USB 3.0 Windows installation and HP sound boost not working

[Chnc43]

Hello everyone

I'm currently facing the following problem:
I installed linux (Fedora 35) over Windows and realized that there is a problem with the HP Audio Boost and B&O audio system, it just doesn't connect the sub-woofer apparently. 

After spending 3 days on different forums and rerouting channels in HDAJackRetask I had only one option to fix it left - to install windows, then install fedora and then compare the routing of the audio channels and reroute them to the windows setup on Linux.

So I decided to Install windows to fix that, and realized that actually it's not possible, because my device (HP Envy x360) has no USB 2.0 port, and therefor there is a problem "No device driver found". The logical decision was to find the chipset driver, but for some reason none of them fit, and the official driver package for my laptop doesn't provide it. I even tried to inject the other drivers in the ISO image, but never succeed.

I checked the forums again in order to solve it, even tried to install from SD card (which is not possible with this bios). Also no success. 

All the drivers that I found either require windows to install them (which is already ridiculous) or just don't fit. I would ask someone to use their windows-pc but everyone around me is on mac.

If somebody could just send me the driver package .inf for the xHCI for my laptop, that would be just perfect. 

Please help, i'm desperate and feel extremely stupid for shutting down windows at the first place..

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

See if the USB drivers that I zipped up and attached below work for you...I included both USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 just in case.

If you can get access to a Windows PC running W7 64 bit or newer you can use the HP cloud recovery tool to create a bootable USB recovery drive that will reinstall W10, the drivers and the software that originally came with your notebook.

Here is an info link for how to use that utility...you will need a 32 GB USB flash drive to create the recovery media with.

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool (Windows 10, 7) | HP® Customer Support

[Chnc43]

Thank you Paul,

Now I can't manage to get the win 7 usb drive run properly, it shows me 0xc000000e: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible error.
Both secure boot and unsecure boot, both GPT and MBR, exFAT, NTFS, FAT32 partition formats, several ISO files, Ventoy and Unetbootin. Nothing works. 😞

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I guess you will have to find a Windows PC from somewhere, and use the cloud recovery tool to make the bootable USB recovery drive.

[Chnc43]

Well, i installed a USB drive through virtual machine iwith Rufus, installation passed but now it stays on the continuous loading over 30 minutes because of cd-rom.sys i guess. 

Changing register of the CD-ROM (which i don't have) and switching to MBT didn't change much, trying to install 32 bit version now just to try..

[Chnc43 · Accepted solution]

Weirdly enough the solution was just to use Rufus with windows 10 through the VM and a proper disk, all the mess with the drivers was entirely useless.

Apparently nothing on Linux has come to the level of Rufus in terms of installing windows