How to get BeatsAudio driver for HP Envy 15-k000 Quad Edition laptop?

[Weler]

Hi, how do i get the BeatsAudio driver for my laptop? It's a 2014 HP Envy 15-k000 Quad Edition. I was able to download it from the official HP Support site some years ago but now it seems not exist anymore, i can't get it neither from the official HP site or some other driver management sofware, i always get a generic audio driver instead, which can only serve about 50% of volume gain compared to the BeatsAudio driver that was loud and had that mixing interface in the system tray. When the BeatsAudio driver was available from the HP Support site, i had to choose Windows 8 as operating system (the latest OS available to choose from in the dropdown options) in order to get the driver, even though i was using Windows 10, and it used to work very well in my Windows 10. Nowdays, doing the same exact process as before, i always get a generic audio driver instead. Please, help!

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

I was able to find the latest W8.1 Realtek audio driver HP released for your notebook.

The info and exe file links are below:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp69501-70000/sp69618.html

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp69501-70000/sp69618.exe 

[Weler]

Wow, that worked! Do you think that this driver might stop working in some future win10 update? Do you recomend some site for finding drivers such as this one? I coudn't find it anywhere. Anyways, thanks very much!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I doubt that a driver problem will occur in the future since W10 is at its latest build (22H2) and will go out of Microsoft support in less than 2 months.

I found the drivers for your notebook's model series on this reputable 3rd party driver website and since you only needed one driver, I took the time to find the file on the official HP FTP site.

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