Comment 13 for bug 501323

It could be link to relatively old bug #301353, which suggest (from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12113#c13) that bios update from HP (F21) solves the problem.

Can you determinate the BIOS version you have?
maybe 'dmidecode' command can help you.

A message on HP forum from May 29, 2009: HP: Please fix the dv5 BIOS!
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Hardware/HP-Please-fix-the-dv5-BIOS/m-p/71945

From http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?sw_lang=17&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3755994
There seems to be a firmware update for some Hard Disks of this model, which is different than a BIOS update, but maybe usefull. Ah... maybe not, that seems to fix something else:
- Fixes an issue where following error message is displayed after powering ON the laptop: 1720 - SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (Failing attr: 0¤).