3820TG Owner's Lounge - Part Two

If you were using 4GB of RAM before the upgrade, it's because more RAM will decrease your overclocking potential.

 

wow i did not know that...why is this?

 

Has to do with the electronic design inside the memory controller.

And no, you can't change it.

 

Driver listing updated. Found another source for the hybrid drivers that provides the latest Catalyst and Intel drivers. Works fine on my Timeline without problems. The listing is linked on the first page

 

Note that the majority of failures for SSDs are still firmware related. The Intel 320 that becomes an 8MB flash drive, etc. And it's affected most all SSDs at one time or another. It's just a much less mature product segment than spinning disks. We've had spinning magnetic media in one form or another for about 50 or so years, so most issues were worked out long ago. There was an interesting article linked to in the postgresql general mailing list about SSDs in production environments, I'll try to look it up. Basically SSDs=immature and prone to firmware failures. Spinning drives=mature and prone to mechanical failure.

 

Have you used a driver cleaner before installing new drivers. You may have to wipe all the drivers and install new ones. Not sure if thats what you did when you `did all the updates`.

 

can u tell me how did u oc ur 480M???

 

follow these instructions

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/564464-how-use-setpll-overclock-your-r2-over-166-a.html

the only difference is instead of using the command 'setpll m11xr2 xxx' you use 'setpll alienware-m11xr2 xxx'

xxx being your clock of course

 

i can only find links to the 11.6 hybrid, isnt 11.8 the latest catalyst driver?

 

lol it seems that my power led doesnt work anymore...it will light up if i tweak the frame but other than that its off...what type of connector does it have...is it worth pulling the lappy apart again to attempt to fix

 

I think it was soldered on the motherboard.

 

Updated the link, forgot to add it when i updated the list yesterday :S

 

I don't have a clear recollection of this but it might be on the power board.

 

Could be, I only remember, that I didn't see a extra wire for the LEDs.

 

Can't get any sound while using HDMI to a TV.

HDMI doesn't show up in devices. Why? Have tried installing the latest Realtek Driver.

 

Hi and thanks for the comment. Ihad actually done a clean install of the Windows on a freshly formatted C drive, so I'm afraid that's not the source of the trouble . Seems like no one on this forum is experiencing any problems with the ATI and the BBC HD stream. The funny thing is that one of the reasons I had picked up the TG version of the Acer was mainly to be able to 'enjoy' the BBC HD TV on my TV !

 

Where is your Acer driver disc or folder backup of the drivers? The Realtek website has "ATI HDMI Audio Device" listed as one of the drivers required for HDMI audio.

 

I found the intel 540m on the chinese site ʵÌåµê Intel ±Ê¼Ç±¾ CPU i5-540M 2.53 3M 1066 BGA SLBTU-ÌÔ±¦Íø. 57 us dollar? Look real.

 

It's possible (in theory) although that would have to be a used one.
I bought Core i5 560M for roughly $45 a month or two ago and it works like a charm. The seller had something like 20 units all used ones yet all working fine.

 

Yes, the 580M is also working without problems.

Try it.

 

if your gonna buy a new processor why not go with the i7? i see that the 540m can be overclocked to 3.8ghz but i wonder what the i7 could hit?

 

They are not ES or QS right? i forgot where to look in cpuz if it is qs or es veresion

you bought one from the same place?

No one know if i7 processor is compatible with this laptop, the size and the heatsink don't match correctly. No integrate gpu, which mean you are forced to use ATI all the time.

 

The one I bought wasn't an ES or anything. Just a used retail one.
Checked the code when I bought it.

 

I shot one on e-bay.

 

oh, it's too expensive for me for the OEM version on ebay. The chinese site is cheap.

just try to check out on that chinese site, can't find any form of payment that i recognized. ???

 

At the January ebay was the cheapest option for me.

But the price on the Chinese page is very good.

 

"No driver was supported by this driver package". Translated freely from the error while trying to install "ATI HDMI Audio Device".

 

Someone here could post his/her experience of overclocking the the Intel M460? (e.g max stable values)

And got anyone overclocked already "Nanya NT2GC64B8HC0NS-CG" RAM? (DDR3-1333)

I saw also this tutorial http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...rks-tweaks-mods-upgrades-116.html#post6432896 will it set the "maximum gpu/mem clock to xxx" or will it set the clock permanently to the new values till the system gets rebooted? I mean normally the GPU is changing the current clock to save power / decrease the heat.

 

ok so i read on the old thread that overclocking the cpu produces "wierd" or negative effects for gaming...can somebody explain this? iv searched google and only come up with gaming improvements with ocing....

the reason i ask is because i just started playing crysis 2 and during the cutscenes the audio will cut out or stutter which i believe is due to a problem with syncing to the video...maybe because of my OCd cpu or gpu?

 

Set the CPU back on default values.

On a motherboard are a lot of "out-of-sync detection" and one ore more of them seems to get active force a resend of the data. -> Lower data throughput.

 

umm what??

 

Is here something new with hibernation in Linux(Ubuntu), I have problem with restart(crash) notebook after resume from hibernation, it happens in 50% chance ...

Thanks for reply

 

Type it in a command line window:
bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying and AFAIK it makes no sense. The stuttering bug is because of the Windows 7 QueryPerformanceTimer bug, this can be fixed with the bcdedit line above. Also, CPU does not remember overclocking, so its a strange thing to write "set the cpu back", as a simple restart does the trick.

 

maybe i should go for
Corsair Memory 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1333MHz SODIMMs (CMSO8GX3M2A1333C9)

or
Patriot Viper Xtreme Series, Division Viper 2 Edition DDR3, 8GB(2x4GB) 1600MHz Low Latency Kit (PXD34G1600LLK)

 

give one a try and let me know how the ocing goes

 

Hi all!

Just got hold of some dirt cheap PC3-10600 (1333MHz) 2x4GB ram.
The 3820TG does however default to 1066Mhz.

Any way to get the ram to run at 1333Mhz?

 

thanks man, seems to work great!
awesome list btw, nice work

 

If you want maximum overclocking performance, get 4GB and nothing more.

No. Intel's arbitrary restriction only allows i5 processors to run RAM at 1066MHz max. You cannot make it run at 1333MHz without an i7 processor. On the other hand, you do get lower latency while running 1333MHz ram at 1066MHz (CL9 vs CL7), so there might be a slight but negligible performance boost.

 

i've done a clean install on ssd and use the 11.8 drivers --> i can switch to intel (catalystcontrol center), but if i switch to ati, the screen turns black and STAYS black...someone who knows a solution?

with 11.6 --> all fine

 

Zero was right when he said that modded hybrid is buggy. I have the same problem but it disappeared after restart. However, catalyst wont launch anymore.

 

important is, that you don't install acers epower managment! the 11.6 modded hybrid drivers works, but don't forget to change the registry, because msn prevent switching.

 

I don't have empower management nor msn. But seriously, even the official hybrid driver is buggy sometimes, mind you modded hybrid driver.

 

Which driver do you use?

 

i installed the 11.8 hybrid and it works perfect...even fixed my bsod issue....what i did was, uninstall both of your drivers then go to add remove progs and remove ALL catalyst software, reboot then install the driver inforcer followed by the hybrid driver, reboot.

sometimes I also have the issue of a black screen when using the ati card, i think it has something to do with shutting down while the intel card is active then rebooting with the power cord plugged in (ati card), the computer saves the power saving gpu then doesnt know what to do when it should start with ati, idk.

 

I have the same issue with the Logitech Gaming software, which registory entry needs to be changed?

 

The Catalyst 11.8 that I found works perfectly, however it's important to note that the issues that plague the modded driver is also found within the official Acer driver, especially the issues where MSN Messenger prevents you from switching the GPU. As for the other issues where there is only a black screen after switching, it is possible that Windows might have changed the output to your HDMI or VGA output, which would display nothing on the screen. To check if this is a problem, press Windows + P and see if the display output will change. This usually occurs if you installed the 11.8 drivers over a previous version of Catalyst, and it can be remedied by doing a full uninstall of both the Intel and AMD drivers, then doing a clean install of the hybrid drivers.

 

actually it is doing this to me too...seems that if you switch to intel then try to switch back you get a black screen....the display is up, i can bearly see everything but it seems that the backlight is completely off...the way i installed my drivers was a clean install and im having this issue still...


edit: just did another clean install of the 11.8 software and still having blackouts when switching from intel back to ati.
like i said the screen is there, just 0% backlight

 

Are you able to manually adjust the backlight? Does restarting solve the issue?