Windows XP on DV7T

Hi, can someone who's remote control works on their dv7t under XP please export the following registry entries so can compare to my dv5t?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Enum/ENECIR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet002/Enum/ENECIR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Enum/ENECIR

Much appreciated.

 

eric, have you been reading what people here post ? The devcon trick seems to still be required, unfortunately, but at least the sound works just fine after that.

 

SUCCESS!

Finally, my dv7-1025nr has a fully functional windows XP installation.


I used ProtonXX and alexandrus' solutions, in regards to drivers and the batch file.

For those of you who are having the problems with the popping noises from the Internal speaker, I may have found a solution. After you install the IDT audio CODEC, there is an item added to the Windows Control Panel, called "IDT Audio Control Panel". Open it, and you are given one option: 'Enable Power Management'. It was enabled by default for me, but as soon as I disabled it, the popping noises instantly ceased, and did not return, even after rebooting several times.
EDIT: I didn't actually notice this until after this post, but way earlier in the thread, someone else also mentioned this as being the fix.

EDIT:
I am now experiecing the brightness issue I believe others were talking about in this thread. too late tonight for me to research it, but it is not that big off annoyance for me as of yet.

Thanks to everyone for their help. Vista sucks, and you have helped me defeat it.

Next on the agenda for me: Ubuntu.

 

The devcon trick was to reboot the bad UAA after windows restarted to make the HDMI, IDT and Modem reappear, w/o having to goto control panel & uninstall/reinstall after every reboot. If your suggestion works then you may have found the magic UAA drivers that work.

 

I extracted kb888111xpsp2 to both Windows\system & windows\system32\drivers but the laptop didnt boot with sound

 

Alas, it works for me as well. I actually had to reformat and follow your instructions last night. (i think the first time, somewhere along the way when trying many different things, i messed up the sound drivers beyond repair.).

But now everything is great. I use the devcon hack and it works fine.

 

Ok, I have read through this entire thread, and I don't understand how the brightness issue with the fn keys is fixed. Can someone explain?

 

Every Fn key works for me except the brightness, it's a mystery,

ProtonXX, sorry, I had the batch already in Start Up and forgot about it. But anyway, with the default UAA on SP3 no driver worked for me, until overwrote those files.

 

Also Followed ProtonXX and Alexandrus instrustions, everything works except the brightness. I haven't check the IR but I don't really cares.
IR people might want to try this driver -> http://www.nancymebel.ru/hp_dv5-1070er_drajvera_dlja_windows_xp.html
I haven't try IR but the HDMI driver works for me.
and for the Batch Files I have the following

Code:

c:\windows\system32\devcon.exe restart PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_293E

Thanks for helping me defeat Vista! Vista just sucks.

 

someone help the man!

 

This is good to hear!
I have just received a dv7t-1000 (2.8Ghz, 3GB mem, dual SATA, GeoForce 9600M GT, cam, fingerprint, blu-ray, bluetooth, not so great keyboard), with the intention of immediately putting XP on it (as I did my dv9000 without problem, just no brightness control). Was hoping it wouldn't be the hassle I just read about. Goes without saying, Vista is just aweful.

Thanks to everyone for working and posting on this. I'm dismayed that it takes so much effort. I will re-read the entire thread again I'm sure, but glad to hear everything generally seems workable.

Any luck with cam and fingerprint?
It'll be a week before I can waste a day or two messing with the install.
I'll report back.
Thanks again - the info is much appreciated.

 

The cam works by default in XP, no driver needed. Dunno about the fingerprint reader, I do not have one because I do not need it, but last time I installed XP on a dv6500t with a FP reader, the FP worked, it was the software required by the FP that was no available at the time, but now everything seems to be available for XP as well.

I will keep searching for a sound driver that works w/o the batch file, but from what I can see, it's not the sound driver that is faulty, but the UAA from MS.

 

Just went to WU, a newer IDT driver is available with improved CPL, a lot of new settings. I will restart right now see if it works any better, but I do not expect it to work w/o the batch though due to idiotic UAA.

 

the main purpose of using my DV7-t1000 is for sound editing. Before I installed Xp pro 64x I backed up all drivers and ghost it while in Vista, so in the future if I had to come back, it'll make things easier. And because of the sound driver annoyance with XP I had no choice but to come back to Vista.
I've noticed in the device manager (while in Vista), that The Microsoft UAA Bus driver does not show up, (like it does in xp). Maybe Vista was smart enough to dissapear it in view of the IDT conflict. Just a though there.

I'd like to compare the device manager of both OS once we come up with the optimal XP installation. I'd probably post it on my next thread.

 

another detail, that I forgot to mention in my earlier posts.

The sound works on my PC w/ the devcon hack, but it only comes out of the left speaker (if i fade the sound all the way to the right, i get nothing). This issue does not occur however, when using headphones (both headphone speakers are utilized appropriately).

I can see why this would bother a serious audiophile. But its really not that big a deal to me. the sound quality is still very good from the internal speaker, and if im going to be watching a movie, or playing a game, I can always use headphones.

 

hey

i have notebook HP DV7 1060EP with windows vista premium.
i need install Windows XP Pro, but when i press one key for boot to install windows xp *plim* crash notebook follow the blue screen.
exists any incompatiblity with any hardware?

thanks in advanced

 

Yes, there is. Read the thread.

 

lura, sorry, but you do sound editing on an integrated sound card, like the IDT ? I mean, I sure hope this is not your primary income source....

Eric, I just tested, sound is perfect on both speakers, and on subwoofer.

Will be back after a restart, will let you know if the new drivers I mentioned made any difference.


PS. A quick thought. Slipstreaming the IDT drivers in the XP kit might do the trick, since upon first boot, the device is detected in Device Manager, but after the Intel INF is installed, it's gone.

 

New driver does not work at all, it's version 6.10 or something and will always get Error 10 - Device cannot start, even with the devcon restart. So back to the driver that works
One thing though, the new driver will show the IDT in Device Manager upon restart, w/o having to do the devcon restart, so it's a step forward, althoughh a major step back since it does not work.

 

I just got my HDMI cable and hooked this dv7t up to the TV.
In Vista, it works pretty good (occasional resolution change and flickers back).
In XP, not so good. The sound doesn't work at all (guess that HDMI driver doesn't work), the color is off - very bright green tint, and the resolution flickers back and forth a LOT. Makes it pretty unusable.
This is not so big a deal since I can just use Vista when hooked up to the TV (except for the resolution flicker, but that is not the topic of this thread!)
I am wondering if anyone has had any success in connecting to a TV using HDMI cable, color wise and sound wise.

 

Actually Alexandrus, I was able to use my sound interface through the firewire port while in xp. But, it is trully inconvenient to work wired to it". Working wirelessly its a beautiful thing, luxury I don't have with xp and dv7. Although, my favorite sound editing software does not seen to work with Vista... never a dull moment.

If you are an audiophile like myself, XP and DV7 would be your worst nightmare..

 

As promised, you'll find the pics of how my Device Manager looks with Vista. Don't know if it is of help, but you can compare it to your XP DM and see what's missing and how it is arranged.

So far I didn't have all those channels in the IDE ATA/Atapi controllers with xp and you can see how the MS UAA driver is missing from System Devices (found in xp after windows update). It'd be a beautiful thing if we could have the same with XP.

My laptop configuration: Intel T9600 2.8GHz. 4GB Memory. Nvidia 9600M GT. 320GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive. Blu-ray Disc. No finger print reader. No TV Tuner.

Cheers.

 

Lura, I dunno much about sound editing, but even for me, the IDT does not sound very good, and that is on headphones. I previously had a SB X-Fi, which is perfect for what I need.
As long as Vista works for you, glad to hear you're all set

xnera, sorry. I didn't yet try any TV on HDMI, I actually lack a HDMI cable and my TV is 20 feet away from my laptop

 

OH but isn't that why you have a laptop (easy to move!)

I just picked up the HDMI cable from Newegg for only $15.98 w/shipping.

 

NewEgg does not ship to where I am located, and besides, I do not watch so many movies. But as soon as I will have a HDMI I will give it a try, I am curios if it works, because it should, according to ProtonXX.

 

Something strange happens when I'm installing. When I delete the C: partition My E became C: my D: became E:. When I created D: partition I ended up with 3 unpartitioned spaces + my 3 partitioned ones. Since My C: (former D holds valuable data am I going to be able to install WIndows on D: without problems ?

 

"ProtonXX: Delete the partition of your drive and format"
Which partition do you mean? C: D: or everything?

 

another thing I should mention,

I normally don't leave the PC on all the time, but I notice that when I leave for an extended period of time, and the system goes into standby mode or whatever, when I come back, the audio no longer works, and nothing fixes it. Not even the devcon hack, or even manually restarting the UAA driver in device mgr.

The only fix is to reboot.

slightly annoying, but another thing im willing to endure, as its nothing compared to having to endure vista.

 

Disable the power saving feature in the IDT control panel. I leave me laptop on for days sometimes and I never seen any problems as you describe.

 

Alex,

I believe I already did this (as i mentioned in an earlier post) to get rid of the popping noises.

But ill check as soon as i have access to the PC again.

 

Can anyone please provide this info for me? Much appreciated.

 

I find it pretty interesting that Ubuntu seems to be easier to install than xp...I'm just gonna dual boot Ubuntu and Vista...eventually maybe I'll get all my games working in ubuntu and throw vista away.

 

HI !

how can we get this sound card work properly on DV7 series ??

THE ONLY GOOD SYSTEM IS A SOUND SYSTEM !!

 

I have a similar question. When I install the UAA driver the sound comes only from the sub-woofer as described. But when I install the IDT audio drivers as mentioned the sounds comes only from the top speakers and my microphone doesn't work. Can someone post a step-by-step guide for getting proper sound and microphone cuz apart from that I can deal with the other non-working stuff but this I just can stand. Thank you in advance.

 

great work proton !!

 

Spirals on, maybe you should read the topic instead of asking questions that have already been answered.

Martin, weird, honestly I have all speakers working. My microphone also.

 

Wekk i'm going to try it again but can you give me links to the exact UAA and IDT drivers you used. Thank you.

 

You will find everything you need already posted here.

 

help this guy!

 

Ok, I've read this thread forwards and backwards and tried about thirteen different variants of installing Windows XP and had absolutely no luck. Even when I am able to get the install process running, and then get the installed OS up, the second time I try and boot the **** thing, it fails.

It doesn't seem to matter what drivers I apply or don't apply after that first bootup - it still stalls the second time, eventually rebooting and giving a "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" message.

What did I miss? I've tried to install:

XP Pro SP2 w/ slipstreamed intel drivers
XP Pro SP2 w/ slipstreamed intel + SP3
XP Pro SP2 w/ slipstreamed kitchen sink (almost all of the drivers) + SP3

The last one seems to come up the closest to working, but it still fails from the "No bootable device" syndrome. In desperation I finally gave up on the HP_RECOVERY partition for restoring Vista (mostly because I couldn't get the @#%@# to boot up anyway), hoping that it was what was referred to on the front page of this post, but still no dice.

I don't just want to run XP instead of Vista, I have to run XP for some business programs, but I guess I just wasn't aware that they made machines that could not run Windows XP when I bought this DV7T piece of work.

Help?!

-/\/

 

You haven't specified much information.

But I'm going to assume that you have tried to install XP on a different partition and not a separate HD and that you are now not able to restore your Vista partition via the recovery disks.

Is this correct?

If you get stuck the same way as Xnera did at page 11 of this thread: where the laptop stalls at the HP logo screen, or no boot device the only way I was able to get around this was to take the HD out, mount in a USB external caddy and actually delete the Vista partition or format and try again.

After failed XP installs my DV7 got stuck at the HP logo screen, it would not boot to Vista, nor allow booting from any DVD/CD (including GParted live etc). Out on a limb I popped it into my Dell laptop and it booted up perfectly, only when I deleted the partition completely would the DV7 allow me to recover the Vista OS.

This appears to be a bios issue (Who knows?) as this reoccured in exactly the same manner even after HP replaced the "faulty" HD .

Summary: If your Vista HD is corrupted and you can't even boot to CD, physically take the HD out and delete the partition from another PC and then restore from DVD.

Successful installation of XP is another kettle of fish.

 

Norby, DV7t can run Windows XP w/o any problems, the last of my quirks is that the brightness adjustment does not work with the Fn button, but besides that, everything is just fine.
From what you are saying, I can only deduct that either you didn't make a proper slipstream of SATA drivers, or that your HDD is somehow damaged. Or maybe you just didn't bother to format before installing.

 

OK, some more details (I was wondering if I'd just missed something obvious, so I didn't fill the post with all the technical crap).

At this point, I've run FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and even FORMAT C: from the recovery console (this after removing a logical partition that the XP installer created via Linux fdisk and creating a fresh primary partition to install into). I've deleted all partitions (old Vista + HP_RECOVERY), and I'm currently trying a fresh install from a XP Pro SP2 CD slipstreamed with the iaAPCI driver from the f6flpy32.zip file and nothing else.

I am able to boot the XP CD with no problems (with the proper f6flpy32 drivers) and install XP (textmode), and then move on through the second phase of installation (graphical), and then a successful first bootup (where it asks you to add users, turn on automatic updates, setup networking, register, etc.). At that point, I keep reading that the thing to do is to install the drivers from the infinst_autol.exe file and reboot.

Whether or not I do that, if I reboot, the machine spends about 5+ minutes at the black Windows XP logo loading screen (with the blue bit moving back and forth, pausing occasionally), accessing the HD intermittently. Eventually, it reboots itself and goes to the HP screen where it ignores ESC, and after a slight delay, it either boots from CD (if you've left one in), or reports that there is "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". From there, I can power off and power on to try again, and XP boots fine in any of the various safe modes. I tried a logged boot, but can't seem to find where that actually logs to to see how far it got.

I'm not really sure how else or what else to format or try at this point. But at this point I am probably just going to send it back. It's really not worth the trouble.

-/\/

 

I had kinda unusual problems while I was installing and I found out that the problem was bad windows installation. Maybe you can try again with another windows CD?

Now just a quick question..for the past 5 hours I got crazy! I've been installing and uninstalling all sorts of sound drivers, everything posted here and on other forums the ones that Alexandrus and Proton said worked....well they work but not like i want them to. Ok so here's what i do. I get to the point where the sound comes only from the bottom subwoofer and the Mute key is orange. UAA drivers are isntalled and everything. So now I try to isntall the drivers from the Misrosoft Update Catalog that Alexandrus posted a link towards. When i do that orange light becomes white and sound is coming only from the speakers on top. Now I'm not OKAY with that but I would've let it pass IF ... when i was with the sub-woofer only driver my microphone worked fine (the built-in one). When I installed the driver that was supposed to work the mic stopped working as well? I've read through everything a million times and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or something's wrong with my installation. In the properties for the microphone I have Microphone and Digital Mic. With the other driver on which the mic doesn't work I have Microphone and Internal Mic. It's all so strange and scrambled. Any help will be appreciated.

 

Norby, try a SP3 slipstreamed Windows XP, with SATA drivers as well, maybe it works. It worked for me, I saw no point in installing SP2 if SP3 is already available.
Also, I suggest you create the partition with something other than Linux fdisk, maybe Windows 98 SE fdisk ? Try a Windows 98 SE kit, boot in command prompt mode and then create the partition, if you want FAT32 you can format it with 98SE, if you want NTFS, just let WinXP format it before installing.

Martin, I think you were in a hurry when reading the topic. I specifically mentioned that the UAA files have to be overwritten with older versions in older for the sound driver to work properly.
Now, I don't know which driver versions you people are using, I always use the newest available drivers, latest service pack and all updates, except of course the UAA driver which has to be worked around, and the sound driver, since the latest version does not work for some reason.

 

Alexandrus: Thanks for the suggestions, but I think I'm going to just return it at this point (given that even if it succeeds, it only "mostly" works) and get something that is supported by the manufacturer under XP. I wiped out all partitions with the recovery mode and recreated them via the XP installer, but still no dice. I don't think I even know what box would have a Windows 98 CD in it - the best I could come up with is Win2K. As for the install disc, I would suspect it, but I've used it for dozens of installs including parallels, fusion, and recently a dell optiplex. I guess something about the SATA driver is just not 100% Kosher post-install, but it really isn't worth my time to debug.

-/\/

 

Well, you'll have one hell of a problem finding any laptop with PM45 that will go well with XP simply because M$ is shoving Vista down our throats.
As for Windows 98, you only need a CD with the boot sequence and basic command files, such as fdisk, format, and so on.

 

I have no idea what PM45 is, but both Dell and Lenovo are still selling laptops w/ XP pre-installed or at the very least, supported.

-/\/

 

Only XP problems I can see right now is:

Microsoft UAA Driver not working on reboot - there is a work around
Brightness & hot keys
Sound only working thru subwoofer
Infrared & Remote dont work
Mute Key is orange
Digital builit in mic is ran thru the top speakers apparently & dont work properly creating noise from the fans in the laptop.

 

For me, the only problem is the UAA not detecting the IDT, and the mute key is not always orange but always white(once the sound is initiated in Windows). Hot keys work fine, except the bightness ones. All speakers working, microphones as well.