All the G73JH Problems and solutions here!

I didn't notice it before, and my mobo wasn't replaced.

 

I'm still getting that error i checked high and low nothing is opened i even rebooted i shut off my av and firewall and still a no go.

kae my mobo was replaced and my screen they had found something defective and also fixed the lights on my keyboard and updated from 209 to 211 on the bios

 

You may want to try another flash drive if possible. I had several laying around (cheap freebies - I rarely use them so I never bought one) that could not be formatted as boot devices - either because of the same error you're seeing or the HP utility simply didn't work on them.

I just grabbed a new and relatively cheap 4GB Lexar from the shelf at Target'....worked great.

 

Well what did they replace? What was wrong with your laptop? I'm wondering what repair introduced this problem to your machine. It would be really helpful to know exactly which part of the laptop causes this problem.

 

They replaced my screen and repasted my GPU.

 

Dangit. I thought there was going to be a revelation about the root cause of keyboard lag. That is about as unhelpful as possible. Oh well.

 

hmmm im i have a lexar here i will try and see ty

 

anyone else has a wirless problem?
i am loosin internet accsess all the time. Cant see what causes the problem. I have 2 more notebooks and they are working fine.
Just annoying if u play some game and loose connection with the servers.
Pluged in to cabel works fine...

 

What adapter?
What driver?
What are all the exact settings you're using on the adapter? And on the router?

 

I'm still having that problem with trying to make a sd card, usb stick, thumb drrive into a bootable format ( the specified device is currently used by other applications sand disk) i trried many cards and different computer's with the same outcome... WTH is going on? Guru's please chime in for some detail's .

If this problem persist's can someone guide me to the link of how to go about making a bootable cd if possible please ty.

 

drivers should be stock i guess (what i got with CD)
Ruuter is Speed Link DIR-635.
adapter settings?...well, should be also stock.
Havent changed anything. Like i sayd, i got 2 other NB and they are working with no connetion los so far.

 

Dang - I don't understand how Asus could release something with so many problems straight out the box...

I just ordered the g73jh and it should be here in a couple days and then I came across this forum!

Is this thing going to be a good laptop if i'm able to get all these fixes done or should I refuse the shipment return it and avoid all of this?

I'm pretty decent with computers but this looks like a LOT of stuff to do and some of it could very well be over my head - is it worth it?

Thanks!

 

@mscrosse
depends of the issue. Software based issues seemd to be fixed almost (GSOD, KB light, sound etc)
I have a HW based issue and it has to go to RMA.

But still i dont regret that i bought it...

 

So many problems? Dunno if that is true - sure there are some, but what laptop doesn't have issues of some kind?

That said, I LOVE this thing. SPEEDY, solid build, sexy looking and just a joy to use. And, I have an issue with it as well and will doing an RMA. (I could do it myself but I'm chicken) But I'm looking forward to getting it back better than ever and not even considering a change. For the money, I really don't see a deal that is close to it.

 

ok i followed all the vbios steps and am sucessfully running the laptop..

few questions.
1) i see the clock as 405/1000.does it increase to 700/1000 when i am gaming?
2) When i try to overclock like say 800/1100 ..i GSOD in like 2 min ..(why? is it the same for others?)
3)the fans look like they are making a bit more noise than earlier ..any reason?

I am on bios 211.updated vbios ..and running 10.8 on g73.
appreciate the forum and its users.

 

@sam fisher

1. yes they will.
2. Probably your GPU just cant handle so high clock. Try lower values on memory because this one is allready fast.
3. 211 makes more noise in idle + in vBIOS they rised memory voltages (like i understand).

 

thank you very much.

for 2) of course this is fast .but thought if i can squeeze out some more FPS while gaming by overclocking it..

i see people using similar clocks ..and i wish they could help me guiding to that ..

 

trust me, you cant squeeze out anything from memory if u clock it. Better squeeze your gpu. For example, try memory 1050 and leave it like this, gpu put 750 and run some benchmark/game for an hour. If it runs, try a little higer etc. High memory wount give u anything.

 

If you have a properly TIM'd unit, the 211 BIOS is quiet since you don't get so hot. Fans are dead quiet when your idle temps are in the 40's.

 

yea, ofc.

a question for you guys. Now when you have repasted gpu and cpu. What are the temps in idle(new vBIOS, 211+ 10.8ccc).
If my one is just standing on tabele(high perf mod) then cpu is 47+ and gpu is 59-62.
Anyway, no GSOD so far.
Yesterday i had something new....i was watching movie via hdmi to tv, andjust nowhere the NB screen went to classic mode(like you are bencmarking 3d mark or somethin) and gpu was alos totally loaded. Was like this for 10 min maybe and went back to normal....

 

.... Ta å skriv det på norsk du, skal jeg se om jeg ikke kan få oversatt det for deg,for nå skjønner jeg,og mest sannsynlig andre ikke en skjit av hva du prøver å si


Yeah I'm not really sure what you mean dude,hence I asked you to write it in norwegian instead, I'll take it upon myself to translate it so more people can perhaps give you a hand solving your little issue

 

Det var jo veldig lett å forstå syns nå jeg. Det er nok bare du som ikke er smart. This translates to: I think it was very easy to understand. I believe it's just you that's not so smart.

Haha, being a on the internet is fun!

Anyway, that happens to me sometimes as well. I don't know what causes this.

 

Tror det nok heller er at jeg ikke snakker norvenglish, eller har for vane å snakke med folk som faktisk vet hvordan man skal oppføre og korrekt ordlegge seg...
samme får det være, lykke til med problemet ditt.

...Right, apparently I managed to offend the bloke, and to top it off I'm not so smart for having trouble in understanding what he's trying to say... I'm out, good luck to you CavemanK

 

yep, some typos and dogs are all after me

doesn't matter, didnt hope to get any help from here...

 

I have the ASUS G73JH and im having some HDMI port isses. Whenever i plug in an HDMI cable, the video is output corectly on the screen, however the audio still comes out of my computer speakers instead of the TV. In the sound control panel, it recognizes output methods as the builtin speakers and the heaphone jack. Is there some kind of driver i have to install to enable HDMI audio out?

 

Under Playback devices, you should have a "Realtek HDMI Output". If you don't, grab these drivers:

ftp://WebUser:[email protected]/pc/audio/HDMI_R249.exe

 

YOU LIE!
NO REALLY!

 

This only makes sense in Roragistan.

 

Is that where Borat is from?

Oh wait, that's Kazakhstan...

 

lol really,... but loved the joke...

 

how do i get in to the 40's..
my idle temps as seen are all in top 50's(all ).

time to repaste?should i do or ask asus support to help me do?

 

50's are very good idle temperatures. I think most people with a good repaste are in the 52C to 58C range at idle depending on ambient. I'm at 56C right now and my office is kind of warm. When the AC is working well around here, mine gets to about 52C. I've never seen it in the forties except immediately when it boots and hasn't warmed up yet.

I'm sure some people idle in the upper forties, but that is very rare.

 

i thought so..i have never seen 40 in my lappy.i use a busted laptop cooler for height above the carpet and my temps range like 51C to 56C.

 

How are you guys' hinge's holding up? I had it repaired but it's still quite loose, and I'm not sure if it's normal or not. Some of you may remember I was having problems before. I can easily open it with one hand, and opening the hinge doesn't lift the rest of the unit up. There's also some screen play. Is all this normal?

 

try this ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support-

i got the same issue like you but after re-install ATK,restart ur beast and it works fine

 

No one on the hinges?

Also I'm noticing the left side of my keyboard is rattling a bit, along with my keyboard squeaking. Any fixes for this. Would a keyboard replace fix this, or is the notebook warped?

 

Your keyboard is probably bent (i had to straighten mine out after i did the keyboard lights mod), and i dont think you can get rid of the squeaking (these keyboards are just made cheaper - ive had two and both had occasional spacebar squeaking)...

 

Hello everyone!

I ordered the Asus G73JH-RBBX05 Refurbished Notebook PC - Intel Core i7 720QM 1.6GHz, 6GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, 17.3" TFT, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, which I recieved today. Had a heck of a time with this baby the first time around. After reading what seemed like 100's of pages on these forums, my first go left me with nothing but instant freezing. So I restored to factory settings like shown in the Manual downloadable on the asus site. And here's what I did my second time around...


flashed bios to 0211 using ezflash not the bad winflash 2.29 (downloaded 0211 off the asus site under support, copied it on to a flash drive, got into bios by hitting esc at startup and ran ezflash and loaded 0211 from the flashdrive through ezflash)

removed creative - not sure if i'm suppose to remove "sound blaster audigy HD" too..(I read that on one post.. but there's so many) ayway I left this alone (installed)

uninstalled realtek and rebooted, installed realtek and rebooted

hotfixed - http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=52...015-g73-gsod-fixes-resources.html#post6444967

removed office 2007 - no freezes and installed codecs, java (just checking for freezes...lol) no freezes but continued as planned

removed powergear rebooted and updated to 1.1.37 rebooted - http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=52...015-g73-gsod-fixes-resources.html#post6444967


I then continued further to remove additional bloatware; treadnet, office 2007. Installed programs I use, firefox, antivirus, etc.


ran Windows update, downloaded and installed...rebooted

Ill keep you posted within the next week as I'm sure I will experiece some sort of additional problems but for now it's running stable, playing everquest 2 now. Things im still curious about.

I let it run all last night dowloading multiple things and its still going today when I woke. The only issues I've had a are a couple minor freezes like 5 seconds or less while downloading off firefox and once the file loads into firefox download manager.

Best of luck!

 

First of all chasity thanks for ur responds I dont mean to hurt u by asking this question in public.. I dont doubt u,its just that i dint want to bug u again with the same old questions:$ and also its just m being Paranoid about this glitches or the horizontal lines while playing games.. okiee guys here is my question.. I am facing this horizontal lines when m playing a game mostly it is seen in MW2.. when m near any bright walls in mw2 and running i see the glitches or horizontal lines all over that wall in my screen.
I have latest vbios , bios 211 and 10.8 catalyst. Now my question is, Is my Gpu is faulty ? if not then will the new driver or catalyst will wash away this problem?
Thank you ..

 

glad to hear it works for you mate, i also use the g73 mainly for eq2 lol. plays it quite well

 

Firefox does this to me occasionally as well. It happens with small downloads. The computer isn't frozen, but firefox is for a few seconds and then it does a virus scan of the file I just downloaded and everything goes back to normal.

 

ok noticed something that happend before.
when my battery dropped down to 20% or low the g73 started similar to that of throttlling!!!.. plugged it in immediately and it was normal again..

any thoughts on this? any setting to change in the windows power options or ccc?

thanks

 

That is normal and there is no "fix". The BIOS handles this through C-states that we don't have access to.

 

I just got my G73JH today, and i had a GSOD after using Fur Mark about 5 minutes into the testing with Catalyst 10.10, but no problem with stock driver. At the same time, i played BFBC2 for a while, no problem at all, other than the background flashed a bit, as if someone is playing with the lights at the background. Not exactly sure what happen there.

Please advice what should i do. My current version of BIOS is 211. which seem to be the latest version. Do i need to flash my BIOS again with Easy Flash or use bootable USB(as shown as here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...2354-all-g73jh-problems-solutions-here.html)?

 

@ Cheesenium,
Do u have the latest vbios from grey or chasity?

 

Nope, could you let me know where to i get them?

I just ran Fur Mark again, and no GSOD after 15 minutes.

Im using BIOS 211, do i need to update my vBIOS too?

Is it in this thread? http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/515309-how-fix-your-gsod-blues.html

Also, is there any way to check the version of my vBIOS?

 

@ CHEESENIUM,
well, yes if u are having GSOD issues then i would personally suggest that Vbios update. I was facing this problem and when i updated this Vbios (Many THANKS to Chasity) I was finally free with GSOD issue.
2) yes the link which u have shown is correct, follow it and try to get a newer version of ati flash, here is the link to get the latest ati flash
Download ATIFlash 3.79 | techPowerUp
I dont think u need to flash ur BIOS again its fine...
Best of Luck ..

 

For your Information I am using chasity's OD version...

correction, M sorry the name is chastity..

 

Thanks, shotgunslayerrr.

I'll give it a shot then.

Also, do i just follow the steps in Gary's thread, with the new vBIOS that you have posted?

 

Yeah I followed and was able to successfully update the Vbios. Where did i post the new Vbios? Sorry M a bit confused here . I just posted a website where u can get the latest version of atiflash, It was because Gary used an older version of atiflash.