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

Just got my slice battery for 150.00 from Parts Store (plus 10% discount they offer since its 150) and can confirm it's the correct one if no one else has. Came 57% charged and my flight leaves tomorrow morning so I'll get some extensive tests of battery life.

The odd thing is I never received a shipping notice, order process notice or anything - in fact my CC still hasn't been charged, yet it is definitely in my possession.

Note: I find this thing absolutely massive (heavy and thick) but I'm not small so it doesn't bother me. I just plan on swapping it in and out a lot so its not a big deal.

 

....well that's odd.


so 150 for a slice huh.

 

oc'ing still not working on the ati? why doesn't rivatuner work?

 

well I don't know how to use it for one.

two it doesn't recogize the card all that well

 

Maybe they felt bad and gave me a free one? Who knows but I do find it ridiculous that this 150 part is being sold for 50 more when you buy the computer - it should be 50 less.

 

Tried MSI AfterBurner 1.6 ? Go to the installed folder and open MSIAfterburner.cfg, change the
EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 0
to
EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 1
Then start the apps..

 

less is more!

 

that worked!

 

I feel as though I just entered what will be a long non stop cold war of me battling CPU whine with laptops for the rest of my life.

I wish I never heard it. Seriously, I'm at work distracted by trying to solve this unreal ****.

 

GPU-Z confirms it.


not sure how stable it'll run. ..haven't tried running anything to stress test but 550/800 is showing up in gpu test.

msi can get up to 600 by the slider. so...*shrugs*

 

it looks like while overclocked it can't clock down.


it gets locked at 550/800 if you're using msi afterburner

 

You're awesome!!! Now I really can't wait until I get my replacement. Dropped off the Envy I had to Fedex this morning.

One request, would you mind running the FFXIV benchmark when OCed? Wondering how the score will differ.

 

gimme a sec to grab it

 

make 2 profile, one with default clock, one with overclock...

 

ok. yeah that works to get it back to normal.


thanks lee

the max msi afterburner will increase it is 585 for core.


so I'll just use 550 (what the dv6t gets)

memory can go up to 1040. so what should I put it at? just leave it at 800 for now?

 

Anyone else using other SSD drivers that didn't come standard with their envy's? I keep getting blue screen of death after installing windows.

 

Thanks so much! Run it in full screen on low, I noticed that it raised my scores a little. I got 1482 unOCed in full screen.

To do that, go to FF14ƒxƒ“ƒ`ƒtƒ‹ƒXƒNƒŠ[ƒ“‰»ƒc[ƒ‹ - Tari Lari Run
Download it and toss the d3d9.dll into \FFXIVBenchmark\data

 

Lol I went to youtube.com because I figured it was a flash intensive website to test the cpu whine, and the advertisement banner at the top is for the HP ENVY with beatsaudio

 

@teekay or someone who forsure has an Envy 14;

No one has answered this for me yet, how do you sleep your Envy 14? And what EXACTLY is the response when you wake it up from sleep?

Use the FF14 site, it definitely uses a flash intro thats huge and will make your cpu stop.

 

well u can go to the start menu and press the button next to shut down and pick sleep
Or, by default, it sleeps when you close the screen. I have a password so when I open it up again it goes to the login screen.

 

Does the computer make any noise?

Does it just light up, how long is the delay from opening it to login screen?

Btw, Final Fantasy 14 Flash Intro

 

ffxiv benchmark: 1691.

but there's a weird issue where the fps is spiking up and down really quick every 5 or so seconds.


I think it might of been there when I was doing 3dmark06 and may be a side effect of the catalyst drivers.

btw. max temps:

cpu 0 and 1 were 70/71

gpu was 67

 

lol can't you just try it yourself? Seems like the best way to see

 

Well, the temps didnt increase much. When I ran the benchmark, my maxes were 63/67 for the CPU and 65 for the GPU.
And about the FPS spiking up and down, maybe you have some process running in the backround?

 

well


there's the anti-virus.

microsoft security essentials

there's steam.

there's those 3rd party touchpad settings stuff.

 

My computer makes a loud noise like a camera booting up in the left topish near the keyboard and takes ~8 seconds to come out of sleep mode...

Unfortunately I'm not going to purchase a second Envy 14 just to see if that is standard, can some one please tell me what theirs does coming out of sleep?>

X_X

 

@MagusDraco,

FF14 Benchmark doesn't work correctly.

Specifically because of the high def widescreen of the Envy 14.

Regardless of the game being in a different setting, it causes errors when attempting to bench mark on wide screens. In addition a lot of high end computers have been getting very low scores inexplicably.

 

Well mine takes about 3 seconds maybe from the keyboard lighting up to the screen coming back on to the login screen. There was a loud sound, but when I ejected the DVD that was in the dvd drive, there was a less loud sound once I came out of sleep. Did you have anything in the dvd drive?

 

I was having the same issue when running uTorrent after i applied some QoS settings within my router. I downloaded and installed the latest driver from intels website for the wireless card and that fixed the issue.

 

ah. ok.

also it was getting weird texture issues at 550/950.

so...550/800 it is

 

My Dvd drive was empty. Thats a bizarre way to come out of sleep,
I would really prefer if the screen would just light up.
I wonder whats causing the noise & delay.

My 2 year old Asus comes out of sleep by instantly lighting up with login screen...

 

guys, I definitely got a lemon. They sent a dy laptop instead of an hp

 

It's disappointing that you need to use overclocking software to achieve the same 5650 GPU speeds as in most other laptops, especially the considerably less expensive dv6.

Is it at least stable?

 

[email protected] !!

 

lol good one

 

seems that way.

I have no clue what the voltage is or I'd increase it more.

anyway for me to check that? gpu-z doesn't say.

 

@ Tee.Kay you should definitely return that. You can send it to me and Ill see about getting it returned for you

 

Has anyone tried using MSI afterburner after the config mod to overclock with the 10.3 drivers?

Wonder how the results differ from the 10.6 drivers. Ughhh wish I still had my computer or else I would try it.

 

So what are you guys using to overclock the 5650? and does it void the 1 year standard warranty?

 

That's really crappy of HP to underclock the GPU and make it difficult for owners to overclock. I'm very curious to see how the cooling system handles an OC'ed 5650.

 

I've tried it twice now, and the frequency is too high for it to record.

And with all due respect, I don't need you to confirm what I am hearing. K? thx

 

Alaskajoel. I brought my computer into my office and gave it to someone who is very very amazing with laptops, like anything physically that can be done with a laptop he can do.

Theres a fix. It involves stopping something from resonating using glue.

It picks up certain frequencies (certain CPU usage) and resonates causing the noise.

Hes about 80% sure thats what it is, I'll keep you posted.

 

I have the older versoin of the BIOS in my envy 14, dated at 4/22/2010. I tried using HP's website to download the latest verson of the BIOS, which worked, but once I run the program, the computer loads the upgrade in "blocks" and then verifys it. Next, a screen comes up that tells me the computer will restart and may take a few minutes while LEDs may also flash. This step never happens because my envy then suddenly shutsdown. I've tried this 3 times but everytime I turn my laptop back on my BIOS wasn't updated. Is anyone else experiencing this or can anyone help?

 

Hey Magus, can you post a mini guide to overclocking the 5650 with afterburner? you say theres some file that needs modifying? I'd love to give it a try.

And can you post your 3dmark06 scores after the OC? thanks!

 

Curious. Did you do a clean install with all partitions deleted?

 

Magus just crashed his computer with setFSB.

getting the FSB works for the first two choices.


the first one can't set it (it resets)

the second one. well. it breaks the computer (and I had to remove the battery to shut down)


also lith.

 

Does anybody know if WmiPrvSE (WMI Host Provider) needs to be running? It's using up cpu and I don't know what it is. Also, HPMSGSVC.exe is running, which I believe I found to be HP Quicklaunch buttons, and that's actually using a bunch of cpu for some reason as well. Does that control the F key functions like brightness and stuff?

On that note, all of those keys are working except my volume keys aren't working anymore...I have no idea why, it's very strange.

Anyone help with these things?

btw, this just looks bada$$

 

I just got my Envy14. I'll try to do a review later.
I didn't have my digital camera available with me and I only used my phone for convenience. I couldn't take much pictures either because I was overexcited and I have to leave soon. Please don't complain about the lack of pictures because I was short in time, I will be taking more
Envy 14 - Windows Live
Enjoy!

 

tee kay.


After you install SMS 2003 SP3, the Wmiprvse.exe process may generate high CPU usage on client computers during hardware-inventory operations

 

Did you try flashing the bios in windows safe mode ?
To run windows in safe mode you need to spam the F8 button right before windows starts loading when you boot.

If that still doesn't work, just burn recovery dvds and do a full recovery of your envy... or take that chance to do a clean install of win7. Maybe the problem lies there.