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

Anyone else have any solutions for me? I cant get my Ethernet card to be recognized. When I try installing the realtek drivers, it just says that it cant find the device.

 

Dont someone said the Ethernet would enable it self when you plug in the Ethernet wire to your router? try that and see if you see any Ethernet device.

PS:are you doing clean install?

 

When something like that happens to me, I typically open up the lappy to see if the card is connected properly. I would say that's the most likely problem.

 

he did. it didn't work

 

but isnt the ethernet card soldered to the mobo?

I have tried uninstalling the unrecognized device, rebooting, and seeing if windows will install it itself, but no good.

And yes this is a clean install.

 

It actually seems that the whine is caused by usb devices. When I plug in my mouse it whines, and then when I unplug it it goes away. That's some bull right there.
After further listening, I think the whine may always be there, but I can barely hear it when nothing is plugged in and it gets loud when a USB thing is plugged in.
Or it could just always be there and I'm just going nuts...yea, I think that's it

 

you need to hit alt+f4+fn key

 

If it was working before under HP Win 7, All I can think either its the wrong driver or there is something you install/did in the BIOS that would disable the card.

 

No, you're not going crazy. lol. I had my wireless mouse dongle plugged in and it was the problem, a dumb problem btw.

 

Yes, it's part of the mobo. SO that's not an option.

Try the have disk method to install the driver.
Look at this tutorial except substitute video driver for your ethernet. Meaning, the same principle applies.

Just make sure that you extract the driver using winrar to a directory first. Then when you use the have disk method, you will point to that location.

Have-Disk method for Windows 7 / Vista - LaptopVideo2Go Forums

 

problem.

the device doesn't show up in the device manager.

at all.

you can't use the have disk method.

...I made the foolish decision to uninstall the driver.

bam.

gone.

 

I copied the SW Setup folder and my device manager has that "Unknown Device" as well as the PCI Simple Communications Controller as devices that don't have drivers.

Does anyone have any information on where to get these drivers?

Also is there a way to turn off the LED's on the power button and the Wifi key?

 

well now it's back.

after sleeping and coming back on it finished installing (I got the message that lith07 got*

..weird


lith.

try running the installer, failing the installer, sleeping the computer and exiting sleep....or whatever the power button is doing by default (stand by I think)

also I've suddenly gotten a magical third device I didn't have before.

Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter.

the hell did this come from

 

Hey guys i was wondering if you can help me out.

When i click switch to power saving gpu....nothing happens. I have the drivers on HPs web site.

 

Well I kinda think I'm gonna have a mouse plugged in a lot...high frequency noises drive me insane, especially if I'm going to be like writing a paper on my laptop and trying to focus...maybe return it and reorder with a 450? Nobody's getting high pitched noises with the 450, right? The whine plus the messed up logo could be enough, but then I risk getting a new one with worse things wrong lol, great.

Edit: I really do love this laptop otherwise though, it looks amazing, the keyboard is awesome, the trackpad is fine (I don't have much experience with other ones, and don't rest my thumb on the button, idk how anyone does that lol its super unconfortable), and I got a pretty good price on it. I just don't know if I'll be happy for the next 3-4 years with this damn whine.

 

Where do I get the inf file that theyre talking about?

 

I hate the trackpad That's enough for me to return this 5 day old Envy.

 

some 450s had the whine.


it just depends I think.

 

When i switch graphics, my desktop goes black. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Sorry if this has already been answered, but a quick fix would be much appreciated.

 

and guys. the inf won't install by clicking on "install" it says it's not that kind of inf.


...which is a pain.


but somehow my stuff magically started working again after I tried to install it, tried to install the inf, put it to sleep and then came out of sleep.

and...it was installed/installing the stuff


edit: other people having this issue on desktop computers pulled out their ram for a few minutes then put it back in and rebooted and the thing showed up on the desktop.

but...well they were using some random other motherboard and I doubt this will work for us.

 

try killing and unkilling explorer.exe

hit windows key.

hold ctrl + shift and hit right click while hovering over the start menu. hit exit explorer.exe


then hit ctrl + alt + del, go open the task manager, on file in the task manager go to new task (run). type in explorer

hit enter.

if that doesn't fix it, you have to reboot

 

IT WORKED! thanks Magus!

What I did: installed the drivers, they failed, then i put the computer to sleep, woke it up, and windows installed the drivers, and viola!

But its still weird because I still have the same unknown device in the device manager, PCI Simple Communications Controller. What is that?

But problem fixed, thanks Magus, 2.0, and everyone else who helped!

 

I'm not sure what that is.


it might be the bluetooth.

it might be the HDProtectSmart stuff for the hdd.

 

2.0 FLAG!


there's some very important info you need to tell people about installing the ethernet drivers.


there's a mobo bug or bios bug or something where if the drivers go away, the realtek stays in deep sleep and you can't install.


however if you try to install, then let it fail and then put the computer to sleep and come out of sleep it will finish installing correctly.


Weird as hell but it works. You also probably need to have an ethernet cord plugged into the jack for this to work.

 

I have the same fan problem you are describing.
I decided to take look inside and found another problem. The whine noise that everybody is talking about is coming from the cpu(buzzing sound).
Sending my lemon back to hp

 

OK. I'll add it to page 1.

 

The cup?
`000000

 

The buzz is coming directly from the socket where the cpu is located

 

inductors aren't covered in lacquer right or something then.

 

ROFL ahahaha
*coming

 

Sorry English is my second language

 

Makes more sense now. i thought you were just 14 years old.

 

touchpad decided to disappear on me again

i mean its there, just synaptics doesnt want to work

 

So, apparently people who have been clean installing windows 7 are running into a lot of problems... That's kinda making me nervous now. Do you guys still recommend clean installing?

 

Well after the OS fiasco with a CHINESE screen of ??????? and vista randomly installing after using a windows 7 recovery disk I finally returned it after 5 hours on the phone. They wanted me to pay more than what I originally paid until finally a rep talked to their sup. and got me the original price i paid. Gave her all 8s. Hopefully my new one will be perfect, but I have to say the next computers I get will never be an HP. Their support and wanting me to pay more because of their errors frustrated me for too long.

 

Well.

we're working out all the kinks of the clean install.


If you want to hold off for about a week til it's all worked out I'd do that.


Me. I'm trying it tomorrow since we just solved the ethernet issue.

 

Yeah you got screwed over there. I mean you probably could have clean installed windows 7 with our help but it would have taken a few hours. If you were lucky. And got the win 7 iso burned right, got everything together, installed it right, do that ethernet fix (sleeping getting rid of deep sleep mode, what the hell?), and uh...everything else



and also we would have needed to mirror the SWSetup folder for you first.

 

I think what we all need to do is make a list of installing the correct driver in order. That what need to be done for Vaio F series if you wanted to do clean install.

This is the order of Vaio F driver need to be installed :
1)Chipset
2)SATA
3)Graphic
4)Ethernet
5)Wireless
6)Bluetooth
7)Card Reader
8)CPRM
9)Sound
10)Notebook Utilities

This problem that you have, might be avoided because sometimes one devices work if the other devices installed. Say mobo chipset and sata chipset.

You can change the CPU apparently, maybe after few years I'll be doing that.

 

yeah thanks for all your help, everyone in this forum, I was hopeful the recovery disk would work, until Vista loaded.... and I had the windows 7 recovery disk. How can vista even load unless they installed it.

 

Just need to be aware of a few items when installing with some specific drivers. I did not find anything that was a game stopper when I did a clean setup on both of mine. I am running Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit on the 4 GB machine and Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on the 8 GB one. Working great, so far.

 

damn this i3 is running hot...

 

define hot.

40c? 45c? 50c?

 

wow, iam starting to love this envy after a fresh install. The performance and looks feels much better~ Feels like the brightness goes a little higher on a fresh windows

 

Okay after toying around with display calibration a bit more I think I've got it as good as it can possibly go. The blue gamma isn't as accurate as it should be but that seems to throw off the white levels. All in all I'm glad I won't be tweaking anymore

Intel:

 

somehow the blue picture became a dude.

 

!!

okay, uploaded the 3rd pic to imageshack to get rid of that weird perv guy...........

 

...it's still the guy.


your computer is screwing with you

or tinypic is

 

hahah, its because the url had W T F in it sooo


http://i26.tinypic.com/33 w t f t1.jpg

 

thanks! thats really helpful. do we have to calibrate the ati one to? did you use same settings?

 

yes you need to set ATI up separately....i still cant find where the settings are....