Beta BIOS - Possible Missing Keystroke Fix

I'm having a bit of a problem with the latest Synaptics drivers. It just started doing this today. After my computer comes back from Suspend mode, the driver starts wanting to "interact with the desktop" which causes Windows 7 to pop up some strange notifications. It will keep doing it whether you acknowledge the notification or not. Very odd.

The thing it is trying to notify me of is the Synaptics welcome screen. The one that takes you straight into the Synaptics Touchpad settings.

 

i've get that message 2 or 3 times from installed too
and the only way to turn it off is restart
if you close it , it will come back in 1 minute

that happens from the newest synaptics drivers

 

Are you all using the latest drivers? I'm using 15.0.11 which is the one on the ASUS website right now. Seems to be perfect, haven't touched the new drivers at all so maybe give it a try?

 

yeah try them
new interface
using Synaptics Touch Pad v15.2.7 (maybe they are newer then these)

 

The newest one comes w/ Scrybe (lets you draw some symbols and launch stuff). Pretty neat, but seems kinda overkill.

 

Is there a reason to use the newest ones?

 

So are we going to hear from Gary with a new official BIOS this week? After all, it is Valentines day - Show us some love Gary!

 

I use the newer ones instead of the Asus ones because Asus disables two finger scrolling in theirs and they don't work any better than the newest ones. If they worked flawlessly but didn't have the scrolling I like then I could live with that. They are just as hyper sensitive but are missing features. I find pinch zoom and rotate to be completely worthless and those are the only multi-touch features in the Asus driver. All pinch zoom is good for is constantly screwing up the text size in your web browser while surfing the internet.

 

213 and the newest drivers on the ASUS site don't really help.

 

Google "disable interactive services detection". It solved the problem for me.

 

o come one
explain

 

It really does not make sense IMO to turn off a service to correct the behavior of one bad driver. I would remove that version of the Synaptics driver and use one of the previous ones. Move to the latest one if and when they get it fixed.

 

no drivers yet?

 

It's pretty easy. I've written a few services in the past for various projects. Find the service in the Service Manager and right click it. One of the properties you can check or uncheck allows the service to interact with the desktop.

 

what's the name of the service?

 

That's a good question. I just took a spin through the list (I'm sure you did too). I do not see a synaptics related service running. I haven't gotten that stupid pop up all day but I don't think I've been away from the keyboard long enough for it to suspend today either.

I guess the easiest fix is to go back to 15.1.9 or some other slightly older driver. The newest one doesn't provide anything special. I just hate reloading a touchpad driver because it's so easy to get it completely unusable on this flipping laptop.

 

hehe that's why i asked
i find that solution too somewhere online but i didn't knew which service to stop ...
anyway i am fine with the latest synaptics for now
that appeared only 2-3 times (like once in a month)
and a restart fixed it
i don't know maybe Scrybe was interfering
i love scrybe but uninstalled it becouse it was using my CPU 1-2 %

 

You guys are absolutely silly. The FIRST link when you Google "disable interactive services detection" tells you how to do it.

To disable Interactive Services Dialog Detection messages in windows 7, search the word “services.msc” in your Start menu. When it comes up,click on Services.
And find Interactive Services Detection in the list of services. Right click it, and click Properties. Here, you can either Stop the service, or choose “Disabled” from the Startup Type menu.Click “OK”. Either of these things will stop these messages from appearing.
Note reboot your computer later.

 

hehe thanks man
didn't knew it was so easy

 

GOD DAMM IT!! I DONT WANNA COME HOME EVERY DAY FROM WORK, OPEN THIS THREAD AND SEE THAT NOTHING HAD CHANGED!! I WANT MY NEW BIOS NOW!!!

GARY WHY SO SERIOUS?! oO

 

Caps lock is cruise-control for cool.
So are false promises though.
You have failed us Gary (not that I ever had hope you'd be able to fix this, you're great and all but I know your company would never admit to a mass recall)

 

failed? what are you talking about? didn't he say this was a 2 part fix or something? with new bios and drivers which aren't out yet?

 

"until you get one that is unaffected" I wonder how long that would take..... and I refuse to rma over just a touch pad when there are alternatives.

 

Naaah, waste of time. I'd rather just buy a $20 wireless mouse and live with it. Oh wait, I already did.

Love this laptop, and would buy it again given the opportunity. HW issues or not, it does what I want it to do.. and that's play games. I actually just ordered a new laptop to dedicate towards school/travel work. Something way smaller, decently powered, and touch enabled. Carrying around this thing to and from campus is no fun.

Still hoping for new firmware and the official BIOS, but I think I'll move on in life.

 

let me correct you
unserious

why don't we just skip the touchpad issue
just kidding
it is taking so long

 

we should just all RMA. I am thinking about it. Seriusly

 

A bunch of people were doing that over last summer, before the vbios fix. It just made everyones turn-around time crazy long.

 

I don't mind the engineers taking their time on working up a fix, think about it. Would you rather have a fix that fixes the problem, or over a dozen fixes that fixes the problem? This is not counting the 0.01% of a brick flashing the BIOS normally (let's disregard people w/ faulty flash drives or improper flashing from HDD)

 

I take it you flashed the vBIOS with a non-Asus one? If so, you can attempt a blindflash. Just setup a bootable flash drive, and copy the .bat file contents into autoexec.bat, and run that. Wait a minute or two, then power down the system.

 

Thanks Chastity, I will try yours this time around. I should have know better. That sounds easy. IF asus does not pay you they certainly should!!!

 

actually chastity i think you should delete that first link of yours (vbios)
the second is a lot better

 

I like giving people options.

 

@Skygunner: NICE mistake in your favour! I'd have gone alienware, but the price difference here in canada is HUGE. Even with EPP and coupons, you're still paying a huge premium for alienware north of the border.

 

I deleted some posts - please don't pour gas on the fire. Thanks.

 

can some1 mirror the bios?

i#M GETTING --> This file has expired.

 

Download 213 from my Driver Page in sig link

 

Sorry
10chars

 

If anyone is interested, I updated my driver page with ATK Package 1.0.008 dated 02/04/11.

 

i would be interested if i know what are the changes

 

Thanks Chastity, i have spent a lot of time trying to fix the issue where on wake from sleep the set of 3 quick launch buttons turn on (they are off when I nap it). I am not looking for help, but will start a thread with what i have done to rectify this.

 

Apparently, yes, it's the ATK package we are waiting for.

Here's a copy of the changelog:

1.Update below applications
(1)ATK WMIACPI driver: v1.0.0002
=> 1.Add support for EeePC model.
(2)ATK Hotkey: v1.0.0059
=> 1.Add supports to control Sentelic touchpad device.
(3)ATKOSD2: v7.0.0013
=> 1.Solve the issue that OSD cannot be executed in guest account in Windows Vista/Windows 7.

Gary tells me that the German site jumped the gun on him again and that the official release is coming "shortly", and I am hoping that the leak makes them move faster.

 

Good to hear thanks for the update.

 

I installed it and have had two lockups. I left my machine and it had logged me out, which is normal after about 20 minutes. When I returned it was locked on the login screen. I did a forced shut down and restarted, it locked again. I restarted again and did a normal shut down and restart and it has been fine for the last 20 minutes.

The tp has not done anything weird yet... much to early to celebrate though.

Cheers

 

@Chastity: On your G73 drivers link, is the Power4Gear 1.1.43 only for SW version only or only its Super Hybrid Engine stuff only (still can be installed for JH)?

 

just installed the new atk for no reason and no problems with it.

@ Morecoffee, you should view your event viewer and see what kind of error you got.

 

I'm still trying to figure this one out.

 

My touchpad seems to be just the same with the new ATK package... not fixed. It still becomes unresponsive at times.

 

Installed the new ATK package earlier today. I was one of the few who still had a crazy touchpad after the last bios upgrade.

My touchpad is definitely not 100% perfect, but it's much closer to being that. Every now and again I get a crazy response from the touchpad (auto scrolling, unresponsiveness), the usual. But it actually seems to fix itself pretty quickly and works more often than not.

So there's definitely hope.

 

I'm pretty sure the main fix is the BIOS plus the actual touchpad drivers. Don't go installing the ATK package and expecting miracles.

 

Now we have 213 and a new ATK. I'm ready for the new Synaptics driver now. I've had my first Asus high performance laptop for exactly one year and I'm ready to try out the touchpad whenever Asus is ready to make it work.