*HP Envy 15 Owners Lounge! PART 2*

[larsv]

Hello all,

I have an HP Envy 15 and am looking to buy a new replacement 6 cell battery.

I called HP and they offered me approx $150 for a new battery, and approx $115 for a refurbished replacement battery.

Anyone know of any other sources for cheaper yet good replacement batteries?

Thanks,
N123

I got an aftermarket battery off ebay, not a good idea.
Ad claimed 52 Wh, marking said 48 Wh, BatteryBar said 39 Wh.
At full load it cannot leave enough current so computer just powers off, no warning.
capacity reporting also seems off, below 25 pct it just cuts off.

I suggest getting an OEM battery from an ebay seller in Asia.

[hlyknightx]

okay i have had a Envy 15 for over a year now and no my computer does not like to charge when i put it on the charger.. i have to pull the battery a few times or attach the slice i dont know it seems random to get it to start charging again. is this a common thing with these computers? and is there any way to tell what the problem might be?

[Aquitaine]

Hi everybody,

Quick question. My Envy 15 (2nd gen, 5830 i5) had some display artifacts a moment ago when I opened it up - what looked like green fuzz on part of the display. Definitely looks like a loose DVI cable rather than your typical 'bad card' artifacts, especially as it goes away when I move the laptop around a little bit. But just as the appearing can be temporary and temperamental, so too can the disappearing, I'm sure.

How much pain am I in for to open this baby up and look at the DVI connector? The machine is under warranty so I can call HP but I was hoping not to have to do that to spare myself the hour to convince them that yes, it's definitely the cable, no I don't want to reformat Windows, etc.

[N123]

I got an aftermarket battery off ebay, not a good idea.
Ad claimed 52 Wh, marking said 48 Wh, BatteryBar said 39 Wh.
At full load it cannot leave enough current so computer just powers off, no warning.
capacity reporting also seems off, below 25 pct it just cuts off.

I suggest getting an OEM battery from an ebay seller in Asia.

Thanks Larsv--I bought an OEM battery off ebay from a Hong Kong/China seller for $79 ($69 w new Bill Me Later account) . . . it is indeed an original battery and *much* cheaper than buying from HP--it has good performance!

Thanks,
N123

[N123]

Hello all,

I have a first generation HP envy with Core I7 that the hard drive just got fried on.

I need to do a bare metal restore from a backup on Windows Home Server V1.

Has anyone tried to do this? Any tips/recommendations to drivers needed?

Thanks
N123

[moviemarketing]

Hello all,

I have a first generation HP envy with Core I7 that the hard drive just got fried on.

I need to do a bare metal restore from a backup on Windows Home Server V1.

Has anyone tried to do this? Any tips/recommendations to drivers needed?

Thanks
N123

Here are links to the drivers I used for a fresh install a while back.
[Drivers] HP ENVY 15-1XXX (INTEL)

Also, you want to update Catalyst to the 12.1a preview driver

[chadsxe]

Hello,

I am looking to upgrade my NX369AV Envy 15 memory and was looking for some advice. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the NX369AV has DDR3 1066. Currently I have 4 gigs and would like to go to at least 8. With that in mind how many gigs can I go up to and what speed (1333, 1600, 1866)?

Thanks for the advice ahead of time.

Best regards,

Chad

[moviemarketing]

Hello,

I am looking to upgrade my NX369AV Envy 15 memory and was looking for some advice. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the NX369AV has DDR3 1066. Currently I have 4 gigs and would like to go to at least 8. With that in mind how many gigs can I go up to and what speed (1333, 1600, 1866)?

Thanks for the advice ahead of time.

Best regards,

Chad

If you have one of the quad core models, the mobo has 4 DIMM slots and you can go up to 16GB (4x4GB). (i7-720QM or i7-820QM)

If you have one of the i5 models, you are limited to 2 DIMM slots and 8GB RAM (2x4GB).

Keep in mind at the time this product line was released, there were no 8GB RAM sticks on the market. Perhaps someone else can comment on whether they would be compatible, in which case you could go up to 16GB (2x8GB) with the i5 or 32GB (4x8GB) with the i7 models.

I've had 16GB in my laptop for a number of years and the only time I've ever noticed more than a couple GB of memory committed at a time is when working with extremely large outdoor advertising images in Photoshop, or rendering motion graphics on large video files.

8GB should be more than enough for most uses I can think of, unless you need to run vmware or similar apps.

As for any differences between 1333MHz, 1600MHz, etc., I imagine this is negligible. People used to go for these faster RAM sticks for their desktops in order to overclock the CPU before the Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs (like the i7-2600k) were released that use an entirely different means of overclocking that does not require faster RAM sticks. In any case, I'm not aware of anybody overclocking their Envy 15 CPU, so I doubt there would be any benefit at all.

[bubzers]

Hello,

I am looking to upgrade my NX369AV Envy 15 memory and was looking for some advice. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the NX369AV has DDR3 1066. Currently I have 4 gigs and would like to go to at least 8. With that in mind how many gigs can I go up to and what speed (1333, 1600, 1866)?

Thanks for the advice ahead of time.

Best regards,

Chad

the first gen i5 and i7 dual-core mobile processors support up to 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. the first gen i7 quad-core mobile processors support up to 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. any faster will get down-clocked to the maximum supported speed.

Previous Generation Intel® Core? i5 Processor (Mobile)
Previous Generation Intel® Core? i7 Processor (Mobile)

[moviemarketing]

the first gen i5 and i7 dual-core mobile processors support up to 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. the first gen i7 quad-core mobile processors support up to 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. any faster will get down-clocked to the maximum supported speed.

Previous Generation Intel® Core? i5 Processor (Mobile)
Previous Generation Intel® Core? i7 Processor (Mobile)

Thanks for clarifying bubzers!