10.7 Ready for download!! Link!

The Catalyst 10.7 is ready to rock/.

Get it here for your G73!

ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

 

LOL, I just check that page about an hour ago!

Avivo d/l link is b0rk.

 

It still causes GSOD to me on stock vBios

 

Wasn't interested in most of the fixes but GTA saw some improvements, so that should make some people happy.

Rick, if you're getting GSOD's, RMA the thing.

 

I did it twice, all these times I had PSOD, and had to change for new display. I was also complaining about the GSOD's, but it seems technician doesn't really care to do a proper check. If the unit is able to pass their 3D test (not Furmark of course), they really do nothing more... That is how RMA works in Germany .

 

Sucks to hear that. I'd personally look at returning it for a refund from the retailer if that was me. I have had no issues with mine *knock on wood* but if something isn't fixed to my satisfaction I'd just take it back.

 

Seems like the focused alot on borderlands...lol.

 

Got GSOD and a blue version (separate occasions) with gray vert stripes running the WEI. Looks like it's back down to 10.1 again. Lol.

 

No problems over here so far :-D

 

Here's a link to the release notes:

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/catalyst_107_release_notes.pdf

The one on the mobility download page isn't updated yet.

 

The only drivers that will work for people having GSOD with stock BIOS is ones that come from ASUS website. So we'll still be stuck on 10.1 till ASUS feel like updating it

 

hm...I updated fine, but for some reason furmark won't lose me choose msaa anymore.....weird

 

should we be installing this?

 

Working fine here with ziddy's v3 bios

 

how do you direct download this

 

I'd avoid this release, people reporting that they can't open CCC and it still carries the gsod problem.

 

works fine for me so far

 

So still no luck for the G73JH users as i see...

 

Works fine here. Played Singularity for 2 hours last night.

 

I've heard from many people that your vBIOS seem to be the best with ATI drivers, kudos.

 

Whole night of gaming and it works great! Got a slight performance boost in BC2 as well as the Adobe suite.

The VLC video acceleration is FANTASTIC as well. The CCC works great and HDMI lag is gone.

GREAT DRIVER RELEASE!!

I have a laptop with ZERO GSOD problems and I cant stress this enough - ITS HARDWARE. IF YOU ARE GSODing on ANY DRIVER, RMA THE LAPTOP!

The 10.1's that are stock are garbage compared to recent drivers! If you cant run the newer drivers, your hardware IS defective and needs to be replaced. Running this laptop with the newest drivers is FANTASTIC!!

 

Oh, and for those who cant open CCC, REBOOT!

 

Are you on stock GPU BIOS and stock clocks?

 

Apachehavok do me a favour and run furmark for at least an hour or two on those drivers and post a screenshot of your temps.

 

Hey rick - Try overclocking your GPU to 705/1100 using the AMD GPU tool. That fixed my GSODs completely on the stock vBios. I can run Windows Experience Index, Furmark, games and no GSOD. I know it seems strange to have to overclock the GPU and Memory to get things stable but for some strange reason it works!

 

I ran into this issue with 10.5/10.6. My solution was to do a complete ATI uninstall, sweep and clean registry, install 10.1 Asus package, then install 10.x over that. CCC works perfectly since. I installed 10.7 over 10.6, works fine. (If fine is defined by having to do a 705/1100 OC to be stable)

 

Are you setting your overclocks in the Ziddy vBIOS or are you setting the overclocks at every startup using a free GPU tool?

 

LOL. "Hey, do me a favor and light your laptop on fire and tell me if it melts or not."

I know, not that drastic, but I personally won't be running furmark like... ever.

 

I agree.
Furmark is a nice stability test, but 1 hour is simply overkill. The gpu will rarely get that much stress.


Flashed back to the stock vbios (which gave me GSOD's with any other catalyst except asus's). And 10.7 worked fine with it. Temps stabilizing at 95°C on 25°C ambient.
Back to vBios 3 for the low battery clocks though. they are nice for browsing and other 2d stuff.

 

Ill say this for the last time: If theres nothing wrong with your laptop/desktop (mainly its gpu) you can run Furmark for as long as you want and it wont "burn a hole through it" or do any damage. Its a stability test, nothing more. If you cant run it as long as you want, something is wrong with your rig. I do it on every desktop/laptop i get or build for anyone and have never done any damage to any gpu.

And i asked him to do that since i havent yet found one long furmark run on 10.6 and i am starting to doubt any G73JH user is really truly stable on those drivers, but might just have had luck not to run into a GSOD yet, becouse they have not been stressing the system hard/long enough. And under 1 hour furmarks dont count in my oppinion becouse it could be luck - i managed to get 38 minutes out of mine on 10.6 before gsoding once on a custom vbios.

 

You can say it 100x more, doesn't matter to me. It's a stability test that stresses the GPU further than gaming does. If I can game as long as I want, can overclock into 800/1100 and play Crysis without issues (but running a bit hotter than I would like) why do I need to crank up furmark?

If the only problem with the laptop is that it can't run furmark for hours on end, seems like I just wouldn't run furmark.

 

I use Overdrive for my OC settings. ziddy's v3 will enable that feature.

 

Perhaps you havent found and dont use such demanding games/programs that would heat up the gpu practically the same as furmark or test the stabilty of the gpu so much with gaming, but i sometimes do manage heating it to almost the same temperatures, so furmark is a standard with me to know it will run all i throw at it and youre of course entitled to your oppinion, just dont say stupid things like im asking someone to burn a hole in their notebook, becouse even if he has a poorly pasted gpu that will overheat it will shutdown itself at its designed thermal limit to prevent damage (and if it does he will know he has to repaste or rma it if hes not comfortable doing it himself - i mean if it reaches 110C at furmark than its bound to reach at least around 100C at gaming which isnt good for the gpu to be running at regularly) or if it will gsod he will at least know where he stands and give us some useful info (and thats all im curious about - if he will get a gsod within an hour or not since im really convinced its a more widespread problem, but many people dont see it becouse they arent pushing their laptops so much).

And unlike you just knowing something isnt completely right with my laptop even if i used it very rarely or the chance of it happening being very remote is reason enough for me to be worried and to do something about it.
I guess im more of a perfectionist and wont settle for less than i payed for - in this case a fully working high performance desktop replacement notebook - it doesnt say anywhere "can overheat if running demanding software" or "wont run newest drivers", so i wont settle for it not being able to run those or overheating while running furmark or any other game/software (the 10.6/10.7 drivers GSOD issue is also a big problem for me and im pestering Asus and ATI about it day and night since its a must for me to be able to update drivers, since they include bugfixes which can be the difference between a game/program even working or not or determening how well it works). Some people just give up and accept it, but i want what i am entitled to have.

 

I'm currently working with MicroCenter in doing my GPU repasting, or even a GPU swap if neccessary. They're an Asus ASP and been quite helpful so far, except they didn't have any .5mm thermal pads. I'll probably get them myself since they said they would need to get them from Asus, and they're not the easiest bunch to play with.

 

Furmark has been running next to me on extreme burn setting for 4 hours now.
Doesnt break 90.
Stock vbios.
Cat 10.7

Again, ive never gotten a GSOD ever.

 

I agree completely. There isn't a concept of "quite stable" or "semi-stable" notebook computer. There are only stable ones and unstable ones. G73Jh at the moment is a stable rig only running with Asus 9.12 or 10.1 stock drivers. Running other drivers it is most likely always unstable, for everyone.

HellCry (and I) could be wrong of course and that's why he here asked for proof that anyone here claiming they have a stable rig could run Furmark for 2+ h with xtreme burning mode using 10.6 or 10.7 reference drivers.
He can do it with Asus 10.1 drivers, I can do it with 10.1 Asus drivers. No instability or GPU errors emerge and *it is not harmful to your computer in any way*. Using newer reference drivers makes running it stable impossible, even with any tweaks mentioned here (OC, V3bios, P4G tweaks, Driver Cleaners etc.), however.

It is a possibility however, that some (recently manufactured) G73Jh's might not have this GPU driver problem anymore. That's what we would like to find out and that's why HellCry kindly asked someone to show proof their G73Jh's are "Furmark-stable" with newer drivers, for more than 2 hours.

The GPU temps with Furmark using Asus 10.1 drivers don't just rise forever you see, my rig for example stabilizes at 94-95'C and doesn't get any higher during the whole 2 hours test.

 

I have the Best Buy model and got it roughly 3 months ago.

Never spent more then 5 min with the stock 10.1 drivers. Upgraded drivers right away.

Only learned of issues with the laptop after visiting this forum.

 

Former lurker:

I bought the RBBX05 model about 11 days ago, was at stock drivers fine, but figured I would upgrade since I just got SC2. I heard about all the problems, but minus well give it a try.

Anyways got 10.7 and furmark, system GSOD/SOD within about 2 minutes. Temp gets to about 82 or so. Most I have gotten it to regular gaming has been about 85-86 so far [haven't played too much graphic demanding games, just GTA4 for like 5 hours which got it that high ].

Edit - Also, I cant seem to open Furmark any more after the 2nd crash. Reinstalling doesn't help. I get a "Furkmark - Overclocking Validation Utility - OpenGL Benchmark And Stability Test has stopped working" right when I open it.

Edit 2! - Reinstalling 10.7 made my Furmark run fine. Uninstalled the asus power4play thing [basically followed the GSOD fix thread until you get to reinstall the ATI drivers - but installed 10.1 = Furmark not working, so installed 10.7] - used High Performance, and got it to run about 10 mins before it GSOD'd. Temp was sitting at 85C.

 

ever since i updated to 10.7 , my g73's not resuming from hibernate..
the asus screen shows up then screen goes blank, hdd keeps on working but nothing comes on screen...
everything else is working fine.
anyone else having this prob?

 

Just got a GSOD from running...HON...for 1.5 hours, came back, got it again within 1 minute, came back, was fine for 30 minutes [I stopped after that]. I'll probably just be going to 10.1 .

 

What "games" run as hot as futuremark? As far as I know there isn't any. Maybe an RTS? I don't really play those.

I'm running 10.7's on stock bios, I've been playing BFBC2 and Metro 2033 for 4 hours and my Temps have peaked at 97F for a second or two but normally hover between 94-95.

I can't remember the thread where it was talked about, but my GPU came with the stock bios and chip that seems to not be giving anyone issues, fwiw.

I've only had one GSOD ever on this machine and that was playing Metro 2033 on 10.1 and OC'ing too high past 800/1100 trying to max out the rig.

I've had one WSOD during a game of BCBF2 and had to do a hard reset and that was when I tried playing the game at stock clock settings. For whatever reason, 800/1100 is the sweet spot for me.

Anyways, 10.7 seem to be as stable for me as 10.6 but I'll post if anything changes.

Cheers

 

Could you please provide a screenshot (furmark to see time and settings and gpu-z open over it to see driver and vbios version)? An hour is enough, but if you dont even break 90C its really no problem to run it as long as you want. Youre pretty lucky to have such temperatures on this laptop .

And an update: I downloaded 10.5 drivers from MSI (from some old link i found somewhere on the forums) and just installed them over the stock drivers and ive ran furmark for over 2 hours without a single flicker or artifact. For some reason they seam to work just as fine as 10.1 now, even the max temperature has dropped 1C.
Im now thinking of updating to 10.7, but im not sure if its wise now that i got these working, since they might screw it up again for me...

 

Could you please attach the link with MSI 10.7 drivers? I would be interested to try them myself

 

Sure.
Here: MSI Global
These are the 10.5 that worked for me.

I only looked at their date, but after downloading their 28.6.10 dated drivers it seams its still the old 10.5 ones judging by the ATI digital signature. Sorry bout the confusion...

 

Are u on stock vBios or vBios V3 from ziddy?

 

Im using my own modded vBios (not undervolted since it doesnt lower the temperatures even a single degree on idle or load, just changed the powerplay clocks and unlocked overdrive, done in a single rbe edit to keep file integrity).

 

Does it mean stable on stock vBios or not?

 

Im pretty sure it would be stable, becouse changing the vBios with a modded one can only help reduce the frequency of the issue in my expirience, but id still see it even on this vBios with a 2 hours furmark run if it was there.
I dont intend to flash the vBios anymore though, since ive tested pretty much every clock and voltage combination i could think of and the one im using now is the one i liked the most and i intend to keep it unless there is a new official vBios release from Asus which i could mod.

 

10.7 huh, I'll be trying this out when I get home. Although, I'm quite happy with my current set up, 10.6 with stock bios and oc to 705/1100. Temps never go past 75c for me (I reached 80c before cause I accidentally blocked the vents).

Hell, I even have creative installed, it took a while but I got a stable system now.

I'll read the change logs when I get home but is there any improvements in performance?

 

Yeah I'm staying with 10.6 oc 705/1100. It's working perfectly so I'm not tempting fate.

Cheers,