HP Pavillion dv6000 Nightmare

[bostonbaab]

I just purchased Windows 7 Home Premium yesterday and now I don't have a laptop. I formatted the whole drive and have a blank drive no recovery disks and limited knowledge. I was told that it was simple to install, just follow prompts. I have been researching for two days and see that I am not the only one with problems with this laptop or several other HP models. I will throw this thing in the trash and buy from a decent company if need be. I refuse to give in to HP's sale tactics of making you buy their recovery disks being they gave me nothing with my laptop. I can't even get the original Vista reinstalled. Trying to load drivers during install does nothing either from USB drive,cd drive or whatever else. Not to mention that the dozen drivers I have tried don't show compatible in setup as described on HP's website or even Nvidia. If your answer is buy the recovery disks please do not respond. If I have to bring it to a specialist just to put a disk in the tray and hit next with some hidden drivers than I will smash this garbage, send back Windows 7 and use my head next time before buying from money hungry companies taking advantage of innocent customers to make another million.

 

[Orpheous]

Welcome to sevenforums bostonbaab
Can you give us some more info please? ie. what error messages you are getting, if you have set boot device to cd/dvd drive etc.

 

[gregrocker]

How can we help if you don't even give the problem you are having, just throw a hissy fit?

Did you buy a full retail or Upgrade version?

Start with booting from the DVD, selecting Custom install, and choose the partition where you are going to install...

Now what happens?

If it prompts for drivers to be put into the installer at the Custom drives screen link, are you unzipping the given drivers onto a flash stick and browsing to the correct folder?

Do you have a Vista DVD which you are attempting to reinstall which is giving you the same error?

We can only guess until you tell us the exact error messages and when they occur.

 

[richc46]

I just purchased Windows 7 Home Premium yesterday and now I don't have a laptop. I formatted the whole drive and have a blank drive no recovery disks and limited knowledge. I was told that it was simple to install, just follow prompts. I have been researching for two days and see that I am not the only one with problems with this laptop or several other HP models. I will throw this thing in the trash and buy from a decent company if need be. I refuse to give in to HP's sale tactics of making you buy their recovery disks being they gave me nothing with my laptop. I can't even get the original Vista reinstalled. Trying to load drivers during install does nothing either from USB drive,cd drive or whatever else. Not to mention that the dozen drivers I have tried don't show compatible in setup as described on HP's website or even Nvidia. If your answer is buy the recovery disks please do not respond. If I have to bring it to a specialist just to put a disk in the tray and hit next with some hidden drivers than I will smash this garbage, send back Windows 7 and use my head next time before buying from money hungry companies taking advantage of innocent customers to make another million.

We have many talented and helpful people on this staff. If you would just repost and explain precisely, what your problem is, we can solve it for you. I realize that you are upset, but if you calm down try to cooperate, your problems will be solved.

 

[MacGyvr]

I just purchased Windows 7 Home Premium yesterday and now I don't have a laptop. I formatted the whole drive and have a blank drive no recovery disks and limited knowledge. I was told that it was simple to install, just follow prompts. I have been researching for two days and see that I am not the only one with problems with this laptop or several other HP models. I will throw this thing in the trash and buy from a decent company if need be. I refuse to give in to HP's sale tactics of making you buy their recovery disks being they gave me nothing with my laptop. I can't even get the original Vista reinstalled. Trying to load drivers during install does nothing either from USB drive,cd drive or whatever else. Not to mention that the dozen drivers I have tried don't show compatible in setup as described on HP's website or even Nvidia. If your answer is buy the recovery disks please do not respond. If I have to bring it to a specialist just to put a disk in the tray and hit next with some hidden drivers than I will smash this garbage, send back Windows 7 and use my head next time before buying from money hungry companies taking advantage of innocent customers to make another million.

The DV6000 doesn't require any special drivers to install Windows 7. I can say this for certain as I'm typing this post on one running Windows 7 Ultimate. Installation was simple as pie and took about 20 minutes total. Give us some specifics.

 

[Orpheous]

bostonbaab, how is your laptop going?

 

[Hwangman]

The DV6000 doesn't require any special drivers to install Windows 7. I can say this for certain as I'm typing this post on one running Windows 7 Ultimate. Installation was simple as pie and took about 20 minutes total. Give us some specifics.

I have a laptop in the DV6000 line and i'm having problem getting 7 up and running. I heard it didn't require special drivers, but my display is messed up and looks much worse (resolution-wise) than Vista.

 

[Orpheous]

The DV6000 has been released with a few different graphics options, do you know which graphics chip yours has?

 

[Hwangman]

The DV6000 has been released with a few different graphics options, do you know which graphics chip yours has?

Mine is NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M.

 

[gregrocker]

bostonbaab, how is your laptop going?

I think he just stopped by to throw a temper tantrum. :mad2:

 

[Orpheous]

The DV6000 has been released with a few different graphics options, do you know which graphics chip yours has?

Mine is NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M.

Have you tried the latest nVidia drivers for that chip?

W7 32 Bit GeForce Release 179

W7 64 Bit GeForce Release 179

bostonbaab, how is your laptop going?

I think he just stopped by to throw a temper tantrum. :mad2:

Looks that way at the moment!

 

[Hwangman]

I don't recall if i've tried the NVidia 179. I know i tried an NVidia driver not too long ago. It might have been the next-latest version. In any case, it didn't work. Regular install, compatibility mode, etc. Nothing works. I either get errors or it finishes the install, reboots, and i see no difference.

I just verified that my model of laptop IS compatible with 7. Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Thanks for any help.

 

[Tews]

I don't recall if i've tried the NVidia 179. I know i tried an NVidia driver not too long ago. It might have been the next-latest version. In any case, it didn't work. Regular install, compatibility mode, etc. Nothing works. I either get errors or it finishes the install, reboots, and i see no difference.

I just verified that my model of laptop IS compatible with 7. Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Thanks for any help.

I have no idea what your problem is... This is what happens when you post a problem in someone elses thread ( Hijacking ) Please start your own thread, specific to your own problem...the server has plenty of room...

 

[gregrocker]

I don't recall if i've tried the NVidia 179. I know i tried an NVidia driver not too long ago. It might have been the next-latest version. In any case, it didn't work. Regular install, compatibility mode, etc. Nothing works. I either get errors or it finishes the install, reboots, and i see no difference.

I just verified that my model of laptop IS compatible with 7. Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Thanks for any help.

Did the graphics appear correctly at any time since install?

Your problem sometimes arises from a bad Windows Update which could be uninstalled if you can pinpoint time.

I believe you have another thread on here where I linked the Nvidia beta driver earlier. Try it again.

 

[bostonbaab]

Good looking out guys

Good looking out guys! That had to be one of the most stressful things I've had to deal with lately. All that hair pulling and it came down to using a different disk. I tried the Windows 7 Home Premium that I downloaded from Microsoft and an OEM version of Vista along with an older copy of XP. Nothing would install without locking at the driver issue. Just for sh%^&ts and giggles I tried a friends Windows 7 Ultimate and it installed perfect within 10 minutes. Needless to say I don't really know for sure what the problem was but got it running afterwards and thats all that matters. Sorry about the hissy fit I had. You guys surely know how annoying these things can get at times. Especially when things make no sense at all. Merry Christmas! and Thanks for everything.

 

[Orpheous]

Good looking out guys! That had to be one of the most stressful things I've had to deal with lately. All that hair pulling and it came down to using a different disk. I tried the Windows 7 Home Premium that I downloaded from Microsoft and an OEM version of Vista along with an older copy of XP. Nothing would install without locking at the driver issue. Just for sh%^&ts and giggles I tried a friends Windows 7 Ultimate and it installed perfect within 10 minutes. Needless to say I don't really know for sure what the problem was but got it running afterwards and thats all that matters. Sorry about the hissy fit I had. You guys surely know how annoying these things can get at times. Especially when things make no sense at all. Merry Christmas! and Thanks for everything.

Glad to hear you got it sorted out
Merry Christmas!