Guys, my Envy 14 BIOS is F.24!

My Envy 14 just came back from repair, and BIOS reports that its version is F.24. I am pretty sure that before sending, it was F.23. Did anyone see that BIOS before? I can confirm that entering advanced options works.

 

yeah that's a newer bios. Why did you send yours in to repair?

Also you could try checking to see if advanced mode works (f10 then a while booting up. hit them rapidly so f10,a,f10,a like that til you get into the bios)

don't change stuff in the advanced bios though 'cause there are some settings you 100% do not want to mess with in there.

 

I sent it to have them repair the CPU whine issue, which they didn't do, read more here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-envy-hdx/563977-hp-recovery-disc-can-you-upload.html#post7290431

Advanced settings work -> wrote that in the first post already

I tried tampering with CPU throttling temps (don't worry, I won't melt my Envy) but so far weren't able to get complete silence after Win7 boot (I'm trying to achieve that).

 

c states tend to cause the cpu whine. you could see what happens when they are turned off ('course I think battery life may suffer a little bit)

 

It will probably be much the same like disabling CPU idle state in Windows' Power Options. No whine, but fans get a LOT louder. Don't want that. (but I'll test nevertheless, thanks - care to investigate those Fan Throttling settings? I weren't really successful in lowering emissions...)

 

huh

no real changes when I messed with fan stuff.

maybe it doesn't hold the changes...(I have the high fan set at 45C and well, it's not on at all at 50 C)

 

You mean the fan doesn't kick in at 50C? So it stays silent?

 

well it wasn't kicking in at all after it stopped.

(even though it was set to be normal at 40 and full blast at 45). Temp was still 45 or 46 or so. Whatever. I reset it to normal.

 

Yeah, I've noticed something similar. I once set both fans to the maximum temp allowed and the fan still turns on at around 50 C....same pattern occurs if I have the low fan set at 40 C, a temp that is lower than my usual average temp.

 

Just like the F.22 that came back with the repaired 1st Envy I have. That looks like an intermediate release. Did you notice any additional options?

 

Not really. I just noticed that Advanced Settings work, and haven't touched most of them - so maybe some of them changed, will look into that deeper.

 

I tried disabling C-states, and my CPU whine disappeared magically! No side effects like louder fans. Haven't tested battery life, but even if it is lower, it hasn't sunk dramatically.

 

cool.

try out multiple options there because there's a chance it's a specific c-sate (c6 or whatever c they let you disable without disabling the others) that cause this issue.

I remember seeing that option at the bottom. it was like c6 or c3 and then you could enable or disable it alone.

 

I'm crossing my fingers that F.24 gets released and fixes the incorrect battery discharge rate and windows 7 battery runtime estimation issue that so many of us new Envy 14 owners have been experiencing.