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    Envy 14 - colour corruption on switching graphics

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Shmo, Dec 6, 2010.

  1. Shmo

    Shmo Newbie

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    Hi all,

    Bought an Envy 14 in the UK a couple of months ago. All is good apart from I sometimes get crazy colour corruption when switching from the power saving gpu to the high performance one. Usually takes 3 or 4 switches to get the colours looking right again. Here's a photo of what it can look like:

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    This a common problem? I'm tempted to send it back for a repair but as it's somewhat intermittent I'm worried they'll switch it on, see it's fine and send it back for a complete waste of time.
     
    Shmo, Dec 6, 2010
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  2. warmonked

    warmonked Notebook Geek

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    send it back! there's no way that's acceptable!
     
    warmonked, Dec 6, 2010
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  3. tybert7

    tybert7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Just the right amount of barely contained horror and urgency to get it fixed.
     
    tybert7, Dec 7, 2010
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  4. MagusDraco

    MagusDraco Biiiiiiirrrrdmaaaaaaan

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    Wow. I mean i've seen that happen if I'm playing starcraft 1 or some other 256 color game that windows 7 seems to go "wait...what is this old thing. I cannot handle 256 colors"

    but I've never seen that while swapping gpus.
     
    MagusDraco, Dec 8, 2010
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  5. esskay381

    esskay381 Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey... I am having the same problem , except it occurs randomly and not just when switching cards. Takes about 4-5 seconds to return to normal but I'm not having it and plan to contact the support people today to have it fixed. My wifi is also giving some trouble, so I have to get that mess sorted out as well....
     
    esskay381, Dec 9, 2010
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