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Comment on The Envy 15 Driver Nightmare by Michael Mortensen

Michael Mortensen — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:16:53 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing these informations – the USB 3.0 was a lifesaver for me! Keep up the good work

Comment on The Envy 15 Driver Nightmare by Ycros

Ycros — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:41:11 +0000

My friend was trying to install Linux on his Envy, and it wouldn’t install because of the USB 3.0 thing, but we discovered that the eSATA/USB combined port is actually USB 2.0, and it worked fine.

Comment on The Envy 15 Driver Nightmare by Michael

Michael — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:17:21 +0000

Here’s how I did it: Popped the Win 7 install DVD in while Win 7 was running, had it do a new install (which automatically moved the old windows 7 to a folder called windows.old), then deleted that folder. Voila, fresh install.

But there’s another solution, and it’ll probably make you cry. You know that eSATA port you have? It’s a combo USB/eSATA port. USB 2.0.

If you plugged your external USB DVD drive into the eSATA port, it would’ve worked perfectly.

Comment on HP Envy 15 BIOS Drama by homsar57

homsar57 — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:52:42 +0000

This is the same exact thing that happened to me! And seriously, how does HP think they can get away with giving garbage support to people who have bought anything costing over $1000?!!! Mine was $2000!!!!! And all that money for a shiny paperweight and a group of people that can barely speak English and who don’t know anything about computers?! Even after I get mine back in the mail I’m NEVER buying another HP product again- not even a printer.

Comment on HP Envy 15 BIOS Drama by Jeremy Hilts

Jeremy Hilts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:41:11 +0000

I agree. I definitely have lost a lot of faith in HP as a whole.

Currently awaiting the return of my laptop. I’ve sent it to them for repair with the understanding that they’re not getting my harddrive and any damages incurred will be repaired for free.

Of course, they need to wait for the part to arrive (aka, the motherboard). A LOT of people have had this problem regardless of what they’ll admit.

Comment on HP Envy 15 BIOS Drama by Kit

Kit — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:46:55 +0000

First of all let me say I was one of those whose laptop was bricked by the F.1B update. I tried for two infuriating days to re-flash my BIOS with every version I could find but to no avail. Eventually had to send it back for a new board. I can’t believe HP is putting these BIOS updates out. It’s not only horrible for the end user, but costly to them as well. Absolutely absurd! I still like my Envy 15, but my patience is running thin with HP as a company.

Comment on HP Envy 15 BIOS Drama by Platypus Stan

Platypus Stan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:06:24 +0000

Exact same thing here. Ran the update, crashed halfway through the flash process, unzipped the package, didn’t see a 1522 BIOS file. The flash program had specifically mentioned it was ready to update with ID 1522 Version F.24, so I had assumed it did some kind of CRC check or something before hand. Apparently not… I get the feeling you could rename a picture of Mickey Mouse to whatever filename the updater is expecting and it would go merrily on its way trying to flash the BIOS with that.

Anyway, I tried downloading and running the previous BIOS update since my system was still functional, but it crashed at the same point. Even tried editing the platform.ini file to force the 1522.fd file through, but still got the same thing. Eventually I had to shut it down and now I’m where you’re at.

I’ve tried the BIOS recovery procedure with six different USB drives and a dozen different filenames and I think I’ve had a different result each time. Sometimes it beeps, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes the activity LED flickers, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it blinks once every few seconds until what I can only assume will be the end of time… Nothing actually does anything useful, of course.

The infuriating thing is that it’s clearly trying to do something, but no one knows how to make it work, not even HP. It looks like the only option is to send it in so they can swap in a new motherboard, which is just absurd. I’ve had BIOS issues with past computers, but never anything that wasn’t relatively simple to fix.

Comment on HP Envy 15 BIOS Drama by FlacVader

FlacVader — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:19:30 +0000

My condolences..
Write me a mail, may have some ideas that can help you.

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HP Envy 15 BIOS Drama | The Official SpiSoft Blog — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:52:49 +0000

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Comment on The Envy 15 Driver Nightmare by Grydholt

Grydholt — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:22:09 +0000

Thank you for this guide. Saved me an afternoon of digging!