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

get a skinit from zaggs.com

 

the carbon fibre vinyl works great if you keep it out of direct sunlight. I do it to alot of laptops with deep scars in the upper lid.

 

I only got the battery because of the 30% BCB, and I only have one chance to order it from the states, so even if I wait, it will likely be even more expensive if it is sold separately in Canada.

 

Doing a fresh install right now, does anyone know if the HP_TOOLS partition matters?

 

easier way is for me to just look at the HP Mobile Data Protection Sensor's hardware ID

ACPI\HPQ0004.

yup.

same one. check your swsetup folder for a HPProtSHD folder.

 

well without it you can't really update the bios (but so far people haven't been able to update the bios anyway sometimes so I dunno what's going on)

 

Welcome to the world of optical slot drives. They may look slim and purty, but they're still noisy.

 

Well I'll be boogered. That worked! Thanks +1. I hate stuff like that.

 

Ehh I'm not really a skinit person, don't like that kinda stuff.

Good to hear on the vinyl wrap though, I'll for sure be doing that

 

Anyone know what the "PCI Communications Controller" in the devices section is? I've got a yellow exclamation point next to it.

 

Man, from 39 to 81 pages over night? JEEZZ

 

that's the intel MEI driver.

sitting in one of the misc1-misc4 folders

 

lots of people just got their envies..

I was supposed to get mine today... but... lets say i got screwed over by fedex twice in the same day..

 

Holy shizzzz! I'm doing the backing up SW folder to DVD and got this error..I apparantly need 819 PB of free space to burn it. After wondering what the hell a PB is, I find it's a petabyte, or 1024 TB, or 1,048,576 GB.

Um...what do I do now? There's obviously not that much stuff on my 500GB computer.

 

Woah, that must be some crazy compression you've got in that 500gb.

 

FUK fedex. Took 2 weeks to get my IronGym from woot. Also, fedex says my woot tmnt tshirt is due for shipping on July 21. ?!?! And it's been that way for like 4 days now.

 

How does one reach 1PB? That's crazy shizz. Or are you trying to cheer me up with funny jokes?

 

838,656 TB! Crazyyy!

But seriously, what can I do? It's not letting me continue and keeps giving me this message. Try using a usb I guess? When I click properties of SW it shoes it at 4.71 GB, disk size is 4.73 GB.

 

I'm really not kidding you. I'd never heard of a TB until maybe 2 years ago..maybe we'll be having PB amounts next. Here's the site I found w/ conversions...mind boggling.

Byte Chart | Telephony and Computer Related Acronyms and Their Meanings | Acronyms Online

 

Damn. I was in such a hurry to clean install I neglected to save my sw_setup folder.

EDIT: Found it on HP's website, no biggie.

 

Hehehe. That's hilarious though. I didnt get to read your OP, but watever your problem is, I'd say clean install if you havent' already, and then go from there. Reason why I always advocate clean install, is cuz HP has their own funky windows installations. They like to include this, snip that out, snip this out, etc. Plus, all that bloatware that you can't see too.

GL GG DD HF KA <-- reference to battlenet1.0.

 

What does that mean? Can you explain it to a normal person please?

 

You can have all 819 PB of mine...email attachment?

 

I'm trying to clean install...first gotta backup that folder.

 

Why back it up? I didnt on my dv2610us. Just dl the drivers from online. Or go to Justin's thread for the drivers?

 

A capacitor is like a very fast draining battery. It both stores up and releases electricity very quickly. What you're doing by pressing the power button while the battery is out is emptying the capacitors and making sure all the circuits/chips are fully off/reset.

 

you go "wat"

and then you backup what you can on one disc and the rest on the other and find out what's giving you the false PB reading and skip it.

also swsetup is about 4.7GB so it won't fit on one dvd anyway.

I mean you can skip a couple of the things if you want (mycolors mainly, winlive also since all of that gets downloaded later on anyway if you want from windows update.

adobe and adobeflash(aflash) and shockwave and java can be downloaded by you later on, on your own as well

 

well for starters there's stuff in swsetup that's not in anywhere else.


for finishers that includes a couple drivers/the hpprotSHD stuff (one of the drivers not in the drivers folder)

 

The hiss from the headphone jack is pretty noticeable..

 

Alright, thanks! I have a 4.7 GB dvd, so not including those last few things should work

 

Is it spewing out air? Or do you mean when you plug in your headphones and listen to music?

I dont get it

 

Glad to hear that you're gonna fresh install.

Btw, how fast(long) does win7 take to install on a 2010 computer? My dinodesktop took like half hour total.

 

depending on your headphones the jack gives you a static/hiss in the background.

low impediment headphones get the issue more often than not.

 

What Magus said, I hear a hissing background noise when I plug in a set of headphones.

Using UE SuperFi 5 Pro for anyone wondering. Oh and..what would be considered low impedance? I believe these are 21Ohms or so.

 

My Envy does not seem to recognize that I have an Ethernet card installed. Wireless works fine, but today when I tried to plug in an ethernet cable, nothing happened. No ethernet device exists in my device manager, even if I show hidden devices. I'm worried - is my card defective? I downloaded and tried to install the Realtek drivers from the Envy 14 drivers thread, but when I did so, it said I didn't have a card.

 

Alright, I dropped the size down to 3.2 GB and it's working. I have another envy sitting right beside it (going to send it back...BCB deal) so I have another copy of anything if I need it. I'll be sending it (the old one) back Thursday, probably.

 

Can't get the RealTEk Ethernet driver to install?
Plug in ethernet cable that's connected to a network or computer. Try to install, let it fail(it will), then put the computer to sleep. Then wake it and it will finish installing correctly.
Solution discovered by poster MagusDraco

First post.

 

My ethernet connected to my router won't fit in my Envy, and my crossover cable connected to my PC (which I know works) does not bring anything up.

I need to manually install the driver, then config it for my crossover cable. But of course, it refuses to do so.

Edit: moved my crossover cable to my router, and now it works!

 

if putting it to sleep and waking it up doesn't work doing the install and doing the "find the inf file and just clicking install on it" way of installing also you may have to go and turn it off and back on and then sleep and unsleep or whatever.

it's annoying.

 

Is this ethernet wire problem happening to everybody?

 

didn't happen to me on my clean install but I never pulled the ethernet cord out while installing windows.

now I DID experience it when uninstalling the realtek on my stock install. it's where I discovered putting it to sleep and waking it up works. ...most of the time

 

Do you have to sleep/wake EVERY time(every day of usage), or is this just during the Win7 installation phase?

 

I'm not sure if its already been said, but the little headset port next to the headphones is compatible with iphone compatible headsets. Skype just got a whole lot more tolerable.

Also, my battery life is crap.

 

Also, has anyone figured out how to get tap zones working on the new touchpad drivers?

 

no that's just to get the damn realtek out of deep sleep mode so that windows realizes that it is there and that it has drivers waiting to be installed.


once the proper drivers are installed it works fine. It automatically gets disabled when unplugged, but now when you plug your cord back into the port it wakes up/gets re-enabled/exits deep sleep mode.

..whatever it's doing

 

E14 came in today. On recovery disc 2 of 4. So far everything I've checked looks good. Minimal keyboard flex, no cpu whine, optical drive isn't making any funky noise, no scratches/ dents, battery door was easy to open, and the HP logo is straight. Haven't yet checked audio out, the speakers, or any of the ports.

Will probably not do a clean install. Planning to just remove junk with Revo. With this in mind, can I back up the SW Setup folder and the delete it to free up space? Specs are in my sig.

 

Yes you can. It's created every time you install or update a driver softpak from HP.

 

I'm still debating on whether or not to do a clean install...never done one before. Also, how do you get to the synaptics menu to change the settings? I didn't see it on JJB's post.

 

Thank you, will make sure to do it after updating all my drivers.

I would like to do a clean install, but am not comfortable trying it due to my inexperience.

 

Copy/paste of JJB's post (Not noted on page 1, 2.0, think you should add this tidbit!!!)

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