Mastodawn

I rescued a HP #ProBook 440 g3 from the landfill. I first installed #Kubuntu 26.04 with a 1 TB HHD. #KDE looked slick and performed decent on it, but only 4GB of RAM caused it to hang too often. So I switched it to a 60GB SSD with #Ubuntu #MATE 24.04 and it performs well enough, it doesn't fly but it will do. Wish I could see how Windows was running on this about 14 year old laptop to compare. Man I love open source, getting to save tech for a few more years.

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Graham Perrin Nov 21, 2025

@ax6761 not the same model, but this might trigger a thought – for 14.0-CURRENT in 2021:

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/omqwf5/hp_probook_440_g7/>

＂… https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7138e2a9e7 – there's the keyboard, but no listing for the trackpad. …＂

#FreeBSD #HP #ProBook #boot

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J_K_R Oct 15, 2025

@seppini hab halt einfach gerne n Buch in der Hand....schau eh schon gefühlt den ganzen Tag auf'n Bildschirm :-/
#ProBook

Thomas Schmidt Jun 21, 2016

HP ProBook 450 G3 – SSD einbauen

https://www.gadgetgedanken.de/2016/06/hp-probook-450-g3-ssd-einbauen/

Neuer Rechner, neuer Start. Was liegt da näher, als gleich mal den Umstieg von einer herkömmlichen Festplatte auf eine SSD zu machen. Eine SSD hat die schnelleren Zugriffszeiten, weil sie prinzipiell so funktioniert wie der Arbeitsspeicher eines PC. Es gibt keine beweglichen Teile und keine Magnetplatte. Programme und Daten werden also wesentlich schneller geladen. Gerade wenn der Rechner neu ist, macht der Umstieg gefühlt die wenigsten Probleme. Man muss sowieso Programme installieren und persönliche Daten auf den Rechner kopieren. Hier nun die Vorbereitung und eine Schritt für Schritt Anleitung für den Einbau einer SSD in ein HP ProBook 450 G3.

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#Fingerprint #HowTo #HP #ProBook #Samsung #SSD #Umbau #Zubehör

Project47North Jul 11, 2025

Kellerfund

https://f.freinetz.ch/display/f7fcf48f-2768-716b-254f-7a9113655013

Kellerfund

Tja... Da ich in genau einem Monat (11.08.) umziehen muss, hab ich heute schon mal damit begonnen, mein im Keller eingelagertes Material auszumisten. Und was...

RTN Jun 7, 2025

#Nachhaltigkeit: Ein HP probook #430G2 von 2014 funkt auch mit #ac8265 (habe wegen OS-Abhängigkeit da keine Wifi6-Hardware eingebaut). Zweiter WLAN-Hardwaretausch für diese Maschine. Auf eine weiterhin nützliche Existenz!

#Computer #HP #IT #Notebook #probook

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mardub 🇫🇷🇸🇪Dec 1, 2024

Today is a big day! We managed to fix the hp probook x360 11 g5 ee. It was a pain in the *** to do it though. We had to find the bios chip buy a eep rom programmer spi flash programmer (the weird usb device) to dump erase and rewrite the bios . To use some soldering to connect some strings as well. At the end we had to use rcunlocker as explained on this website https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubleshooting-hardware-devices-and-electronics-theory/troubleshooting-laptops-tablets-and-mobile-devices/bios-requests-only/87349-rcunlocker as well as IMGProg . #IMGProg #probook x360 11 g5 ee #rcunlocker . We now can remove the old windows put decent linux. This computer got "saved" but how many computer got just thrown away like this one because of those silly password and awful procedures to get factory reset?

RCUnlocker - Badcaps

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mardub 🇫🇷🇸🇪Oct 11, 2024

Any #IT support in #Uppsala? found a laptop #hp #probook x360 11 g5 ee in the sopstuga. Hardware works, windows starts very slowly to the session of some young woman who lives nearby... We want to boot it on a linux usb but it refuses to do so. I try to access the #bios but it is password protected even removing all batteries does not reset password. What would you do about it? I wonder as well if i could /should contact my neighbour who throwed it to ask, but i am scared to freak her out. It seems to be a laptop that used to be from a her school in #uppsala but I have no idea which one the only clue is a message to connect to " SKOLNET " #skolnet #nvram