*HP ENVY 17 & 17 3D (2XXX series) Owners Lounge*

[VGP]

Would anyone have any instructions on how to take it apart? I have the HP 17 3D and the optical drive has died on me and i wanted to see if i could fix it myself. Any point in the right direction is appreciated....video would be nice :-P

[xZ71]

The manual is pretty easy to follow. There you go:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02772484.pdf
Go to the "Removal and replacement procedures" section in the Bookmarks and you'll know the rest. All you'll ever need is probably a Phillips screw driver and that's pretty much it. I haven't taken mine apart but I have done that to my dv5 several times and I was only following its manual. Just don't use too much force, laptops components are fragile. Good luck.

For more support, this is the HP ENVY 17-2100 CTO 3D page:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...78/loc:0&cc=us
You can find drivers and stuff.

[VGP]

Ahhh... excellent! Thanks so much for this...imma try to take it apart before i buy the Drive, thanks!

[colchiro]

Hi guys. Thought I'd wade thru the 778 pages of this thread before posting. (Lots of good info here.)

I have the 2100 series 2820QM 3D I purchased used on fleeBay. It replaces my 20" Acer Aspire (20 lb brick).

I'm running 2 Seagate Momentus XT 7200 rpm hybrid drives in Raid 0 (from my Acer), but I'm puzzled as to why my Windows performance rating is only 5.9, which I believe was also the score I had with the 1TB stock Toshiba it replaced. HD Tach's graph is similar to Bobmitch's raptors on his desktop (attached), tho his burst was much better. This was done while on battery. I have refreshed the rating several times. Maybe I'll refresh it again after updating to the latest Intel drivers, once my drive scan finishes.

Also, found the touchpad useless, despite all the available utilities. My touchpad would "click" if I pressed on the middle area, just like I had pressed one of the buttons and I had to tap repeatedly to "click" or select something if I didn't use the buttons. I even resorted to buying an external mouse until I could get this resolved. I prefer the side scroll (not 2 finger scroll) and had horrible experience with the screen scrolling up and down while typing, even with Touchpad Locker installed. Once I installed the old drivers I used on my Acer (Synaptics 14.0) with Touchpad Locker and TwoFingerScroll for Envy, it's working pretty good now.

I removed the touchpad and shimmed it with tape until the "click" disappeared, then removing one piece of tape. This helped a bit with the click (still there), but didn't help much with the sensitivity when tapping, until I used the old Synaptics driver.

[Bobmitch]

Hi guys. Thought I'd wade thru the 778 pages of this thread before posting. (Lots of good info here.)

I have the 2100 series 2820QM 3D I purchased used on fleeBay. It replaces my 20" Acer Aspire (20 lb brick).

I'm running 2 Seagate Momentus XT 7200 rpm hybrid drives in Raid 0 (from my Acer), but I'm puzzled as to why my Windows performance rating is only 5.9, which I believe was also the score I had with the 1TB stock Toshiba it replaced. HD Tach's graph is similar to Bobmitch's raptors on his desktop (attached), tho his burst was much better. This was done while on battery. I have refreshed the rating several times. Maybe I'll refresh it again after updating to the latest Intel drivers, once my drive scan finishes.

Also, found the touchpad useless, despite all the available utilities. My touchpad would "click" if I pressed on the middle area, just like I had pressed one of the buttons and I had to tap repeatedly to "click" or select something if I didn't use the buttons. I even resorted to buying an external mouse until I could get this resolved. I prefer the side scroll (not 2 finger scroll) and had horrible experience with the screen scrolling up and down while typing, even with Touchpad Locker installed. Once I installed the old drivers I used on my Acer (Synaptics 14.0) with Touchpad Locker and TwoFingerScroll for Envy, it's working pretty good now.

I removed the touchpad and shimmed it with tape until the "click" disappeared, then removing one piece of tape. This helped a bit with the click (still there), but didn't help much with the sensitivity when tapping, until I used the old Synaptics driver.

Your RAID array gives about 80% of the speed of the Two WD VelociRaptors I have in RAID on my desktop and still get a 5.9. That reading is normal speed for mechanical drives. On my new machine, I have a Samsung 830 Series 256GB SSD for OS drive and Windows 7 index score is a 7.9 It takes full blown SSD to make a difference. I think it has more to do with access time than speed. As far as touchpad drivers...gave up on the HP version of the drivers probably the second day I owned my machine. I use the Synaptics drivers that include Scrybe for scrolling. Try them and see if you see any improvement

Drivers | Synaptics

[colchiro]

The previous HD Tach benchmark was with older Intel drivers and run while on battery. This one was with the latest drivers and on AC power.

Burst is higher (874.2 vs 1,688), random access much lower (14.3 vs .9), while the sequential stayed about the same. I would think most of the difference is the battery profile.

[Bobmitch]

The previous HD Tach benchmark was with older Intel drivers and run while on battery. This one was with the latest drivers and on AC power.

Burst is higher (874.2 vs 1,688), random access much lower (14.3 vs .9), while the sequential stayed about the same. I would think most of the difference is the battery profile.

Here is the benchmark for two SATA II WD VelociRaptors in RAID 0. Your Momentus is pretty fast...Only real difference is the access time of the VelociRaptors and that they are 10,000 RPM

[Marcus2137]

Seems like my 3D emitter isn't working. I did just have to recently recover the system, but I guess it's also possible that the battery in both glasses died at the same time.

I've tried power DVD and TriDef and nothing works. I just can't get the glasses to respond. Any ideas? Thanks

Marcus

[Bobmitch]

Seems like my 3D emitter isn't working. I did just have to recently recover the system, but I guess it's also possible that the battery in both glasses died at the same time.

I've tried power DVD and TriDef and nothing works. I just can't get the glasses to respond. Any ideas? Thanks

Marcus

Someone else had this issue in the past few months. Definately change the batteries in the glasses. CR2032. They are about a Dollar and a half each. You can get two for about $4.00 at Walmart.

[Marcus2137]

Thanks Bobmitch, I'll check it out. They are old enough that it could be the cause. I'll swap them and then get back to you.

Marcus