*HP dv6t & dv7t Select Edition / Quad Edition (6XXX series) Owners Lounge*

People ask a lot of ridiculous questions on this forum and it gets tiring answering the same thing over and over.

 

To TheAtreidesHawk,
No manufacturer will make a laptop that will suit all your needs a 100 percent. If you want a laptop that will suit you 100 assemble one by your own self so that you could please yourself.

 

what is the latest stable driver?

 

What kind of driver, car, golf, nail, video, sound, chipset?

 

What exactly was the point of stating the obvious? That still doesn't change the fact that I WANT a laptop manufacturer to give me a laptop that does suit my needs 100% of the time. And actually HP manages to fulfill most of my requirements.

Its just that there a few must haves that sometimes aren't given as options right away and I can't force HP to give em to me.


Anyways good luck to all you current and future owners. Hopefully I cancelled my order soon enough and my money will be returned by Friday so I can buy the Envy 3D as soon as possible.

 

Can someone let me know the full battery lifetime they are getting using Battery Bar? I just need to compare the battery life of my new dv7 with 9cell to others, to make sure I'm getting it in the normal range... Also please mention the load (ex. brightness, apps running, etc)
Thanks in advance...

 

Under normal internet usage and some videos on the internet I get 6-7 hours on about 1/2-3/4 brightness.

 

Battery bar does not report the correct lifetime on my wife's DV7. When im using integrated graphics and surfing the internet, with backlight about 60%, BB reports im using between 10000 - 15000 mW. This should equate to battery life of approx 7 hours or more. Battery bar however estimates about 2.5 hours. If i put my mouse over the windows battery icon, it says about 7 hrs remaining (which is about what i can get on a single charge if im not gaming or watching video, etc). In my experience with the dv7, battery bar correctly reports the discharge rate (but updates slowly), but does not report estimated time remaining accurately.

 

Hey guys, I have a dv6t with the 1080p screen and I am having some screen issues. Sometimes, depending on what I'm looking at (happens with pictures on webpages or even a picture opened on its own). I see a bunch of green pixels on the screen. Here's some pics so you can see what I mean. Any suggestions? Is it a screen problem? Software? Driver? Thanks!

 

Have you overclocked your radeon?

 

What does battery bar show as your capacity? in mWh??
My dv7 gets about 5 hours on lowest brightness and normal usage.... My 9 cell's capacity is about 98k mWh.... Is that normal...? Shouldn't I be getting better battery life? I am gonna update my BIOS to the latest F1.A, (it says it fixes battery recharging issue in it's description on the HP website) but I wonder if that would really help me get better battery times...

BTW.... BB does show weird estimates... it shows like 2.36 hours when on full charge.... and it stays almost the same for a couple hours ... and then estimates 6.43 hours when on 60% charge.... It seems to me like my battery is behaving like Benjamin Button..!!

 

battery bar uses a statistical formula to estimate the battery life (a weighted average of past and present usage). it works well for someone with consistent usage, but works horribly on a laptop with switchable graphics, because the discharge rate on the dGPU and iGPU differ so significantly, but both are used to estimate the battery life.

best way is to find the total capacity of the battery life, and a representative discharge rate you for your usage.

for me, the capacity is about 98whr, and the discharge rate is about 10-15w with light browsing on 30% brightness, dividing those two gives about 8hrs.

 

Mine shows battery capacity of 95k whr now... and my discharge rate is about 14-15whr on lowest brightness, touchpad backlit off and doing just surfing and other basic stuff.... I still get around 5 hours... I just updated my BIOS to the latest F.1A... Let's see if it effects my battery's yields...

 

your discharge rate doesn't sound too offbase, but 95/15 is not 5??? at least one of your numbers must be wrong. did you actually measure the time it took until it hibernated or are you still going off of the batterbar estimate? i've forgotten my charger at home one day and used the laptop for browsing/excel/word for a day. it lasted me through the whole day, about 8.5 hrs, and still had about 15% left.

i use granola as well, it dynamically underclocks the CPU to save battery life, you could try that to see if it makes a difference.

 

nope... both my numbers are correct, but their units are not... the total capacity is about 95k mWH and the discharge rate is around 15-16 mW. I have been measuring the time myself and not using batterybar.. It lasted me around 5 hours in my last consistent basic use on lowest brightness.... there seems to be some sort of draining off problem with the battery...

 

assuming you meant 15-16k mW... it should be lasting you 6 hrs for total capacity. depending on what you set your hibernation threshold as (10%? 5%?) you should be hibernating at about 5-5.5hrs with 5-10% battery left.

 

Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me decide what laptop to buy.
I will use it for net/movies and mobile gaming.

I'm confused between these two HP Pavilion DV6 laptops.

INTEL VERISON

Processor Brand: Intel
Processor Type: Core i7
Processor Model: 2630QM
Processor Speed (GHz): 2.00
Installed RAM (GB): 8
RAM Expandable To (GB): 8
Ram Type: DDR3
Hard Drive Size: 750GB
Hard Drive Speed (rpm): 5400
Graphics Card Memory (MB): 2GB
Graphics Card Memory Type: Dedicated
Graphics Card Type: Radeon HD 6770M
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet
Optical Drive Format: DVD Burner
Optical Drive Type: Blu-ray ROM


or the


AMD VERISON

Processor Brand: AMD
Processor Model: 3510MX
Processor Speed (GHz): 2.50
Installed RAM (GB): 8
RAM Expandable To (GB): 8
Ram Type: DDR3
Hard Drive Size: 750GB
Hard Drive Speed (rpm): 5400
Graphics Card Memory (MB): 1GB
Graphics Card Memory Type: Dedicated
Graphics Card Type: Radeon HD 6750M
Networking: Ethernet 10/100
Optical Drive Format: DVD Burner
Optical Drive Type: Blu-ray ROM



thanks

 

I don't know much about AMD processors, but here's my impression of Llano vs Sandy Bridge in general. The integrated GPU on the AMD is better for when you need battery life, by a significant margin. However, if you have access to power, and you use the dedicated GPU, the 6770m is a little faster than the 6750m. In general I think the actual CPU is better in Sandy bridge vs Llano, but that would vary model to model, obviously. Someone who is familiar with that specific AMD processor will have to judge which is better CPU-wise. This all boils down to:

AMD for battery life and graphics performance on the go.
Intel for heavy graphics where battery life is not an issue.

I really don't know which is better for heavy CPU workloads, the Intel has slightly better clock speeds, but means very little in terms of real-world performance. By the way, in all fairness, the AMD is only 2.5GHz when turbo-whatever is on. Therefore, if you use that figure, the Intel processor should say 2.9Ghz. The base speed with all 4 cores on each is 1.8 (AMD), 2.0 (Intel). As a side note, I would definitely get the 7200rpm hard drive, it will give you a little extra speed in opening programs and doing file operations. And it only costs $20. If you don't need the space, you could go for the 640gb 7200rpm version at no extra cost.

This is just my take on the processor battle, but here it is.

 

The advantage for the z is that, rather than switching between the IGP and the discrete 6750, it can use Hybrid Crossfire to enable both at once for a bigger performance increase than you would get from just switching to the 6750. In practice, driver support is still a work in progress and it doesn't always behave as it should.

The Intel CPU is a better CPU.

 

Intel all the way.... The AMD just can't compare the performance offered my Intel i7... If you believe benchmarks... i7 2630qm is the 4th fastest mobile cpu, according to benchmarks by Notebookcheck.com
the AMD is way down the list somewhere at 1xx.... So the AMD you are talking about comes at the level of a 1st gen core i3....
In terms of battery life and heating, the AMD will surely win, by a minimal margin though.... If the hybrid crossfire with 6750m and igpu works well, it will be faster than the 6770m by about 5%, again not that big a margin
So, I would say intel is the way to go, which obviously costs more than the AMD... But that's only if you need performance....
If you want a gaming machine with acceptable cpu performance at a very decent price, go for the AMD-powered dv6
If you want an all-rounder machine which will value performance in all aspects, and you can spend a little more, the Intel-powered dv6 will be a much better choice
In either choices, don't forget to use the logic buy coupons at checkout....
currently, there's a 30% off coupon for the dv6, they change every week though... 30% coupon is overall the best yet...
You might wanna track these coupons at the below links...

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Finally picked up the HP Dv6150us. I love it so far. Are there any recommended settings to make the webcam clearer though? Thanks.

 

clearer? do you get a very dark and blurry image from your webcam, just like on my previous defective dv7 that I returned? The image is supposed to be quite good, not very clear though... You can make the image quality sharper using the Youcam software...but that will only work as far as the app is on and can be used only for that app... I am not aware of any webcam settings software by HP by which the image quality can be changed permanently.

 

Actually you are right it is much clearer, now. It was most likely because it was late at night and the lighting in my room wasn't as bright as it should've been, hah.

 

Howdy folks,

I have a question about the DV6T QE. I'm looking at buying, and I noticed in the US the DV6T QE is available with up to 16GB of RAM. In Canada, the "top" DV6 model, the DV6-6195ca, which is basically a fully configured DV6T QE, comes with 8GB or RAM and the specs says that a max of 8GB is supported.

Does anyone know if these laptops share the same motherboard / chipset? If so, is there any technical reason why the DV6 in Canada would not support 16GB of Ram?

Is anyone running 16GB in their DV6T QE?

Cheers!

 

Power,

If you look at the intel specs for the 2620qm Intel® Core? i7-2620M Processor (4M Cache, 2.70 GHz)versus the 2720QM Intel® Core? i7-2720QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.20 GHz) you see that max fo 2630 is 8gb versus 16gb....so if you go up to 2720qm i think it would be okay?

 

From what I understand, the 8gb limit is for dual channel. When you are running applications that call for more than 8gb, it then switches over to single channel.

16gb is pretty much crazy overkill in a notebook like this.

 

According to the HP sites the DV6T and the DV6-6195ca both use the Core i7-2630QM (6M, 2.0 GHz), so in theory they should both handle 16 gigs correct? How does the DV6T QE with the i7-2630 compare to the 15" MacBook Pro with the same processor?

 

Concerning WiDi on 2630qm in the DV6/7:

The i7-2630QM processor is now listed as WiDi compatible ( http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wtech/iwd/sb/CS-031059.htm ).

Can anyone comment on that / did anyone try this yet?

Only got a DV7 version with a non-Intel Wifi card, so I can't test it myself.

Cheers!

 

The WiDi support for the dv 6xxx is using version 2.0.
However, the models that are AMD switchable with Intel chip are currently stuck using version 2.0.
(You have to request or wait HP updates their graphic drivers)

2.0 supports 1080/720p viewing.

2.1 support provide timing improvements, 5.1 audio support and allows protected content playback (DVD, Bluray)

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To qualify to use Intel WiDI, you need an Intel CPU with an enabled embedded graphic chip and an Intel Wireless module.

2.x support requires a 2nd generation WiDI reciever and a sandy bridge or later cpu.

And No, you cannot game on it.
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Im having a problem with powerdvd10. Every time I try to play a dvd is says the region code of this dvd player is fixed to region 6 and it will not play the dvd. I realize for some reason you can only change the region 5 or 6 times, but I have never changed it once. Is there any way to change the region back or can someone recommend a better program to play dvd/blurays with.

Edit: Great, I just realized my computer is locked on region 6 and I cannot even play a dvd (unless its from China). Even on windows media player it says I have 0 changes left. Is there any way I can reset this so I can change the region back?

 

I installed WiDi 2.1 on my DV7t 6100 with 2nd generation receiver last night and can confirm that Blu-ray playback does not go through. I got an error regarding HDCP. I guess we gotta wait for the updated Intel drivers :-(

 

Well, currently the only dv6/7 model that can use the WIDI 2.1+ specs are models that only uses the Intel HD with Intel Wifi. Since they can use the official Intel Drivers.

 

Hey guys, I'm thinking of purchasing this ram: Newegg.com - ADATA XPG Gaming Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Laptop Memory Model AXDS1600GC4G9-2G . The specs of the ram itself look pretty good, 9CL with and 1.35v. Anyone every heard of the ADATA brand?

 

Yes, Adata makes very good ram. You should have no problems.

 

Hi, I just noticed a problem with the HD 6770m. In the last few days, the performance has dropped significantly. I was getting 16-18 fps on furmark with 1366 x 768 dynamic background, but now it gets 10. GPU load 99%, memory load, 0%. Anyone have an idea what might cause this?

 

Hey Auto, check your power profile setting to see if it still set to performance.

 

Ugh! I thought there are already updates for the drivers from Intel that allow Blu-Ray through WiDi. They just don't work on HP computers...but maybe I'm wrong?

 

Anyone....???

 

Yes, it's still on high performance.

EDIT: I am re-installing AMD drivers to see if it still happens.

 

Hi guys, just wanted to introduce myself, I just today ordered an DV7 6140eo (about 5 hours before I saw the HP announcement... oh well!)

My name is Tim, and Im in Sweden. There sure is alot of info here! A 700+ page thread is quite daunting to say the least! I have read through some of them,like the one about overclocking the 6770M, and right now Im looking for info on if I should bother doing a clean install of Win 7 or if just uninstalling the bloatwear will do the trick.

I do have one question right off the bat. Unfortunately my screen is the 1600x900, as we dont get the full HD option over here. Would it be possible to buy the HD screen separately from HP as a spare part and install it oneself? I do alot of photo editing ( I am a painter that will be using this notebook on the road as reference material. Basically I shoot reference photos and then edit them in Lightroom and use them as reference to paint from the screen) and Im pretty sure Id benefit from the better screen!

Cheers, and I hope I get lucky and receive a properly working computer on Monday, as I have read lots of posts about people being unhappy with them, or having to deal with obnoxious customer support!

Tim

 

There is a great deal of discussion about upgrading the display in the following thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...91-modding-dv6t-dv7t-quad-edition-2011-a.html

 

Thank you very much!

 

I remember awhile back that you can reset the region code in the register. I can't remeber if I was utilizing Windows Vists or XP, but I'm sure it's similar to Windows 7. Of course the register will be different. Google might be your best option. Last choice is to reload windows.

 

Hmm, I have to ask, and Im sure its been asked 100s of times before, but you guys that have been here for a long time, do you feel that there are more problems with the dv6 and dv7 series than with other laptops? Almost all the other forums I frequent warn heavily against purchasing them, lots of people who repair computers for a living say that beyond any doubt, most machines that funk out are HP dv6 or 7s and that they are the bottom of the barrel quality wise. Other HP products are good though. Im reading about heat issues, power chords shorting out, black and blue screens, and horrendous customer service and so forth.. The motherboard, the B2 for example, thats the first thing Im going to check on monday when it gets here, and if its not a B3 its going back.

Im getting a little bit nervous about my purchase. How many of you got the extended warranty, and is it worth it? Its my understanding that I can purchase this warranty at any time within the first year, am I correct? I plan on having this laptop for about 3 years.

Thanks Tim

 

Well. I have only had my (Swedish) dv6-6071eo for a month or so, and while I have had some problems that HP (actually an external workshop doing the job for Swedish HP) won't acknowledge (hiss from the headphone jacks) I think it's pretty well built.

I have also noticed that there's a lot of different dv6-6's, at least in Sweden, ranging from white plastic to the brown brushed metal, so I guess the build quality also differs a little.

I do not worry that much though. It seems pretty good built, and in some ways better built than my previous (business) HP laptop.

But then again. I've only had it for a month so far.

Oh, and even though HP's Swedish customer service may not the be the best, I think they are better than the State at least (They have listened to and helped me with most my problems for the last few years).

 

Yeah I tried to google it and had no luck. I called hp tech support and went through all their troubleshooting and nothing worked. The tech person said the only thing I could do was buy another drive, but she was pretty clueless and didnt even know how to open the device manager though. Anyways it was the 21st day I had the laptop so I returned it and ordered another. I was kind of upset cause I never changed the region once, I dont know what my wife did though. Well at least I got to change the color to steel gray, which I like better anyways.

 

Ok that sounds promising! Are you happy with the machine in general? Yea its quite confusing with all the models that have identical specs yet vary in price. The only difference seems to be the color of the chassi! Fingers crossed i dont get a "måndagsex" on monday!

 

and exactly HOW are you going to determine that without disassembling the entire computer. Your experts are clueless. Your computer will have the exact same degree of reliabilty as any other manufacturer model costing approx the same amount. There ARE series that HAD problems. This series has been relatively stable. If you were this concerned, why on earth didn't you just go to a local retailer? Customer service sucks the same as everybody elses. That is why prices have dropped so significantly. It is manned by very low level people capable of dealing with the most basic issues.

 

I want to reinstall my OS, but first a few questions:

1. Can I use a Retail Windows 7 Home Premium DVD to install, then enter the serial from the bottom of my laptop?

2. Is all the HP software available that I might need on the recovery partition?

I'd like to do a full reinstall (and also repartition my HDD to fit Ubuntu or Fedora on it), not just a restore.

edit: this seems to be helpful

 

I was under the impression that checking was relatively easy once you actually had the notebook.

Just venting some of my worries and hoping for reassurance from other more experienced HP users, thats all