[Drivers] HP ENVY 15-1XXX (INTEL)

Intel Rapid Storage Technology (SATA AHCI) driver updated to version 9.6.3.1001

 

Where did you find that update? Intel site only has the 9.6.0.1014 version listed as the current driver...

 

Well, I am somewhat impressed now. My i7 did 50+ quick renders (as in 15 seconds per render as average) yesterday and never did it go up the temp. It seems to be working fine. Temps seem to have lowered somewhat, and while rendering, I used to get 91C max, this time I got 78C. I'll launch a more complex rendering and see the i7 work (and lag my Envy), but so far so good.

 

Anyone with a gen 2 i5 tried the new F 28 BIOS? Any issues with flashing it or feedback on performance, temps etc...?

I am still leary of flashing a new BIOS after bricking my envy with F .24, currently running F .26 but not happy with the higher temps (+~5C) over what I had with F 18...

 

I'm back from a random render I launched just to test what this laptop is capable of, needless to say I will get it more complex now since 7-10 minutes is nothing in the render world.


EDIT: ran a different mini test to see how high can I push the CPU. This time it took 20-30 minutes to finish the quick render, fans did kick in at full speed at the end. Screenshot taken the moment load was off. First image taken off.

 

I flashed it on mine (specs in sig) Worked fine. I do have slightly lower temps compared to f.26, fan barely turned on while playing bfbc2 while temps were around 65ish compared to 70 on 26

 

So far my system seems fine. And my cpu temps dropped by about 8c. Haven't any benchmarks yet, but so far my system hasn't black screened on me.

 

Has anyone been able to get the newer Video Drivers sets to work with the 4830.

Thanks in advance.

 

I did not bother trying because from my past experience I am 99.9% sure it won't work unless released by HP.

 

@newfiejudd and bshaun

One of the new ATI driver packages works with the 4830, just read back on this thread several pages, it was discussed by several people here.....

 

Intel Rapid Storage Technology 9.6.3.1001 does not seem to be an official release. As a result, I'm not posting this -- if it's from an authorized official source, then that's a different story.

06/04/2010

• Updated IDT High Definition Audio Codec to version 6.10.6284.0.
• Updated MediaSmart Video to version 4.0.4021 (3.2 C1) (thanks z3tor).

 

A quick update to the Wireless Assistant.

06/12/2010

• Updated HP Wireless Assistant to version 3.50.12.1.

 

'Doesn't work on 1st gen Envy's... Says, 'this model isn't supported'

 

Did a fresj install all is working great except for the wireless assistant.

 

I suggest just getting rid of the wireless assistant, windows 7 does a better job and boots and logs on quicker. It's just another extra HP process running in the backround that, IMO, serves no purpose.

 

Is it confirmed that the 10.6 drives work with no problems on the 4830?

 

No clue, but they work fine on the 5830

 

Nope, nothing but what HP provided works with 4830

 

10.6 working fine. BTW I got some minor problems with Media Player Classic (DXVA)

 

bigspin.... try updating directx by downloading directx web update.... that should fix the issue or at least help

 

What problems? I don't have any... watching a 1080p Zombieland now with ~5-10% CPU usage

 

Where is everyone getting the 10.6 catalyst drivers for the Envy Gen1.

 

Just installed the last ones directly from AMD's website, got them via Fudzilla.com and downloaded them. Working perfectly here.

 

Well I can't get the 10.6 Drivers to install on the Gen 1 envy.

EDIT: Found another install package. Going to try this one out.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx

 

HI, I just got my Envy 15 gen 2 yesterday and I was trying to do a clean install on it.

However, I ran into an issue. I can't install the bluetooth driver. No matter what I try, the driver complains that there is no bluetooth device present, but that can't be...

Does anyone have any solutions?

 

I had this issue with my Gen 1 Envy. Did you backup your SWsetup folder. If so try the BT from that install folder. Also try directly from the HP website.

At first the drivers in SWsetup didn't inlcude teh full driver just a driver patch. I had to go directly to the HP website to get the full driver install.
Once I got the full driver install from HP everything went ok.
I just did a fesh install and the difference is night and day. My system seems much more responsive and stable.

 

I had the previous HP release on my 1st gen envy, then tried going to AMD's site and choosing notebook drivers, radeon, HD4000 series.. loaded that install, rebooted.. all is fine.

I did see it complain in-short about a driver issue immediately after load, but the first reboot solved it and all pieces are what they're supposed to be.

 

Yeah I tried those too. And both failed with the blue screen of death.

Just my luck back to 10.3 HP released ones.

 

Random frame skipping and ghosting . Going to reinstall MPC.

 

Well, something must be different with my Gen1 than Sergs, cause I've tried every permutation I can, sweeping the drivers etc. inbetween and for the life of me, 10.6 will NOT install here. I get a notification of an error, and then on reboot, it reinstalls the original hp driver. very strange.

seer

 

Possibly wireless has to be enabled so the install can see the BT hardware.

 

Is anyone here using the quickweb feature? If so, have any of you been able to get it to work on a clean install?

I've tried installing it, but all it does is cause my laptop screen to go black once, which shuts down the laptop. THen the laptop reboots and goes straight into Windows. I really don't get why it's not working .

I actually solved the BT problem by wiping out the windows 7 partition again and reinstalling making sure to install the BT drivers first this time. Somehow they don't play nice with the wireless drivers, it seems.

 

^ Make sure IOS is installed and enabled in BIOS.

@Serg sadly the driver doesn't work for me

 

After a hard-reboot (e.g. power down, unplug, then reboot), I'm seeing what you see....

There must be some hardware register setting that the HP drivers are setting up that doesn't get cleared until a hard reboot...after which the 10.6 drivers don't work..

But ya, 10.6 isn't reliable on a 4830 for me. They worked at first, but after I put the machine to sleep and tried to start up again, everything went south...

(My system rolled back to the HP drivers on the first page of this post.. 8.712)

 

If you guys are getting the original ATI 4830 driver reloading after updating then obviously you are not completely removing ALL ATI files, drivers, programs and folders prior to updating. If you have not done a clean install it may be coming from the HP recovery partition or the SWsetup folder. You really need to make sure that the only display driver in the computer is the generic Microsoft VGA driver berfore updating, and make sure that windows 'auto driver update' is turned off.

On my first i7 4830 I recall that I had to first update the ATI 'display driver only' by manually pointing device manager to the extracted downloaded file ( this was to an older ATI version and I forget which one ) and after this one was loaded I was then able to do further updates normally, almost as if you needed to force the computer to take an interim driver before being able to update to the most current version.

 

@bshaun:
here is the link I used and it is running now very well on my 1st gen. Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

 

@serg

Regarding my above post, do you recall which driver update we were first able to 'force' the 4830 to take by manual installing it? IIRC we were all having trouble at the time with getting that first (mobility modded) driver to take but after that we were able to update to more current versions.

 

I definitely had the new driver loaded for at least one reboot after install.. (possibly two or three) until I hard-powered down...

It wasn't loading the old driver. (software engineer here with driver experience)

edit: meaning, I think it only worked for me because I hadn't previously hard powered down, leaving some hardware registers set correctly that carried over reboot. That's the only thing that would explain it to me....

 

I have IOS installed it's on in the BIOS. Quickweb just wont' load .

Do i have to install it to a hard drive that's not my windows drive or something?

 

Your above post and this one conflict, you stated above that after the hard reboot you ended up back at 8.712 (10.3) from 10.6?? That indicates to me that it (re)loaded the previous driver which means you did not completely remove all of the 10.3 package (not just the driver) before installing the 10.6. You need to uninstall ALL ATI programs with the ATI install manager and then run driver sweeper and even after running that I run 'driver cleaner' (a very good $10 paid app) and it still finds around ~100+ additional ATI files and registry entries to remove. Bottom line -- if you remove the driver you are replacing correctly there is no way it can revert back to an ealier version, hard boot or otherwise, ATI does not include the older drivers with new install packages so there is no way windows can install a previous version.....

 

Incomplete statement.. I shut down (hard) fired it up.. bluescreen.. machine restarted.. tried again (I forced it), bluescreen.. (Until I did a hard shutdown, 3 reboots survived with the new driver being reported in the device manager).

Final resolution was to let windows do self-repair....

Sorry for the confusion.. 'Given the number of complaints about 10.6 on even desktop systems, I'll just wait at HP's version myself...

secondary note: I understand the recommendations.. we did that song and dance months ago.. too often it simply will not work with the 4830.

 

This is essentially the same thing I am seeing. As both you and JJB point out, since you and I are both having to revert to the repair sequence to get back up and running after the bluescreens, I have been assuming that its loading the driver off the repair partition. In any event, this box is happy with 8.712. Just for future reference, I am NOT running a clean install, as I wanted to investigate just what MS had done to *tune* the system on the boxxes they were selling. Also, as far as sweeping any *driver debris*, its my practice to shut down as many services as I can and reboot into safemode, then clean from there. One other clue as to what is going on with 10.6 is that I would occasionally get the install error that the driver was *not compatible with this platform*, and yes, I was using the win 7 x86 64bit driver. In any event, I'm getting too old to be doing R&D /QC for AMD, HP, MS whomever LOL.

seer

 

@bfaber & seeratlas you can also use F8 on boot to get to safe mode and remove ATI driver; reset system goto normal mode and install updated hp driver (not the one from swsetup).

@JJB I do understand that I need to do the clean up before new install but after doing everything as I should I am greeted with BSOD on reboot.

 

@seeratlas

For some reason you just refuse to listen to (or believe) some of us who have a ton of experience with this computer. Try uninstalling things your way and then please humor me and try running 'driver cleaner', I will wager that that free app will find at least 50 line items of leftover ati garbage, if you were to run 'driver sweeper' after that it usually finds another 100+ items to remove, and I'm talking serious registry and driver files not just missing shortcuts and such.

As to problems with 10.6 and the envy, there are none, if installed properly, as reported here and the owners threads by multiple people with both the i7 & i5's and 4830 or 5830's, and I am sure this has nothing to do with your 'special' MS version...

One other thing, if you are not aware, is that each new ATI driver is supposed to be installed with it's corresponding new version of CCC at the same time for the most stability.

 

Assuming I try all the old driver sweeper voodoo, is all of HDMI is broken, or just audio?

 

With 10.6 'full package' the express install option installed everything and it all works: 10.6 driver, new CCC, HDMI, audio, Hydravison, Avivo video and a new video converter. It even somehow allows Photoshop CS4 to use the openGL features even though this is a non WHQL driver (this did not work on previous beta versions) and it's 100% openGL 4.0 compatible.

I will cross my fingers for you, those 4830's can be very finicky with new drivers. One last tip is that if the ATI install manager does not work try exctracting the whole package into a folder on the desktop, then in device manager update driver through the 'have disk' option and point it to the extracted folder. Note that this method usually only installs the actual display driver, if this happens DO NOT reboot but go back to the folder and manually install 'ATI install manager' and run it with custom install, it should show the video driver already installed and then you can select the other available options to install.... then reboot and cross your fingers.

Good luck if you try it.

 

Can you post a link to the exact .exe you used?

It _will not_ see a valid ATI device on my system, even when I start from raw VGA...

 

strags.com - Currently ATI Mobility Radeon HD Depot

It's the 2nd one down dated 4/13 but it's not an .exe it's rar so you'll need to extract it...

 

JJB, been there, done that, got the T-shirt and while I don't claim to be joe guru, perhaps a little background sketch would be useful. I cut my teeth, perhaps before many of you were born, cutting punch cards for one of the first CDC units. Fortran, and cobol were the mainstay of our efforts back then, but I *dabbled* in machine language just to get a feel for the interface. Somewhere in storage I still have an early Fairchild, TI, and even a Sinclair unit and that was some time before the REAL *slick willy*, ie. Gates pulled the sweetest bamboozle EVER in this industry. I could tell you stories about the Apple II (one of the designers remains a friend to this day)
as well as pointing out the rarely reported "grease" that explains why IBM chose a nobody to take complete control of the op system for their PC. Bill was at MIT (silver spoon), I was at Harvard (GI bill), he was a lousy poker player (can't drink for chit either heheh), but a helluva bull artist..AND, his mother was on IBM's board I could also tell you about dating one of the world's greatest hackers (and exalted coder/designer for the world's most powerful intelligence agency) who for giggles built for her personal comp, a homebrew, based on of all things, an Amiga. Don't laugh tho, the whole system took up two entire rooms of her house and was incredibly powerful.
I, on the other hand, did the whole Apple/PC/XT/AT thing and after purchasing one of the first Compaq's, gave it to a friend and then designed and built my own luggable, sporting an onboard color CRT with the then exotic resolution of 1024x768 LOL. Some of you older guys may remember a publication named "Byte" magazine to which I was a frequent contributor, and Gates (along with several of the Byte principals) got drunk at my house in Vegas the night he saw a demo of the FIRST "REAL" windowing software for the PC just before the opening of Comdex. In any event, I did some consulting for several of the gaming companies, who were the ones who then (as now) were really pushing the envelope of available hardware, starting with Sierra, NWN, etc. I was one of the guys who designed the combat system for the original EQ (i know, as ultimately implemented it sucked but only because *the man* thought he knew better). In any event, I have 'been around' a wee bit, and played with eve(r ything from the aforementioned cobol, fortran, cpm/dos, OS2, not to mention the whole progression of Windows- Hell I even have two Digital 64 bit ALPHA boxes around the ranch somewhere still running a native 64bit NT build that 'doesn't exist' For my own use over the years I suppose I've built somewhere around 25 to 30 boxxes for my own use, but counting those I built on occasion for some of the more impoverished local school kids, that number jumps up to something over 200. There are a number of them who went on to careers in the IT field, including a handful that are now successful graphics artists for some of the VERY well known gaming companies- according to THEM, as a result of the (at the time) top line graphics cards and scsi drive subsystems I built into some of those school systems.
Now, look what you've done- like old folks everywhere, I've gone and shot my mouth off waaaaay too much, but, the point being, yeah,
I can *usually* install a vid driver....
Bottom line, as JJB has pointed out, since Serg (and apparently others) have managed to install 10.6 on a Gen 1, I'll agree it can be done. On the other hand, something about my system is hanging it up, what, I don't know, but I DO know, I'm not inclined to mess around with it any longer than I have to this point. Life is too short LOL.
And, as for the ability to clean drivers, well when you get a boot error message to the effect that no video driver exists on the system, please install, etc., it suggests to me that whatever is causing my blue screens, *might* be a consequence of a conflict in resource allocation, and at this point, I'm not inclined to chase it down.

seer

 

Hmmm, JJB just an observation, the file you linked does NOT appear to be the same file downloadable from the AMD/ATI driver site....