DV2000t Owners Lounge

You can't make most of the Quickplay buttons or the remote work with other programs? They all work for me with WMC and Windows Media Player, and everything except mute works perfectly in iTunes (for some reason the mute button only works if iTunes is in the foreground). I can even use the remote to navigate through Word documents, though I have no idea why I'd ever want to. If you're using the installed OS, I assume you have the latest Quickplay and audio drivers?

 

Is anyone else having problems with the mute button? It only seems to work about 50% of the time. If it doesn't I have to scroll and manually mute a song, etc. All the other buttons work though. I don't know if there's any sort of fix though.

EDIT: Just saw the post above me. Maybe it's only the foreground...interesting.

 

I think it is a bug in the application. I have an nc8430 and I've got the same problem with the mute key, but nothing else.

 

Yes its a bug with Itunes. Itunes sees the mute press and reissues the mute function so its like hitting the mute button twice.

 

Hey guys, newbie here. Got my dv2000t yesterday. It's amazing like you've all said before. So here goes: does sticking the System Recovery DVD and formatting really install all the crap the comp came with in the first place? It's happening right now, and I'm going thru what looks like a serious ****-software installation that is taking forever. So I get that it sucks that all this **** gets installed, but is it supposed to take a really long time? Its going on and on and on.

Is this just something we have to live with unless we buy our own copies of Vista? And is comp okay even though its taking so long?

 

oh and one more thing... after running the recovery, looking in My Computer - only what seems to be the previous smaller OS partition is listed. The rest of my hard drive is apparently not there? I guess my source of confusion is that I do not understand what is actually happened. With XP, formatting was clear - you had choices, here it's doing it all behind my back, so I have no idea whats actually happening. Does anyone know why my hard drive is gonish? and how I can get it back easily?

 

There are lot of threads that explain howto clean install Windows XP on the HP dvxx series using the recovery CD set. Please browse through the archives.

You may be unable to see your partitions other than the primary partition where windows is installed if they are not formatted.

 

@pinlet may i ask what the HP part number for this enhanced 6 cell battery is? bought my dv2000t last year and this battery wasn't available. the part number is on the battery when you take it out of the laptop. also could anyone tell me what the mAH or Wh value of the battery is. it should be on the right side. thanks a lot.

 

ts ok if i delete the recovery partition and full format my drive deleting all partitions and starting a fresh install of windows vista? and downloading all drivers from HP support web page?? can i get all and same drivers from the web page??

 

My friend just got a DV2000T from Staples, it's running a bit hot in Vista, I think it's the firmware. What's the best one to use? (For example, F.16 runs the coolest for DV6000T).

Also on the HP website, there's two sets of firmwares ( http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2093&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3177435&lang=en), one is the F.34 and another is the F.28, so I'm a bit confused about all this.

If anyone can help that would be great.
Thanks.

 

guys,

I didnt like the sound quality it comes with DV2000t. Bass is too high.

Is there any good USB sound card which will give us true DTS and dolby sounds ?

Thanks in advance.

 

I am on the eternal quest for the coolest running laptop.

Is it me or does the DV2000 run a bit hot under the left palm?

Hoping for other people's experience.

 

Just read through this whole thread, since I am thinking of getting one of these machines.

My question: has all that business about the 2 different screen manufacturers been sorted out? Or are there still 2 different ones I could end up with?

 

After 3 month's of ownership of my dv2000t - here's the report.

I had to return my first dv2000t because the fans weren't kicking on and the system would overheat and shut off. Well, I sent it in 3 times and they couldn't fix it all the way, so they built me a whole new one with higher specs for no charge. Very cool.

A few observations:
-get the nVidia graphics card - it can run HL2 in 1280x800 widescreen at a consistent 30-50+fps. Very playable and enjoyable gameplay - wish i would have waited out for the dv2500t with the 8200 - oh well.
-Runs vista with Aeroglass just great
-Yes, it gets quite warm under the left side/palm rest when in heavy use.
-Very silent operation, even when fans are running you can barely hear it.
-Go for 2 gigs of ram if you're going to run vista - you'll definitely notice it over the 1 gig. But don't buy it with 2 gigs from HP - they way overcharge. Buy with 1 gig and upgrade it yourself - memory is dirt cheap right now.
-Get the litescribe drive - even if you don't need litescribe. The cheaper Matsusheta DVD RW drive is so noisy that my friends asked what was wrong with my laptop from day one. I sent it in and the replacement had the exact same noisy operation. It works fine, but it's grindy NOISY and sounds terrible. The noise alone isn't worth the $20 or so - you'll wish you'd had every time you put a disk in it. Ditch it - the litescribe is almost perfectly silent.
-yes, it's hard to keep the glossy finish clean - wipe wipe wipe all the time
-yes, the glossy screen is sexy - and stays that way - love it
-nuking vista with all the *rapware and reinstalling from scratch works fine - just download the touch control button software and youre golden - just install the touch software AFTER the audio driver.

After 3 months, I'm super happy with this laptop - even after all the hassles of having to get a new one made for me. I really think it's the best 14" laptop out there for the money. Lenovos are better built, but cost considerably more and aren't as sexy, dells are cheaper but feel and look like it. I'd recommend this laptop to anyone.

Hope that helps,

 

They still do use several screen suppliers. This is true for all their systems. The screens are not too bad IMO, there are slight differences but unless you have looked at all the different screens you wont be able to tell the difference.

 

I'm new here but I came across this forum when looking for some instructions on upgrading my dv2000t's hard drive (clean install instruction mostly). Then I found this topic and decided to register.

After reading the comments here I feel like I'm the only one who somewhat hates my dv2000t: it's had nothing but problems since I bought it last September for school. At first it was great -- I bought it to replace my old dv4000 which held up pretty well besides the touchpad. Then this past march I booted my laptop up one night after I got home and the LCD was totally dead. It flickered once, and poof, gone. The touchpad and QL buttons were dead too. I sent it into HP who told me something was spilled on it and I requested pictures for evidence (because a $700 replacement for an LCD seems crazy to me). The rep then escalated the issue to a case manager who took more than a week to finally tell me that it was a mixup (yea, right ) and they'll fix everything ASAP. More than a week later they finally got back to me to tell me there were faulty cables and casings which had to be replaced. And by now, I had been without my notebook for over a month and was pretty annoyed, but ok, at least it was fixed.

After that my network connection hasn't been the same. It drops out repeatedly when connected to any wireless network. And about two days ago my screen began flickering on and off after I took it out of standby. I'm not talking about a brief flicker -- it was flickering on and off for 15 seconds and it freaked me out. Maybe I just have a bad system?

Someone else said something about heat For doing basic things like reading email or web browsing, it's fine. I noticed that my 80GB hdd (stock HP model) is constantly running at 45-55C... definitely not normal. My dv4000's hdd never went above 30C when doing these things. Games, yes. Web browsing, no. I can't seem to play higher-end games either, even on low settings. WoW for instance plays beautifully for awhile and suddenly my notebook shuts off. No warnings, no errors, it just turns off. My bet is the GPU overheating, but it seems like the dv2000t should be able to handle it.

The last thing (and very minor) is the DVD burner. When I first got my notebook it burned DVDs at 8x. Currently the fastest they seem to burn is 2.4x, which is pretty sad but livable, because I don't burn DVDs all that often.

Likely, the problems are just with my system. I absolutely LOVED my laptop when I first got it. It sleeps on (or in, rather) the desk next to my bed. I very rarely take it out of my house, and when I do it's always inside my padded HP backpack. Never been dropped, never even bumped against anything. All of my work is on this thing, so it would pretty much be a disaster if I was careless with it even once.

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My Specs:
2GB DDR2 RAM
80GB 5400RPM SATA HDD
nVidia GeForce Go 7200
Intel Core Duo T2500 2.0 GHz
14.1" WXGA Brightview Widescreen
HP Imprint Finish and Microphone
Super-Multi 8X DVD+|-R/RW

 

I bought this for my kids and haven't used it much in the last year. I installed a 7200rpm drive in my dv2000t in place of the original 5400rpm drive and removed it because it was to hot. I reinstalled the original 5400rpm drive. I was loading software and noticed it does run very warm or hot after a few hours. Does anyone think the hard drive is the problem? Is this common with this model? It's annoying and I will sell this if I can't resolve it. I was going to try installing a new Hard drive and see if it runs cooler..

 

Runs hot, poor design.

 

Im having a huge problem with overheating on my DV2000t. Whenever I play games, I usually hit 91 degrees c even with my notebook cooler. My notebook also shuts down randomly while I play games, im guessing its a overheating issue. I've had it for about 1 and a half years. I updated the bios and everything. I haven't cleaned the fans/heatsink yet. I tried doing it the other day, but I had trouble getting to the CPU fan and heatsink. The manual tells me I have to remove the monitor before I could completely take the case off. I do not have very much experience doing this and I do not want to further damage my laptop but I did get as far as to take the hard drive, keyboard, ram, and dvd rom drive off.

Will it be ok for me to just blow the fan out through the holes that I already made or should I just keep going and take the whole thing apart? Is there an easier way to get to the cpu and heat sink?

Is my random shut offs even a overheating problem?