Dv7-3085dx and raid

I would like to set up raid on my laptop (dv7-3085dx ). I purchased and installed a new hard drive (same size). But seeing that the Bios doesnt support. Frustrating when I have a second drive in my gamming laptop but cant raid configure for speed. I am new to raid but not computer maintenance. So does my bios have to support raid? From my reading I understood that windows could manage the raid configuration during a fresh installation? Or am I wasting my time trying raid with this laptop?

You would be better off using a fast SSD drive.
Raid is a waste of time on a notebook.

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DV7 3085DX 2nd HDD Bay

I have been having a look at my DV7 3085DX and see that it has a second hdd bay but no connections to plug a 2nd internal hdd in.
Is it possible to add the connectors & activate the 2nd hdd bay? If so how can it be done?
Also I have noticed that connections exist inside for a tv tuner, is it possible to utilize this connection?
Any help or answers greatly appreciated.
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Yes on at least the hard drive and theoretically yes on the tv tuner although that is pricey. You need the module and a special cable. I cannot find the part on the internet or this site but you could maybe call HP or even look on ebay. Here is the part you need to add a second drive. It is the caddy and a connector cable.
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HP DV7-3085dx won't power up, seems the battery and charging is ok.. possible mother board problem?

Hi I recently received an HP DV7-3085dx from a friend of mine since he hadn't been using it for a while.
So, when I tried to turn it on for the first time, the power button wouldn't work, or the lap top itself wouldn't power on.
When I plug in the charger, AC adapter light turns on, and when I connect the battery, both the battery light and the AC light turns on fine.
However, there's no fan, or any light flashing when I press the power button as if it's dead.
I've searched and tried:
1. hard reset - pressing on the power button for a minute without any attachement and so on
2. reseating ram and CMOS battery
3. cleaning heatsink and re-applying thermal compound.
4. tried turning on the laptop without hard drive.
However, none of those would solve the problem.
Could it be the faulty motherboard, fan or heatsink?
Or, does battery light on means the motherboard is safe, at least?
By the way, it seems like the battery charges just fine as after a while on an AC, the battery light turns off(signaling that it's fully charged)

Hello coolhair50, welcome to the HP Forums.
I see that you've acquired your Notebook from a friend, that you're trying to get it to turn on and start up. That only the batter and charger appear to be working as the Notebook will not turn on. I will try to assist you with this.
You're on the correct path, the issue does appear to be hardware related from what you've attempted so far. The battery and charger appear to be fine.
What I would suggest starting with is this document: Troubleshooting Black Screen Displays with No Error Messages During Startup or Boot. It will guide you through testing the memory and hard drive. If all of that tests ok, then you're most likely looking at a motherboard issue.
You have a few options at that point. The first would be callling support to see what they could offer. HP Technical Support, North America 1-800-474-6836. For all other regions click here.
The second would depend on your own personal knowledge of Notebooks, but you could use the Maintenance and Service guide to look up possible compatible parts and how to replace them.
Please let me know how everything goes for you.
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My external usb mouse no longer works on my dv7-3085dx.

My HP Pavilion dv7-3085dx, running Windows 7 64-bit, is having issues recognizing the external usb mouse. Normally the mouse will work a few seconds to minutes before the computer makes the sound that the usb has been unplugged (even thouugh it has not) I have tested the mouse on all the usb ports and on several other computers to make sure it wasn't an issue with the mouse cord. Furthermore, I have tried using several different usb mice with the same results. I have also tried using other usb devices on my laptop (e.g. usb storage devices and cooling fan) with no issues to their performance and no usb device disconnect sound. Any help would be greatly appreciated as using only the touchpad makes gaming more of a challenge than I'm ready for.

Hi,
As per the issue you have mentioned it seems like the HID compliant mouse had been disabled .
Try to open device manager (Click on start type in device manager in Search programs and files click on device manager ) and that will open new window device manager go to Mice and other pointing devices click on the small arrow next to Mice and other pointing devices check to see if there is a down arrow on HID-compliant mouse if found right click on it and click on enable which will enable the Usb mouse
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Dv7 3085dx won't power on after adding 2nd hard drive

I'm attempting to add a 2nd drive to my laptop (dv7 3085dx). The drive is a Seagate Momentus 750GB drive (ST9750420AS). I purchased the drive caddy and connector from Newmodeus. The laptop will not power on after the drive is installed in the 2nd bay. Everything is fine if the drive is disconneted.
Any ideas?

Are you absolutely sure you got the right caddy and cable from newmodeus? They sell several different ones for the dv7 series and they look similar but are not compatible with each other. I understand the reluctance to try hot-plugging it.

HP dv7-3085dx Win7/64-bit Hanging/Crashing with WD My Book eSATA 1GB Attached

I have an HP dv7-3085dx, 500GB internal SATA, 6GB RAM, upgraded from Win7 Home Premium 64-bit to Win7 Ultimate, with a Western Digital 1GB MyBook attached to the eSATA port. All the latest Windows Updates are installed as of yesterday (11/23). I've noticed two problems related to this laptop running with the My Book attached, and wonder if others have similar issues and/or solutions:
1) Several times in the few weeks since I've had this laptop, I've noticed that the external My Book becomes unusable if the laptop has gone to sleep and reawakened. Here's what I mean by unusable: (a) If I attempt to look at the drive's contents using Windows Explorer, I can see the top level directories/folders, but if I expand any of the folders, I get a green progress bar in the path area that seems to almost complete, but never reaches the end. During this time, I can't navigate anywhere on the drive. The only solution has been to restart both the laptop and the drive. Then, all is well again. (b) If I try to run any program that attempts to read from or write to the drive, it just hangs, and can be killed only via Task Manager. Again, a full restart of everything clears the problem.
If the laptop hasn't gone to sleep, the drive seems just fine...it can be navigated and used by applications.
2) Today, after completing a full system backup to the My Book drive (using the Win7 Backup and Restore utility), I left the machine long enough that it went to sleep (a couple of hours). When I came back, I woke up the machine and started looking through e-mail (app and all data are on the internal drive, not the My Book). I noticed that I heard the external My Book drive spin up and then promptly spin down again. A few seconds later, as I was reading an e-mail, the system crashed (BSOD) with a STOP 0x00000050 Page Fault in Non-Paged Area. I noticed that it was trying to write out the dump file, but was hung at that point (no disk activity, no dump progress). So, just to see if the My Book presence was preventing the dump file from being written, I powered down the My Book. Instantly, the dump file was written and the system restarted. So, it appears that the My Book might have been responsible for both the blue screen and the prevention of dump writing.
I used this My Book drive on an older laptop running WinXP (using either a USB connection or an eSATA connection through a PC-Card), and never had this problem...even when the laptop would go to sleep and wake up.
Is this behavior pointing to an incompatibility between the HP laptop and the WD My Book, or is there potentially a problem with the eSATA port on the HP laptop? This is the only eSATA device I have, so can't really test with other devices.
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HO DV7 3085dx problem

HI there,
I have an HP DV7 3085dx that is is just about 3 years old. Up until recently, I have had very few problems with the laptop, at least nothing that I could not fix myself. The problem started a month or so ago with a loose display LCD cable., which I was able to fix twice with no problems.
The third time I went to fix it (it had not been tucked away fully under one of the front panels on the laptop), something went wrong. I took everything apart step by step as I had before, in the same order that I had done before, fixed the cable, and went to put everything back together in the same way that I'd done before with no problems.
When I went to turn on the computer, it would turn on but with a blank screen, no sound and some of the touch sensor lights above the keyboard would not light up, but there was power to the computer. I shut it down, let it discharge and opened it back up, thinking I had maybe not connected the hard drive tight enough.
Checked everything before putting it back together. When I went to turn this time, it would not turn on at all. I used my husband's laptop to troubleshoot, and the HP website sugested a hard reset, which consisted of unplugging it, taking out the battery and holding the start button for 15 seconds. I did this, and nothing happened after I plugged it back in, nor when I replaced the battery. When I plug it in however, the port for the AC plug does light up.
I honestly don't know what else to do. THe warranty is long gone at this point. If anyone out there has any ideas, please let me know.
I tried the hard reset as mentioned above. I don't think it's a motherboard issue as those tend to beep when there is a problem. My brother's friend mentioned the power supply unit inside the laptop?
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I would recommend using this troubleshooting document for your issue: http://goo.gl/LvXDk
There are a few more steps in there other than just a hard reset.
Let me know if any of those steps help to resolve your issue.
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Dv7-3085dx hardware

I have a dv7-3085dx. The only problem I have with it is that the graphics are too slow for me Nvidia GeForce 230M. I have read that it is possible on certain models and higher levels of laptops that you are able to upgrade these. When I bought this laptop, it was a higher end at the time and was wondering if it was possible to be upgraded and what where my options in upgrades?
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Hi,
Basically you can, with a cost and I believe this cost may be more expensive than buying a new computer because you have to take into account:
New card price, and WHERE you can buy it because laptop cards are not the same as desktop cards. You can't buy from any normal shop,
Need new system board (may be),
Need new cooling system because generally speaking more powerfull card pumps out more heat (you want more powerfull card don't you?).
May need new PSU because your current PSU may not suitbale to the card. (I ordered a machine with Nvidia card and I needed to order a 90W charger at the same time, not the normal 65W charger. They simply rejected my order).
Labor cost.
Many, many packets of Asprin.
Hope this helps.
BH
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Quick Launch Buttons not working on dv7-3085dx

Hello HP world.
I am having a problem that I cant fix it myself and it is driving me crazy.
I am very techy and usually always find a solution to any problem but this one got both of my feet locked.
My Quick Launch Buttons on my DV7-3085dx Running Win7 64-bit.
Are not working. They were working fine since forever until 2 weeks ago I noticed the mute and wireless buttons remained red non stop? and they were not functionable. Almost as if they lost connection to the notebook.
This is what i have tried so far:
- Hard reset (after i did this the red mute button and wireless went off, now only volume and media controls are on, still useless)
- Updating the QuickLaunch Buttons Driver
- Updating the BIOS
- Reinstalling MediaSmart
- New Chipset Driver
- Installing latest IDT driver
- probably other drivers and such which i cant remember but its been over a week that i have been reading online and it came down to this.
I surrender!
Please help me.
Thank you in advance.
Fitim

Fitim wrote:
So i just finished with the System recovery and no luck
The buttons are still not functioning. I just get the audio and player controls lid up but thats it.
They dont work and are useless.
HELP
If they're not working after performing the System Recovery then it's a hardware problem. Could a loose or damaged cable or circuit board.

Advice on RAID Sets, Volume Sets, and RAID Levels of the Volume Sets using an Areca Controller

I have read through a lot of information on disk usage, storage rules for an editing rig, users inquiries/member responses in this forum and I thank each and every one of you – especially Harm.
In building my new workstation, I purchased five (5) WD 1T, 7k, 64M SATAIII hard drives and an Areca RAID card, ARC-1880ix-16-4G, which I plan to use primarily as my media/data disk array. The workstation will use a 128GB SATAIII SSD as the OS/program drive and I will transfer two (2) WD Raptor/10k SATA 70GB drives from my current system for pagefile/scratch/render use. I tentatively plan on using a mobo SATAIII port for the SSD and mobo SATA ports with a software RAID (level 0) for the 10k Raptors.
In reading the Areca Instruction manual, I am now considering exactly how I should configure the 5 physical 1TB drives in terms of RAID Level(s), Volume Sets, and RAID Sets. I must admit that I like the opportunity of allowing for a Dedicated Hot Spare as I am generally distrustful of the MTBF data that drive vendors tout and have the bad experience in the past of losing data from a mal-configured RAID array and a single drive hardware failure (admittedly, my fault!).
In line with the logic that one doesn’t want to perform disk reading while trying to write at the same time (or vice-versa), I am thinking the approach above should work OK in using the mobo disk interface and both software and external hardware RAID controllers without having to create separate RAID level configurations within a Volume Set or further dividing up the physical drives into separate RAID sets. I know in forum messages that Harm noted that he had 17 drives and I could envision a benefit to having separate RAID sets in that situation, but I am not at that point yet.
To some degree I think it might be best to just create one RAID Level on one Volume Set on one RAID Set, but want to solicit thoughts from veteran controller users on their workflows/thoughts in these regards.
Anyone care to share thoughts/perspectives? Thanks
Bill

Thanks for the speedy feedback Harm - I appreciate it.
I was thinking RAID level 3 as well.
Of course, it's always something! I purchased the Caviar Blacks by mistake - which are non-TLER. I will work with EggHead to return the ones I purchased and replace them with RE4 versions as I'm not thrilled about the possibility of the controller declaring the volume/disks degraded unnecessarily and although I have the DOS utility WDTLER where one is supposed to be able to enable/disable TLER on WD drives - I suspect WD is way beyond that now anyway with current builds.
I agree with you about just testing the performance of the options for the raptors - on the mobo and then on the controller. When I benchmark them I'll post the results in case others are curious.
Thanks again....off to EggHead!

Windows 8 and Raid 5 (English)

Looking for confirmation that Windows 8 does not have the ability to use Raid 5 even if it is presented a single logical drive by a controller.
I have a SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 that makes a drive. All the docs say Raid 0 and Raid 1.
The Windows 8 and Raid 5 question already posted looks to be in Spanish.
With regards,
Quentin L. McCallum, CISSP

Software RAID 5 is not supported on Windows 8. You can use Storage Pool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcz0mDxsucs
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How to install the driver of the 'SCSI and RAID Host Controller'

Hi,
I have two Windows XP(32Bit) installations:
•Windows XP SP2(32Bit) which is old and it seems as if it is infected by some viruses.
•I have installed another fresh clean Windows XP(32Bit) SP3. However, I have found that there is no category named with ''SCSI and RAID Host Controller'. However, when checking out the old version of Windows XP, I found 'SCSI and RAID Host Controller'
is there. (Screen shot below)
The new Windows XP(32Bit) SP3, there is no 'SCSI and RAID Host Controller'
My motherboard is:
My Desktop Computer(Intel P 4, 512MB of RAM, and Graphics Card with 256MB of RAM.
]I am seeing that most computer doesn't has the scsi / raid controller . in the old Windows XP on my computer that SCSI and RAID controller exists, and it it has not a yellow mark on it.
When I installed a new windwos XP 32Bit SP3, no SCSI/RAID in divice manager .
My computer sound on new Windows XP doesn't work , however, on old Windows XP SP2 works well. I have a buitl-in sound card. SCSI and RAID controller category in the device manager on the old Windows xp SP2 is realted to sound card,I don't think.
Thus, What drivers would let the 'SCSI and RAID Host Controller' added in the device manager?
A man should convert his anger and sadness into strength to continue living in this life.

If you open the case and shine a light on the motherboard you can usually see both the manufacturers name and the model printed on the pcb somewhere. You should also normally see this information on the first POST screen when you turn on the PC.
Otherwise Google "775i65G" like I did.
Here are the driver downloads (assuming it is an Asrock 775i65G R2.0 and not an R3.0)
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/775i65G%20R2.0/?cat=Download&os=XP
You should install the inf driver first. Hopefully after you do that you will see your desired listing in Device Manager.
With regard to the AMR driver and the HDMR driver, you can find some information about these here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio/modem_riser
Unless you actually have something plugged into these risers, it is probably not necessary to install the drivers.
However, the drivers for the integrated C-Media audio chip and the Realtek Lan chip may prove useful.
It looks like the motherboard has integrated video but if you are using a graphics card it will not normally be necessary to install the VGA driver.
You can download both the manual and the installation guide here
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/775i65G/?cat=Manual
And if "SCSI and RAID Host Controller" is still not shown in Device Manager, don't worry - because these functions are not supported by your motherboard (again assuming it is an Asrock 775i65G)
Thanks a lot,
First of all, when saying that I have multi-operationgs systems, I mean there are two operating systems installed on my PC(SP2, SP3) both are 32Bit. The first Windows SP2(NOT installed by me) has all multimedia audio card installed
well, and has SCSI and RAID Host Controller shown the device manager. However, only the VGA is not installed on Windows SP2. However, the second one Windows SP3(Installed by me) has VGA not installed, Multimedia audio NOT installed, and there is no SCSI and
RAID Host Controller in device manager.
First: Why did the CPUz, specy didn't detect motherboard name, and only detect the model. IF I need to open the case and shine a light on the motherboard you can usually see both the manufacturers name and the model printed on
the pcb somewhere, then what benfit would be there from hardware detection software?
Second: Yes, my motherboard has integrated video, and integrated audio card
However, this doesn't mean that I don't need to install them since the Vidoe controller is not properly installed (it is a default VGA ) Also, Multimedia audio controller is not functiong at all.
Finally: if And if "SCSI and RAID Host Controller" is still not shown in Device Manager in Windows XP SP3, because these functions are not supported by my motherboard, then why is 'SCSI and RAID Host
Controller' installed/shown in the device manger in Windows XP SP2 on the same PC???
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Apple should add pixim in iphone's camera, Apple should add pixim in iphone's camera and raid technology too

Apple should add pixim in iphone's camera and raid technology too.
Pixim will make iphone's camera perfect and raid technology will make it too fast

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Replace the Hot Spare that Shared between Raid 1 and raid 5

I have ProLiant ML370 G6 with Smart Array P410i Controller on System Board
I have two Logical Drive (Logical Drive 1 - Mirroring (RAID 1) And (Logical Drive 2 - Distributed Data Guarding (RAID 5)
The logical Drive 1- Mirroring (RAID 1) Have two Physical Drives
The Logical Drive 2 Distributed Data Guarding (RAID 5 Have three Physical Drives
And There Are One Spare Drive Shared btween RAID 1 and Raid 5
Controller Configuration Summary
2 Data Array(s)
2 Data Logical Drive(s)
5 Data Drive(s)
1 Spare Drive(s)
The problem :
there are that the spare Drive FAil and have warining To replace it
I replace this drive with new one but the repulid for the Drive not start and Give Inactive
How Repulid the Hot Spare drive ?

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Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More.
I understand that you are looking to rebuild the hot spare drive on your ProLiant system, and I would be happy to guide you towards a resolution!
I am sorry, but to get your issue more exposure, I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums, since this is a commercial product. You can do this at:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/bd-p/itrc-264
I hope this helps!
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What are the latest versions of RAID Admin and RAID Firmware

As of 10/18/06, what are the latest versions of RAID Admin and RAID Firmware?
Currently I have RAID Admin 1.5.
RAID Admin reports my RAID's firmware is version 1.3.2/1.26a.
Am I safe?
Do I have the latest?
Thanks.
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You do not have the latest firmware. The latest firmware is version 1.5.
You should upgrade. Make sure you have a current backup and then select "update firmware" from within RAID admin. It will then ask you for the location of the firmware update -- it should be in /Application/Utilities/Xserve RAID Update.

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