Friday, March 29, 2013

My solution for HP Envy 14 Beat Edition overheating and shutdown!

I was having issues with my Envy 14, overheating and then shutting down (in Windows 7).
My temporary solution was to switch to Intel graphics card and never use my dedicated graphic card.
Whenever I switched to my dedicated graphic card (AMD Radeon HD) it would heat up in 20 minutes with great fan noise and eventually shutting down.

I've just discovered if you install newer AMD drivers on top of HP provided ones you can have switchable graphics card and also a working Radeon HD card. Also generally fan noise is greatly reduced.

Here are the links I've used :

Original HP drivers :
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp50501-51000/sp50656.exe

AMD drivers I've installed on top of that:
http://www2.ati.com/Drivers/mobile/13-1_mobility_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql.exe