Comments on: Dual Boot Windows 7 and OSX on your HP 2140

By: keating

keating — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:55:22 +0000

Yea thats correct as far as hyper-threading, if your in windows with either an atom processor and open device manager either by right clicking my computer and clicking properties then devices or go to device manager in the control panel(the goal is to get to device manager) and you expand the processor info it will show two processors and more info reveals that that is the purpse of hyper-threading. this is also true for at least the pentium 4 and possibly some celeron chips but i know it was a big deal for the p4 chip. i dont think it was used many on many later chips except possbly the core solo because obviously it wasnt needed one true dual core chips were released. Io if you stilllhavent gottten 7 on a usb key email me and i might be able to snail mail u a drive and a 7 key. u could also installit over network but is more challenging and if you have an old desktop u can use the internal drive and turn it external by simplu keeping it pluggied in to the originql power connector and purchase a parralell port to usb adapeter

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By: divergio

divergio — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:44:26 +0000

Ah, cool. I didn’t know OSes use hyperthreading by simulating two “logical cores.” I will activate it soon.

BTW, thanks for your guide. I have even been able to get to 10.5.7 after finishing the OSX section, I just had to reinstall some of the kexts for the components it broke (and disable/reenable Quartz GL).

My SD card slot works, btw. I just hope someone can get some drivers working for the ethernet port (some hotels don’t use wi-fi), full sleep functionality, and audio port. Though the audio port especially looks like it will take a while if ever; the guy who develops VoodooHDA hasn’t been online for a long time.

I’m now trying to dual boot XP (I couldn’t get windows 7 downloaded, damn microsoft junk downloader), but having trouble because I haven’t an external CD-ROM drive. I’m seeing if a trick like your Windows 7 on a USB key can work to solve this…

By: Network Jew

Network Jew — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:02:51 +0000

I believe its actually hyperthreading, so it appears to the OS as two processors. “This means that only one processor is physically present but the operating system sees two virtual processors, and shares the workload between them.” – wikipedia.

Thanks for the correction.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:07:00 +0000

You have instructions for enabling the second core, but I’m pretty sure the N270 inside the HP 2140 is a single core processor. Can you please explain?

By: GarenTatHP

GarenTatHP — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:00:53 +0000

Hi, great article. Hope you don’t mind if I cross-post onto HP’s Forums. We have a board setup to talk Win7. This thread on Win7, OSX, on HP Mini would be great. Please join the conversation there if you like.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board?board.id=win7Beta

Thanks
GarenT