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

How do I open up REIL's software control panel to adjust the settings??

 

There is a little finger icon in the tray icons, when you click on the little arrow, it took me some time to find where the settings were too. The settings are a little vague to me too...

 

Hey just a thought, my first E 15 worked great for about a month and then the drive (HDD) started acting up and having intermittent crashes, after hours with HP support an no luck they were going have me return and send a replacement. I decided to open it up before returning and low and behold I had a loose MOBO connector that was only latched on one side. Snap it in place and worked great.....

 

It did on the original Envy 15 Gen 1's which had terrible factory settings, and the 15 has itty bitty speaker compared to the 14.

 

hmmmm....

I should check that out for my hdd too.


it started screwing up around a month after I got my envy (after a clean install) the dst fails like 15% into the short test so *shrugs*

 

I would strongly suggest you disable those enhancements and just adjust for it in the EQ settings. All they do is add digital distortion before the EQ and preamp, so your amplifying the distortions twice before it hits the speakers...

 

Will do, thanks for the info, at first I didn't have them enabled, but now I am getting problems, hopefully this will fix it.

Edit: The sound IS better without the enhancements, shouldn't they be called Dehancements?
Edit: I found an ACPI entry in the Event Viewer that says the Embedded Controller did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC hardware or firmware or that the BIOS is accessing the EC incorrectly. Contact computer manufacturer for an updated BIOS. This is on f.12, I will be flashing back down to f.06 and see if it still reports this...

 

Hey, the maximum windows experience index i'm getting is 6.7 with the specs in my sig. Is anyone getting better with similar specs? and how are you doing it?

 

I get 7.6 for my intel SSD's and 6.8 for cpu and memory, the GPU is 7.0 but thats not comparable.

Try this trick, run super pi (32M) in the backround and then start windows experience index, I bet you SSD score goes way up....

BTW it is a really horrible and outdated rating system I wouldn't lose any sleep over it...

 

also it sometimes rates you for the intel gpu and not the radeon

 

ahh finally got this touchpad 90 percent of the way to my liking. key for me was to disable pinch to zoom and within synaptics specify the lower left and lower right tap zones to a specific keystoke to ctrl - and ctrl + to zoom in and out. now two finger scroll is hella smooth and does not accidentally trigger zoom. phew

 

Thanks JJB.

Has anyone tried this yet with an Intel 160 E14? I wonder if this would also help the guys with the whine?

 

Thanks for that! Now I can disable pinch zoom and still be able to easily zoom!

 

Okay can someone help me out?

I sent in my Envy14 for repairs cause of the touchpad making an annoying clickety clackety sound. It's expected to be delivered on the 7th (this upcoming Tuesday). But it still hasn't left HP's facility. It's a 3 day holiday so if HP expects to have it back to me by Tuesday, shouldn't they have sent it to me today (Friday)?

The workers probably won't be in the facility until Tuesday and even then, it'll be too late to get it to me by Tuesday afternoon....

 

Hi guys

is there much difference (w.r.t heat and fan noise) between the i5 and i7 versions of Envy 14?

 

DELETE YOUR POST PLEASE.

We have decided this is not a good fix, it runs very hot and is not practical for ful time use.

I now have a fix the is working very well with almost no increase in heat or power draw. It's being tested by several other SSD owners now and we are fine tuning the settings. Once we finalize things I will write up a detailed instruction set and post it here (and on other threads). It is quite a complicated process and we are trying to streamline it for ease of making the changes. This new fix also guves full SSD speeds while on battery


2.0 -- Could you please remove SSD post from the O.P. for now, should have reliable fix posted by monday. Thanks

 

send a pm to 2.0, JJB. This place still moves pretty fast.

 

Good idea, DUH, wasn't thinking... Done.

 

Cool, I'm glad I could help as I've gotten so much help from you guys over the past couple months!

 

has anyone heard of the file amicosinglun64? I'm looking on google and it says its a trojan or a fake spyware detector? I dont know how it got installed... can someone check if they have it also?

 

I am still having trouble updating my BIOS from f.02 to f.12 or even f.06. I have tried zman420's way as well as the steps on the first page and nothing seems o work. I have a clean install. Anyone know whats wrong?

 

I know that this has been asked before and this is my second time asking it, but it has never been answered. Does anyone know how to disable the CD drive so that I wont have to hear it buzz when I turn on my Envy?

 

I think the only way to do it is by manually opening it up and disconnecting it,just be careful as if something gets messed up it can totally void your warranty,it shouldn't be buzzing at all,have you called hp? or thought about a replacement,i don't know about you but i use my drive a lot,watching movies,installing cd's or software,it is vitally important to me,you could always use a portable drive if you really needed one after disconnecting it,but other than a manual disconnect i am not sure someone else may have some ideas too

 

Well, it's not really buzz. When I turn on my Envy it makes a "errr err" sound kind of... but it only lasts one second and that's it. I'd just prefer it not to make any noise at all so I might as well disable it somehow since I don't use it very often. I'm pretty sure yours should do the same, just listen closely when you turn it on.

 

oh.

that's normal.

it's the dvd player checking for a disc. can't stop it.

 

Hey guys, could I get someone to chime in on this? I am out of the country so my laptop is pretty much my only way to do my job and connect with the outside world. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Clean installs have had problems updating, have you tried going to f.04, in motherboard forums users have warned against skipping to many BIOS versions in a flash. Maybe try f.04, my method only works on minimized/factory install, not clean install. The .7z method is probably your best bet. Sorry I can't help more... Mike415 has been successful updating on a clean install, maybe if you can find him he could help.

 

What's your BIOS version, if you're on f.12 I suggest going back to f.06, I just today started having audio problems (albeit a little bit different from yours) and f.12 BIOS seems to be the culprit. If you're not on f.12 then I am sorry, I have no more information...
You may also try to see if you can get an extension from HP on your return period. With your special situation, they may be generous.

 

I'm pretty sure you can disable the dvd drive from booting at startup in the BIOS. I know I could do that on my Dell

 

Thankyou. I'll try that. Do you know where I can download it?

 

HP has all the old BIOS versions on the drivers page, you'll have to check the .7z method to find out what you need there, I have not tried it and do not know all the details or required files. Also I recommend not going to f.12, it's nothing but a bad beta BIOS that introduces more problems than solutions. HP needs to get it's act together if they are claiming premium status on the Envy.

 

It's in my SwSetup folder, don't know what it is, but it is hopefully legit... It's SP49481

 

Hmmm. still didn't work. do you know what I would need to reinstall for me to do it your way?

 

Really? Did they change it since this video was posted?
YouTube - How to: HP Envy 15 SSD install

 

yes.

envy 14 hdd is in the battery bay.

 

Sorry, not really sure what piece of sofware HP is using to allow users to update the BIOS. Are you running WinFlash as an administrator? The only way I could tell you to get to do it my way is to do a minimized recovery or factory reinstall. I really don't know why they made it difficult to update BIOS on clean install. I mean a person would have to be really silly to want to install their crippled BIOS on a non HP computer.
On a side note, does anybody know if these computers are actually using EFI. I know EFI has a BIOS emulation mode and I have heard much talk about computers moving to the extensible firmware interface, but I can't find any info on how to see if the computer is UEFI compliant.

 

Yeah, that's why i'm trying to find out how to disable it all together, without unplugging it.

Can't do anything about it in the BIOS, from what i've tried. You can only set it so you don't automatically boot off your CD drive.

Yes, they changed it. It's much more simple now. Just remove the battery cover, and your HDD/SSD will be on the left. All you have to do is take out a few screws, unplug the drive already in there, replace it, and put it back together. That simple.

 

so...does anyone know how to get multidesktop/hydravision inside the catalyst software?

 

open catalyst control center and click on HydraVision, multi desktop and enable it.

 

there is no tab for hydravision on my envy's drivers

there is a tab for my desktop's drivers

it's the updated HP one...10.7 i believe.

 

Seem like alot of people are having trouble using the bios steps on page one.

2.0: can you update first page to this one . This will work for every version and is much simpler to do.

 

Come on Microsoft, where's my money? A little off topic but does anyone know how long it usually takes for Bing to pay cashback from HP purchases?

I honestly thought that it would be shorter still, considering that BCB is over. This is almost as bad as the impatience I felt waiting on my Envy to get here. Good thing there's not a tracking page for M$, my F5 key is still pissed at me for wearing out that FedEx tracker.

 

To anyone who has an Envy 14, can you do me a quick favor? I will be receiving my Envy 14 in a few days, and I want to buy a ShaggyMac screen protector (a cloth to put between the keyboard and screen when the laptop is closed). I need to order a custom sized one, as they have no standard protector for 14,5" laptops. 15-16 Custom Shop Laptop Screen Protector [SPCustom15] - $16.95 : ShaggyMac, Laptop Screen Protector & Keyboard Cover, Laptop Cleaner & Accessories

I need the inner width of the screen, ie. on the inside of the rubber lip at the edges, and the same for depth so that I can get a protector that doesn't stick out anywhere when the laptop is closed. Thanks.

 

It says right in your cashback account how many days. Usually 60 days. There is a tracking page. Bing.com/cashback select "your cashback acount" from the lower left. Log in and click the pending tab.

 

Hi All,

Can any body post some screen shot of Radiant display (1600 x 900) with few websites? . I just want to see how the readability and font size looks when browsing on envy 14.

Thanks in advance

 

Hey guys, just got my E14 last nite. I want to make a set of recovery disks, but when I go in, it says it might take up to 45GB worth of discs. Is that right? Isn't that like 10 DVD's?

I've installed some bloatware and installed some of my programs already. Should I uninstall some of the stuff I installed to make the recovery smaller?

 

Are you sure you're using the HP Recovery Utility? That sounds like Microsoft's backup.

 

I think you're right. Thanks. Didn't realize they were separate.

 

So I finally broke 8k in 3dmark

525/975 OC to the 5650 and i5 450 OCed to 2.620 with turbo boost to 2.911 GHz. Temps were great with both things OCed!

You have to play with both the bottom and top bars in setFSB to get a stable OC.



Edit: Got greedy and tried a higher OC. 2.743ghz with turbo boost to 3.05 Ghz 8053

 

I don't know how to post screenshots, but from what I have been seeing, text looks EXCELLENT on this computer. Words look extremely smooth, websites are a pleasure to read. The best reading experience on a computer I have ever had.