*HP ENVY 14 & ENVY 14 Beats (1XXX series) Owners Lounge, Part III*

no.

I mean "fix dumb issues that sometimes happen with keyboard lights"

that's all that does. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and instead you need to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for that thing (audio, wifi, whatever)

 

Oh. Cool. Ill do that in a few minutes then.

EDIT: That didn't work...damn. Anyone know what drivers control the mute light? :I

 

i lowered my resolution, set the settings to low and did that powerplay thing and my fps was dropping to 6 during that mineralzUS custom game.......

 

Which wireless adapter do you have? I would think if it's the Intel WiFi adapter, it would be something Intel in Msconfig. If you have the WWAN, whatever broadband wireless device they had that you could add on, then I believe you will have to update the BIOS in order to get it to work properly as that was a specific thing mentioned in the f.23 release notes.

 

huh.

lemme try that game out. It just may be super intensive if there's like fifty billion guys on the screen at once.

 

Thanks Magnus I tried that too but it still doesn't start on its own. The light on the keyboard is red on startup and I have to press Fn+F10 to enable it to white light..

The weird thing is, I have not yet updated any BIOS since day 1 and it used to work until a or two ago..

 

yeah. the thing gets weird sometimes.

the bios update may fix it. otherwise reinstalling drivers may fix it.

otherwise I dunno. this stuff is finicky and prone to random fits of "why are you messing up"


as for SC2 Mineralzsu/whatever. Yeah I get around 28 fps or something (go up to round 4) at one point my fps did do that drop to like 10 or so for a moment.

It's just the custom game. You need a stronger computer to run it fluently due to how much stuff is going on (tons and tons of zerg)

 

Just purchased an Envy 14 beats and I just noticed it says battery one 50% and battery 2 not present. If I remove the power cord it just shuts off. What do I need to do? I've tried reseating the battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cool, my fault then. Appreciate the response.

 

Hi Zman thanks. Yup I have Intel Wifi adapter. In fact i just had an update from HP today on it but that still didn't seem to fix it. Hmm updating the BIOS may potentially (if not surely) break the recovery discs and for someone like me who is lazy to scan my files before opening them, that can be rather detrimental! lol.. Guess I'll try to wait a while and see if any updates come up. For now, I'll try to live with it! Thanks!

 

Hi, I've looked through the table of contents page and I can't find a solution, so I'm posting this here.

I have an HP Envy 14, i5 M450 CPU, 4 GB RAM, running 64-bit Windows 7 Professional. The first thing I did out of the box was a fresh reformat to get rid of all the HP junkware, and I've installed all the drivers as well as 3RVX.

The issue I'm having is that my sound is terribly loud when I plug in my headphones. It's so loud that I can only go about 5-10% using 3RVX until the sound's too loud. I'm using these earphones:

Amazon.com: Sony Mdr-E10Lp/Pblu Headphones - Fashion Earbuds (Blue): Electronics

I've tested this with other earphones as well, and it's the same.

 

That's probably because the output is supposed to be more powerful.

It might also be that you have some sort of EQ preset that makes things louder.

 

in general the headphone jacks are very very very strong.

depending on your pair of headphones you have to have the volume at from 5-15 or 20%

that's the beat's audio at work (well part of it anyway)

 

YES!

HP finally fixed my laptop, the fan's working fine now.

HP ended up spending more money shipping the laptop twice than replacing the fan, though

 

cool. (10char)

 

Temps are 5C higher than before.

:/

Probably going to apply new thermal compound myself someday.

 

not so cool

edit: though, did you just clean install again/did they reinstall the OS? My computer has higher temps than normal for the first week or so due to hdd indexing and stuff.

then again I'm also not on an i7 so..*shrugs*

 

They just replaced the heatsink assembly. The CPU heatsink mount used to be painted over with black. Now it's shiny chrome

 

ah.

enjoy your i5 heatsink assembly.

...nah they probably use the same one for both processors. Put new goop on it since they probably did a poor job

 

Hmm, the new heatsink is worse at keeping idle temps in the low 50's, but better at keeping gaming temps in the low 70's.

Weird o.o

 

eh.

toss a notebook cooler underneath it?

 

I have an i7-720qm envy and was hoping to downgrade to an i5 for longer battery life and less heat. i7 is overkill for my needs. Is this possible? They both use the same socket, so this should be possible...

 

nah. the motherboard is set up differently/they use a different motherboard that's set up for an i7.

 

Hmm...this sucks. I love my envy, but the first gen i7 are not meant to be mobile at all...

 

You know, I'm actually not too sure.

My i7 motherboard is labeled as an "Arrandale" board. (BTW, arrandale's the i5. Clarksfield is the i7)

I would at least attempt it if whoever you're buying the CPU from accepts open box CPU returns (newegg does)

 

I guess there's a very slim chance it could work.


*shrugs* Though HP's past history says no.

 

low everything and i get 2fps during big battles in sc2. so basically i cant play sc2 on the envy 14. sweet.

 

Buck, try switching to the ATI graphics, I can play everything on medium and get good FPS.

 

I can hardly play Metro 2033 and Cryostasis on Low... but I play those on my desktop.

My favorite games, Killing Floor and Left 4 Dead, run perfectly on it in medium.

 

of course i was playing with the ATI already. i wouldnt even try playing with the power saver GPU. i dont understand why its struggling so much

 

drivers could be completely screwed.

have ya tried getting rid of them completely and starting over?

 

What sleeve case fits this computer best?

 

the 14.5 inch from HP works fine for me.

 

Is it snug?

 

pretty much.

The sleeve has a spot above the computer that will fit a mouse and the AC Adapter (headphones..yeah no way in hell without bending them the wrong way/too much unless you have some behind ear sony headphones or something. The ones for jogging).

 

this sleeve: Amazon.com: HP 14.5-Inch Notebook Sleeve - Black Link Pattern: Electronics

 

The Gimp 15W works great too.

 

Dropped the computer twice from a table,hitting a wood floor, during the past year. The computer is still strong but has dent marks on the side.

 

metal gets dents.

good to know the thing can take a small beating.

 

no i havent tried that. you really think that could be the problem?

 

could be. I mean 'bout the only options left.

 

did you upgrade to the newer ATI drivers? I noticed going from stock 10.8 to 11.2 that my games would craw on the same settings that I was using with stock drivers.

Reverting back to the ones that came with my Envy 14 fixed the problem.. so weird

 

You know what's nice about metal? You can pop out the dents.

 

Ok so I'm having this problem with my GPU, i suppose. On battery, although I know it'll destroy it's life, gaming is slowed to a crawl. Even on high performance. On my friend's computer he can play games on battery without any lag as if he was connected to DC, but when i do it on my i7 envy 14, its jagged and lags like crazy. any help? is it drivers of the BIOS?
I have it on high performance, Power Play off, Active cooling, Fan always on in BIOS, but aero turned off from batterybar.

 

huh.

I don't get that lag on my 5650. Or at least I don't when I tried it out with portal 2 yesterday for someone in the gaming topic.

'course I leave powerplay on (set on max performance)


I also made a note to go into the power options and turn off pci-express link state power savings while on battery along with moving cooling from passive to active.

I'm also in AMD 11.5 and BIOS F23

 

When you switch to battery, it automatically switches to integrated graphics. You can disable that.

 

he's on i7. no integrated for him

 

Ah. Well that narrows that idea out.

 

Hey, I'm trying to reinstall windows 7 on my envy14 and for some reason in the bios, there is an exclamation mark next to the option for booting from a usb drive. I have the windows installation thing installed on a usb drive and I've done it before (last summer when I first got my envy) but now for some reason I don't have that option. I placed the option for booting from a usb diskette (whatever that is) first and that also didn't work. could anyone advise me on what I should do? I'd really appreciate it- thanks

 

How did you create your USB Windows install?
Why don't you just use a Windows 7 DVD?