HP Slimline 290 upgrading RAM and NVME M 2 SSD, hardware installation p0043w 

You'll live to regret it, I have. Air flow pretty bad and builds up heat. I had to remove the cover to keep the heat down.

Hello, I3-8100 is a good upgrade choice. That RAM should work, most DDR4, 288 pin, 2400Hz works. To get windows 10 on drive: 1) Go to this link and create windows 10 medial drive: www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 2) Before you do your install, do a recovery by following these steps and save it to a thumb drive: support.hp.com/us-en/document/bph07143

When I got mine it had a 500GB 3.5" in it. I eventually, installed the OS on an M.2. At the moment, it has been stripped and is collecting dust.

I removed the dvd rom, and installed a 2.5 hdd caddy shaped like a dvd drive in its place for my 2nd SATA drive.

I may have made another video related to this. I will have to see. I have a lot of computers here and tend to strip some of them down to reuse the parts for other videos. I believe I installed a Samsung PM981 NVME M.2. They are usually really good for installing O/S on. RAM was probably DDR4 2400Mhz to match what was in the computer. Once I got everything installed, I had to get the computer to boot to a USB so I could load up windows 10 from a thumb drive. Once I got windows installed....I had to go online and get all the drivers for this computer. Once I did that...it worked like a champ. I even upgrade the processor to a I3-9100, before taking it apart. I am not sure that answers your question...let me know.

Blow it out or lightly brush... alcohol swabs to clean off old thermal paste.

While I have no doubt that some computer engineer could do it. I wold not mess with it...between the proprietary board not lining up to anything in a case to include the I/O shield, standoffs, power button...ect. Than you are still stuck with the same PSU that probably won't fit in a computer case as it is not ATX. A bigger PSU would probably need adapters to go from PSU to motherboard. Good chance the single PCIE slot would also not line up with the ones in the case. Yeah...I think this is a bad idea.

I would say you are better off selling it and cutting your losses. That said, it is tough to make this a gamer. Even if you thru in a I7-8700 or 9700, it still can only support a slimline low profile graphics card that will provide barely any performance gains. The other thing you can do is leave the case open and hook up a GPU via PCIE ribbon extender.

I will have look go back and look at the SATA III connector on the optical, sometimes they are not the same on these computers as the HDD SATA III cable, There is a device out there that I use in one of my Dell Inspiron 3670 videos that allows you to power up to 4 drives off of a single SATA power connector.

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 Can you say is there any place between m2 nvme and hdd cage bottom for installing aluminum radiator on m2? How tall radiator can be?

Lol..me too. Hope it helped

Hello, have you figured this out yet? Most SSD's can be seen by the computer if you pull up disk management. This assumes you still have the OS on a HDD. If you just want an additional drive, than you may have to format it inside of disk management for it to be seen as a drive. If you are trying to put the OS on that drive. There are drives that will work and others will not. Most of your Samsung and WD SSD's have higher success. I have not tried a Kingston myself.

In this video I believe I use a PM981 by Samsung. As I watch this now, I am wondering which route I took to put the OS on the SSD. There is a 2nd part to this video...let me see if I can find it.

Im awaiting an answer as well. Did it work for you btw?

I thousands if miles from this PC..but should be 2400Mhz DDR4 288 pin

Intel only, here is what HP lists for compatibility: Processor TDP Integrated Graphics Intel Core i5-8400 (2.8 GHz base frequency, up to 4 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 9 MB cache, 6 cores) 65 W Intel UHD Graphics 630 Intel Core i7-8700 (3.2 GHz base frequency, up to 4.6 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 12 MB cache, 6 cores) 65 W Intel UHD Graphics 630 Intel Core i3-8100 (3.6 GHz base frequency, 6 MB cache, 4 cores) 65 W Intel UHD Graphics 630 Intel Pentium Gold G5400 (3.7 GHz base frequency, 4 MB cache, 2 cores) 54 W - 58 W Intel UHD Graphics 610 Intel Celeron G4900 (3.1 GHz base frequency, 2 MB cache, 2 cores) 54 W Intel UHD Graphics 610 If memory serves me correctly, I put an I3-9100 in there...eventually had to update the BIOS as it worked, but was not recognized. I am currently in Hawaii...away from my office...otherwise, I would try out one of my 9th gen I7 or I9.

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 , know if you can replace it with the i5-9400T?

That's too big (that what see said)

Most of the Dell and HP small form factor computers have a different size motherboard than the common ones you can buy ITX, mATX...etc. The other issue is with these motherboards is that front USB, power button, reset...etc are directly connected to the motherboard unlike DIYPC where there are front panel connectors (USB 2.0, 3.0, HDD, Reset Switch, Power Switch). Now, an electrical engineer, electronics engineer...electronics technician type could figure out how to get an off the shelf motherboard to work.

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 A mini ITX motherboard and a SFX PSU combination would work. A full size grahpics card would require a riser setup as usually done in many SFF cases. To fill the front panel, there are some ready made pieces with female receptacle in one end and internal header plug in other. The only real issue would be reset button, that you can live without or insert one by doing a DIY modification in the front panel cover.

I think overall, I have upgraded CPU, RAM and the HDD to SSD. I added a graphics card via PCIE ribbon extender. It has since been dismantled though.

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 Oh wow, so it'd be totally possible to turn this thing into a capable gaming pc?

This was me messing around with it quite a ways back: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8f7lxEIu1y0.html

So you are upgrading from 8GB to 12GB? It will work, whether you will get much performance gain is another story. If you had 2x8GB, it would be better in case it supports dual channel RAM. Different sizes of RAM will run at single channel. Not that you can game like this with your computer, but this video somewhat shows the difference between 4GB x 8GB x 12GB x 16GB albeit with a motherboard that has 4 RAM slots: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RmfMlkK0od0.html Note, 8GB (2x4GB) in dual channel produced better gaming than 12GB in single channel.

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 I have 512 ram I wonder if it add up Dam it's pain take apart

I once used either a GTX 1050 or GTX 1050 TI with it, however, I needed to use a ribbon extender which meant the case had to stay open.

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 Who needs case bro 😁

It is a type of solid state drive. It has no moving parts so it makes no noise versus a hard drive which can be noisy...slow...has moving parts. M.2 provides super fast boot ups too

@@PC_HardwareTechUnboxing_1 oh thanks do you have a link to buy it

@@stupidloser This should be the one 256GB OEM Samsung PM981 that worked. You will find some of SSD's will not be compatible...but if you go with the big names Samsung, Western Digital, HP...etc, you should have any issues. These will require downloading windows via a thumb drive. Another option would be to buy this type of Samsung which gives you migration software so you can clone your HDD to the SSD and might be easier depending on your computer skills: amzn.to/35x0FSP These drives are both by Samsung and perform about the same....but on the latter you are paying for retail packaging and the migration software.

A couple of questions: 1) Which model M.2 did you try to install? I have found some are easy to install O/S and others are not. I have found Samsung, EVO 960, 970, PM 981...and some of the WD drives work best. Brands like ADATA, Pioneer, Toshiba...are inconsistent. By that, one can usually use them as a storage drive but not O/S. 2) I need more more info than installed. Did you go thru the steps of installing Windows 10 via a thumb drive? Or are you inside Windows looking under disk management? 3) Is this a brand new M.2? or does it have possibly an O/S installed from another computer?

I installed wd green m.2 ssd 2280

@@dkmehta814 Hmmm...that's surprising it didn't work. Not sure if there is a compatibility list somewhere. Back to other questions. Did you have HDD installed at same time? Was SSD new or does it have anything installed on it. How have you gone about trying to put Win 10 on this SSD?

@@dkmehta814 i want to install with m.2 ssd 2280 480gb green, it will work?

Im trying to buy a 16 r a 32 but I don't want to buy the wrong one

I installed two 16 GB RAM modules into my Slimline 290-p0043w and Windows 10 Home reads the entire 32 GB as available.

@@iddybiddyegg1 thank you.

​@@iddybiddyegg1did you have any graphics card installed?