Windows 7 Upgrade Guide for dv6000/dv9000 models

[pdt11]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for this great thread. You have put a lot of time and effort into it.

I have a question for you. I have an HP DV6700 P/N GT812AV. When I try to install the Intel graphics Driver I get the message "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will now exit. "

In device manager under display adapters It says "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter".

This happens before I have installed the Nvidia Drivers. I am able to successfully install the Nvidia Drivers. After I have installed the Nvidia Drivers the Display adapter is listed as "8400M GS".

Do I need to install both the Intel and Nvidia Drivers for maximum performance?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Daniel_Potyrala]

Hi,

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pdt11 wrote:

I have a question for you. I have an HP DV6700 P/N GT812AV. When I try to install the Intel graphics Driver I get the message "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will now exit. "

In device manager under display adapters It says "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter".

This happens before I have installed the Nvidia Drivers. I am able to successfully install the Nvidia Drivers. After I have installed the Nvidia Drivers the Display adapter is listed as "8400M GS".

Do I need to install both the Intel and Nvidia Drivers for maximum performance?

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You've got Nvidia graphic card so you should install only driver for Nvidia graphic card.

You don't need to install Intel graphic driver because you haven't got this card.

[jotereh]

all drivers are working fine in my dv6680ep, just the graphic driver is kind of weird. I cant activate aspect ratio or disable LB in Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, so i cant have full screen properly..

[cetla]

I had this problem for over a year now but just haven't got around to the point that I would bother to register and ask for help. Anyway, the problem is reguarding the nvidia 8600m gs driver that is causing my fan to behave weirdly on my DV9700t CTO.

Since Vista, anytime I install a driver version greater than 181.71, the fan would fixedly spin in a noticiable loud state after it boots into windows. It will spin like that for about 5-7 minutes and then go back to its normal state (meaning that the fan would be controlled again and increase speed when needed and vice versa.)

That's is why I have not update my video card driver in over a year. I have been using version 181.71 because it doesn't spin up the fan after boot up into Windows. Recently I upgraded to Windows 7 and update to new driver to see if it stopped the problem. Sadly it did not and the problem is still the same. I tried several drivers with still same problem.

So, my conclusion is that there are some new feature in new nVidia driver that is causing the fan problem. Maybe the DirectCompute 4.0 in nVidia. But I don't know.

I read in the past that there were other people reported this same problem I am having. Maybe it's the bios problem too. But I've update the only BIOS available for my system which was last updated in December 2008 version F.59A.

Now I need OpenCL, but only newer nVidia drivers support OpenCL.

Have anyone encoutered this same problem and have a fix for it? I would really appreciate it. Please help.

[vtcon]

 are there any USB driver upgrades i will need? I don't see anything relating to USB. Mine have full power but won't recognize devices?

great resources here thanks

[bigdumps]

Thank you so much for this. I have used weeks trying to move from Vista to 7 and now all seems fine although a bit slow for what I expected of Windows 7.

I have a DV9311eu

With the wireless drivers. Which should I install or should it be all of them? I see on HP website it only offers Broadcom and HP Wirless assistant so for now only installed those.

Thanks again. This was a massive massive help!

[Daniel_Potyrala]

@jotereh

Hi,

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jotereh wrote:

all drivers are working fine in my dv6680ep, just the graphic driver is kind of weird. I cant activate aspect ratio or disable LB in Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, so i cant have full screen properly..

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This may be problem with game not driver. Be sure that you are using this game at least with 1.02 patch version.

You may try to download Kitserver for PES 2010 and try to force this resolution which you need. Current version of this modder is 9.20 and you may get it from here.

If even this will not help then try to look for solution on PES fan forums.

[Daniel_Potyrala]

@cetla

Hi,

Are You sure that everything with GPU and CPU temperatures is ok?

[Daniel_Potyrala]

@bigdump

Hi,

Run Windows Update and install from there all updates.

There are fixes for models with nVidia chipsets and USB problems.

[gbgolfer]

Daniel,

Thanks so much for this thread!

I just wanted to report my experiences with my dv6305us, specifically the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 driver.  I ran the CPUID Hardware Monitor under XP (I installed Win 7 on a new drive, so I've still got the old XP drive available).  It's display adapter doesn't report temps, but it seems noticeably cooler than when it runs Win 7.

I started with your recommendation of HP's Vista driver for my model (sp35686, driver version 7.15.10.9815 dated 2/27/2007).  The system was very hot.  I ran Google Earth's default Sightseeing Tour twice (start at Eiffel Tower and end at Google headquarters).  The display adapter's max temp was 108C/226F.

I then tried Option 2 of a mod'ed driver, but the INF mod's link is broken - so no luck there.

I then tried Option 3, getting the driver from Windows Update.  This resulted in driver version 7.15.11.7967 dated 3/6/2009.  I ran the same Google Earth tour twice and the display adapter's max temp was 99C/210F.  While still hot, it is running a bit cooler.

Any thoughts on the display adapter temps and if anything needs to be done about them?  FWIW - the Windows Update also installed an "NVIDIA Control Panel" according to Secunia PSI, but it doesn't show up as an installed program and I can't locate it [Found it! - Right click on the Desktop and it is a menu choice].