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Playing with the HP Stream mini

I don't really need Win 10, but I thought I'd try it. HP Support Assistant offered it to me, saying it was available from the 29th. So many things went wrong. My default browser was Firefox. The HP page offered to detect my machine type, but didn't realize that a .msi doesn't work on...
- Hugh R
- Post #232
- Jul 30, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Playing with the HP Stream mini

Thanks! Is the connector "keyed"? Is it symmetric? In other words, is it easy to tell how to plug it in with the correct orientation?
- Hugh R
- Post #214
- Jul 29, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Playing with the HP Stream mini

This is quite exciting. And it's your first post. Can you post a picture of the notches you had to make? Thanks again!
- Hugh R
- Post #211
- Jul 28, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Playing with the HP Stream mini

I should have mentioned that my two HP Stream Mini systems came from the Microsoft Store and are "Signature Edition". That means less bloatware than the normal version.
- Hugh R
- Post #145
- May 3, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Playing with the HP Stream mini

I used a Fedora 22 x86-64 Live USB stick. I think that it is more complicated than that. And it changed over time. And only selected details are public. At one point, the OEMs paid $10 for the OS and got a $10 rebate for making Bing the default browser. So there was a kind of payment...
- Hugh R
- Post #143
- May 2, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Playing with the HP Stream mini

Interesting. I got my second Mini in April. Pretty much the only thing I do with it is apply updates (I'm not a Windows user under normal circumstances). I don't remember any problems applying all the updates. DId you add any software or data files before doing updates? (Going off to...
- Hugh R
- Post #142
- May 2, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Playing with the HP Stream mini

I want to install Linux on my HP Stream Mini. That's easy. But I still want access to Windows since I expect to need it for firmware updates and, heck, I paid for it. There's not enough room on the 32G m.2 SSD for both Win8.1 and a comfortable Linux. My first choice would be to get the SATA...
- Hugh R
- Post #134
- Apr 30, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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HP OEM Radeon HD 8570 limited to 1929x1200?!?

Good thoughts. My monitor does not have a scaler. The only resolutions it will accept are 2560x1600 and (fallback) 1280x800. There is no way that a video card can drive it at other resolutions. So what good would GPU scaling be (except for videos)? The Win8 video control panel only...
- Hugh R
- Post #9
- Oct 12, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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HP OEM Radeon HD 8570 limited to 1929x1200?!?

Thanks. But all single-link DVI sockets that I've ever seen (including this one) have sockets for the second link's pins. I guess that that is done to allow cables with those pins to work. I assume (but do not know) that single-link plugs are missing those pins (as shown in the wikipedia...
- Hugh R
- Post #7
- Oct 12, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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HP OEM Radeon HD 8570 limited to 1929x1200?!?

The motherboard has two DVI connectors, labelled, but with a cover is screwed over each of them. The product specification says "Integrated video not available if a graphics card or an Intel processor ending with P is installed". My processor does not have a P suffix. So I imagine that, if...
- Hugh R
- Post #5
- Oct 11, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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HP OEM Radeon HD 8570 limited to 1929x1200?!?

I'm sorry that I wasn't clearer. By "that resolution", I meant "1920x1200@60". What I was trying to say in that point was: if the card can only support 1920x1200@60, there is no reason for it to be dual link (single link can do that and it takes less hardware). That makes me suspect that...
- Hugh R
- Post #4
- Oct 11, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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HP OEM Radeon HD 8570 limited to 1929x1200?!?

I just bought an HP Envy 700-019 desktop. It came with a Radeon HD 8570. Much to my surprise, it won't drive my 2560x1600 monitor at full resolution (it will do 1280x800, the only fallback the monitor has). Reading the specs from HP, the card supports dual-link DVI but only up to...
- Hugh R
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- Oct 10, 2013
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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