General Windows 7 Upgrade Guide for HP Laptops - HP Support Forum. Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ1. Why is this guide posted? The main reason is to help HP- Compaq notebook owners. Officially HP only support models listed in table of HP notebook series supported with Windows 7. Is this guide part of unofficial HP support?
Authors are never as part of HP support team or even HP employee. We are HP owners the same as you are that use our own time free time to help other HP owners. Is my notebook upgradable? Most of notebook shipped with Vista will be able to install Windows 7 with little tweak here and there. Download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see if your PC can run Windows 7. Authors state use this guide at your own risk, does it mean there is a risk and authors would not take responsibility?
Yes there is a risk to upgrade, in particular for notebooks that already have overheated issue, mostly Model level 2 and level 3. Please read some precautions in the guide. Why is the guide divided in some levels? The guide is divided based on hardware performance and compatibility with Windows 7. Level 1 is the trouble- free level, which almost all Windows 7 drivers listed in model support page.
Level 2 and Level 3 are most notebooks shipped with Vista, HP does not publish windows 7 drivers however with the help of the guide you’ll find the necessary drivers. While Level 1 is notebook that not recommended to be upgraded.
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There are other sticky Windows 7 guides, is this guide part of it or likewise? Yes, there are other sticky guides that focused to pavilion dv. HP notebooks are not only Pavilions, that’s why in order to help all HP owners this guide was published.
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Enough about the preamble, my notebook has problem with Vista, sound never come up in internal speaker while external speaker or headphone work like a charm. Upgrading to Windows 7 mostly won’t fix hardware issue; the sound wont come up in internal speaker may not always a driver issue. Most of the problems are due to aging ribbon or audio board, please post your problem here or in hardware sections. My sound is working fine in Vista and after the upgrade the light of mute touch button wont change, my internal speaker won’t mute if I plug headphone. Well, this is a driver issue. Install Vista sound driver by using Vista compatibility mode. How? Right click the downloaded sound driver, choose properties, tab to compatibility, tick run this program in compatibility mode for Vista.
Note: It was reported that Vista drivers wont work well in Windows 7 6. Why does my notebook not enter Standby /Hibernation? Correct video driver is needed to enable standby/ hibernation.
If installing Nvidia driver fails, use the “modded inf” as described in Level 1 and 2. I had installed Win.
I turn it on my screen goes black. This issue frequently occurred in notebook with dying GPU/Chipset. If you have display issue, upgrading the OS wont help, in fact it will accelerate the problem. How to determine I have dying GPU/Chipset? Mostly while in Vista, it will hang and display video driver fail to work. Sometimes it works but fail after a while and the worse one is sometimes no display at all. In most of the cases the internal fan will run at full speed to decrease temperatures.
I use Upgrade option when installing Windows 7, however it stops, it complaining about the driver " keyboard filter”. What is this? You should uninstall HP Quick Launch using Control Panel, Programs & Features. After the Win 7 upgrade, then install HP Quick Launch posted in this guide. Which HP Quick Launch Button software for my notebook? Try version listed in this guide first, if it does not work, try starting a new thread in OS section. The Bluetooth driver doesn’t work to enable BT. Install HP Wireless Assistant, open it and enable BT first.
My network and wireless works out of box in Windows 7, do I need to install drivers? Try it first, if it has problem then install driver listed in this guide. My fingerprint wont work, Digital. Persona wont detect any device. Install Fingerprint driver first reboot and install the software. Everything is working well except Quick. Play and DVD touch buttons won’t launch anything.
I installed quickplay from my backup C: \swsetup but it failed. Install Quick. Play software as listed in this guide.
Note: Quick. Play software must be installed before Quick Launch Software. When I increase/decrease volume control, there is no On Screen Display. I tried to install Quick Touch software but it failed. Install 3. RVX as an alternative or you may install HP Media. Smart Smart. Menu. I have problem with Quick.
Play software, I wish to launch other software with Quick. Play touch button. Unfortunately there is no user friendly setting, you need to edit the registry for HP Quick Launch Buttons, change QAction as you wish. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow. Node\Hewlett- Packard\HP Quick Launch Buttons]"QAction"="C: \\Program Files\\Hewlett- Packard\\HP Media.
Smart\\Smart. Menu. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Control.
Set. 00. 1\Control\Mobile. PC\Hot. Start. Buttons\1]"Application. Path"="\"C: \\Program Files\\Hewlett- Packard\\HP Media. Smart\\Smart. Menu. For DVD button edit the hot button 2 as below[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Control.
Set. 00. 1\Control\Mobile. PC\Hot. Start. Buttons\2]"Application. Path"="\"C: \\Program Files (x. Hewlett- Packard\\Media\\DVD\\HPDVDSmart. Can I install Mediasmart menu for my notebook?
Mostly notebook in level 1 would not have any problem, but one of the author tested that software in notebook level 2 without problem. Try it and edit the registry as mention above. Authored by Cheryl. G and Rakhmad Siregar. Pavilion DV2. 92. TX, XP- SP3 3. 2bit, Intel T5. Ghz, Nvidia Geforce 8.
M GS with 1. 28. MB, 4. GB 6. 67 DDR2, 2.