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

Page 1 of thread. Like the old Ragu commercials, "it's in there!"

 

so is everyone using cpuid?

speedfan is giving me much more varied, and i believe accurate readings

(hwmonitor wouldnt read below 34 even when i had the laptop beside an ac unit, it was cold to touch, crazy)

 

well.

hwmonitor is picking it up for each core (which there are two)

speedfan is picking it up for each thread. I think you have to combine the two of the threads together somehow sorta to get the core temp.


hwmonitor and speedfan had the same temp0 and 1s or 1 and 2s or whatever (it's the acpi temps. the motherboard temp)

 

Well, 3 finger swipe has been eliminated from my list because it doesnt work in windows explorer, whereas Twofingerscroll does go back and forward in explorer

Im in touchpad heaven right now
I was fine before not knowing any of these gestures and stuff so this is great lol

I just also set 2+1 finger to middle button, so that's very good for scrolling through long pages

 

Hey guys, not sure if this issue has been discussed before but here:

After a clean install of 7 Home Premium, I put up all the drivers in the SWsetup and Device Manager shows no more unknown devices. Envy has been perfect so far. Just one minor issue: the wi-fi button (the F10 key) stays blue on the LED. The button function is entirely working - it turns off and on, like it's supposed to. But a quick fix for this would be great. Thanks.

 

Look for "HPQL" in your SWsetup folder, install, then reboot and you should be good. That was bugging me for a while too

 

I did the same, except I just did not back up the SwSetup folder and downloaded the drivers from the Envy 14 driver thread instead. Everything works 100%... except the mute/wifi lights. It seems this was fixed by others after running the setup in the SwSetup\HPQL folder, but I am not in possession of those files anymore.

Could someone zip the HPQL folder and upload it to Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire or some other site? It would be greatly appreciated.

 

HPQL.zip

 

I appreciate it man, thanks.

 

I think that should be added to the front page...something like:

WiFi button light not changing colors? Install the HPQL drivers in the SwSetup folder! lol

and also perhaps my video of the cpu whine, as I think lots of people want to know wth us people are talking about
YouTube - HP ENVY 14 Fan Cycling/CPU Whine

 

Ya im in Canada and got it from Best Buy, they only had one in stock!

Im testing it under 100% load now.... (wPrime for 3min)

Never changed from 2.527. I acually like it better this way! Better clocks FTW:

PS: maybe its a thermal limit.

 

Makes me more excited to get my Envy. 2-finger tap as back is hella cool.

 

Dealer sealer most definitely for this switcher. I'm 100% sold as long as my notebook comes in decent condition with few or no problems.

 

Spoiler

So, anyone with the i5-520 get lower near idling scores than this?

SM was saying that the people with the whine have a louder idling?

 

No worries. Apple is still having trouble with double-tap too. I tried for a long time to find ways to trigger two-finger tap to right-click. Never got more than a 3/4 success rate, so I was stuck with pressing down with two fingers for right click or pressing down the bottom right portion.

 

A real pity, that whiney noise. I'll take loud fan noise over high pitched squealing any day of the week. I've been using so many moderately loud laptops and desktops the years that I actually consider too much silence abnormal. In the very least, it helps drown out library background noise.

 

wow you actually bothered to spend that kind of money buying it in Canada when you can get it in the US? it's like you paid for a SSD xD

 

Wait. Do you have to 3-finger tap to activate the gestures, or is it possible to disable that portion so that a direct 3-finger swipe makes you go backward/forward?

 

I think it's just a quick tap with 3 fingers and then a swipe, I think if you just swipe it'll have a hard time recognizing it. That being said I'm not gonna use that anyway as TwoFingerScroll works generally as forward/back whereas synaptics only works for browsers i believe

 

Hmmm... The light on the wifi key is working now, but the mute key still does not light up. Does that light require the HP volume overlay thing to be installed?

 

1. Downsize please. And try not to make it so gosh darn wide.


2. Louder, lower, or higher?

 

it depends on how good your ears are too

i can hear the "whine" on my i3 but its almost inaudible (i have to have my ear against the laptop) and its only with my left ear

so your mileage may vary

 

Whoops. Double post.

 

Made a video where you couldn't hear the whine XD

delete the quotes its misleading!

 

We'll have to take your word for it... can't hear much of anything.

 

M.to.walker is lying about his whine everybody, he posted a video and there is none! What a fake!


rofl jk, I believe you?

 

23-25 seconds is the only time you can hear it.

And seriously, it got quieter when I tried to record it. Mischievous ...

Even more deceptive my camera makes me look like a *****.

 

sounds good enough for me i5-520m?

 

No no that video isn't to be trusted!

Delete the quotes theres a misleading video,

My laptop isn't silent! lol


Also, I'm like really visible in that video by accident, ew lol no one on the forum should see my face.

 

Maybe in the excitement you forgot to take your lithium since your Envy arrived and you're hearing that pesky whine again ... voices next.

 

Anyone used their mini Displayport yet? I picked up an Accell mini-displayport to dual link DVI hoping to drive a 30 inch Dell monitor but I cannot get it to work. I think the adapter may be a dud but I have no way to test the displayport functionality. It is the same result on both Envy lappies. Might bring my notebook along when I take the adapter back to see if there is something I can connect to validate. HDMI to DVI-D (single link) works like a champ but with the 2560x1600 resolution on the monitor, I get exactly half that (1280x800 - 1 channel). I was looking forward to seeing how this would work. Maybe tomorrow.

 

can someone explain to me how the e-sata works?

i have an e-sata cable....

 

You plug in one end into the laptop, and the other end into a hard drive. Presto!

(External hard drive has to have an e-sata port, which most don't, but I do believe it works with internal hard drives SATA ports? Somebody wanna confirm or deny this?)

 

well i have a sata to e-sata cable

i plugged the sata end into a hdd and it wouldnt show up...even in the "intel rapid storage technology"

 

I believe you I have the same cpu whine(high pitched noise)

 

With just a standard eSATA cable you have to have an USB or external powered eSATA drive, the eSATA cable will not provide power. Not sure on a internal SATA drive but with the proper cable adapter and power to the drive it don't see why it wouldn't work.

There is a new type of combo eSATA + power cable that draws the external drives power from the power contacts in the combo eSATA / USB connector so just a single cable does both. I have some of these enclosures and use this eSATA + power cable, works great. Seagate has a new 'Go flex' external line has the same feature with an eSATA+power cable and 7200 rpm drives in a small package, I have some on backorder so can't report on performance yet.

 

it might.

I could never find HP's volume overlay.

 

Is there a fix for the high pitch noise?

 

ok yeah media smart smartmenu from the HP support and downloads website (envy14 page) re-enables the light on the mute button.


it does some other things too that I don't know about yet.

 

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Yes, perform this freak out, then whip your Envy 14 through atleast 2 walls.

 

Is it on all envy's with the i520 or just some, is it worth returning for a new one

 

I can actually hear the whine from about 13 seconds in the video on, though that may be because I am using in-ear monitors which provide good isolation allowing me to hear fainter sounds I suppose.

 

Ya HDMI is only single channel so best you can drive is 1920x1200.. I'll be trying out displayport tomorrow straight into an HP 30", I'll report back how it goes.

 

My system says 3.8GB is usable out of 4.0GB. Why?

 

For the hard drive space?

 

LOL I sure hope not.

Most likely about the RAM.

 

i think he's referring to the available RAM, yeah?



edit: wow i was a whole 420 seconds late...lame (refresh button righhhht)

 

LOL, of course it is RAM!

 

LMAO! I would think that it's obvious why ram is like that but for the hard drive?! xD