Recent content by dodgeman21

If you think of it start up task manager real quick upon startup when the fan roars and see if you see something consuming allot of resources. Maybe your anti-virus is doing a root kit scan or whatever they do sometimes on startup .

The fan is silent on a hot restart or if the machine is turned off and restarted a little while later. Just when stone cold the issue exists. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. Respectfully I would say that in this case it is not normal, unless one of the latest Microsoft updates changed the fan around and this would be considered the "new" normal . I have had a few HP notebooks and this situation started since the 8.1 install after all the...

I have had issues with windows 8.1, specifically the KB2919355 update but have everything just about all straightened out and the machine runs good. HP Dv7t-7300 i7 3740QM with Samsung 840 Pro SSD. The only issue I have now is the fan runs full speed on cold start and sometimes, but not always...

My KB2919355 failed to install this morning. 64 bit windows 8 came on this laptop, I updated it to 8.1 a while ago. Did the DICM as instructed as I pursued it. No luck.

I have no clue other than another guy here had his graphics WEI numbers take a dive when he installed 8.1 and maybe Microsoft doesn't want to try to explain it.

I am somewhat of a novice at these things but am willing to learn..I downloaded the Maxon and ran the 2 tests I could find..One was Open GL and I had a 55.77fps and the CPU was 627 cb. I don't know if these are good or bad for a notebook. Thanks CountMike.

That's the only benchmark I have and it didn't change much with Windows 8.1. As far as the graphics go, I really dont know what to do about the low WEI ...Looks like I wont be able to do anything about it. I am thinking it is not the fault of the computer but rather something to do with 8.1 . I...

Here is a benchmark for this laptop

You take care as well...Maybe others will test their WEI scores since updating to 8.1 and give us some feedback.

That is interesting Popeye. Huh. There must be some reason why they do not want to make it easy for us to get the WEI scores in 8.1 and maybe we found it. Dust Sailor, I went to the HP site and it claims all my drivers are the latest for my system, it knows what I have. I did go to the NVIDIA...

Well I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 and ran the WEI test from an elevated C prompt, and it seems to have taken a dive in the graphics and gaming areas as opposed to the WEI I ran last fall with Windows 8 installed. I have no clue as to why or what to do about it. The machine runs well. I did...

I suspect someone is stealing from me. I would like to enable the You cam on both my Win 8 and Win 7 machines and turn the screen off when You cam is minimized and recording, but it will not do it even with the power set to do so at 1 minute as long as You cam is still running and minimized...

Thanks !

Thanks. I just scanned a simple picture to show that Avast scanned it. Too bad it is limited to 64 K. I am confused, what do you mean Avast doesn't show up on the list of tested AV's ? It shows that it scans with Avast on any file I try. Educate me :)