its intel atom N450,

the atom N450 apparently supports hyper threading and x64 arch. This is something hp and Microsoft neglects to tell you, hp also doesn’t have any support for the x64 based windows OS on the hp mini, but today im going to show you how to set it up so the basics of your mini will work

hidden things

the intel Atom can not support more than 2GB ram [I have not tested this out yet but hopefully soon, I know for a fact 2GB does work, I just upgraded the ram this morning]

x64 based windows drivers are not at all available for the hp mini 210, I have no idea why hp packages this netbook with a 32 bit operating system [windows 7 starter]

hyper-threading, when I first got this netbook hyper threading was disabled, I didn’t even know it was capable of this but it is, there’s a slight boost nut nothing big,

now behind the battery there is a sim card slot for 3G, I don’t know if a 3g modem is embedded inside the chip set but I do know there’ss an empty PCIe slot inside the netbook were we can put a modem

now these are not the new netbooks that are advertised as 3g ready, so hp all in all if you have bought an hp mini 210 and you want to upgrade to make it almost as powerful as a laptop just follow the instructions

1. download a x64 version of windows 7 [Google “windows 7 x64 torrent]
2. set up a virtual hard disk, set how much space you want the new windows install to have and format the space to NTFS.
3. Burn the windows ISO to a DVD [make sure its boot able] I recommend googling the phrase “Microsoft usb/DVD creator” a lot easier
4. plug in your usb/DVD and then restart and boot from the device, choose the partition you just created.
5. Now go to the hp website and go to your computers driver section and download the drivers [might need to do this from another computer seeing as how you will not have internet drivers yet] install them, they worked fine for me
6. now press the windows key and r and type msconfig and go too boot, then click advanced boot options, now enable the CPU check box by clicking it and then choose the highest number of CPUs, you just enabled hyper threading click apply and ok then restart

you now have your net book to its full capability, enjoy. if i need to update this i will.