TyMiles2012

I'm asking this because even though it's a DV7 series, they're all SO different individually for some reason.  A friend of mine got a DV7 and it looks so much different than mine.

I just want to know if anybody can give me any specific instructions for this specific model if that can help, because I failed miserably last few times I've tried, even though I've had it running on the first shot on my older netbook, which crashed the system when I tried upgrading to Lion while trying to access iTunes.


Specs:

Intel Inside Core i7-2670QM Quad Core @2.20GHz
AMD Radeon HD 7470M Graphics and Intel HD 3000 (Switchable Graphics, switched to Fixed in BIOS)
8GB DDR3 RAM
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (WiFi)
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (Ethernet)

If there are anymore specs that could be important, let me know.  I'm currently dualbooting between Windows 8 Release Preview and Ubuntu 12.04.