*HP HDX DRAGON Owners Lounge, Part 1*

Well, I would recommend a server (keep in mind I am biased lol), just on the strength that watever you record to it will be instantly available without the need for discs. You can start off slow, say 1-2TB and add whatever you need as you go. Now as for the delivery system from server to tv, you will have to work that out. But I there are plenty of ways to go with that (a cheap XBOX360 and free program Tversity works great for me). Whatever you decide, good luck with that.

As for the HDD, I will prob order it around black friday as I need to make a big order for a client. I think I will go with the 750GB. I have 2-320GB drives in here now, so the 750GB would be more than those combined. I don't need to go overboard and get a 1TB drive yet.

I agree that the WDs will prob go down in proce once the competition catches up. But also, Hitachi usually comes in at a lower price than the competition and they have some good products. I've never had an issue with their drives before. So I will be keeping an eye out for them.

 

Hey all

I have a small problem with windows 7 and my headset.
When I plug the headset into the back of my HDX, my speakers and headset play together.
When I plug it into the front of my hdx, my headset plays alone.
Any ideas to get my headset playing alone when I put it into the back?

 

Have you set up HD Audio with redirected headphones as default in playback devices? If not try that.

 

My default audio device is set to "Speakers + Redirected Headphones". On this setting, when you plug the headphones into the audio port in the back or the front, the headphones play alone without the speakers. This is for Windows 7 Ultimate. I hope this helps.

 

That's exactly how I have it in Windows 7. It is the professional edition though.
It's really weird :s
When I plug them in the back, the speakers just keep playing

Edit: I did a reinstall of Windows 7 and now it seems to work.

 

Long time lurker looking for advice. I have a Dragon that now refuses to charge. I purchased a new battery thinking that was the problem. It shows 83% and charging but the front power light blinks instead of being on. Any ideas?

 

Hopefully, you were the lucky bidder on this...

 

I tried, but the guy wouldn't ship to me.

 

Bah. Ok. Just curious..how big are the hardware RAIDs anyway?

 

Right but they seem to say that it is 300 nits no?

Doesn't Chimei say they only made one 20.1 UXGA for the HDX?

I saved reviews for the UXGA and they rave about it. I realize you have the SXGA, but I don't think it takes opening this thing up to see it's unusually gorgeous from just plain sight.

Are you saying Chimei made more than one 20.1 screen?

Hence why I'm wondering why Chimeis website and CS say it has 300 nits, and that they made only one for the HDX as a custom job.

Other than the other heat pipe are the rest of the requirements for the 3700 to work in the HDX software based? If so, can anyone verify if the newest BIOS update allows for more setting changes in the menus that would perhaps allow for upgraded components?

Ok. Thanks.

Yea no one seems to know jack about QuickDocks, especially including HP. Most can't even find the model number in their systems...

 

Yea I've been asked several times, same answer. I have all my email accounts, online businesses, Ebay auctions, tech sites, social networking sites, shopping sites, political sites, apologetics/philosophy/forum sites, and then repeat a few on around the 100 tabs so if I'm on that end I don't have to scroll all the way back to the beginning to get to them Yes I am that lazy. Lol. Tabs Mix Plus is a great addon for Firefox, allows you to save whole sessions, which seems to be more reliable than the built in one Firefox comes with. Oh and I THINK they found out why it's crashing so much..like every hour or two...they blocked the NET Framework 1 and Windows Presentation Foundation..so let's see if that helps.

What's SLAZ3? Yea I remember you and the Bing/Windows savings. Good deal man. And no I didn't purchase the CPU from ebay that you linked to unfortunately.. I'm all out of cash.. True good point about the ecost. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind

 

Sorry to see you go man. Hope the Touchsmart doesn't give you popeye arms, or maybe A popeye arm, with all that arm lifting for the touchscreen..unless of course you're shooting for that.

 

What suggestions would you have? I've been looking at the HP ex487 or a variant of it, perhaps with better specs..? I'm thinking Black Friday is probably the best time to get one or all of that stuff as well. TVersity is cool but doesn't it only connect to the XBOX 360? On my list is another HDX but with top specs, 2 x 1TB internal hard drives for full 2 TBs, possibly an SSD, a media server, and on another note a Palm Pre, Archos w Android (500GB), and possibly Touch Pro 2, thought the HD2 is looking really nice. I haven't heard rave reviews with Hitachi though I admit I have never had any problems with them in my HDX, the ones they originally came with. If anyone has suggestions for good media servers so I can store all my Hauppauge DVR recordings I'd love to hear them. Thanks.

 

CS reps are the worse to get info from. They only know what they are told. And what you read about is one of the 20.1" screens they made. If you look at chimei's part catalog, you'll note that they have several 20.1" notebook panels. You'll find this a common thing when it comes to HP and its suppliers. HP has things done to their specs which will invariably differ from the specs of the manufacturer's stock components. I listed a few examples before. There are more but it gets to technical and boring. But is the reason behind why you can do things (mods and such) with other notebook manufacturers and not with an HP.

There is a MASSIVE difference between 300 nits and 180nits and 72% (X/y) NTSC and 92% NTSC. So much so, it would have been a MAJOR selling point. Not something you just slip in. Have a look at two screens with those sort of specs and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

Both screens (WUXGA and WSXGA) were "raved" about in reviews which means nothing other than the HDX screens look better than your average notebook at the time. And yeah, without question, they are. Let's not run down the Mobileartist route. Good guy but he was stuck on what reviews had to say as his primary force of argument. Though none of the reviews compared the two screens. They'd have different to say, based on the reviewers eyes and preferences. Some may have opted for the WUXGA, some the WSXGA+. And if the WUXGA had 300nits and 92%NTSC, they would have urged buyers to spend the extra bucks for the WUXGA.

I know, I would have as a reviewer and as a purchaser. The difference is that stark.

It's a fact. There are two model numbers and 2 HP part number SKUs for the WUXGA. 452300-001 and 452302-001. Both of which you can't get from HP anymore but from a 3rd party reseller. WSXGA+ only has one part SKU number and one manufacturer model number.

What you read in the service manual is the specs for both screens. It's no typo or error. It's correct. What you read off chimei's website is the non-custom version's (Non-HP contracted panel) specs. But since the HP version has been discontinued, you can buy that panel that is listed on chimei's site through 3rd party vendors. Problem is, there's no guarantee that you'll get the screen you want since the part is fungible and a number of 3rd party sites have the specs all wrong. Wrong number of backlights, screen res, screen dimensions. So how can you trust them unless they know this particular info about the two different screens?

CS reps are the worse source of info. Almost always incomplete or wrong. They made 2. The first one they made is the one most got with their HDX up until about the time it was discontinued. I say most because some who bought the HDX before discontinuance may have received the updated panel. Hard to tell with surety so I'm leaving the benefit of the doubt on the table.

Here's the other problem that you must take into consideration. There is only 1 inverter for the HDX and it will only output a certain amount of current (watts). The inverter is what converts DC to AC volts to power up the CCFL lamps in the screen. Since a brighter screen would need significantly more watts, what will occur with the 300nits screen is what's called dimming. I've experienced this before using higher watt screens in what was originally lower watt spec'd notebooks. Florescent tubes can be dimmed 30%-50% before they just don't light at all.

Well, the 300 nit Chimei screen requires 13 watts. That's nearly double the amount of power required than the WSXGA+(7watts) and spec'd WUXGA(6watts). There's no way the inverter will be able to output that kind of current. So what happens with that is that you're feeding the 300 nit screen with at most 7-7.5 watts which will dim the screen. It won't reach 300 nits of brightness with those watts. The most it will do is maybe 200-220 nits which is basically imperceptible to the eye versus 180 nits. In fact might look a little worse since you're not running the screen at it rated 300 nits. But what it would give you is slightly wider viewing angles. And guess what? That is what the spec's report. A slightly wider viewing angle for the WUXGA.

So imagine that there was only one WUXGA screen, you still can't get 300 nits or 92% NTSC because it is not being fed the power from the inverter to materialize those specs. You would need an inverter suited to the WUXGA's 13 watts in order to accomplish that. As it is, there is only one inverter that outputs up to 7 watts nominal.

Classic HP M.O. to do something like only having one inverter for many types of screens. If HP can short change customers with an non-overclockable X9000, they are certainly able to short change on a panel by underpowering it with an inverter made for a lower wattage screen.

Nope, the BIOSes are identical. Behind the scenes it allows the virtualization to actually work now. Something it didn't before when you selected it.

As for the rest of the requirements, the HDX doesn't have them. Wrong voltage and current. Wrong thermal design. Only thing it has in common is that it's an MXM III v2.1 slot. But the electrical specs are to HP's and not MXM's. If it were, they wouldn't have needed to have a custom made Radeon or Nvidia card. They would just use a standard card from Nvidia and ATI like everyone else does.

 

Yeah I saw that today that they blocked .net and wpf. Not sure what effect it has though. Still monitoring.

Tab mix plus is the best!

SLAZ3 is one of the model numbers of the X9000. It's non-ES.

 

My personal recommendation?? You should build it yourself. That way, you get a server for your specific needs. If you can upgrade a Dragon, building a Server PC is a piece of cake. And with a server, you are just installing a different OS (I am using Windows 7 Ultimate). And you would think building a server would cost a lot, but it really doesn't. And you have a LOT more upgrade options when building your own versus buying one.

Tversity connects to all of the current generation video came consoles (X360, PS3, Wii) and other devices. Hell it can even stream online to your cell phone or PSP (tested the cell phone, haven't tried the PSP yet.) It has a list on the website of all the devices you can use it for. You just hear a lot of people use it for X360 because before tversity was available, they were using Windows Media Player and it doesn't do a lot for you on streaming. Like bare minimum.

I am already looking at my next laptop too, just because I do not want to carry my Dragon out of the house unless I am leaving for an extended period of time (days, weeks). I need a laptop to use when i make house calls to troubleshoot networks and/or PCs. I was looking at getting a DV7-2170us. I can live without the fingerprint reader, as I can just add facial recognition software to it. As long as it has Bluetooth, 2nd HDD bay and Wireless N I am fine.

 

Worked like a charm 2.0 - many thanks!!!

 

Anyone here that's running Windows 7 RTM been able to get the right driver combo (Graphics and sound) for Audio to work over the HDMI out? What's the newest driver you've been able to use that works. see I'd like to regain the functionality in 7 without having to resort back to some really old driver that runs games poorly.

Many of the Nvidia drivers until recently made the connection show as DVI instead of HDMI, the most recent Nvidia driver has solved this problem in that it at least displays correctly in the Nvidia Control Panel, but still the audio wont go out over the HDMI (Yes of course i've set default playback to Digital out )

It works for me in Vista which is why I shoot back over to it on my dual boot whenever I wanna watch a movie or tv show through the HDX but on the big tv However the functionality to do this does go away if I upgrade to the most recent Vista graphics drivers, which is why I keep it at some older 17X.XX Nvidia driver.

EDIT: Aaaaalso, can someone point me to the newest working audio driver that doesnt kill the subwoofer?

 

Well, typing it for the third time...

Another stupid question, gentlemen.

Is there any way I can switch off touchpad (under XP)? I have the Synaptics driver in SWSETUP folder, and its seem to be installed, since the LED colour of touchpad on/off button goes from blue to orange as it's being pressed... but no other effects: the touchpad still functions and intreferes with my Bluetooth mouse - even as I am typing this message, the cursor inadvertently jumps from its current position to the position where BT mouth pointer is located or any other sporadic position on the page outside the message box. :-(

I dunno, maybe touchpad is not the reason for this volatile behaviour of the cursor, though some forums found by Google say it's touchpad... maybe BT mouse is malfunctioning?

Browser - Firefox 3.5.

ANY ideas will be appreciated, as I am fairly distressed to always correct or re-type my messages three to four times!

 

Hmmm, I had that same problem (on/off button not working) in XP x64 Edition. It's moreso the driver for the touchpad than it is the touchpad itself that (I believe) keeps it from turning on and off under XP. As for the sporadic jumping about, now that I do not know as i don't usually use another mosue with my Dragon. If/when I do I have a Microsoft USB travel mouse i blow the dust off and plug in. So that could be the BT mouse causing it. Or is could be the Touchpad and the BT mouse not getting along. While i have never heard of that, it is possible.
Sorry I could not be any more help.

 

QuickPlay Update for Windows Vista:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp43001-43500/sp43325.exe
Released: 2009-04-30
Version: 3.7. 6310

 

Two ways to answer this:

1. You have the HDX that most people have and the only driver that works fully is 5607 (AKA as the original driver that's also listed on HP's site).

2. You have one of the rare HDX's that has a slightly different sound chip and can use updated drivers. You can find the latest driver in this thread about 10 pages back. Search Kindheart's posts.

 

Glad that worked out for you!

 

No chance to reply to the other post just yet, but yea I've noticed it crashes less. The first day it blocked it didn't crash at all, maybe one time. I was SHOCKED to say the least. Ah so SLAZ3 is something that would have come ctod then with the HDX?

 

Lol not going to happen though it would be cheaper as you said..good idea, I'm just not equipped to do that really.

Yea I used to use it for the Xbox when it first came out and on after that. Cool software definitely. Had never tried the remote streaming though I want to.

Hmm ok. You going to add Veriface? The software is pretty cool though there could have been better than came out I'm not familiar with.

 

Btw for anyone thinking the HDX's value (the 2.8 GHZ WUXGA top specs model) would have gone down to $500 by now, check this out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140352041017&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I bet my friend it would go over 2000, I was thinking it would have been $2100-$2300 ..but no it went up to $2500!

 

Correct link ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp45501-46000/sp45606.exe Giving these a go now.

EDIT: welllll that's buggered it, made my systray look like this:


and it still looks like that even when I rollback to the old working driver, needs a systray update i guess.

Suppose i'll go find the original drivers and do a proper install. FFFFFFUUUUUUU

Also, what I did want to add, is I think it surely has to be a Graphics driver issue, since the problem disappears and reappears depending on what graphics driver I have installed, this backed up by the fact I am(was until 10 minutes ago) running the same Audio driver in both Vista and 7, but with 7 being the only one that Audio doesnt work over HDMI. Which it DID do in 7 when I first started trialling it at the beginning of the year and was therefore on much older Nvidia Drivers than now...

 

Sounds like the market is ripe with HDX Dragon buyers! Wonder what my HDX would go for???

 

$1800 at VERY least.

 

Well, you should at least look into building one of your own. check out http://www.tigerdirect.com for their barebone kits. usually the only thing you would need is a copy of Windows (or whatever OS you plan to use) and they are very affordable (I have seen a quad-core kit with 1TB HDD and 4GB of RAM for like 399.).

The web streaming for Tversity works, I just have some bugs to work out. I think I am doing something wrong. You will need a domain (I got one for free from http://www.no-ip.com. Works Great.) and to set up the ports on your router. That's it.

I have veriface, but haven't installed it yet. I am currently trying Banana Software. It's more basic, but it works.

 

YEs, it's the retail/OEM version of the X9000. SLAQJ is another.

 

Greetings everyone, love the forum! I've been looking for a place where I could discuss my HDX with other HDX-owners.. Guess I've come to the right place!

Anyway, I suppose you could just read my profile to see hdx specs, but if you're lazy Ill just list em briefly: its the HDX 16 1375DX, 2.27 GHz dual core centrino, 4 GB ram, 500 GB HDD, 1 GB video memory via GeForce 130M GPU; eSATA 1GB External HDD, finger reader (wouldve traded that feature off for a Blu ray rom) DVD RAM w/ lightscribe, running Windows Ultimate 64-bit edition.

Ok, two things:

1) My Win7 "User experience rating" is 5.4. Nearly every game I have has a "recommended system rating of 4-5) I understand this is just kind of a extremely vague "benchmark", but one would assume with my system specs I could run all games at 1920 x 1200, 32bit, all gfx settigns set to high, with all the bells and whistles. Not the case... Some games, yes, excel with these settings (madden, NHL, some RTS games) However popular FPS games is where the **** hits the fan. Call of duty WaW I have my setting at 1280 x 960 (if i remember correctly) or else the FPS rate drops so low i feel like im looking at a picture slideshow. I think to myself, what exactly do these game developers believe what type of systems we all have? Are these games meant to be played on 10 GB Ram and 6 GHZ processor just to get a 30FPS framerate? Sorry Im not spending 10K on a desktop just to kill a couple Charlie's in high-def.

2) I've done pretty extensive research into trying to find out precisely what type of sound system does my system posses. Box doesn't show much, device driver just shows some RealTek, exterior of laptop case shows AltecLansing, not sure if thats kinda like a cheap rip-off of HarmonKardonn?? The reasonw why I bring this point up is because I want to install a 7.1 system in my comp room, and I don't believe the stock sound card is capable of producing such sound. Even with HDMI out, it produces only 2 channels. That's why I've purchased the Soundblaster Audigy 2Z ( http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=SB0530C&cm_mmc=GoogleProducts-_-SoundCards-_-ExternalSoundCards-_-SB0530C&utm_source=GoogleProducts&utm_medium=ShoppingSites&utm_campaign=SB0530C This device looks as thou it will do the trick. Can hardly wait till it arrives. (2 more days) Does anyone else have any interesting sound setups? I even have the speakers set up already. My HDX comes with an ExpressPCI/54 slot, however this device says it requires a "CardBus II"... Are these the same inputs just different name? I've attempted to do research on both of these items but one just seems to lead me back to the other...

Any and all info would be much appreciated.

 

Sorry, but you're at the wrong place .
You're in the right forum, but not in the right topic. This is the topic about HP HDX 20.1" model.

This is the one for your model
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=300646

 

OOps! I am sorry... I thought all HDX owners were Dragon-like =-)

apologies again....

 

34 ThemePacks for Windows 7 - Official from Microsoft


http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/personalize

Include new sounds! Enjoy!

 

So, I recently upgraded my HDX 9494nr with 8gb of RAM - no problems there.

Then I went ahead and upgraded the processor from the t8100 to a t9600, cleaning the vents and the like as I went along.

Applied Arctic Silver 5 per instructions.

Machine starts up - no POST, no video. Strangely enough, it won't start up via battery alone - it shuts down. However, if it's plugged in and I start it up, then remove the plug, it keeps running on battery.

Halp! I was grounded! I swear! Can't figure it out. Was searching through this thread, couldn't find relevant info.

 

K guys, so Ive had my dragon for a while, and have dual booted vista/win7 for a while. Win7/allmydata was on my 2nd 500GB 7200.4 seagate drive, vista on the older 1st 5200 drive.

All of a sudden windows froze, and ever since it's been chaos of freezing, constant recommended disk error checks, and bad sector findings, every single day.

I held out for a few weeks, hoping if I did enough chkdsk's with "scan for and fix bad sectors" it would eventually fix itself but it didn't. So I backed up my data online (with mozy, which took about 2 weeks to back up 300GB of pictures and music) and reformatted and swept clean the 500GB 7200.4 seagate. I have the ISO of win7 build 7400 (and a couple other builds I have also tried but got same error results), mounted to a virtual drive using daemon tools, and tried to install a clean copy of win7 on the now supposedly clean and reformatted 500GB drive. It keeps getting stuck at the 2nd step "expanding files", gets to 20% everytime, then gives me the following error
"windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80007045D"

Then I click "ok", it restarts and rolls back and undoes the installation that it had gotten to at that point then boots back to vista.

WHY?!?!?! Ive tried it with different ISOs, different builds, Ive even tried installing the win7 RC build that I still have, that was previously installed on that same 500GB drive. I wanted to perhaps conclude the error being due to me installing from a virtual drive, rather than physically burning the ISO to a disc and then installing from that, but I've been able to successfully install win7 RC on this dragon, using a mounted ISO on a virtual drive for installation, in the past.

Maybe the other thing is that there might be some physical damage to the 500 GB seagate? Even after reformatting/repetitioning that drive, with it now completely empty, every now and then when I restart my Dragon, CHKDSK will automatically pop up and claim that my D: drive (the 500 GB seagate) needs to be checked for consistency. Even though it is now supposedly clean and empty. Could that be affecting my installation?

PLEASE HELP. I want to get win7 back on my dragon asap, as it is sooo much nicer than vista!!

Thanks everyone!

 

That CPU is not compatible with the HDX. You need either the t9500 or the x9000. The t9600 has a 1066 FSB compared to the 800 FSB the HDX uses. With some laptops and desktops you can get away with this and it will be down clocked. But like many things on the HDX this CPU is not on the white list and/or because of the incompatibility it is crippling the BIOS.

Here is a link to the HP HDX service manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01279508.pdf
The product description page shows all the compatible CPUs.
The service manual and other documentation for the HDX can be gotten on this page: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3747924&

 

I was wondering why the CPU number that he upgraded to looked a little off to me. Yep, it's not on the list of compatible CPUs for the Dragon. He will have to go back to his original CPU or find one from the list to put in there.

 

Thanks, I appreciate it. I swear I had read somewhere about someone upgrading to the T9600 - guess it must have been another HDX model. And here I was assuming it would automatically downclock.

HP: Trying to tick us off, or trying to rip us off?

Ah well, guess I'll look up the x9000 and the T9500, check some reviews.

Thanks again.

 

Well it does sound like the Hard drive is dying/dead. The damage could even be where Windows would normally install, which would explain the installation issues. The only way you can be sure is to replace the drive and try installing Windows 7 to the new drive. If it goes beyond the point that your installation attempts keep stopping at, then you will know that at least it was a part of the problem if not the whole problem itself. I hope that he;ps. Good luck.

 

Just received my copy of Windows 7 upgrade. What do I need to do before I upgrade? I assume I need to download some drivers somewhere? Or, are the drivers on the Windows disc? Is HDX going to run smoothly and be compatible with windows 7?

Basically, it's my only computer and I don't want to screw it up. Should I just sell my windows 7 upgrade disc?

sorry for all the questions.

 

Hey there all, having a bit of trouble since I updated to 7 this morning.

I have a HDX9310EA laptop (a beautiful thing) - upgraded from Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium to Windows 7 32-bit Home Premium.

Quickplay was updated to 3.7 before the upgrade, and played Blu-ray just fine. Now it won't play them at all. I've tried running QP in compatibility for Vista, and I get this error: 'playback is not allowed because the vga resource is unavailable'. On XP I see the disc but when I click to play it will perpetually stick on the loading screen.

I reinstalled QP from my SwSetup folder from Vista, and 3.6 recognises the disc but will constantly loop just as it appears to play, reloading the program and asking me to update.

What can I do?

 

Ok, back on page 680 (or post no. 6791 if you do not have the forum post view set to the default setting), Eclipse3D outlined everything you would need as far as drivers go. Now you are prob doing an Upgrage and not a clean install, so I don't know how much that post will help you. But you should be able to find all of the drivers listed and just install them in the order listed and you should be ok.

 

Well, I went out and ordered a t9300 to replace the t9600 - which I'm going to have to resell. NewEgg lacks a return for refund policy.

Also, I've taken 2.0's suggestion and invested in a Crucial SSD for my boot drive/gaming drive.

Media goes on the 500GB 7200rpm HD.

Thanks again guys. And here I thought I fried my computer.

EDIT: Was going to go with an OCZ model but read a bunch of horror stories about customer service - also figured I'd go ahead and buy a 256gb drive if I was going to bother spending money at all. My understanding is that it uses Indilinx rather than Jmicron. At least, I hope I'm right. Have a copy of Win7 headed my way. Looking forward to the improvement!

EDIT2: Going to need a bracket for the HD mounting, I'm sure. Thoughts on where to purchase? Can't seem to find anything on NewEgg... Also, for the TV Tuner - the Antennae it came with had a weird connector. I can't find the right kind of adapter to get it to go Male to Female to hold a coax-cable for watching/recording television.

Thank heavens for this thread!

 

The short answer is: All the information you need is at your fingertips in this forum. Use search or just read. Windows 7 runs great on the HDX. Spend the time and just do it.

Maybe someone has the time for the long answer, which would be to regurgitate all the past Windows 7 info into a nice and neat and tidy post.

 

Hey! 2.0 was a follower here when it came to SSD's. Now, who was it that pioneered using an SSD on the HDX? (it's on the tip of my tongue)...

OCZ has about the best support there is! Their forum is their best asset. Not sure what horror stories you are referring to. Stick with their Vertex series though if you want upgrades, as the Summit (although a great value and performer) is Samsung-based and so far there are no firmware updates that enable important features.

SSD's can be a tremendous improvement in performance, but unless you REALLY need it, I would not put the money into a large SSD at this time. With a large 2nd (data) drive, you can certainly get away with a 60Gb and definitely a 120GB SSD for the boot/OS/app drive. 256GB SSD's are so costly right now, and the whole SSD technology is changing so rapidly, that to put that much money into a single drive now really isn't smart (unless, of course, you won the lottery or are independently wealthy).

Just my .02 worth, (which is only 1/100th of what "2.0" is worth!)

 

no answer for my HDMI audio issue?

 

Hey everyone, love this thread, lots of info!

I did some searching and dug through a few dozen pages but haven't found the answer. I just got my HDX 9010nr yesterday, and installed a fresh copy of windows 7 ultimate 64. Everything seems to be working fine, except the "blue console" (media keys, wifi, quick play, volume, etc) don't respond to an touches. They display the state (muted volume causes amber lights instead of blue) but don't respond to touching.

I've also go an "unknown device" in device manager, which I assume is the missing driver. I've installed both the quickplay and quicktouch drivers/software (as indicated in previous posts) but they did not fix the issue.

There was a similar issue reported here, but it was never indicated as to what the actual issue was.

Any help you guys can provide would be great! thanks!

 

Ok, I believe the missing device is called HP Quick Launch Buttons 64. I did 2 things that prob saved me the same probles you are having right now.

1. After adding a 2nd 320GB hard drive to my Dragon, I took the entire SWSETUP folder and copied it to the second drive. That way if i screwed something up, I would have the original drivers from Vista.

2. I installed Driver Geinus 9.0 and had it backup the entire set of drivers for the Dragon as an .exe file AND as a zip file. That way I would have them if something was amiss in the SWSETUP folder.

I can send it if you need it. But check the properties of the missing device first. In the Device Manager, double-click on the device and then when the window appears for that device go to details. Then in the drop down menu, click on Hardward Ids. It should say "*HPQ006". Let me know what you find.