*OLD: HP dv8t QUAD Edition Owners Lounge*

Couldn't have said it better myself! Gave you a Rep point, not just for this (your judgment and posts about have been very useful to all), but no one who is so helpful on this forum should have only 1 Rep point in 140 posts! This forum is very stingy on Rep points. I wonder if many even know what they are or how you award one. In any event, today you get one, Phil!

 

I've noticed it once or twice and have seen it on this thread or the other DV8 thread. I suggest you check your Event Logs to see if there are any errors at the time its trying to wake up. Just type "Event Log" in the search window to get the logs.

 

Thanks - everyone likes to be appreciated. I'm rather new here and don't know all the nuances of the community ... I also try to keep posters accurate and may be seen as challenging some of what they write. Despite that, I enjoy the exchange of current and useful information. I find the people have learned a great deal about what makes these Dv8 machines work well and I value their willingness to share that kind of help. Cheers!

 

I'll agree to disagree. What proper channels?

 

Well I was going to go and buy a new DV8 Quad, and clone mine and return it for repair, and either sell it on its return or use it within my business. I cannot even do that as it appears to have been withdrawn from the UK HP site, not a DV8 in sight?

Intersting regarding the sleep mode, if ones screen goes in to sleep mode, can it still be visble by shining a torch on the screen? Long shot I know.

 

How am I causing economic harm to owners of this computer? This forum has not offered any solutions to the major and established flaws of the Dv8t-1000 CTO. Your information is just not accurate. I will reiterate, I'm staying on HP's back until they do the right thing. And I put money on it that it is hardware related. So unless you can go down the list and give specific and working fixes to all the bugs, then you are not adding anything useful to the people who feel they may have made a mistake by buying this laptop. You may be happy, but trust there are many others out there that are not. One more question, when have I screamed like a baby? I'm just demanding accountability.

 

It's not just the tone control issue. How about being in the middle of very import Photoshop or After Effect work, and have the gfx card quit arbitrarily at least once a day and lose your work?

Like I said before, you may be happy, but please don't try and paint this as one perturbed individulal. that is just not the case.

 

If you want to solve the problem with your graphics card, go to the proper forum:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=426674

state your problems, when they occur, etc, and ask nicely and politely for anyone who has suggestions to provide them. Note how many posts there were about the graphics card months ago, and now yours is one of the few. And also do some research and learn that the problem is more with nVidia and its drivers than anything HP (who does do lots wrong, to be sure) is responsible for. And you can't exactly blame HP for using a nVidia product in its computer.

Just ask for help, in the right place, in the right way, and be ready to try a couple of approaches (actually, a couple of different drivers, for some reason, different people get better results with different drivers) and you will solve your problem.

This will be my last post on the subject.

 

Good. Because I don't suppose you have an HP name badge on your shirt and thats who needs to answer. And yes I have seen plenty of recent complaints regarding the video driver. And wait, let me do a little more research here...Who sold me this laptop?...Nvidea...oh no it was HP...the same incompetent bunch that should be answering these questions. Won't miss you lovelaptops.

 

It took me some time to wrap my brain around the event logs. For some reason, pressing the sleep buttons like the power button and fn f5 buttons seem to actually mean "Shutdown improperly NOW!" SOMETIMES. It's really weird, the computer dosen't resume from sleep because it thinks it is actually booting up but it is supposed to be waking from sleep. The only way to fix it is to hard power it down. I have been uninstalling software/updates and tried a few different graphics drivers, ran powercfg -energy, researched ALOT of forums and now it has been over 24 hours since it hasn't woken from sleep. Not sure what I have done to fix it or if it is really fixed, anybody else have the computer not wake up very randomly? It really kills the tv recording aspect of the computer.

 

Precisely why I don't just go randomly installing drivers under the advisement of gum shoe computer detectives. How about some official releases, HP? If, there is a fix for the gfx card issue, the wireless issue, the tone control issue, what are they? Where can they be found? These are obviously a rhetorical questions, as you'd have better odds of finding Jimmy Hoffa.

 

Hey guys - this thread is basically the same as the other dv8t owner's lounge; please continue the conversation there:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=426674&page=312
Thanks.