Cant install catalyst on g73JH

Hi,

recently my g73 went crazy with the Primary HDD, so i had to dump it and format the secondary, and i restored it with the hidden partition. I deleted the CCC and i am trying to install the new version. but when i try it says this driver is not digitally signed, and my windows version doesn't allow this. Any clues? i cant install the latest CCC.

 

I have managed to install the drivers now, by cleaning everything in safe mode and deleting the drivers from there. But now i cant see the CCC application. And when i search click on it from the start menu, it says it cant find CLI.exe

 

sounds like you've installed either the driver package or the CCC, but not both. How did you reinstall? Maybe try grabbing the link from chastity's download page.

 

Make sure you are installing the 32 bit on a 32 bit system, and 64 if it is a 64 bit. I was trying to install 32 on my 64 and was getting frustrated till I saw what I was doing.

 

I am installing the correct version. I think my Factory Default partition may be corrupted. Since i copied it from my damaged main HDD. I cant install windows updates. Most of them fail, I am also getting random freezes and blue screens out of the blue. I have latests bios and removed the audio drivers that could create this. So i think maybe this HDD is also damaged or maybe its the Recovery partition i copied from the other HDD. I am not sure what to try here.

Option A. Format it with a clean Windows 7 DVD.
Option B. Get a new HDD. With clean format.
Option C. RMA

I really dont want to RMA i have lots of work i need to do, and RMA takes a long time.

 

New HDD and clean install will probably be your best option. Once everything is installed and working, you can then image that and use it for Recovery.

If you RMA it you will prolly get the new drive and new copy of the Recovery Image. Or get the Recovery DVD from Asus.

 

Thanks Chastity. I am downloading the Windows 7 Install CD From your post and going to use that to format a new HDD i just got.

 

Its failing again. I bought a new HDD and did a clean windows instal, after a while i started to hear a loud click coming from the HDD. 2 Mins after the clicking, I get a blue screen. This keeps happening 10 after I boot the system.

Its not clicking constantly. Just clicks like once every 30 secs. Then i get the blue screen.

Is this a HDD problem? or could it be something else? Should i RMA?

Am i that unlucky that the new HDD i got came broken?

Or is it possible that my g73 is breaking the HDD's?

 

What HDD did you get? It probably needs a firmware update.

 

Its a western digital. 500GB 5400 RPM... i never knew you could update a HDD firmware?

Why is this?

 

Hey Chastity,

Could it be that the port of reading the sata drive is damaged? I changed it to slot No. 2 and its working good now.

I thought of this because the HDD clicks are not constant, just sporadically, and usually HDD failure sounds constant clicking. And after a couple of Blue screens, it didn't recognize the HDD.

 

When you swapped ports, the hardware got re-detected and setup anew. May have fixed your issues by doing that.