*HP EliteBook 8740w Owners Lounge - PART 1*

[Aikimox]

I have never seen the rainbow screen posted earlier, but I don't have 10-bit enabled because I just work in sRGB.

I also have had zero crashes. My computer has been on constantly for the last 4 days, minus a restart or two every day for un/installing programs or drivers. I have 4 sticks of ram installed.

That's a good news.
Did you play any games at all yet?

[Koshinn]

Counter strike source, l4d2, and age of conan. Theyre all working well.

[E30kid]

Are 8740ws with the DC2 shipping out on a timely basis now? The people who are ordering the 8540w with the DC2 are having serious delays.

[m8o]

What about disabling the 10-bit? Will the cold boots be ok then?

I've had 10-bit turned off for days. That's unrelated.

[Aikimox]

Are 8740ws with the DC2 shipping out on a timely basis now? The people who are ordering the 8540w with the DC2 are having serious delays.

"Timely basis" is not the phrase you can use here
First orders with DC2 were placed in early April and the first actual owners appeared 4 days ago.
But I believe the situation is getting better now. As far as I understand they ship from China every Saturday.

[m8o]

To begin with,
what do you see under monitor/display tab in Device Manager? Generic?
We might need a proper LG driver.

Yes, you remind me of that. I found it very strange to find generic panel there and not a specific driver. Surprising.

[Aikimox]

Yes, you remind me of that. I found it very strange to find generic panel there and not a specific driver. Surprising.

As I mentioned, it's ok .... as long as generic driver covers all the capabilities
of the device.

[m8o]

Yes, looks like what I've seen also (though I think it's only happened to me after not shutting down cleanly).

You're reminding me of the circumstance when this occurred for me. I'm not sure it was off a cold start or reboot after hot-fixes and driver updates. The machine was starting as normal, I saw the Windows active boot logo, and before I could see the login screen, the machine just rebooted on its own. I then saw that on the next start. So on clean re-boot I get no screen, on failed reboot I get that de-sync'ed screen. Great.

I agree -- I'm liking mine a lot also. Mostly (apart from the dark-screen annoyance) this is just an excuse to mess around with it.

[Insert "thumbs-up" emoticon here]

[m8o]

I have 4 sticks of ram installed.

...I think I've going to get more RAM. 4 Gigs doesn't seem to be enough when I run Lightroom and a few other programs (and Chrome) in 64-bit mode; can't imagine starting PS CS5 at the same time and using it. Went into some heavy disk swapping yesterday and I was not expecting the degradation in performance to the degree I saw.

BTW, I'm so jazzed at how well Lightroom keeps all of the processors busy!

[Thecla]

...I think I've going to get more RAM.

Just to add, I've also been running my 8740w with 12 GB of RAM and all four DIMMS occupied with no sign of any crashes either, so at this point there seems no reason to worry about adding more RAM.