[Drivers] HP dv6-2XXX / dv7-3XXX / dv8 / HDX16 / HDX18 (INTEL)

Well, after trying the driver above it shows up on the screen all fuzzy looking. So anybody is having those issues, use the drivers below.

These ones work much better.

 

Other than not being in color, mine work perfect.
I do like seeing the level of all three regardless of which one you choose.

 

I just hope you make a Ghost clone before each update, Alan. Otherwise, as you know, risks of damage to the system is significant. I don't know if you saw my previous post but the risks are avoidable.

While I like my system to run better and smoother as you do, I think that researching and reading the descriptions of the driver updates is a worthwhile precaution to avoid installing worthless updates that won't improve your machine a bit. What I don't grasp is why you'd install them even if they offer NOTHING to improve your machine.

I am experienced with writing software and drivers and, if the author is writing to address another product (eg., HDX), what benefit can I expect on my Dv8? Buttkus! So why install them?

Regards,
- - Phil

 

Nvidia has released today another Verde Notebook driver -- 258.96 beta.

Windows Vista / 7 64-bit International:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/258.96/258.96_notebook_winvista_win7_64bit_international.exe&lang=us&type=GeForce M

 

Thanks for posting about the new nvidia beta driver.

Most driver updates, including this one, "contain numerous bug fixes" and improve performance, among other things. And I believe that frequently some improvements are not always or fully documented in published changelogs. (Frequently, the people who write those changelogs can barely write in English.) Anyway, I like to install the latest driver updates, not just nvidia updates, to have the latest and greatest versions with all fixes and enhancements.

Since I do a daily compressed image backup of my OS, it is no problem for me to recover even if anything I install should render my system unbootable (which recently happened with the bluethooth driver update). But that is the only time in many many years that I've had a serious problem caused by updating drivers that required recovering from a backup. So it is very rare to encounter such problems as the result of a driver update, ime. Still I wouldn't be comfortable doing it without having my daily OS backups available in case anything goes wrong. Worst case, it's just a ~15 minute process (mostly unattended) (using an external drive connected through the esata port) for me to recover from an unbootable system situation.

 

Quick Question: Is it safe to uninstall all of HP's "bloatware" ie: HP Health Checker, HP Total Care Advisor, HP Battery Check, etc... (not referring to the MediaSmart applications)..

What do you guys think? Im actually thinking of completely formatting then installing win7 fresh... (x64)... my HDX came with Vista, thou, and all my current drivers work fine and are all up to date... Any suggestions before I might perform this task??

 

In your situation, I would probably go ahead and install W7 x64 because it's far superior to vista imo. You will have to search for info on how to get everything working properly but it shouldn't be too difficult. If you had access to a set of HP W7 recovery discs that would work with your machine, I would install that instead of doing a clean install and then just uninstall the "bloatware" you don't want or need. It's much easier that way. But I don't even think there are W7 recovery discs for your model? But once you get w7 installed and everything updated and all drivers installed, you should see some improved performance over vista and a much better user experience overall, imo. W7 rocks.

To answer your question, yes it's safe to uninstall most of that HP stuff, not that having it installed does much harm (imo). But it's a good idea to make sure you have a verified set of your original recovery discs burned before wiping stuff out. At the very least, if you ever sell the machine, you may want to be able to return it to the original factory load before doing so and having the recovery discs will enable you to easily do that.

 

Thanks for the speedy response, but I dont think i made myself clear.. sorry... What i meant was that i CURRENTLY have win7 x64 installed on my system, from a previous Vista UPGRADE... now im thinking about doing a FORMAT, then fresh install of plain, bare-bones Win7 x64 ultimate edition (the one I currently have) so long as I have all my drivers up to date on a USB drive, I should be fine, right>?

 

Not necessarily. Most stuff will work fine but some people have reported some difficulty getting some things like the tone and volume controls and buttons and sliders, etc., working properly. It can be done if you are willing to find and follow the necessary instructions which have been repeated in this thread several times I believe.

Many people have successfully done a clean install, but it just takes some extra effort to get everything working properly.

But you can do the clean install and then update the OS via windows update and most of the drivers using Justin's driver update page on this site and that will get you 99% of the way there.

There are a few tricky things like the previously mentioned controls and also HP's drive protection sensor stuff (forget what they're calling it now). I haven't personally done it so I'm not the best one to advise you but I recall people reporting difficulty with those things. But none of those are critical things, imo. You should end up with a fully functioning computer, except for those things which will likely take some extra effort and diligence to get working again.

 

Thanks for the response, pae.. I use my lappy as a desktop replacement, anyway, but still, when I take it out in the field for work now and again id like the volume slider bars to work at the very least !! lol... actually I dont mind manually adjusting it from the quicklaunch bar...

I'd absolutely LOVE to do a clean install on my comp, Im not sure precisely how much of a performance boost I'd get but I'm sure it may be significant.. On second thought, thou, I believe I already have my HDX as optimized as humanly possible, (registry, processes, virtual mem, etc etc all tweaked), so Im really not sure if it'd make any difference at all...??

At the very least I'd have a nice neat, clean HD without HP Support Bloat Ware, and AOL Free SpamTrial! etc etc...

 

Windows 7 optimizes itself pretty well automatically, imo. So, I don't think you would necessarily see much of a performance boost from doing a clean install, like you might have in the "old" pre-win7 days.

Also, you can always just uninstall stuff you don't want using a program like Revo or Your Uninstaller, or just using the Control Panel/Programs and Features thing and then just clean the registry afterwards with CCleaner or similar to get rid of any leftover junk files and/or registry entries left behind by the installer.

If you feel like trying out a clean install anyway, I would recommend backing up your present installation to an external drive with Acronis, Ghost, Macrium Reflect, or similar, so that if you get into it and find there isn't that much of a difference to make it worth the effort, you could then simply restore your previous installation to save yourself the work of reinstalling and reconfiguring everything from scratch.

 

Do it bro!!!! Like do it tonight, you won't regret it!! I had the exact same thing, Win 7 x64 that was upgraded from my orignial HDX18 w/ Vista.

Last week I did a clean install of Win 7 x64 using the Upgrade disc. So do the Custom install, format the partitions, install the W7, and when it asks for a key, don't input anything, just hit enter.

Then one you get to the desktop, Activate it over the phone (very fast and computer automated 24hr option). Right-click Computer, Properties, then Activate....over the phone.

Then go to this thread and grab all the current drivers (except for the latest Bluetooth one, I had some issues w/ that.) You don't have to grab the Optional HP Stuff like, DVD, Photo, etc. Just the basic drivers.

My computer is fast as hell now!!!! I do recommend getting the HP Webcam driver, the HP Smartmenu and HP Tone Controls.

This is exactly what I did and it was done very fast.

Good luck and let me know how it goes!

 

Really??? Well, umm ummm.. Id have to make arrangements, like saving all my web page favs, backing up all my work docs, remembering my apps I use on a daily basis , etc etc... I hope u were serious, becauuse u got me really excited to say the least.. just when i think of all the Steam game reinstallations, GWFL reinstalls, re-configuring router/interneet settings, etc. it just makes me tired thinking about it.. pre-planning is gonna be a whole job in istself!! but if u say u notice that much of a performance gain, then Ill defintiely do it.. too late tonight obviously to do the whole shabang, but ill start making backups on my 1TB external HDD.. thanks for the nfo...

Oh and most importantly I gotta install nvidia NTune app so I can OC my GT130M GPU...

oh yes, what about my remote control that came with my laptop? I dont remember seeing a driver for that, is that something thats just built into and I/O value in the mother board or something??
oh, and HP SmartMenu? I just did a search and I dont see that in my program list.. what does thhat do exactly? hope it isnt bloatware..

Sorry, last thing, my HDX came with a Recovery drive D: partition, and when clicked on it states very clearly by erasing this a full system restore may not be possible.. Is this ture? I'd like to do away with this partition if Im able to without compromising the ability to do a factory reset incase who knows what could go wrong... thanks again!!

 

Doing a clean installation is most likely an option that you won't regret, as rageman mentioned. I have done a clean re-installation of Windows 7 Pro x64 and my notebook runs just the way I've always wanted it to.

Pre-planning is a big job but this can be made easier -- know where your work docs are and back them up. Steam games should be located in Steam's program folder in Program Files. You can easily export your favorites and bookmarks from your web browser as well.

My most important piece of advice is to capture screenshots of the Programs and Features control panel (Add/Remove Programs) -- it will greatly assist you in what you need (and not need) to re-install.

The recovery partition allows you to do a full factory restore of the notebook, which causes all the bloatware to be re-installed. I suggest you delete it -- but not without making a recovery disc set first through the HP Recovery Manager. The disc set behaves the same way as the recovery partition.

The ENE CIR Receiver driver is what makes the remote sensor on the laptop work with the remote control.

Once the clean install is done, you can simply use the drivers here in this thread to restore -- no searching needed!

 

Great, GREAT nfo there, Justin. The very first day i brought my baby home I made a set of recovery discs. I just always thought that those two discs work TOGETHER WITH or "needed" the D: recovery partition in order to do a full proper restore. Now it seems as though that's not the case, eh?

I am looking forward more and more to tackling this gigantuous task.. but the end results will surely bear tasty win7 performance fruit!!

On a side note, is there any way at all to make that damned remote operate with any other software that just HP's MediaSpunk progs?? Like, for instance, VLC media player, or BS Player, etc..??? Thanks again, guys..

 

Instead of activating Windows over the phone or internet after a clean install, you can always back up your OEM cert and key before doing a clean install. This way you can restore your activation without going through the activation process. Here's a link to follow...

HP laptop out of the box guide 2.0 for windows 7

 

Ok guys, found this bluetooth driver from HP. Install it if you dare! I'm plannig to install it tonight after I make some backups first.

Broadcom 2070 Bluetooth Software and Driver version 7 REV: D (6.3.0.5600)

Html:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp49001-49500/sp49153.html
Cva:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp49001-49500/sp49153.cva
Installer:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp49001-49500/sp49153.exe

 

...or why not just use a good ol' windows loader?!??!

.dont b im just kiddin..

 

I never understood the need to have bluetooth built into a laptop... Im not knockin it whatsoever, if u got it more power to ya, but mine didn;t come with BT, and I Was at compusa looking at one of those BT mini-dongle thingys, the size of a Chiclet gum bassically that is a USB bluetooth adapter.. for 30$. But I kept thinkin and thinkin, and I just couldnt figure what I'd need it for, even as a luxury option, Id never use it!!

I suppose it may be purpose-specific, eh?

 

Can be slick to do file transfers back and forth between your phone and laptop.

 

Surely HP drivers will work perfect!........LOL!

And what did you want on the inscription after RIP?

Just kidding...... if they don't work, we're really in trouble for the future.

 

PM'd Justin about this BT driver, no word from him yet... Wonder if he's doing a system restore..

Anyway, I decided to uninstall previous bluetooth driver and software before installing this one to avoid any conflicts. I ran the softpaq normally, and it installed just fine. Install took about 5 mins. BT driver was actually updated to version 6.3.0.5560. It's working as expected, I'm now transfering some maps to my Nokia 5800.

 

While your link does take one to the thread, it doesn't take one to the actual download link for that program. When I successfully tracked it down, however, it was a beta and the author was less than assuring that it had been tested widely on Win 7 variants and would work. Have you tried it yourself?

If any others wish to jump in, here, --

What version of Windows did you try it on? How well did it work?

Regards,
- - Phil

 

Right on! Peter. I never saw 10 cents worth of performance improvement from a clean install of Win 7 Pro over the HP OEM install that came on my Dv8 and it was SO MUCH MORE WORK and fraught with complexities, risks, and aggravations.

Certainly not much "there", there, and not worth the effort, IMO.

Regards,
- - Phil

 

Actually I haven't backed up or tried the new driver out yet. I'll try it tonight and I have a feeling that it will work just fine too.

I think there are some issues with the license restoring in this utility. A beta version of ABR has been released with Windows 7 support and from what I've been hearing, it works -- see http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-compaq-voodoo-pc/120228-clean-vista-install-no-activation.html or http://directedge.us/content/abr-activation-backup-and-restore. The Out-of-the-box guide should probably be updated to use ABR instead.

 

I tried to install the new BT driver and got some kind of MS error which stopped it from completing and it rolled itself back. So while it didn't screw up my system, I haven't been able to get it to install.

 

Sorry I didn't post sooner, new job.

Anyway the BT is nice for a BT mouse, especially if you're like me and use this laptop everywhere. It's nice not having to plug in an extra USB Cable.

I think you won't regret the clean install as well as justin said. And the screen-shots are a great idea!

Remember to do all the Windows Updates once you clean install too. There will be a lot.

The SmartMenu allows the On-Screen Display for the Volume (pretty sure) and the Tone Control is for the Bass/Treble.

I'd grab Microsoft Security Essentials too as your anti-virus. Works pretty good and runs like a champ in the background! You won't even notice it. And it's free.

I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it's totally worth it, and personally I found it to be fun as hell. When you are reinstalling everything you know it's going to run better, so just look at that as the positive and not all the work you're doing as the negative.

Also, try and skip the Overclocking Utility and just get the newest Nvidia driver. Then run your games and see how they run w/o the Overclocking.

Ever since I went up to W7 x64 from Vista and got newer drivers for the GPU, I've never needed the Overclocking Utilities. Everything runs perfect for me and I have the 9600M.

Let me know how that goes. Worse case, you decide that you may need the Overclocking Utilities, in which case no big deal. But you may be surprised at the performance w/o out them too (and it could help the life of your GPU)!!

Good luck and keep us posted!!

Oh, & P.S. I wasn't kidding. Do it bro!! lol

 

That's reassuring, Justin, but it's still a beta. That sets my radar off when I would be hoping to avoid some hassles in a new install.

I hope anyone who tries it (I just did the activation the "old fashioned way" when I did a clean install to test performance comparison with HP OEM package) will post results here and at the referrent thread provided by Justin.

Regards,
- - Phil

 

Can you take a look at your Windows logs if there's anything referring to that error? Do you have bt driver 6.3.0.4000 (sp48538) installed? sp49153 is superseding sp48538, so it should work. Also check that your bt DeviceID matches.

 

new 258.96 beta drivers out.

 

Already posted that Nvidia driver release two days ago...

 

oops. sorry!

didnt see that post, my bad!

 

New poster here.My apologies if am not doin this the right way.This is for wishmaster.dj.Hi, i bought the exact same model as u in Mumbai couple of weeks back,just wanted to know a couple of things.
1.How much did it cost u in New Delhi? just to be sure i wasn't ripped off.I paid Rs.54000 for it.
2.Hows ur ownership experience so far?
3.Is it possible to add a bluetooth module(since its a CTO basically),dont want an ext usb one.
Personally i am disappointed by the fact that inspite of paying approx 7-10% more than what consumers pay in states we here get a lower specced machine 320GB HDD + No built in bluetooth.
its a sub 1000$ unit in U.S. with a 500GB HD and built in bluetooth.And we cant even confiure it here,just buy what the reseller has available.

 

Yes, I currently have sp58538 installed.

FWIMBW, the relevant error log shows the following although I can't understand what it means exactly:

Product: Broadcom 2070 Bluetooth 3.0 -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'policy.8.0.Microsoft.VC80.ATL,type="win32-policy",version="8.0.50727.42",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="x86"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x800736FD. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheItem, function: Commit, component: {66332652-9C28-58B1-A01F-C8B3B9A1E18E}

I'm pretty sure the device ID matches since the prior driver installed fine.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

I wonder if I should try uninstalling the previous driver before attempting to install the new one? I'm hesitant to try that because if it doesn't work, then the BT won't work at all unless I do a system recovery.

 

Computer stuff is generally cheaper in the US if one knows how to shop the sales and get a good deal. I think a lot of other countries have more taxes and perhaps less competition.

Anyway, you can certainly add in internal BT. You just have to get the right part which I'm sure you can find online. Also, the DV8 maintenance manual contains instructions showing how to remove and replace the BT module.

Edit: Forgot whether you were talking about a DV8 or another model, but the maintenance manuals for all the models should be available on HP's support site.

 

pae77,
Yeah mine is a dv6t,but thanks for the advice.much appreciated.

 

This is the same error that I received while trying to update the Bluetooth device driver. And yes, uninstalling the previous version, restarting, and then installing the new version worked. I'll update the first post shortly, mentioning that an uninstall of all previous versions is strongly recommended.

 

This goes a bit beyond my knowledge.. First thing crossed my mind was that the installer is corrupted. Try downloading again. Second, is your .Net Framework up to date?
I googled briefly for that error code and result code and found references to "Windows Modules Installer" service. Are you experiencing any kind of problem with Windows Updates? All updates are installed correctly?
If you start the "Windows Modules Installer" service, do you receive an error "1450 Insufficient System resources" ?
Open a command prompt as administrator and run SFC /SCANNOW to check the integrity of system modules.
Hope this helps.

 

Thank you both for your suggestions. All windows updates have been applied so all .net stuff should be up to date and my system has ample "resources" so that can't be the problem.

But next I'll try Justin's suggestion of uninstalling the previous BT driver and restarting before trying to install the new BT driver again, since he said that worked for him and he was getting the same error.

It just seems like the BT drivers installer is not as good as it should be. Anyway, hopefully I'll be back shortly reporting that the uninstall, reboot and install worked.

 

I did't get any error messages during installation, but in my case I had the notorious 6.3.0.4600 from Samsung installed and decided to remove it before updating to 6.3.0.5560.

@Justin: Did you read about the two cases I posted regarding Broadcom Bluetooth installer wiping out the whole system? What do you think? Now I bumped into this when I googled about Error 1935...
Widcomm Uninstalltion wipes out the computer. New Virus or Windows Voulnerability.

 

Success! Uninstall, reboot and install the new driver worked like a charm. Thanks again for all the support. This thread is a great resource.

 

Don't know what driver you're referring to, Peter.

BT, I presume?

I heartily endorse the procedure you followed as the proper general course to follow when a file gets corrupted during install or doesn't install right. Did you include running chkdsk after uninstalling the driver before reinstalling it?

Regards,
- - Phil

 

I do install right over the the existing driver in most cases and do just fine but whenever I suspect issues, I do an uninstall.... registry clean, then reboot and then install the new.
I do enjoy and trust Glarys registry clean.... while upon occasion I've had to "exclude" certain things it wants to remove... once you get a baseline, its easy to monitor the trash that gets added if you run it everytime you install a new driver and also everytime you remove one.

I also like to run it after a driver install when I install over the top of another.

That gives you a new baseline to start from when you move ahead to another new driver later down the road.

Plus it makes it easy to determine if any entries to be removed needs to be excluded.

Running ccleaner also is a good tool but runs a little lighter and less aggressive "which isn't a bad thing" but I do like glary's... in fact its fun to run both to see if one finds something the other doesn't... usually they are pretty close.

If ones says the system is clean, the other will only find trivial things that don't really matter.

But while Win7 Seems to do a much better job of uninstalling than previous windows versions.... Its still amazing how much residual trash gets left after some program uninstalls while others do a perfect cleanup after themselves.

Just goes to show you how programs are not created equal.

 

Well I just jumped in installed the bluetooth drivers.

It was an interesting install..... it stopped saying there was no bluetooth device.... all I had to do was turn it on, then the install proceeded.
Then it stopped with the message "deleting shell icon cache" and stayed there what seemed like "forever" like 5 minutes... too weird. Anyway... guess I was dumb as I was wondering why they didn't show up in device manager!.. LOL!... they magically appeared when I turned on my bluetooth.... imagine that!....

anyway... they installed just fine and all is well.

One question I do have however....
Why did I install version 6.3.0.5600 dated 7-14-10 from the first page of this thread and now once they are installed and I check device manage they show as version 6.3.0.5560 dated 6-3-10?

 

I hope that your omission of mentioning any sort of backup was an oversight in reporting, Alan.

 

It sure suggests that, while the install copied new drivers into the right place, Device Mangler didn't pick up newer drivers for your version of the hardware from the group that were contained in the package.

1) Others here have reported similar experience with other driver packages for other hardwares.

2) Other possibility is that, like we've seen with the Intel Chipset driver package, simply executing the package doesn't update the drivers completely and, in that case, a -overall switch is needed to get them all installed.

Regards,
- - Phil

 

I think it updated because the version I had before was "+Broadcom 2070 Bluetooth v6.3.0.4000 May 15 2010 - really v6.3.0.3920".

As you can see.. even the version before installed "3920" when they were labeled "4000".

I remember Justin mentioned something about how that happens but I can't remember the details and too lazy to go look it up.

Again, I"m not worried about it as long as thats par for the course and something wrong going on.

As far as a backup... I do have system restores set and using the windows backup, but I have not done a ghost yet..

I have the disk downloaded you mentioned but still have not burnt it to CD and learned how to use the new version of ghost.
I'm sure it must be pretty easy.. just haven't done it yet.

All in all, I must admit I"m very pleased with this version of windows "64 bit win7".

All previous versions have been alot of hype with little actual performance increase, keeping in mind the ram must be bumped up too.
But my DV8t is really a pleasure to use.
I'm sure allot of the speed is the solid state drive and the 8 gig of ram doesn't hurt either and the quad core processor.

Quite a jump compared to my ZV6000 I ran before.

This is really a cool thread.

I'm looking forward to the next video drivers... from the reports of the beta, they may be good ones.... I'm not super thrilled with the last ones I loaded as I see a few very small bugs from time to time.

 

I'm still liking the latest beta video driver (258.96) a lot. Best yet for me even though it is a beta. I think my GPU is running a bit cooler too.

 

I think the latest bt package version is 6.3.0.5600 and the driver itself is version 6.3.0.5560.

I had ZV6000 with XP too When Win 7 RC came out, I installed it (64-bit) as secondary OS for testing purposes. After I got all (mostly 64-bit Vista) drivers working, soon it became my primary OS There was no way I would have returned back to XP, that's how much I was impressed with Win 7. I skipped Vista, so I have no idea how it compares to Win 7. Soon after 7 was released I bought this dv6 and I have to say I'm very pleased with it. It performs just great with Win 7.

I like Nvidia 258.96 beta drivers also. Hope it WHQLs soon, it's a keeper for me When it does WHQL, I'm planning to test Driver Sweeper from Guru3D. Anyone tried it? I'm currently using CCleaner to wipe out leftovers.

 

uninstalling + reboot + installing new worked for me to.

dv6-2180ey