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[RichFrogg]

HP is starting to put up drivers that support Windows 7. This link is for a DV7 Notebook Select your operating system HP Pavilion dv7-1170us Entertainment Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)»

 

[kreesdqban]

I went on today for my dv4 and saw that there are 2 Windows 7 drivers for my PC. Glad to see HP finally putting them out

 

[Kari]

At the moment, they are starting the process to publish Win7 drivers. Those published now are not genuine Win7 drivers (flash BIOS and LightScribe), they are exectly the same than offered for Vista.

Publishing them now only means they are the only ones at the moment HP guarantees are also working with Win7.

Kari

 

[kreesdqban]

In any case, i hope they keep bringing them out, because I still cant get my multimedia remote to work...

 

[Kari]

In any case, i hope they keep bringing them out, because I still cant get my multimedia remote to work...

This could be your lucky day: for you Pavilion dv4t they published a brand new ENE CIR receiver driver today.

Install it and your remote should work.

Kari

 

[kreesdqban]

My problem is that the actual IR receiver works, but the only thing it can do is turn the computer on, all the other functions do not work... Have any ideas?

 

[Kari]

So you tried this new driver? Other than that, I have no ideas. Sorry. Mine works perfectly, both the small credit card size and the real one.

Kari

 

[kreesdqban]

Installed the new driver and the remote works! BTW HP posted 2 more drivers for my laptop in these past couple of hours. Seems like they're hard at work!

 

[Kari]

Nice to hear your remote works. For my laptops, all either Pavilion or HDX series, only drivers in Win7 section are those Vista drivers that work also with Seven.

Main thing is, they have started.

Kari

 

[kreesdqban]

One thing though. In the device manager there is is an Unknown Device under the "Other Devices" tab. The location is on the PCI bus, and the hardware ID is ACPI/HPQ0004. I google it and saw that it was the some HP Protection Module or something... Any idea?

 

[Kari]

That is probably the ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection module. For reasons unknown to me it is normally integrated on motherboards used by Pavilion series laptops, even it doesn't work with all HD's used by HP. For instance this Pavilion I'm writing my post now uses Toshiba HD's and ProtectSmart doesn't work.

ProtectSmart is a device that detects a sudden movement of your computer. It prepares the hard drive to an impact when it "thinks" computer is falling thus protecting you data.

Kari

 

[kreesdqban]

Well that doesn't make sense.... lol

Thanks anyways for your help

 

[RichFrogg]

Krees, Install the Vista drivers from HP. I had 4 unknown devices and after installing the drivers that I knew I needed everything was showing up normal. Kari is right about the possibility of it being protect smart which was one of the ones I needed.

 

[kreesdqban]

Yeah I did a search for the Protect Smart driver and got the Vista x64 driver and it worked. I'm not sure exactly how to test if it actually worked, but the unidentified device has now been associated to the Protect Smart module.

Sorry I didn't update before, but thanks anyways for the help.

 

[Teerex]

I saw the latest among these install just fine on Windows 7..

 

[kreesdqban]

HP just came out with the Protect Smart driver for Windows 7 x64... When I installed it though, it is called HP 3D DriveGuard. Works just fine...