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Allright, I just tried "run as admin" for CCC and it still doesn't work. So, you just need to be logged in as admin in order to make the switch.

 

I dont know if anyone have brought this up, but the touchpad lags when you use the keyboard. I dont know if it's unique, but try to hold a key and then just draw circles with the trackpad or something. My arrow gets stuck.

It's really annoying. Soo... anyone who have a fix for this?

 

I don't think this would affect people unless they try trackpad gaming, which is a horrible, horrible idea.

This could be fixed with a future driver update, if HP decides that it's a significant enough of a problem.

 

Final update. The white light around the touch pad can be turned on/off by holding the fn key and tapping the space bar.

 

Somewhere buried deep in this thread someone mentioned downloading drivers for the touchpad directly from synaptic, and that they worked much better. Might be worth a search through the thread. One of the things it supposidly improved, IIRC was multi touch.

 

In all honesty, doing a search on the Synaptic site yourself would be much easier task than sifting through such a massive thread. Best of luck!

 

Meh, I played through Portal in 5 hours using the trackpad of my old computer. But that one had a nice glide... On this my finger tend to get stuck... feels sticky. I probably have to buy a mouse, feels stupid since I cant even play minecraft on this computer now.

You sir, are great.

 

I hear ya! For some reason the search this thread option doesn't work for me.

 

Are you photoshopping with the trackpad?

 

Noticed it when I was going to play minecraft.

 

You have endured, what must have been, massive frustration to enlighten us all. Thanks

repped

 

Good to hear your problem is fixed, the worst part about this is you were debating sending it back, and i highly doubt one of HP's valued CSR's would have given you the advice on the fn key and space bar. Glad to hear all is good though.

+1 Rep

 

Seems like the solution is to change your account to Administrator status. I can think of 4 ways to do so:

1) Clean install of Windows. The account you create should be Administrator status.
2) Rename the Administrator account, and use that one.
3) Log into the Administrator Account and change your account to Administrator Status
4) Just change your account to Administrator Status.

Perhaps this will work:
How to Change the User Account Type in Windows 7 | eHow.com

 

Beautiful, even though I dont have my notebook yet. Great to know !

Repped, +1

 

Can you replicate the problem in other programs?

 

If you have a better option $$$ rule, by all means let us know!

 

Just a general enquiry. Does the power brick come with a two pin or a three pin mains electric plug?

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that somewhere in the mouse section of the control panel, there's an option to disable the touchpad while typing. What this does is: as soon as you start typing, it will disable the trackpad, and wait a specified period of time after the last key is pressed till it turns it back on. Try disabling that function and try again.

 

Outstanding find, this will be great to know while watching movies. May I ask how you found it?
Repped

 

It was like that everywhere, but just now I found a fix for it.

So, if you cant use the touchpad and the keyboard at the same time:
Properties for mouse -> Device settings -> Settings -> PalmCheck-improved ACM -> Settings (cogs)
Make sure the PalmCheck slider is OFF.

 

Alright guys, new review video up on youtube. This one is actually professional, so video quality is good.

YouTube - HP Pavilion dv6 Quad Review

 

"It's just screaming out for a backlit keyboard aswell... HP are you listening?"

 

I think that I'm running into lots of barriers with having a non-admin account setup on the machine. I will have to likely enable admin for my user account.

 

Thanks! Good find.

 

Yes, that would be nice. To that effect, in the moding thread here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...-dv7t-quad-edition-2011-a-12.html#post7414310
We see a place for a connector. Possibly a future option from HP? Or perhaps HP is just too cheap to make a completely different MB from the last gen.

 

So, I benchmarked the video processing on the DV6 using a 65 mb video file in Cyberlink Power Director 9, that is optimized for Sandy Bridge. The encode time was pretty impressive.

The DV6 encoded a 65 MB file as follows:

IGP 3000 - :55 seconds
6770 - :56 seconds
Core2Quad desktop - 1:25

I was getting up to 100% processor utilization during the output. The only problem I have is that I don't know if PowerDirector was actually using the 6770, even though it was setup as the dedicated GPU at the time. PD9 supposedly automatically detects for the presence of IGP 3000. Is there a way to lockout IGP 3000 to make sure?

 

Why do I have to press fn + f5 is there is no primary function? Are there any settings for this?

 

the system board is capable of "hosting" a backlit keyboard - the previous version of dv6, the 3000-4000 version both have backlit keyboard options. the problem is to find a backlit keyboard that is actually compatible with it. the keyboard from the previous version should work, but it doesn't physically fit into the new slot as there is an numeric keypad addition.

 

During an encoding operation, why would the GPU matter??? I heard something about NVIDIA’s CUDA doing hardware encoding ...

 

For those putting new Crucial SSD's in their system I see there is a new firmware on their site.

 

I think the best option right now is the ENVY 17 replacement keyboard with slightly modded tabs. But, now I'm being rather a hypocrite, after getting mad at the people discussing order status in this thread. We should confine this discussion to the modding thread.

 

Alright, there's something really wrong with how the machine/Win7 is handling this ability to switch between GPUs.

Setup: Primary account (Admin), Secondary account (User only)
Result: CCC doesn't work, and error messages continue to pop up

I switched the secondary account to admin, and it still doesn't allow you to switch between GPUs. Here's the really weird thing. When you have both accounts active, you can have the primary account running on the 6770 and the user account defaults to the IGP3000 when you switch over.

 

That's what Sandy Bridge and QuickSync is all about my friend:

Intel?s Second-Gen Core CPUs: The Sandy Bridge Review : Core i7-2600K, Core i5-2500K, Core i5-2400, And Core i3-2100 Reviewed

 

I did NOT know that , thanks for the reading material...

 

Its just a shame that with the current chipset if you have a dedicated GPU you cant use quicksync.

 

What? Link please. This machine is going back if that is the case. I thought I had the best of both worlds by being able to switch GPUs.

 

Hmz, so long as it is fully turned off it should work actually (so I dont think optimus would work) so you might be safe.

 

Darn just noticed i didnt upgrade to the bluetooth card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

What's the point of shutting it off?

 

Mine is supposed to ship out tomorrow (04/27) after the first delay (from 04/12). We'll see if it ships...

 

Probably none really. Someone suggested that it might be useful when watching movies.

The real benefit is so we don't have to suffer through what he suffered, if we ever accidentally turn it off.

 

How does one upgrade the hard drive in the dv6t? Since there is no external esata connection would you use the USB 3 connection. Is it fast enough? If you have a 500 gb and you want to transfer everything to a 640 gb, how is it done?
Thanks,

 

Trial and error. I called HP customer support, but, according to them, there is no way to turn the light on and off.

So, I held down the fn key and just started hitting keys. I wish I had started at the bottom of the keyboard instead of the top.

Oh, btw, I'm a she...not a he.

 

It is kind of annoying to have it on while watching TV or movies in the dark. If you just double tap to disable it, the backlight goes Red.

 

my mistake!

 

Awesome find about disabling the trackpad light. I checked all the manuals to see if it was documented and it was not. I did find a couple other hotkeys that were documented...

fn+esc = display bios and system information
fn+b = enable/disable Beats/Bass Audio
fn+f3 = search box
and of course ....fn+space = enable/disable trackpad led

 

Go to the TouchPad Propeties then go into PalmCheck-Enhanced ACM and turn the PalmCheck slider to off. This should get rid of the lag.

Anyone know how to switch the audio from the monitor to the notebook speakers when using HDMI? What about playing the audio from both the monitor and notebook speakers at the same time?

 

Anyone can tell me that panel mounts the dv7? is better than the dv6 or is the same but with higher resolution only?

please this may make me decide what I want, has anyone seen the 2 models in person?

 

This is a good review.
YouTube - HP Pavilion dv6 Quad Review

 

Well, I'm currently using dv6tqe, and I saw F5 button doesn't have any function! And the sleep mode is no longer existed on the keyboard...why doesn't HP put sleep mode on F5 function! Weird.

And anyone knows how to adjust the Beats Audio Equalizer??? The sound seemed not really good when I set default...