dv6t-61XX / dv7t-61XX Switchable Graphics Discussion

[teotuf]

You haven't answered if you downloaded the 6100 HP AMD Driver from someone who owns a 6100?

yeah i'm actually curious about that as well - how did you manage to get the 6100 driver with dynamic switch on a 6000 driver? you sure you weren't dreaming 0_o???

as far as i know, the only place you can find a 6100 version of the driver is in your swsetup folder if you have a 6100 version laptop. it's not even on the hp website.

[Beradon]

I used driversweeper 3.1.0 just fine on my 6100. If you plan on clearing out drivers in this fashion you have to do it in this way:

Uninstall the ATI Catalyst install manager and let it uninstall everything associated to it

Uninstall the Intel Management Driver

Boot to safe mode

Run Driver Sweeper

Open your device manager, uninstall both of your video card drivers, select to delete the drivers

Reboot (normal mode this time. The ATI driver will not install from safe mode because it cant find the video card)

It will come up with unknown standard vga as the driver.

From that point I've installed every mix of packages from the 6000 in my attempts to enable manual switching. I managed to get the Intel HD 3000 working on its own at one point even with the ATI drivers installed because I used the Intel drivers from the Intel site. When installing the base 6000 drivers it still defaulted me to a dynamic setup.

From what reading I have done it seem that there is an application profile that is hidden in the drivers that makes it do manual or dynamic, but I've been unable to find it. People that mentioned that in what I've seen seem to lose it and are unable to restore it, thus breaking their manual or dynamic switching. Forcing them to do a restore.


DISCLAIMER: I hold no responsibility if you FUBAR your system with this procedure. It worked for me, but may not for you. I recommend setting a restore point before proceeding so you can revert to a known working drivers state.

[teotuf]

Uninstall the ATI Catalyst install manager and let it uninstall everything associated to it

Uninstall the Intel Management Driver

Boot to safe mode

Run Driver Sweeper

Open your device manager, uninstall both of your video card drivers, select to delete the drivers

I did the same thing up to here, however right after that I tried to install 1) the 6000 HP driver - doesn't recognize hardware, and 2) 6100 HP driver - doesn't recognize hardware.

so i thought i seriously f'ed it up. and then from device manager, and pressed scan for new hardware, and it automatically installed drivers for intel and ati from 3/15, but without CCC - yet dynamic switchable graphics is still working.

i really think that the dynamic switching is done at the hardware level or bios level. it doesn't seem to be a drivers thing as same drivers on 2 different computers produce completely different results (i was doing the same things on 6000 and 6100 side by side)

[Beradon]

I did the same thing up to here, however right after that I tried to install 1) the 6000 HP driver - doesn't recognize hardware, and 2) 6100 HP driver - doesn't recognize hardware.

so i thought i seriously f'ed it up. and then from device manager, and pressed scan for new hardware, and it automatically installed drivers for intel and ati from 3/15, but without CCC.

I tried the same thing, but when they didnt install, I actually copied the INF file and anything missing OVER TOP of the 6000 series driver (out of my swsetup folder). I did not replace any files except for the INF so I did actually manage to install the ATI 6000 driver (I did this after singly copying over the INF file from the 6100 swsetup because it kept telling me file missing errors, it just ended up being minor files, the main part of the driver was still from the 6000). Needless to say I was actually quite surprised when it successfully installed with my weird version.

The Intel 6000 driver I had to do manually from the device manager (right click, update driver, have disk, pointed it to the ATI 6000 driver location Packages\Drivers\Display\Win76F (dont quote me on that, but its near enough))

[Falco152]

K, definitely you have must used windows update, windows should not able to find a driver and install automatically without user approving the search outside. Unfortunately, I don't have a procedure to removing it that down low.

@Beradon, you should just added the entries instead of overriding. You might mess up a few important offsets by blindly overwriting.

[EzerchE]

yeah i'm actually curious about that as well - how did you manage to get the 6100 driver with dynamic switch on a 6000 driver? you sure you weren't dreaming 0_o???

as far as i know, the only place you can find a 6100 version of the driver is in your swsetup folder if you have a 6100 version laptop. it's not even on the hp website.

which one is the 6100 driver? i have installed too many versions while trying to get it again.

including;

SP51585
SP52929
AMD Catalyst 11.5
AMD Catalyst 11.5b

i havent installed anything else. when i get the dynamic scheme, i have installed SP52929. after the installing applications profile cap2 from guru3d website, i have saw the "dynamic scheme-fixed scheme" selection page on ccc. so i have selected dynamic scheme and select games for high performance. but then i have installed 11.5b and after the restart, i have saw there is no selection page anymore.

[Beradon]

The 6100 driver is located in your swsetup\drivers\video folder, unfortunately HP hasnt seen fit to post a downloadable base version for the 6100 driver yet...

[teotuf]

K, definitely you have must used windows update, windows should not able to find a driver and install automatically without user approving the search outside. Unfortunately, I don't have a procedure to removing it that down low.

@Beradon, you should just added the entries instead of overriding. You might mess up a few important offsets by blindly overwriting.

i did install a set of drivers from windows update, but that was dated 4/12 - not the set of 3/15 that it was reverting to. i dont know... this entire thing is just so messy and unintuitive. all i can conclude from all of this is that this is a new system and old methods don't necessarily work on them. on the plus side, i dont see anything wrong with the dynamic switching except for emulators.

[Falco152]

You tried to install a dv4 driver with product ids 0x1646, 0x1647 (SP52929)
and the dv6/dv7 6000 driver (SP51585) <- that's 11.2

i did install a set of drivers from windows update, but that was dated 4/12 - not the set of 3/15 that it was reverting to. i dont know... this entire thing is just so messy and unintuitive. all i can conclude from all of this is that this is a new system and old methods don't necessarily work on them.

That because you updated over which causes Windows to keep a history so it can fall back on. The problem is I don't remember how to edit roll back, haven't used it in a long time.

[Beradon]

@Beradon, you should just added the entries instead of overriding. You might mess up a few important offsets by blindly overwriting.

Aye, I know, I wasnt terribly concerned through. I was fully prepared to restore or even run a recovery if I screwed something up.