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

Problem is that only the Intel 1000 and Broadcom cards are whitelisted in the BIOS that I recall. There is a hacked BIOS but apparently that doesn't come without issues.

 

Musho, are there any news about the voltmodding, by setting all the 1.0v to 1.05v/1.1v?

And what about the fusion tweaker ability to change nb/igpu voltages? Could anyone else confirm/deny it?

 

Hey everyone! While we all learned that sabine is going to be replaced by the comal plattform, which makes us unable to use the new trinity APUs in our current laptops, this chart shows a new topping A8 APU (3550MX), coming out Q4 for our current sabine platform! Yay!

 

I swapped mine out for a Realtek wifi/bluetooth 3.0 combo card. I get amazing performance from it.

 

Realtek, really? I want an Intel 6230. It's only like $25, but am hesitant to spend the money if I can't use it at all.

 

I have not had any issues with the non whitelist bios. Been running a Bigfoot 1102 card for a couple weeks now. The WiFi light on the f12 key blinks but I just ignore it.

 

Hmm, my problem is that my GPU is overclocked in the BIOS, so it's either overclocked GPU or different wi-fi card.

 

I haven't seen Musho around here recently, but at last report iirc he said it should not be hard to make the clock changes to the non whitelist bios. You could also post your modded bios to bios-mods.com and see if someone on there can remove the whitelist. That's where the original no whitelist mod came from. I don't remember the guys name that did it however. Kr105 posted it here iirc.

 

@ seer : LG 15.6? FHD TFT LCD Panel for notebooks - LP156WF1 | eBay

It is glossy but for the amount of money I save i would rather buy an anti glare film to put on top.

Also, I do believe that we would need a new display cable... I need to call HP to see about the order.

Disappointing news about trinity but good news about 3550mx

Seems so sad that sabine is retired so freaking early in it's life!! According to wikipedia, Comal will use the same chipset, and a revised socket called FS1r2..... so you never know....

 

Hey it didnt work it has something blocking it i know it works becouse it has power when i plug a flash drive but it doesnt detect anything I uploaded a pic so you can see .I want a usb3

 

Try uninstalling all the AMD drivers with the express uninstall option then reinstall the entire driver package that is downloadable from HP. I had the same issue after a clean windows install.

 

Hey guys,

I just received my dv6z-6100 (LK237AV) today and I wanted to do a fresh install of windows 7 but it cannot find the HDD to install windows 7 on. It asks for drivers and cannot detect any HDD to install windows 7 on. What's the problem?

P.S I tried the same HDD on another desktop and HP laptop and use the same win7 disk and it can detect it just fine...

would "HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection" have anything to do with it? Let's say someone stole the laptop and tries to install fresh win7 onto it so this is how it prevents them? or is it just for free fall protection etc.?

 

Sounds like it can't find the appropriate SATA driver. The HP site has a guide in the support section on how to make sure you install the right driver so that the op system can find the drive. go into your bios and set for sata, then make sure you have the right driver available so that when windows asks if you want to add a driver, you can point it to the correct sata driver.

seer

 

use the 2.0 ports, if you try to use the 3.0 ports you get that exact error.

 

good point vect, for the inquirer, the 3.0 ports do not come up until after windows starts so to install you need to be using the 2.0 ports as Vect has suggested.

Seer

 

Well after messing around with my video drivers for almost 2 weeks, turns out my hdmi port is the problem When I press down on the cable head at the laptop the screen pops up on my tv, very touchy. On the phone with hp support and looks like will be an rma... I don't really want to send it in for it to get fixed but I guess that's the only solution?? I'm wondering if a computer repair shop might be a better option if it's a loose connection on the mobo?

 

I would say RMA it and let HP manage it, because if a repair shop tries to fix it and puts a big gob of solder on it and still has problems HP might refuse to fix it.

 

Hi everyone,
I picked up the dv6-6135dx the other day and really like it for the price. However, I am having an issue trying to stream things to the laptop.

I'm getting strange network pauses. I have all my movies ripped to MKV files on my network. When try to play one(I'm using a simple DVD rip , not BluRay), it plays fine for a few seconds but then it stops streaming for a second or 2 then catches back up and is fine, then a few seconds later, it does it again. If I move the file to the laptop, it streams fine.

I also see this behavior in my Slingplayer as well. Most of the time it will start ok(although sometimes it doesn't even start) and then after a few seconds, will stop and eventually tell me it is having an issue communicating with the SlingBox.

This happens whether I am wired or wireless. I have 2 other PCs and an older Gateway netbook that don't have this issue, so I'm pretty sure it's not my network(I have a Netgear WNDR3700 router).

It seems like there's something going on on the HP laptop and the network drivers. I'm wondering if there's some bloatware on here that is causing the issue, that I can remove. I am using Norton for my Internet security that came with it and that's what Im using on my other computers as well, so I'm thinking that's not it either(I've tried turing it off too, but no change).

Any ideas on this. I really need to get this taken care of.

Thanks

 

So, my laptop just stopped outputting from the headphone jack. Anyone else experience this/have a solution?

Edit: Crisis adverted. Rebooted and it worked.

 

I've been searching for guide on how to overclock the GPU 6750m but couldn't find any info. Can you please give me some guides or links on how to do it? Greatly appreciated.

 

Just so you guys know, leaked slides show Trinity coming out in Q1 of 2012 (next year) and compatible with current notebook motherboards, you can rejoice now.

 

Make sure to use HP drivers (SP52989) , no AMD released drivers will overclock.

Download and run GPU-Z. Right click desktop, configure switchable graphics, set GPU-Z as "high performance" (required to get MSI Afterburner to "see" the dedicated GPU). Leave GPU-Z running.

Download and install MSI Afterburner. Start it, then exit (so config file is created)

Edit Afterburner config file with this:

HOW TO: Enable UNOFFICIAL overclocking mode in MSI AfterBurner - Guru3D.com Forums

Start Afterburner, make sure 6750m is selected (go to settings at top), overclock carefully.

 

Would anyone please send me the USB 3.0/smbus drivers for the DV6z?

I formatted and re-installed using an OEM disk and none of the drivers on the website work!

 

Use the graphics drivers noted above SP52989.exe

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&softwareitem=ob-96122-1

Do a custom install and make sure it has selected USB drivers. They are in there.

 

If you're interested, there's 11.10 preview drivers tuned for BF3 beta here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...e-few-hours-link-available-2.html#post7945650

These are tuned for mobility since the AMD drivers from their site do not support mobility GPU's natively.

 

what is trinity?

 

Bulldozer core + GPU on same die = trinity

At first will be bulldozer + 6xxx series, but then switch to 7xxx series graphics when they come out.

 

It's the Llano successor on the revised FS1r2 socket.

 

Where does it say that Trinity is compatible with Llano mobos?

 

Anyone tried overclocking with 11.10 preview to see if Llano GPU overclocking works now? Didn't work with 11.9 RCx, 11.8, or 11.7. Would be so nice if it was fixed, but I'm guessing AMD will either never fix it or fix it in 6 months...

 

Ill test the new drivers.... but man is the download for them ever slow...

UPDATE : They installed perfectly for both the 6750m and 6620. Both drivers now report version 8.910 !

 

I just tried it and didn't work.

The reason it isn't working is something that seeratlas brought up. Something about allowing overclocking only for certain GPU's, and will lock out that ability in the software unless you have those cards. Unfortunately those are desktop cards only. So doubt we'll see overclocking ability unless HP releases additional drivers and unlocks it there.

Your best option is to test with the HP stock drivers and once you get it where you want it ask Musho to incorporate it into the BIOS. He's done that for many of us and flash your BIOS with the clocks. That way you can always have your system run at optimum clocks regardless of drivers installed.

 

As stated by the poster above you and in the image, it is the same socket, kind of like AM3 and AM3+ (it is a revision, still compatible), and other slides leaked with it say that it will use the same chipsets as the current Llano APU.

Trinity is the Piledriver core/modules (updated version of Bulldozer core/module) and Radeon 7000 series graphics integrated in (current Llano use the name of the 6000 series, but as I understand it the technology is still from the 5000 series). I am waiting for the refresh of the HP dv6z-quad before I buy now, my HDX16t can last a few more months.

Piledriver should be a pretty good improvement over Bulldozer, considering bulldozer is the first run at a completely new architecture (nothing has changed this much at Intel or AMD in over 20 years for the mainstream market) so Bulldozer and its architecture should have a lot of unlockable potential in the future.

I imagine that Trinity, with actually 7000 series graphic card architecture, will be able to crossfire much better with the new 7000 graphic cards that will come in these notebooks with them being the same architecture and all and that is outside the big improvements of the new architecture also.

AMD has already said that the Trinity APU graphics power will be 50% higher than Llano, no clue yet on the ability of PileDriver vs K10 cores from Llano in CPU performance. So Trinity should be quite a jump and AMD said exact same power envelope of Llano for performance chips on laptops and same/near performance of Llano should be much less power hungry (rumors say half the power needed to match the APU performance of Llano with Trinity, someone say a laptop with 10-14 hours with new Trinity APU that matches performance with Llano)

 

There's been no confirmation if Llano will be compatible with Trinity. It's only speculation.

 

With the slides being confirmed as official by industry insiders and also the knowledge that they compatible and use the same chipsets, pretty much guarantees that they will be compatible. AMD has the right to change that at their own discretion, so even though it seems to be confirmed, it could still change.

 

That's not really proof or confirmation. Using your example, AM3 mobos are not all compatible with AM+ cpus, because while an AM3+ cpu may fit into the socket, it has different electrical requirements. Some mobos have had BIOS updates to support AM3+ but many others haven't.

Likewise for Trinity. The processor might be able to fit into the socket (though unconfirmed), but it's unlikely that it will be as simple as that to make it work.

 

Right. At a minimum it will most likely require a BIOS update from the board or OEM manufacturer, in our case HP, and that is far from likely. Because I doubt HP will test it with the new chips and ensure compatibility. By that time the DV6z 6100 series will be an afterthought and on to the newer models.

Intel Ivy Bridge chips will be same socket as Sandy Bridge but only a few instances where they will be compatible, and still requires firmware / BIOS level updates to make it compatible.

 

Although the socketname has changed from the first slides that were leaked to the net, from FM2 to FM1r2, which implies even a chance of pin-compatibility, I don't think we could upgrade, too.

I remember this hope for compatibility from the Pentium-M CPUs. And while the refresh had the same pins, 1. the ones giving power to the CPU changed with the revised socket, 2. it showed that not all older chipsets could support the higher fsb(now qpi) of the new CPUs, and 3. the manufacturer would have to make a new bios that incorporated the new cpu-id's, which never happened.

And aside from that, it's still uncertain, wheter amd would let the 6000-series GPUs run together with trinitys new 7000's. Especially the new ones being in 4D-shader design...

 

Hey guys, I'm sorry but I just DO NOT understand most of what is being said/done in this thread. I've tried to search everywhere but I just can't find anything I can reference to. I'm too newbish to think about overclocking and any crazy such things like that, unless its laid out in front of me or I have someone talking me through it my first time around. But I'm not even trying to figure that out yet, all I wanna know is how to "work" my switchable graphics.

I have the dv6-6135dx and I just don't get how to work the switchable graphics. I have BIOS A.20 from HP and my AMD/ATI 6620G and 6750M graphics driver versions are 8.861.1.4000.

I have the AMD VISION Engine Control Center (2011.0402.3359.39449) and I've tried reading so much crap on their "help" site and every google/forum search I could think of.

If anyone can, PLEASE point me in the right direction, or show me a "guide" on how to make my graphics cards work to the best ability. I just want to understand what options I should have in the ECC and know how to be able to switch from my 6620G to 6750M. ANY help is greatly appreciated and please "dumb" down terms as I've just got this laptop a little over a week ago, and I'm not so tech term savvy.

Thank you!!

Quick Edit: Also in my bottom right where I can right click the AMD Vision ECC I have 2 options that show up, but they're both the 6620G. One with a few options in it and one with only "Extend desktop".

 

Right click desktop choose "configure switchable graphics". Any recent apps or opened apps usually will appear there. Just click and choose between "power saving" and "high performance". Power saving = integrated GPU (6620G), High Performance = dedicated GPU (6750m).

I usually start the app and it will show up there as long as its running, otherwise you may have to hunt for it's exe.

 

UGH! I just typed out my reply twice and it deleted and then my page refreshed! Now, let's try for the third time.

I've been doing that. I've set firefox/plugin to run at High Performance and I'll try and watch YouTube and try it in full screen but when I run System Monitor the 6750 bar never moves. I've even tried with a MMO I have installed, but the same thing, 6750 bar just stays there and the 6620 is moving.

I'm trying to figure all of this out so that when I install and I'm ready to start playing games (hopefully the Diii beta, or at least when it releases), that it will run on the 6750 and not the 6620.

I also totally do not understand what options I need to adjust in the ECC either, as maybe that's one of my problems? Like in the "Video" and "3D" where there are the Power Saving and High Performance profiles. A few of the things are set to "use application settings" and IDK if that's an issue either. Also I'm always supposed to be using CrossFire right? And do we even have the option of using "Fixed"? Because when I went into BIOS under System Config there isn't a "switch" for dynamic or fixed.

UGH I HATE not knowing what I'm doing. I'm so incredibly new with HP laptops, Windows 7, and this wholeee switchable graphics crap.

Edit in: Oh and when I right click in the system tray or whatever, am I supposed to see 6620 AND 6750 or just 2 of 6620?
I attached pictures of this part in question too.

Edit Two: Am I just over analyzing this way too much? Or do I actually have valid questions? Because if you say I'm looking too deeply into this, then I'll just drop it and hope that it is working like it's supposed to. I'm just soo exhausted from the past 2-3 days straight trying to configure and make all of this crap work how "I want it to" while the case may be that I just don't know I'm actually talking about and it's already fine.

 

Don't use system monitor, use MSI Afterburner's built-in monitoring.

 

I'm sorry but... what is MSI Afterburner's built-in monitoring? hahaha

Really, I'm sorry, I'm sure you've dealt with a bunch of "newb" people who ask stupid questions like me.

And is the system tray picture I attached right?


Edit: Googled MSI now I'm just trying to find what one I'm supposed to download

 

In MSI Afterburner click on settings, go to monitoring tab, choose each item you want monitored by putting a checkmark next to it. Then also click "Show in On-Screen Display" for each item you want to view while in game.

 

I'm on the MSI website, I just can't find where to download the afterburner



Edit: Okay downloaded and installed, do I install the "kombustor" too?

Wow... I'm so lost with this MSI afterburner... Sorry again but how do I use this and what do I need to do/use. I did the settings you said but I have no idea what any of this means. =/

UGH How do I reattach the little side window thingie?

 

Has anybody tried 11.9 yet? Apparently one of the fixes is "Negative Crossfire Scaling is no longer occasionally observed while playing EarthSim 2, Battle – Bad Company 2 , Metro and HAWX", but I'm not sure if that applies to dual graphics. Maybe it'll get rid of some of the stuttering?

I have work to do right now so I'll probably try it out later tonight.

 

i wish these llano's were more aggressive with turbo.

I'm sitting at a cool 40c, and in single thread apps like mp3 encoding, it won't sustain turbo for more than a fraction of a second.

 

That's why K10stat is your friend.

 

So I'm running the new drivers. Overclocking causes insta-BSOD, and I do not have my crossfire problems fixed in Starcraft 2 (although I barely tested it, so I will need to test more later).

However, my "artifacting" problems with the brown horizontal lines completely disappeared, so that's nice.

 

Official 11.10 pre-release drivers with Mobile support now available.

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDCatalyst1110Previewdriver.aspx