I have a hp pavilion dv7-6b78us Entertainment Notebook PC with a Radeon 6490M GPU. Intel Core i7 2630QM, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, bios version F.1C REV: A
Issues; Video Card crashes, Audio affecting display.
i have done a clean instal of the latest drivers from hp support, however tonnes of issues!
1st, the card crashes alot when im designing in Autodesk Maya, Revit, 3Ds Max, Showcase just to mention a few. "display driver has stopped working and has recovered succesfully" and i have to restart the program each time ive had to change bios settings for graphics to 'Fixed' so that i use the intel HD which is most stable.
For gaming, most games i try to launch keep on mimimizing themselves and even when i restore, they do it again! i have to restart the PC for them to run, racing games are terrible since the road in the game will just disappear when driving and the car is just suspended on nothing.
i ran into the Leshcatlab dude when i tried to find a solution, but nothing got solved. Drivers from AMD are just worse. Since HP recommends we get drivers from their site, i went back. And i keep checking to see if they'll give us an update, but NO!
HP is too busy doing other things i suppose, i wish they let AMD do the driver support themselves since they always update, especially there's very poor HDMI support compared to AMD Radeon Cards. Switchable graphics is way poor. And i wonder, are these cards really tested ???
Then, i found a hint about something to do with audio that kind of affects display as i came to find out. What's the point of having beats audio if you cant use it ?
In order to play my racing games smoothly, i have to lower the volume waaaay down. Same goes for playing music since the moment the volume gets near 50% and above ( VLC media player, Winamp etc ) there's these annoying glitches until eventually a continuous annoying buzzing sound and i cant stop the playes or switch off the pc for the next two minutes or so; same glitches in movies at the scenes with intense action and louder sounds, the picture gets severely distorted. And it sucks! And i know its the PC audio since everything is fine with headphones.
i have no time to follow up on warranty since i live in Kenya, Africa and the guys who deal with the procedure dont seem to really understand anything and i had to wait for a month when they took my previous PC about a year ago, and i have school projects
So tell me, whats wrong with my PC ? i still beleive in hp.