*HP dv5t (1XXX series) Owners Lounge*

[uswarrior1]

USwarrior1- Oh I was under the impression they had replaced the card (which would normally require an entire board replacement since resaudering (sp) a new card to the board is extremely difficult and risky). Also are you sure they placed coolant on it? Usually they just replace pads in these cases. What kind of internal temps were you getting?

On another note just so you know in newer devices such as laptops you do not need to remove the battery as it stops charging on its own once it hits a full charge.That could save you some trouble .

Sucks that your DV5 didn't come out to be the stallion mine personally has. I love the thing and I love HP for it. There Customer support has also always been great to me. I hope it doesn't sour them for you.

I was getting temp around 108 C in the laptop with 100 for the cpu and 108 for the gpu. With the cooler on it ( I have 2, 4inch fans externally ) I don't know how the thing didn't melt lol. I was using speedfan for the core temp.

yea, I have only had issues with there customer support. Only the first time I sent it in where they good to me. I don't want to go into details on how bad they treated me last couple of times lol.

I would love not to have to remove my battery after its done charging, so such a hassle remembering to bring the battery with you when doing stuff.

[Cammeron Johnson]

Dang man 108? thats insane. Well when/if you get another setup let us know what you get and how it works out ^ ^ i've still got atleast 2 full years of warranty left on my dv5 but after that ill be buying again. (so yeah a while haha)

[EvilRyu86]

Hey all I have a simple question, can I get 6 channel surround sound out of my laptop if I connect it to a home theater through an HDMI cable? The laptop has the 9600m gt card btw.

I'm currently contemplating on purchasing a home theater system but I wanted to know this before I pull the trigger. Thanks.

[Cammeron Johnson]

I believe so. Also your 9600M GT does not matter as it only handles graphics not audio. You're card is IDT. Generally Audio is ported out in surround format through HDMI. Also The DV5 Docking station has a "digital audio" port on it so I would assume that wouldn't be needed unless the DV5 supported MultiChannel Audio...

I'm about 95% sure you can use Surround Audio as long as you set it up correctly

[EvilRyu86]

The reason I mentioned the graphics card is because on my "playback devices" list I see one that says "NVIDIA HDMI Output (high definition audio)" so I thought the 9600m had something to do with it.

But if the docking station has a digital audio port you pretty much confirmed my doubts, thanks a lot.

[Cammeron Johnson]

EvilRyu86- Yeah I can understand that. While Nvidia does handle the HDMI output i believe the IDT CODEC is still used and then NVIDIA ports it through the HDMI. So yeah I guess the 9600 does handle audio at points including during HDMI output My bad

[etch04]

i have hp dv5 1120tx and the problem is that my laptop usb ports works fine until i plugin a usb to connect my mobile after few minutes of logging in.as i plugin the usb there is a error message that usb is not recognized and after that message all my usb based product stop working like mouse,inbuilt finger print scanner,etc..this happens every time and the only way to fix this is to shutdown my laptop and unplug the power cable for few seconds,after that everything works.i using win7 32bits and i update my driver to latest.so is this hardware or software problem?can anyone help????

[2.0™]

Yes, ports on right side appear to be the ones with sufficient power to drive larger devices. Have you tried using the device in question on one of the right side ports?

I had this issue with an iPod when used on the left side USB port. Problem went away when using the first right side port.

[Cammeron Johnson]

Hey guys I'm having a sudden problem lately. I was playing a dvd the other day using PowerDVD 10 Ultra 2 and the playback became jumpy in the middle of the movie. I thought maybe it was the disc or the pc was just being odd but even with a different disc (a bluray disc brand new) its occurring again today. Anyone else ever have this issue? if so how was it resolved?

[baggage1]

Hi, I would possibly suggest finding the correct drivers for your player. I don't know what it is but I tried putting another DVD player/writer into my DVD/player cd/writer and it never worked right. I don't know what the problem was but suspect it never uninstalled the the original driver. Even after un installing and restarting. It seems to go back to the original driver and I never figured it out. OEM priority I suppose.