Can't download drivers!

[johnw80]

Hello.

I have a DV7-6179us and never had any problems until about a month or so ago when it became super sluggish (it's almost impossible to even type). So yesterday I formatted and did a clean install of Windows 7-64bit. I've been trying to download drivers from the HP support site but the page won't display them. It just keeps loading indefinitely.

I was able to get most drivers from a third-party website (that has the link to HP ftp) but my computer is still super sluggish. I don't know if I'm missing a driver or something is corrupted. I wanted to get the drivers from the HP support site to make sure...

Anyone have any insight on what I could do? Thanks

[terminator · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The link in Spanish works

http://support.hp.com/mx-es/product/HP-Pavilion-dv7-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/5082216/model/5...

Drivers:

Chipset

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55095.exe

Intel HD Video

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp52001-52500/sp52473.exe

AMD HD Graphics

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp53001-53500/sp53025.exe

LAN (Realtek)

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp52501-53000/sp52503.exe

Intel PRO/Wireless

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp54501-55000/sp54900.exe

Bluetooth Intel

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55138.exe

Card Reader

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp52501-53000/sp52502.exe

Audio

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55094.exe

Management Engine Interface (MEI)

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55100.exe

USB 3.0 Renesas Electronics

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55102.exe

HP ProtectSmart

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp53001-53500/sp53462.exe

HP Quick Launch

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55150.exe

Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55001-55500/sp55107.exe

HP SimplePass Identity Protection 2011

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp54501-55000/sp54680.exe

[johnw80]

Thanks terminator! That's exactly what I needed.

Just a quick question maybe you or someone else could help me with. I just disabled Hardware Acceleration on Chrome and IE11 and they both went from being painfully sluggish to lighting fast. So I'm taking that my problems are coming from my graphics card (?!) which is the Radeon 6490m.

I have my power settings set to High Performance and the switchable graphics to only use the High Performace GPU.  Is there anything I can do to improve other programs as well.. is there a way to turn off hardware acceleration in the graphics card or some other tweak?

Thanks

[terminator]

I can not think of much more than what you mean about video settings 

I think it would be better to do a new post in this topic to make it more visible to users and experts, in the next section:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Display-and-Video/bd-p/Display

[johnw80]

Ok, will do. Thanks again!