ENVY 17-32XX Intel Ivy Bridge (AMD 7850M)

I don't think hp Wil have a premium line as good as the original envy for a long time.

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lol it depends on how good the new line is . thats what the accidental warranty is for.. they gotta replace it but if they dont have them in stock anymore... .


btw im getting horrid torrenting speeds (ahem legal downloads). yet this supposed to be the best wireless card in its class... is there something i should update that anyone knows?

 

I think its most likely your internet connection.. I have no issues with mine.

 

Is may be just me but using Windows 8 gives me like an extra half hour battery life. I'm starting to like Windows 8 more and more... Now the big question is should I remove Windows 7 and stay on Windows 8. I'm dual booting them...

 

Guys, I could enable 3 display in spanned mode in games using a software called SoftTh its very simple to configure. I own the quick ship model (3270NR)

 

We're looking for separate displays rather than one large virtual monitor split across physical ones, though I'm sure that will be adequate for some people, nice catch. Wouldn't use it for games anyway, you would have horrible framerates with any sort of modern game at high settings, demanding modern game that is.

 

Is that 3 external and no laptop display ................or ........the laptop display and 2 externals?

 

does the power dvd have a patch out for windows 8? i can't seem to figure out how to play blu rays anymore

 

Its 2 external plus main display

 

Hi,everybody,i have a question,when i play world of warcraft with 7850m, i can't set the resolution to 1600x900,the list only have 1920x1080;1680x1050 ...blablabla``
why can't i have 1600x900? Maybe someone can help me ,thank you very much..

 

Try using DirectX 9 instead of 11 in the WoW client.

 

Have they resolved the brightness with Windows 8 upgrade yet?

 

Yes .

 

My keyboard backlight isn't coming on after computer wakes from sleep even when I use the keyboard. Anyone know how to fix this? I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and I thought this was working but it's having issue now. I have to hit the f5 key twice to get it to come on since first one shuts it off since it thinks it's on.

Thanks.

 

I use Hibernate (occasionally) and it does the same thing with Win7/64. F5 works for ME!
Choose your battles wisely, and life will be more pleasant.

 

Thanks for the info. It would be nice to get that working if anyone has fix for it. It's hard to see the F5 key in the dark.

 

By chance I think I got my keyboard backlight not coming back on after sleep/hibernation fixed. I had upgrade the display drivers to newer and noticed that display brightness was not working anymore even with the fix that was talked on about on this forum. So I reinstalled the HP's display drivers and now both the brightness as well as the keyboard backlight work as expected.

But I noticed HP's driver doesn't work with Netflix App on Windows 8. I get the W8158 error. I got it to work by changing to the driver that Microsoft supplied (WDDM V1.20) but now after reinstalling the HP driver it doesn't seem to work anymore either way.

 

wait which driver did u use? my netflix app doesnt work

 

Anyone getting issues with low frame rates? In world of warcraft i'm getting like 15 fps in crowded cities and outside around high 20s to 30. I have the updated drivers/bios and also made sure the switchable graphics was set to 'high performance' with this game. Mine is a i7 with 16gb ram running on a Crucial 512gb SSD hard drive.

My i5 ati 7770 with 8gb is running this game at 50+ fps so i'm trying to figure out why this is happening.

I changed the resolution down a notch but it only bumped up the fps a little bit.

My old xps 17 l701 ran this game better than this envy. Anyone have any advice?

 

I had it working with Microsoft's AMD 7800 Series driver (WDDM 1.20). This driver was already on my Windows 8 probably through the windows update. Just had to do update driver and select driver on my computer option.

But now even that driver gives me the W8158 error in Netflix app after I reinstalled HP Video drivers. You can just use the browser to use the Netflix and that will work. I prefer to have my brightness adjustment and keyboard backlight to work so I'm just going to use the HP supplied video drivers. Not sure why video driver is impacting the keyboard backlight function...

 

i would just say clean up all the drivers then install hp's latest driver, then install 12.11 or w.e new drivers are over it

 

Still having problems trying to clone the OS from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD.

I've shrunk the partition to something that fits into the ssd (256GB) then use clonezilla, easeus and even the plextor ssd's included cloning software (Nti ez backup). But nothing seems to work.

intially clonezilla manages to clone the image but the OS doesnt load from the ssd. after trying easeus and nti ez backup, i tried clonezilla and this time round it says it cant create partition within the HDD (refering to the plextor ssd)

then i tried easeus repeatedly and all the time it tells me the cloning has been successful and I see from My Computer where all the drives are properly sized. but still it doesnt boot and tells me no boot device installed.

tried nti software and it too, manage to complete the cloning process and I see some files inside the SSD but it doesnt boot as well.

 

Envy 17 2xxx owner here. We faced a similar situation where a game would suddenly slow down or never even reach the full potential to begin with. It was a throttling issue to deliberately keep down the heat. A later BIOS patch by HP addressed this after much uproar.

Having said this, make sure that CoolSense is off since that also throttles the CPU.

 

I am not having those issues. in town 60 fps .. SHA fight which kind of sucks i get high 20's low 30s . running on high setting with shadows set to low 1920x1080
stock ram , But i do have samsung 830 256gb ssd installed.

 

Anyone else having a problem with new updates? It says failure to apply update and keeps reverting. I have the 3200 3D.

 

Hello, i`m owner of 3270nr 3740qm. I have preblem with calibraiting display on it. In my previous 3070nr i could choose video card and calibrate it, but in this model i can`t choose high perfomance at regular. sorry for my english.

 

Hi,

I somehow accidentally put some water on my HP Envy 32XX 17" touchpad, and it immediately started acting weird.
I shut down the laptop and tried to dry the touchpad, but it has been 4 days and the touchpad continues to act weirdly, like a touch is hold somehow.
My touchpad now performs random clicks and cursor moves without been touched, and when I touch it it either moves in the wrong direction or don't move at all. I clearly can't use it.

I bought the laptop on the HP US web store, but I am currently in France and this is hard for me to send my laptop to the US, and waiting something like a month is not possible as I'm using this laptop for work.
However I could pay for a quick repair, if needed.

What can I do? Has this happened to anybody?

EDIT: Solved! I finally totally disassembled my laptop (hundreds of screws btw), tried to dry the touchpad from behind, unplugged the battery as well as the CMOS, and it now works just great!

 

Anyone know where I can get a OEM hard drive caddy for the second bay on ENVY17-3200? I looked on eBay but didn't see anything specific for ENVY17-3200.

 

Sure, NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks ... but if you plan on an SSD, you don't really 'need' a caddy. A little foam will hold it in place... The cable is already there. Not sure if the caddy for drive #0/drive #1 are the same, but I DO KNOW you can move the boot drive to either bay, and things just WORK!

NOTE Bay #0 is 6GB/sec (SATA III) and Bay #1 is only 3GB/sec (SATA II)

 

Thanks. So you are saying I could use the SSD drive in Bay #0 without the caddy and use the factory caddy in Bay #1? I can give this a try.

 

That is what I am saying... I would give it a try. I DID buy the caddy (before knowing), but my HD(boot) is in Bay #1 and my SSD is in Bay #0, which may seem a little strange, but I need a fast device to write to... the HD (hybrid) is fast enough for my OS purposes.

 

I would strongly recommend springing the money for the caddy from NewModeUS. It'll keep the SSD securely mounted as it should be.

 

I got the SSD secured with a piece of padding to make it snug against the bay. I'll try it for a bit. It shouldn't be any issues since SSD doesn't have any moving parts.

After doing a fresh Windows 8 install I'm noticing 1 unknown device. Anyone know what it could be?

 

We can all "upgrade" our cards now:
techPowerUp GPU-Z Validation 3rg4m

 

How would you upgrade your GPU?

 

Interesting mine says 7800M Series.

 

Most likely that's the card reader.

 

AMD Radeon HD 8800M Series spec sheet

 

how did u "update"? drivers? which ones cause im updated to 13.1. Did the clocks for the gpu change? or is it just name?

 

guess I am slow... 13.2b4 show as 7800M series for ME... different drivers, or what???

 

Hello, I just got this laptop a few days ago (non 3D version). I want to hook up 2 external monitors using the display port outputs. I have my 2 monitors hooked up but can only select the internal monitor and 1 of them at a time, I can't turn on all 3 at once. I have read that people are having problems with 3 external monitrs plus the built in one (even though the spec sheet says that this should work) but there has been talk of what I'm trying to do working. How do you do it?

Also, what is this "Eyefinity" I see referenced to? I can't find it on my laptop. Is this what I need?

 

anyone tried underclocking/undervolting to increase batt life for the 3D version?

 

ho-ho-ho... is this an early April fool's joke

HP should sort this out, now, it's disgraceful.

 

Remember guys, even Alienware M17x with 3D does not have IGP support; therefore no switchable graphics (Optimus or Enduro) support either. The reason is, the 3D models of these machines have the monitor directly connected to the dGPU; this has to be done since the IGP does not have support for the 3D protocol that NVIDIA/AMD uses or 120 Hz screens.

 

MacHater, why do you have an 8870M listed in your sig? Is it just a joke because the 8800 series are just rebrands or something?

PS: Nice overclocks. How'd you get em so high?

 

Hey HP ENVY team, can any of you confirm this is a solid buy? or do you recommend anything else instead? Thanks guys. Kingston Model KVR16S11/8 Laptop Memory - Newegg.com

 

solid buy if u can find it, win8 isnt really for it if u really want something for win 8 I recommend getting touchscreen laptop

 

O sorry, i guess I wasnt too clear on what i was talking about. I was referring to the link for the RAM, i already own a envy 17 32XX since July lol

 

lol mybad i read it too quickly. hmm i dont know much about memory but that seems a tad bit high for 8gb imo. idk the exact prices going on right now so dont take my word on it

 

Anyone else noticing that the wireless button doesn't work when you press it? I moved to Windows 8 and haven't really had a problem, just little things here and there that annoy me.