*HP Envy 15 (11XX / 12XX series) Owners Lounge!*

Is there a way to do it for just one function key. I like the default coz I can Fn keys for volume but would prefer F5 for refresh. Any way to disable action keys just for F5?

 

That I don't know. Sorry.

 

Thanks for the earlier info.

 

The only things i can think of that may not be setup 'normally' on my systems are

1) I don't use any UAC settings, or password to logon -- only 1 user w/ admin settings -- system boots directly to desktop, no windows 'user' screen

2) In all power plans I set the 'require a password on wakeup' to 'no' -- So when it wakes it goes right to whatever was open, no 'user' screen

 

well the hybernation and sleep issues started after installing 10.3, and with a bit of googling I even found someone who actually fixed a similiar problem by rolling back to a previous version of driver, which I just did, except that the 10.2 installer is refusing to realize I now need to update from factory drivers to 10.2, it just says everything is up to date, without showing the driver version...gah...

 

Man I have the exact same setup. Photoshop CS4, Nikon Capture NX2, iTune, ahaha

Yea, I noticed the HP Envy sleep mode is so much more stable than my Thinkpad T60/T61, Thinkpad T43, and Asus Z71v. I haven't tried on the Sony CW yet. Closing the lid and open back up, it works nicely.

 

First I would uninstall all of 10.3 and not try to just reinstall an older version.

At a minimum I believe you need to uninstall the 10.3 driver in device manager (will kick into VGA mode) and then have the new driver install file unzipped in a folder, (do not reboot if asked). In device manager choose update driver > browse computer > check the include subfolders box and click 'let me pick from a list... > have disk > Browse to location of drivers folder > ok. If you uninstalled all of the 10.3 CCC etc. then you can reinstall the CCC version from your new driver version after loading the driver.

 

Hey all, quick question..the HP website says that my notebook will be built by and shipped on March 24, 2010.

So with 2 business day shipping will it arrive on March 25th or March 26th?

And has anybody seen delays in their shipments from the estimated HP date?

I am asking because I am leaving the country on 29th and can't afford any delays.

 

So I've been assuming we are talking about unplugged machines and this may not be the case.

Basically, the scenario is, I am done for the night, close the lid, and put the machine in my backpack. When I get to work the following morning, I find that the machine has crashed (if hibernate is disabled). With hibernate on, the machine is fine and resumes windows.

It seems like the machine drains the battery overnight while sleeping. EDIT: Actually, I remember last time this happened, I checked the battery level when I started the machine and it was around 45%. So draining is not the issue.

I know closing the lid does indeed put it to sleep cause the fans/drives are off etc.

 

HP is still trying to sort out my Blu-ray Drive replacement problems. I really hate to ask but could someone who has just recently gotten a new envy with the blu-ray drive please post the part number from the back of your drive so I can make sure they haven't changed the model number or something? The part number on the back of my drive which has the wrong internals is:

576832-001

Sincere Thanks

 

Most recent orders (mine included) were shipped a day or two early. Mine was due to be built on the 12th and was shipped on the 11th (arrived on the 15th).

You may get it on the 25th just because of the time difference between Shanghai and the US (assuming you're in the US) but sometimes it depends on how long it sits in Customs.

There are also a couple people who had to wait an extra week due to back-ordered parts, so the answer seems to be 'it depends,' but at least from the non-scientific threads about 'where is my Envy?' floating around, they're running a little ahead of schedule at the moment.

 

Has anyone got the problem it wakes itself up in bag? I have disabled touchpad wakeup, but it still happens.

 

Mine was scheduled to be built on the 11th and was built that day. I noticed in the FedEx tracking info that it arived at the FedEx facility too late to go out that day. With regular shipping, it arrived outside NYC on the 15th.

 

Thanks Aquitane. I hope I get enough time to test drive it before I leave

 

Yeah, mine was actually done on the 10th but arrived too late and so went out on the 11th. I had regular shipping, though, not 2nd day.

 

Mine arrived in Philly and 12min later was on a delivery truck. It JUST made it.

 

You give me help...I give it back. ; )

The model number you list is what I have. I have a Blu-Ray ROM w/ Supermulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer.

 

Okay kind of a stupid question. A ways back I gave the 10.2's and then the preview 10.3's that straggs.com had up a try. When I installed the 10.2's I had to do the manual method using device manager. After installing them in device manager it started identifying my GPU as 5800 Series instead of listing 5830 specifically. When I later installed the previews it left my GPU identified that way. Will it really matter and or is there an easy way to reset my drivers so the correct GPU is shown before I install the newest 10.3a previews?

 

Whoever said being on being on the bleeding edge is good for you? eheheh

 

I have read, on more than one site, that it is advised (but not required) to remove all previous versions of ATI drivers / CCC software before installing a new version do to potential conflicts. I've done both without problems.

You should be able to see which drivers you have in your machine by going to device manager > update driver > Browse computer > Pick from list of device drivers... This should show you a list of all previous drivers that have been installed before and overwritten (that have not been uninstalled). You can do 2 things from here, load an older driver to use or uninstall or you can choose the VGA driver to try loading a new ATI driver that won't conflict with a newer version that your using (ie 10.3 to 10.2). If you did not actually uninstall the 10.2 driver you are trying to use it will most likely be the one right below the HD 5800.

The problem with this 'list' of drivers is the descriptions don't really tell you which actual driver they are, just descriptions like 'HD 5800' so until you install one and check the version # it's a crap shoot as to which is which if they have the same descriptions.

Hope that helps.

 

Strange, I responded to this post few hours ago and now I don't see it...

I was talking about plugged in machines although I have grabbed my envy that was 'sleeping' and just unplugged it and took it out somewhere, I do not recall any problems when waking it while on battery. Will try this again but as you described, leave it unplugged overnight and see what happens tomorrow A.M. ...

 

whelp, I'm back from a system restore.
I uninstalled the video drivers and got to VGA resolution, started up 10.2 installer...and it says everything is up to date, except I haven't installed the all important goddamn lord of the rings demo...
meanwhile, the display adapter voice is gone from device manager so I can't even roll back the drivers...sheesh...

EDIT: looks like it's a slippery slope, now Avira stopped working and after reinstalling it it's failing to download updates....seriously, what the hell...

 

Did anyone else's Envy 15 NOT come with a battery slice? Is this something that only comes with the i5 version or something? Just wondering why my i7 has no battery slice...

 

It's an option.

 

dang, i did my first photoshop with this laptop. Man the LCD screen is amazing.

 

Maybe because you didn't pay for it.

 

I figured that the slice might have come with the laptop, considering the thing cost £1500. Oh well, no biggy.

 

I wouldn't go with 'amazing' but very good for sure.

If you are still using my ICC profile just want you to be aware it does not come out to well on my generic HP inkjet, it looks OK on sRGB settings but is not calibrated for photo use.

My spyder3 system has a print calibration function that color matches print icc profiles to the screen icc profiles. We use this for actual photo print work and have not calibrated the envy for production printing yet. Unfortunately it would be pointless to post these profiles once we have them because there is no way to color test your print output, each printer is unique.

 

Just got my ENVY 15 2. generation and just thought I'd give my 5 cents:

* The keyboard is lovely! Fits my taste perfectly.

* The case has a nice solid build.

* The screen glares in a way thats uncomfortable to the eyes, compared to matte screens. I have my 4 year old Dell X1 (with a matte screen) next to the ENVY right now, and I sigh of relief every time I look at its screen. Its so much more comfortable to my eyes. It sits there and shines its perfectly subtle, perfectly nonagressive light at me, and I miss it so much already now.
HP of course hasn't seen fit gifting us europeans with options for the matte displays. Doooooooh.
PS. I have turned down the strength of the ligth of the screen - it doesn't really help.

* The notebook has a slighty teenageish look. I wouldn't get street cred showing up with this lappie at the computer science department. Ooh how I crave for that cred.

* The screen doesn't tilt back very far..... WHAT IS THIS?? I have to sit reclined in my chair to have a 90 degree angle to the screen. This is so stupid and so absurd, and, this is the sole reason that I have now decided to send my ENVY back to the shop. What a pity! Otherwise - this is a really nice laptop.
I guess I will end up with MacBook Pro once the new ones are released (I have never had a Mac before. My mouse hand gets nervous twitches when I think about it)

Thats all from me. It was a short, intensive and very mixed meeting my ENVY and I had. I wish it good luck at its new owner.

 

yep, you should send it back, and order a lenovo thinkpad, that'd get you some street cred

 

How are your guys' laptops doing as far as power supplies go?

I have an F series, when it idles it has this little green LED on the power supply that starts flickering, it actually causes the lights in the house (on the same circuit) to flicker. Like, in my bedroom the bathroom lights will flicker, or downstairs my desk lights.

I thought hey, maybe it's just my wiring...

So today, I was using it in the library. You wanna guess what happened?

XD

Is this normal for i7 laptops to beat up on the power supplies like that? Do you guys see those kinda issues?

 

"Street cred" from Computer Science Geeks?!? You're lucky you don't have an alien's head plastered on your lid... you'd get beat up by the Computer Science enforcers since only "Nerds on TV" own Alienware computers. ;-)

I think the Envy looks fine... but this is also coming from a guy who has also owned a Purple Vaio Z505... What can I say, I have a soft spot for magnesium alloy cases and optical drive-less form factors. :-O

 

lol
comsci street cred is a thinkpad running ubuntu.

 

So far my Envy has turned A LOT of heads each time I take it out....people is amazed by the form factor, and more when I show the power it has...^_^

Not to mention I find it looks quite serious and elegant. This is my coming from a Dell Business laptop.

 

Does replacing the Hard-drive void the HP warranty?

 

my envy 15 beats is a crowd pleaser.

 

I think the Envy looks very 1960s with the paisely theme.

Check this for IT cred. I will be the guest speaker at a conference in London in April in which I will present database bechmarks run on my dual SSD Envy. The runs will be against time series data with a billion rows per day and will be highly parallelized using all the IO channels of the Intel controller at full read speed and all 8 virtual cores of the i7. Should be fun to see the looks on the faces of the IT types in the audience when this little paisely machine blows away their enterprise servers with disk arrays.

After that I will set up matrix convolution benchmarks using F# libraries that parallelize the computations over the GFPUs. Maybe I'll see some of the temps you gamers are getting.

 

I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread, but the new Catalyst 10.3a's have been released as of yesterday. Seems like a pretty solid performance bump from my testing, no hard numbers though. L4D2 is much more fluid and framerates don't jump like they used to for me at the settings I like.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=468479

Something about you have install both the desktop version and mobile version to get all the functionality.

 

I didn't have to. I downloaded the desktop and started to run through the install but it didn't have anything that it was going to update for me. But I also had the preview release installed, so that may have had those bits.

 

Going from 'preview' to 10.3a I lost some CCC features, easiest thing to check is if you still have the 'Hydravision tab' next to the 'Graphics tab' in advanced CCC screen. It was there with the 'preview' version but not after 10.3a ??

When I run the installer again it says Hydravision is installed but I have no access to any controls or features for it.

Do you have the same issue ?

At least this version is 'digitally' signed so my Photoshop openGL features now work again

 

I'll have to check later. The hydravision driver should be installed when you install the desktop package after installing the mobile driver, I seem to remember that. I don't use it, so it's not something that I care about or checked L4D2 is just fast and smooth, video acceleration still works, I'm happy

 

isn't hydravision only useful when using multiple monitors anyway?

 

O, I got my ENVY, besides copying the SWfolder and making the restore DVD's is there anything else i should do before i whip out all the partitions?

 

I guess nothing? Soon as I get home illness burning the restore and installing Enterprise.

 

Enterprise?

 

Win7 enterprise

 

I bought the i7 version a couple of days ago. Very sleek and elegant laptop. Only real issues are the heat and the irritating keyboard. I may invest in a laptop cooler to deal with the former. Quite happy with it overall, though. I decided not to do a clean install as I don't think bloatware is a massive issue on this laptop - although others may disagree.

 

Doing a clean install might help take off some load from the cpu which means ENVY runs smoother= ENVY cooler.
Just 2 cents.

 

I've ordered my Envy 15 w/ 4GB or ram and once it arrives, i plan to put in another 8GB (2x4GB) sticks. Has anyone done this...could you share the brand/pricing....any advice ?

thanks!