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    A Question About G73 Drivers

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by S0rdid, Jul 13, 2010.

  1. S0rdid

    S0rdid Newbie

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    I recently purchased a G73, was getting vertical line crashes, tried updating vBIOS and such but it kept happening, so I swapped it out at Best Buy for another G73. Same exact model number. It's an G73JH - RBBX05.

    So I ask, do all G73's hate 10.6 Catalysts, or was I just unlucky? Also, what is a way that I can definitely check what drivers are installed on the laptop at the moment?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    S0rdid, Jul 13, 2010
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  2. adamski07

    adamski07 Notebook Consultant

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    I have the same model and it has BIOS 209 and cata 10.6. I never had those *SODs. Try to set everything to stock drivers...
     
    adamski07, Jul 13, 2010
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  3. Chastity

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    Chastity, Jul 16, 2010
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  4. Slone

    Slone Notebook Guru

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    Mine seems to hate 10.6 as well. Stock is fine but with 10.6 it's GSOD all the way.
     
    Slone, Jul 16, 2010
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  5. Xellon

    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    make sure u have the latest 10.6 drivers. There were two after all....
     
    Xellon, Jul 16, 2010
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  6. Slone

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    I got them from the AMD website.

    I tried running 10.6 on stock 206 then 209 bios, with and without Power4Gear installed, with both stock and Ziddys vbios and with different clock speeds under AMD GPU clock tool. No luck. 10.6 ALWAYS leads to instability. I guess I'll just wait for 10.7
     
    Slone, Jul 16, 2010
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  7. Xellon

    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    so u downloaded it after june 16th? I got caught off guard by that.

    if so... I dunno man. I oc mine to 705/1100 and go no issues. this is with bios 206.
     
    Xellon, Jul 16, 2010
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  8. Slone

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    Yup. I'm just going to blame cat 10.6 because it works wonderfully otherwise.
     
    Slone, Jul 16, 2010
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    What is the version of the latest? I can't recall when I downloaded mine.

    I have 8.741.0.0

    70.8 megs in size

    Newest or old?

    Actually just ignore this, just downloaded again. Was being stingey as near my download limit for the month!
     
    SpicySi, Jul 17, 2010
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  10. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    I dont know how I could survive a download limit :/

    I think I had over 500gb last month :D
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jul 17, 2010
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  11. Chastity

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  12. Xellon

    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    guess it just doesn't like you too much.
     
    Xellon, Jul 17, 2010
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  13. Slone

    Slone Notebook Guru

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    There's obviously some kind of problem with the G73, whether or not it's hardware or a driver problem is beyond me. Only stock and the 10.1 from Asus' website work for me and I'm not the only one with this problem.
     
    Slone, Jul 17, 2010
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  14. Xellon

    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    I can't really give u anymore advice that I've read about.

    I can only repeat things, try to reinstall 10.6 again. try oc to 705/1100, try updating bios (which I haven't)..... creative?

    good luck.
     
    Xellon, Jul 17, 2010
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  15. Chastity

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    Have you given any thought about the order you install the drivers and applications? I didn't get success until I uninstalled everything related to power management and ATI drivers, swept and cleaned, then put them back in the order listed in my thread below.

    Just a thought.
     
    Chastity, Jul 18, 2010
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