*HP dv3500t Owners Lounge*

Hi, I also bought the DV3650ES in spain, I also installed windows 7, I asked about bluetooth and they told me that this model don't include it, in fact if you look at the specification of the laptop you will see that there is not a single line about bluetooth.
The thing is in pchub you can buy the bluetooth for the american model, having the same board I think It would be possible to install it on the spanish model.

The only thing is that I still have an unknown device on device manager, but I haven't installed all the drivers so it maybe hp special keys or some software bundled with the laptop.

The next thing I want to try is install leopard 10.5.6, I have found a guide, the only dealbreaker is the wifi, the dv3500 models seems to have a restriction to only work with the default wireless mini pci, I don't know about the spanish version. I will try to replace the wifi with the one of an old laptop if it works I wiil buy the dell supported wireless.

The battery meter don't display the time remaining in this version, this is very common with hp consumer laptop. I have sorted the problem installing a little soft called battery meter. Works great.

The keyboard is terrible as stated, I also hope to replace it with the us backlit one.

The battery usualy last 2 hour when using the dvd drive for some dvd burning, wifi on and brightness at 50 %.

there is a protective plastic that seems to interfere with the dvd drive, I will post picture later, I don't know if this is something common or if I should call HP.

To sum it up I 'm quiet happy with this laptop, Very good value for only 699 euros and I love the look of the laptop.

Pros:

Good feel of the keyboard
Sharp led screen, even if it is glossy it isn't that bad in bright environment.
quiet and cool.
t6400 + 9300m gs good enough for all my tasks, can even max games from before 2006( half life 2, doom 3, etc ...)
useful remote
at 1.87 kg lighter than macbook alu.
no that thick , even if the specification indicate 3.5 cmd of height the laptop is actually thin, there is just two stands on the back to elevate it a bit for better air flow.
Cheap.
320g hard drive.

Cons.

Can't see anything on the keyboard on low light environments.
Average battery life compared to a macbook alu.
Average webcam.
Slow dvd drive.
No Bluetooth??

 

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/message?board.id=General&thread.id=327

here you can read about it

 

Dose anyone know where to get larger capaicity battery for dv3500 I only seem to get 1.5hrs on battery with setting options turned down?

anyone getting more and how?

seems like hp do a 9 and 12 cell for other models and even the dv3 but not sure if any other will fit.
I dont listen to HP often they even said my US backlit keyboard would never fit or work with mu UK version but its so sweet even readable with light off cant live without the new keyboard and its turned off when I give the 1.5hr battery life.

cheers

 

Yay! The keyboard mod worked; I now have a backlight that I can toggle using FN+SPACE. Brilliant.

One question though: my left mouse button (touchpad) seems to be a bit 'fiddly'. When I touch it very lightly, it makes a slight clicking sound, indicating something is loose on the inside.

Anybody else with this issue?

 

No. works fine. Backlite rulz

 

Looks like VISTA SP2 + new drivers from intel WIFI 5100 improoves wifi N speed with my Linksys WRT-160N. Now average is about 90-130Mbits before was about 65-70mbits
Overall system perfomance was better whit SP2 looks like hardware working a litle bit faster!

 

Average get about 3-3.5Hours of work form my batery on avarage energy saving mode and screen brigtnes about 60%. wifi-off
In train waching movies or listening mp3 its about 2-2.5hours on avarage energy saving mode and screen brigtnes about 50%. wifi-off

About larger capaicity battery for dv3500 not seen it any were yet.

 

Hello Eltidi,

Tx for the info! Also tx to Harddy for all the very good info. Now at least I know Bluetooth is NOT incorporated in the Spanish DV3650ES, if I had known, I would have bought the Bluetooth module as well at PCHUB!
I installed the US keyboard and it works 100% on the DV3650ES, the laptop immediately recognizes the fn+spacebar on/off. You only have to configure it as US keyboard afterwards in Control Panel. The unknown device on device manager is, as far as I know, the touchpad device driver which helps you to “slide” the double lines on the right side of the touchpad ||.
I think I will buy the Bluetooth module as well but installation seems to be more complicated since almost the entire notebook must be dismantled.
Hopefully it will also be possible to change the hard disk by a SSD. To make the notebook even lighter, I just left out the optical dvd drive after having installed all software I need.
Average I get is also +/- 2.5 to 3hours.
Cheers

 

Did anybody know that you can actually shove the remote in the expresscard slot? I only discovered that today

 

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
yes its in all DV series of HP and some other brands

 

oh, leave the guy alone you big ape!

 

Do you guys know if I can pop in a SATAII hdd ( http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4364404&CatId=4215) in? I can't find if the dv3t supports SATAII or not

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=584596
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

 

Hi! I have recently downgraded my friend's HP dv 3506LA from Vista64 to Windows XP, but I don't get any sound.. I really need help fixing this audio issue since the laptop is not mine all the other drivers seem to be working fine, what can I do??? I'd appreciate any help plz!!!

 

What happening people, i'm having a problem that's annoying me i recently got a Hp DV3500t and i shrank the existing volume added another partition and installed Xp on it, now the problem is i have installed some of the drivers for this machine but i can not find the rest plus the finger print reader sftware does not work on xp.

my specs are:
Hp Dv3500t
Intel core 2 Duo pt350 @ 2.00Ghz
3gb RAM DDR2
190GB HDD
nVIDIA GeForce NB9M-GS
Intel Wireless 5100+Bluetooth
VGA Webcam Fingerprint Sensor
LG DVD+-RW/RAM

now the drivers that i can't find are:

a HP Intergrated module
Modem device or high definition audio bus
a SM Bus controller
and two unknown devices.

and my IDT high definition audio driver is installed buy shows an exclamation mark in a yellow circle inside it.
and if anyone has a link to download the Digital Persona Fingerprint software for xp please don't be shy and share it with us.
thanks guys

 

What happening people, i'm having a problem that's annoying me i recently got a Hp DV3500t and i shrank the existing volume added another partition and installed Xp on it, now the problem is i have installed some of the drivers for this machine but i can not find the rest plus the finger print reader sftware does not work on xp.

my specs are:
Hp Dv3500t
Intel core 2 Duo pt350 @ 2.00Ghz
3gb RAM DDR2
190GB HDD
nVIDIA GeForce NB9M-GS
Intel Wireless 5100+Bluetooth
VGA Webcam Fingerprint Sensor
LG DVD+-RW/RAM

now the drivers that i can't find are:

a HP Intergrated module
Modem device or high definition audio bus
a SM Bus controller
and two unknown devices.

and my IDT high definition audio driver is installed buy shows an exclamation mark in a yellow circle inside it.
and if anyone has a link to download the Digital Persona Fingerprint software for xp please don't be shy and share it with us.
thanks guys

 

hey guys

can someone point out where I could order the the dv3500 or dv3600 series from an online retailer? thanks for any help.

take care

 

bumpz............

 

I need to have XP on mt 3550 for school softwares that do not support Vista and I please need your help. I would appreciate if you can provide drivers to have a full functioning XP on my Vista drive. thnx

Hi Chokoladenudlen,

I am planning to dualboot my hard drive with Vista and XP. I would appreciate if you could tell me if your XP works fine. I need to have internet, audio, webcam working at least in XP

 

Use VIRTUALBOX or MS virtual PC its free software and much simliest way to make software from diferent OS work inside by installing any OS in VIRTUAL box I personally install XP and WIN 7 in virtual box works perfect. only may be some hardware problems but if you need only to some soft work its more than enough. other functions can be made easyly switching between home OS and box.
As I remember there is no oficial drivers for XP on our notebook.

 

Thank you for your reply. That is exactly what I did couple of hours after I posted here. I installed VMware and now I am running XP and the software for school is working fine without any problems. Only problem is installing from CD when CD is mounted but I found a workaround for that too. {Get the contents of the CD to the XP environment and run from there}

Is virtualbox or MS Virtual PC better than VMware?

 

I installed win7 full and everything is working perfectly fine, except for the touch-buttons! They respond perfectly fine, with the volume control working ever better than it did under vista. However, the colors dont't change! I can now no longer see on my touchpad whether audio and/or wifi is on or off.

How to fix?

 

Yeah
shouldn be any problems HP released drivers for all hardvare for HP DV3500

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=4062&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=uk&product=3819674&lang=en

 

sophisticated elegance? my a**.

Just wait till the nvidia chip overheat and dies on you, and then try talking to HP customer service reps... oh, great fun!

 

Hi Guys!

I wonder if anyone knows about any good web page that has a description (with pictures) of how i most easily open my DV35xx up to clean the fan/vent area. whiteout void the warranty! It looks to me that i have to remove the whole bottom of the computer. Does any one have any ideas?!

Thanks!


R

 

Some time ago it was here byt now i dont now
http://h20181.www2.hp.com/plmconten...523&MEID=E433D577-41EA-461C-AE48-EAD937F85DBC

it looks like this
http://h20464.www2.hp.com/default.htm
but cant find here our model any more

 

Thanks Harddy, but as you said; the model is gone. Does anyone else have any ideas where to find a description of how to open it up?


R

 

For instructions on how to replace go here: http://vsslfpro.zcce.compaq.com/plmcontent/NACSC/SML/default.htm

For a dv3650ed: Product category = Laptop and Tablet PCs, Product family = HP Pavilion Notebook PCs, Product series = HP Pavilion dv3500 Entertainment Notebook PC series, Media selection = FRU Remove/Replace. In the screen that opens choose Keyboard.

 

Hey! anybody know were to by back lite led keyboard ? seems like http://www.pchub.com/ out of stock and ebay sellers also any other place were to by?

 

http://www.insidemylaptop.com/replace-keyboard-hp-pavilion-dv3500-dv3000-notebook/

 

Finally find one for me Very fast shiping From hong kong to Latvia in 6 days
Already instaled works fine!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270539705650#shId

 

hey everybody does anyone have the upgrade to windows 7 for dv3500 series, if yes please can you upload it to megaupload or something ???

 

Yes upgraded to W7 64bit works fine. ALL drivers can find on HP home page here
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...Id=135&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3774492

Do not understand what do you want from us to upload? IF windows sorry you should by it or find in net.

 

i mean if anyone of ya get the upgrade by hp upgrade program

 

guys i have this problem with my fingerprinter, my laptop does not recognized it look at my device manager... i have the driver that is in hp windows 7 x64 for hp dv3506la and digital persona personal, it supose to say in device manager something like biometric device or something, please help!!

 

Make shure you install all of these
my fingerptint sensor works fine

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-65053-1
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-72127-1
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-75312-1
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-65035-1
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-80784-1

 

i already installed those and nothing

 

Windows update not help you too?

In devaice manager on your screen seems all is ok all hardware detected maybe you have softvare problems whith your digital persona software

 

in device manager it suppose tu show biometric devices or something

 

ok I look in my device manager today and let you know that is were.

 

thats why my fingerprint dont work i installed all the drivers from hp and the digital persona personal and nothing in my device manager there is no biometric device, its like my laptop dont recognized it

 

Hi, did anybody here have any troubles with running windows 7 (32-bit)? Specifically I have what seems to be a graphics glitch where if I let the screen turn off after a set idle time, when I move the cursor and it starts up again the screen freezes, sometimes for 30sec, sometimes for 10mins and sometimes I have to restart!

Now, I have no other problems at all and all my drivers are up to date and if I don't let the screen turn off, just dim, then it doesn't happen.

Anybody have any ideas? Thanks