Windows 8 drivers for HP notebooks with switchable graphics.

[HOODY]

?? hmmm well than this is something weird too, why would a unit with the exact same cpu/gpu/apu require a "specific" driver. Makes no sense to me. You would think if they post that gpu driver for your system they would have for mine too. I assume even the MB would have to be the same as the gpu is part of the MB. Well who knows what's goin on . I haven't bothered messing things up yet since I wana wait till I install this 8 monster, as if I like it and stay with it there's no reason to mess with 7. If not than I guess its Leshcat or see what the final Enduro driver does, if it even supports these 76xxm cards.

[adrynalyne]

Its not that they are different drivers, but instead that they have customzied infs for the different devices.

I don't know about your machine, but I have backlit keys that are controlled by the video driver.  The next person doesn't, and so on.

The current problem with our drivers for the HP Envy 15 can be summed up as:

Intel's fault, but HP's fault for not testing worth a **bleep**.

An inf problem, which translates into a registry problem that I have not been able to isolate.  It becomes particularly difficult because if you SHUT DOWN instead of reboot, you keep your brightness controls.  However, thats not an solution because Windows 8 has a hybrid shutdown process, where part of the OS is in hibernation(obviously the part affecting the brightness issue).

Intel has been battling this for several months and still apparently doesn't have it right for everyone.

[adrynalyne]

At any rate, I am done with this nonsense.  I have lost hours of productivity trying to fix HP's drivers, that should have been resolved last month.  The driver package was built a month ago!  There is no excuse for it, and I am no longer going to work on it, trying to fix something HP should have caught from the get-go.

This is why companies release beta drivers, HP, TO TEST FOR PROBLEMS.  The general public is greater in number than your internal testers.  Your testers quite frankly suck at their job and should be fired.

I am done with this, I am done with HP, and never again will I or anyone in my family purchase this junk again.

[ixgraphics]

I am going to upgrade to windows 8 tonight. What do I need to get switchable graphics working for the DV 7 Product # WVY05AV Model DV7T-4000 CTO Select Edition ...

I tried putting it on the HP website but they consider it too "old" for them to update or something but I am sure there has got to be a way to make this work without many issues. Otherwise that is a major fail on HPs part. Bought this in May of 2010.

Thanks for any help. The forum thread seems cluttered and confusing at the moment so sorry if someone else asked about this model.

[HOODY]

You can look around here, but allmyou can do is install 8 and see what happens, make a full image first though, you may want to be able to go bak to 7. http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-drivers-software-forum/486908-drivers-hp-dv6-3xxx-dv7-4xxx-envy-1...

[ixgraphics]

Thanks. Already been working on making the system image. Takes a while.
Still doesnt seem clear. Are there newer drivers from HP? And if windows 8 doesnt work I guess ill be out the money I spent on it which would piss me off! 😉

[adrynalyne]

There are some drivers and some of them are hopelessly broken.

[ogger151]

Windows 8 - 64bit

Model: HP Pavilion dv7-6143cl Entertainment Notebook PC

Graphic: AMD radeon HD 6700M + Intel

Installed drivers from suggested site and had to do a system restore because video drivers. The video driver removed exclamation mark from device manager and switchable graphics worked. However my video performance score was lower and some of my apps whould crash or not connect.

EDIT: HP SP58788 did work perfectly. I found out later that it was not the video drivers that caused some of my metro apps to crash. It was something to do with the intel management driver for win8. I did a system restore installed just the video drivers and tested all apps. Everything good. Installed intel driver same problem.So uninstalled intel drivers everthing good again.

[HOODY]

lol well get ready to be welcomed to the PO'd HP/AMD club 🙂

[HOODY]

Well Ogger as adrynalyne says its a crap shoot with these things lately, some people install them and keep running, like a guy on Leshcat site named Castro,he installed the driver listed on that notebook review page for this 7690m XT we both have and he said they worked OK on his W8 setup, some however install them and have nothing but problems. I am also at a loss at this point as to what to do, I never had any problems with drivers in 20 yers, until I got tis HP laptop (d7t-6c00) with this wild ass switchable setup that inluded 2 graphics processers (Radeon 7690m xt and Intel 3000) from 2 different makers, and no way to get updated drivers except wait for HP. So from now on I'm also pretty much done with the subject too, I've been round and round with HP and AMD, and on several of these blog sites only to find no real solution to this insane piece of enginering. Luckly I haven't even tried to mess with the origanol installed driver, as too many have had no luck with either HP or Leashcat, unless they went into some sort of mix and match driver game when installing, and a lot of people just dn't know howto gotheough that mess, allthey want isto download a driver and click the exe. Once I get my email from MS on where and how to D/L 8, I will go ahead and get it for the $15 bucks just for the hell of it, install, and run that HP driver from notebook review, if all goes well, great, if not, I'll just recover my 7 Image and keep truckin. Sooner or later somebody has to develop a working driver for so many people, or all the printed money in the world will help these Co.