*HP dv6z AMD Llano (6XXX series) Owners Lounge*

I would suspect the key feature of this laptop will be that it offers a new minimum price for the 7970M, with a trade that certain standard features are bumped down to upgrades instead. And putting those features back in would bring the price closer to its normal point. However if the key features are A10, 7970M, Super RAID cache drive for $1200 or less....I expect a lot of people jumping on it.

 

Hello guys,

I remember back reading on this thread how some people had problems with their screen and had to change the drivers or so.

Well my screen problem just started and i didnt change the driver or anything. usinf the 12.1 driver and i get this line about 3/4 way on the screen which later blurs up and down then gives me a total white screen. Might take a picture or 2 and post for a idea of what im talking about if no one has experience this yet.

my guess would be to update drivers perhaps to the newest and latest.

 

Drivers are worth a shot but this could be a hardware thing.

 

Didnt do the update yet but i have noticed a few things so far after playing round and restarting my computer for abit.

the line/blur seems to come up when playing falsh related video/audio or on flash heavy sites.

i did do a recent flash upgrade so i will first revert back to that if it continues.

 

Trudat, Flash uses hardware accel these days. Try disabling acceleration in your Flash preferences first.

 

Ghostly I had the line flicker problem with my laptop as well. I read somewhere that this is due to some sort of driver problem which can happen when the display is set to turn off after a set period of time in power options.

I changed the turn off display setting in my power plan settings and my screen has not had any problems since. It might be worth a shot to changing your power plan to never turn off the display and see if it works for you as well.

 

thanks. however no luck with the power change or my flash theory. this thing is soo random so far. Done some reading around and its probably cables being loose around the lcd screen or still power related as it happens when laptop is inactive for abit, on standby and when i reboot or shut down and start it up again.

 

Are the flashes horizontal brown/black bars? I used to have them all of the time in chrome after waking the laptop from sleep. Hasn't happened in a while now.

 

That's a negative, it was confirmed a while back that they have different pin setups. I've forgotten where exactly, but some site got a mobile Trinity chip some time ago and compared the pins-they have the same number, but they moved some of them around so they're not compatible, and the guys attempted to alter one or the other but couldn't get the system to boot. Oh, and Steamroller will be different from both!

 

Hi guys, I was doing a minimal recovery of my dv6-6135dx and for some reason it shut off during the formatting but now i am unable to get into the recovery. Could some one please post an iso of their recovery disks? I don't really want to spend $30 on the ones hp sells.

 

it starts off as light grey horizontal line that spreads and blurs and like tv channel loosing its signal. then goes completely white for a few seconds to minutes. before it comes back to normal after flickering.

 

To the guy with no boot, probably he needs to unbrick his BIOS...? Need more info.

 

Well looks like HP released some of the new Trinity DV6/7 models : HERE

No discrete graphics card.... relatively high price compared to dv6z... interesting yet disappointing.

 

I also have a problem with my dv6-6135dx screen its not a huge problem but when watch/playing a movie/game i see horizontal lines of blur going up and down the screen happen. Nothing game breaking but here is a test vid to see if you have these lines as well its a dead pixel test video and it flashes
Pixel Fix (Full HD - 1080p - Stuck/Bad Remove Pixel) - YouTube

 

If any of y'all see something like this, let me know:

10-11" notebook (a must)
Dual-core AMD Fusion processor (E2-1800 minimum or better...A4 would be preferable.)
USB 3.0

I would have already bought the HP dm1z in order to replace my travel HTPC, but they can't seem to address the USB 3.0, and offer 2.0 instead. This is a make-or-break for me, since all peripherals that I already have (external HD, Blu-Ray drive) can use more than the standard USB 2.0 throughput, especially if working all at once.

Looking to do this on a shoestring otherwise I would have bought a used Alienware.

 

I've seen E-450 as low as $400, sometimes even with USB 3. Will keep eyes open.

 

Toshiba SATELLITE AMD A10-4600M/6GB/750GB/15.6

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lenovo http://www.provantage.com/lenovo-261729u~7LENO38W.htm

preorder evil but an attractive price

Toshiba a8 4500 in stock

http://www.costcentral.com/proddeta...4500M_6GB_640GB_156INC/PSKAYU005002/11674866/

 

Why are they all 15" Where's the 13" ones?

 

OMG, finally my dv6 back into game, brought a not working 6135dx off ebay.

When it come in, it beeps and not post. Power reset, no go. Take it apart and seem to be a screw shorting it and some how the board revived.

Now back to the game and try to revive my old one ~~.!!

Oh man, I sure do miss it, 2 month already , time for some ICD.

Edit: and I promise I wont push you hard, just stay alive .

edIt: OMg went dead again after repaste, I think it has something to do with the gold color thingy, feel lik eI bent one and broke the circuit. should had leave it alone and just use it zzz

seem like actually broke the one(ME6) next to wifi, dun know how to fix, solder or is the gold thing even needed ~~?

back again after i plug in ram/finger print/touchpad.......... come on man, stop playing me ...........

 

Jesus HP still can't get anything right. They swapped my entire motherboard and I'm still having my HDMI issue. Pulled my RAM and that wasn't the problem, reinstalled Windows when they told me to even though same issue happens under Ubuntu.

 

To me, that would imply some sort of antipixies. Couple times I used HDMi it was great. And you've had basically everything renewed by the maker.

 

I'm pretty sure that you may have done it but still, have you tried with another screen?

 

Tried it with three HDMI cables, 2 HDMI to DVI adapters, that monitor and 3 HDTVs. Pulled the RAM last night to see if that would fix but it didn't. I think I'm gonna rip it apart today to see if I find anything. I'm thinking it could potentially be the iGPU on the processor since I believe for dual graphics everything passes through that first.

 

You guys would not believe the amount of paste they used. So much.

 

I posted this to the llano opti guide, but i'm not sure which one gets more traffic. I thought I might try here as well.

 

Should be about the same with any of the listed drivers. I personally like to go with the latest drivers.

 

Apparently the stock HP drivers will not allow you to overclock your graphics card at all. Is this true? I'm running the 7690M with the crossfire. Do people generally just leave crossfire on and just turn it off when playing games or?

 

Anything 12.x should overclock fine.

Crossfire is hit or miss, some get improvement, while other get stutter or extra heat for no gain.

 

Actually I was not able to overclock my graphics card with the stock HP driver at all. Even bumping the clock speed by 5 MHZ caused a BSOD. I might have to driver sweep and just install 12.4 again using AMD drivers.

also, when I run kombuster in addition in prime 95 it jumps to lower P States(should it be doing that?), does this mean it's throttling and I should increase the voltage?

edit-- I just tested it with the max voltage it still throttles with the DX11 gpuburn. It doesn't seem to matter what voltage I give it, it jumps to a lower Pstate. my overclock was 2.4 Ghz

 

If you haven't repasted, maybe drop the overclock slightly. I am at my 2.2GHz "sweet spot" for power and temps. Voltages only go DOWN, even 2.2GHz is running at 1.0625v ...in double burn I see a little throttling until temps and fan reach equilibrium. If I leave K10Stat running with Clock Control enabled, it reaches peak temp faster and doesn't throttle.

When you say that you're getting a BSOD when overclocking the dGPU, can you describe what program you are using?

 

Man this thread is wayyy to long lol

Anyway i have a dv6-6124ca and i am looking to do a few things with it:

I have already overclocked it using k10 stat to 2.8Ghz at 1.2250v

What i want is some more control over the GPUs inside mainly I want to find out how to enable just the 6750m (the dedicated one). I think I disable crossfire to start but then what? :O

Also i want to OC the 6750m i read a few (hundred) pages back that i have to rollback the dirvers to 11.6? Could someone post a link or just explain in some detail what has to be done. If it helps i have gpu-z and MSI after burner (with the eula thing filled in) but when i try to oc with just that the drivers crash ( I havent rolled them back yet)

I was also looking at the custom bios made by musho. I of course havent flashed any yet since i dont know my optimal values.

Lastly @rmacgowa i noticed you have the same laptop are there any recommendations you have? like additional tweaks? or is my cpu OC any good?

Thanks to all in advance <3

 

Okay so to use only the 6750m follow this guide: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...unlock-fixed-dynamic-switchable-graphics.html

Also for OCing the gpu 12.1a drivers work great which is what you will have after following the guide above, to overclock the gpu go to the "overclocking gpu" section on this thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...-dv6z-llano-overclock-optimization-guide.html

note: best stable/cool speeds for me have been 770 on clock and 980 for memory with this and a slight cpu OC my computer maxes at 77(no cpu repaste or cooling pad) degrees Celsius while playing BF3 on high @1366x768. You can definitely go higher but you risk cpu throttling at higher temps.

 

Is 2.2 your B0 or P0? I'm a bit confused, according to the guide i'm using if the CPU is throttling that means I should increase the voltage. Also, what chipset are you using? I'm using the A6.


I was able to get a stable clockspeed at 2.4 GHz at 1.1875v, any lower and one of the cores would error out in prime95 for my B0. I ran it for a several hours fine with prime 95. The second I run Kombuster in addition to prime 95, it throttles.

I got 2.2 GHz at 1.1250v for my P0. I also ran it in prime95 for several hours without any problems, but when I run kombuster it starts throttling




I'm using MSI afterburner. my B0 clockspeed is 2.4

 

Somebody knows a place that ships internationally where I can buy the cable for the FullHD replacement? this cable: 50.4RN10.021...

The screens are very cheap here but the cable is becoming almost impossible to find...

 

Ah yes! Mucho gracias, good sir that first link is exactly what I needed and I'm going to try the method in the second later again many thanks to all contributors

 

Flexfit: Okay, I see that your chip doesn't like dropping voltages quite as aggressively. My b0 and p0 are BOTH 2.2GHz, just because I can do that.

All I did when overclocking was begin with 2.4GHz and 1.2v running double burn Prime/Kombustor (DX11 Crossfire ON). I used some plain paper to mark my settings and temps for each run.

The 2.4 was a bit meteoric (thermal rise) for my taste, whereas 2.2 began at 87°C and scaled to [email protected] stable. I kept dropping clocks and voltages progressively, noting temps the entire time. When it was done I found that some setting didn't work at cold-start temps, so every step was bumped upward 0.0125v and that fixed everything. Voltages below 0.8375 either do not register or result in amperage gain, certainly the wattage is not improved. So don't drop the floor out from under your low clocks.

Probably your performance safe zone is about 2.1GHz because one core must not have good paste coverage. My factory paste is good so far...no single cores delivering math errors.

 

If it helps at all when i overclocked my cpu I used k10 stat and changed ALL the p-states to be identical. Only do this if you are comfortable with the voltage and clock speed you have chosen other wise start at a factory setting and marginally decrease the voltage or increase the clock speed till you find what you are looking for. For more info on this method check out this guide I'd imagine since there are only overclocked p-states throttling is impossible (I've never noticed any on my rig) good luck

 

@quazonis

Good to see another 6124ca floating around . You got lucky with that CPU overclock, I cant run 2.8Ghz stable with less than 1.26V.

Personally, now I use 2.6Ghz @ 1.15 volts. See how low you can get the voltage for 2.6. Once you are around that voltage the temps will drop quite a bit.

The performance difference between 2.6 and 2.8 will be negligible, so don't worry about it. Running at lower temps will increase the longevity of the CPU and cause the overall system to run cooler (better for GPU overclock too).

In terms of which driver to use... I would stick with 12.1a if you want manual switching . I am using 12.5 and when using manual graphics switching the performance is very gimped. It does not bother me too much right now because I am using dynamic switching with crossfire off.

Install 12.1a, and start messing around with MSI Afterburner to get a stable GPU clock. The stability varies from driver to driver so watch out (I had 815/1025 stable in 11.6, which was lowered to 800/1000 for daily use... but some drivers like 12.3 even had stability problems with that. 12.1a is pretty stable)

While you could probably get highest clocks on 11.6a, 12.1a will give better performance due to increased optimization. Just have patience and the power of this laptop will show itself

 

I am running 12.6 now, there is a problem that when I boot the computer on with hdmi attached, there will be no display on internal or external LCD.

If I plug hdmi after get into windows, everything is fine.

Not sure if this is driver related or my board is kind of crippled.

 

thanks for the suggestions! I have been really busy today but i did manage to get 2.6 at 1.1625 but I haven't been able to play with it as much as i wanted

Im going to try the GPU tweaks some time next week when I'll have as much time as I want

 

Has anyone been able to OC the gpu using 12.6 drivers? I have heard a lot of people saying that the newer drivers(12.1a+) disable OC.

 

I've been able to access AMD overdrive with 12.4

 

running 12.6 o'clocked here.

seer

 

Hey!

Do you know of any guides to OCing with AMD overdrive ? I would think the interface would be the same for 12.6 and 12.4

 

AMD overdrive is pretty straight forward, it find the max clock @ 1.1375 (p0 vid) then give you a slider.

 

Would you say that it's a more effective tool to use for OCing than K10STAT?

 

I only tried it recently as I did a clean install, drop it immediately as it doesn't do under volt. (heat and fan noise irritate me)

If you just use it for gaming/OC, I think it probably is a quick and easy solution.

 

It doesn't change the voltage? Only the clock speed?

 

Yeah. Pretty useless when you can just k10stat imo.

 

Im planning to buy a SSD what the max size compatible with the hp dv6z? Also I called HP about buying a SSD and told me my laptop is not compatible with SSD any reasons why? Laptop model HP Pavilion dv6-6b47dx a8 3510mx