Yes. I have that windows update installed. What does that signify?

Switching Off HP Action Keys

Action Keys is HP code for "let's take a standard keyboard layout and make the keys do things that people don't expect them to do".  In the context of the dv6, this means that pressing F2 will cause the screen brightness to go down instead of, you know, triggering whatever command F2 is supposed to trigger normally, like Rename File.  The dv6 has this enabled out of the box, and it can be very confusing.  I don't know how many people actually like it, but I'm certainly not one of them, which is why I turned it off.

This is how I did it:
1) Reboot computer.  Keep pressing the Escape button as the screen turns on.  This will lead you to a screen with a few text options that look something like this:



I can't remember what the options are, so pick the one that leads to BIOS setup or similar.

2) Look for the option called Action Keys.  It should be under either Advanced or Miscellaneous.

3) Set it to "Off" or "Disabled".  If the option is called "Disable Action Keys", then obviously set it to "On" or "Enabled".  The point is you want to turn Action Keys off; PMR level English will help you greatly here.

4) Go to the last screen of the BIOS menu and select "Exit and Save Changes".  When prompted, choose "Yes".  This will save the changes to your BIOS and reboot your computer.

And that's it: your function keys will now be accessible without pressing the Fn button, and the special functions are accessible by pressing Fn+F<whatever>.  As it should be.
It may interest you to know that my hard drive (also the Samsung one) also suffered a huge slowdown out of stock whenever I tried to copy a lot of files from my external HDD to my internal HDD.  Windows slowed down, everything slowed down.  It was insane, but it sped back up as soon as the file copy was done.  So, check these things first:

1) Are there any big files copying/downloading/torrenting?  If there are, try stopping it first and see if your system speeds up.

2) Try defragging the hard drive.  I use Auslogics Disk Defrag because it's bloody billions of times faster than the built-in Windows defragger.  A fragmented hard drive (one where lots of files have pieces everywhere instead of being ordered in one sequential line) will always suffer slowdowns as the hard drive head will have to go everywhere instead of just following a simple line whenever it's reading or writing files.

3) Run Scandisk.  Open Windows Explorer/My Computer, right click on your hard drive, Properties -> Tools, Error-checking, Check now.  This will scan your hard drive for serious problems.  Pray that it doesn't find any because it would mean your hard drive has serious problems that cannot be fixed.

Anyway, because I screwed up my initial setup, I ended up recovering to factory settings using the recovery disks.  After redoing my setup properly, there was no huge slowdown when copying stuff.  Consider doing this; it takes a long time (about 3 hours minimum to recover if you deleted the recovery partition like I did), but it seemed to fix the issue.

I got 2 BSODs in these 2 weeks of using this laptop...
Both happened minutes after windows telling me that "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

Anyone faced this before? Dont know what's the cause..

So thought of maybe updating it to see if it helps..

i have this only 

because early on i get the same the version of your graphic adapter is not supported, but somehow after that i can install the CCC from AMD website.

you guys use the 79.7MB CCC installer right? not the 1MB.

Ermm correction mine hard drive is Toshiba. Yeah when i copying stuffs from one drive to another, everything slow down. Anyone experience this in their dv6? Try copy some big files from one drive to another, then run a game and see is there any slow down or lag during the game.

Ermm correction mine hard drive is Toshiba. Yeah when i copying stuffs from one drive to another, everything slow down. Anyone experience this in their dv6? Try copy some big files from one drive to another, then run a game and see is there any slow down or lag during the game.

Looks like a guide is necessary for this Acid.

Can i try using pendrive instead? I don't have an external HDD.
Do you experienced the same thing with pendrive?
 

U can install the driver from AMD website? Or you get the same prompt like them too?

Anyway there is a hotfix for Catalyst 11.5 and i just installed it. It bring improved performance for Brinks and Dirt 3.
I think it also installed the latest graphic driver instead of using the old 1 from HP.

Install it if you feel adventurous or wait for HP to officially release it. =x
Changelog : AMD Catalyst™ 11.5b hotfix
Download Link : AMD Catalyst 11.5b Hotfix for Windows® 7

Before : Driver Packaging - 8.83.6 | CCC - 2011.0419


After : Driver Packaging - 8.85.6 | CCC - 2011.0525


I haven't test it tho... and i still have switchable graphic option.
Oh.. i get that prompt few times also when i'm playing Shift 2 and benchmarking with 3DMarkVantage while overclocking. But i didn't get any BSOD yet. What is the temperatures at that time?
Aiks?

Haven't tried.  I just thought it might be useful for others to have a guide on the first page, much like we have for everything else.

the website says its an unauthorised donwload    i click ur second link
edit : lol can d... i click ur 1st link then click to download 

I haven't test it tho... and i still have switchable graphic option.
Oh.. i get that prompt few times also when i'm playing Shift 2 and benchmarking with 3DMarkVantage while overclocking. But i didn't get any BSOD yet. What is the temperatures at that time?

the website says its an unauthorised donwload    i click ur second link
edit : lol can d... i click ur 1st link then click to download 

Neh.. Probably not a temperature issue. I just woke up at that time and it happened shortly after i open the screen...
I've had many hours of CoDs without any issues

Can i try using pendrive instead? I don't have an external HDD.
Do you experienced the same thing with pendrive?
 

U can install the driver from AMD website? Or you get the same prompt like them too?

i mean internal drive like c drive to d drive

by the way.. did you manage to install the driver?
oh.. hopefully a driver update will fix that up.

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Added on May 28, 2011, 4:37 pmdayyumn.. i can't do battery life test. I ended up falling asleep or plug in the cable and start gaming after just 2-3 hours.

this is my 4th try. 

yup... installed successfully 

have any of you guys tried ps2 emulator(pcsx2) on dv6?

Hi everyone,
I want to sell my new replacement HP Pavilion dv6-6001TX, if anyone is interested can find my adv at:
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1896317

Reason to sell??