G73jh - Any reasons NOT to upgrade to Cat 10.6 ??

I am currently running my G73 pretty stock. I've uninstalled some of the bloatware, and successfully upgraded the BIOS to 209. Other than that I've left it alone. Games run pretty good and I haven't experienced any significant problems with this laptop to date. I am a bit leery to update to 10.6 but I've heard its pretty stable? Any reasons I should NOT do this?

Thanks for info!

 

I updated to 10.6 and everything runs fine no problems. I kinda had to since I wanted to try the FFXIV benchmark and it crashed with the stock drivers heh.

 

If everything is working fine I wouldn't reccommend updating.
You can always try it out and if it causes problems revert back to original.

 

No reason not to do this. There is one user who claims that ATI drivers caused his VGA port to burst into flames... but I'm going to blame user error for that one.

 

GSOD that's the reason

 

Only for people with problems already.

If you are not having any problems with your machine, then feel free to treat it like a problem free laptop and run any driver/software you want.

If you believe your machine is faulty, then RMA/return it because there are many many many G73 owners that have never had a G/S/B/PSOD no matter what driver version they have run or software installed.

 

I lol'd hard.

 

10.6 here, no issues so far ^^

 

Ok, sounds reasonable. I'll do an update tomorrow and post back here on how it went!

 

I went from stock to 10.6 everything is great, the only reason was to improve load times in Bfbc2 which is all i play at the moment otherwise i'd still be on stock.

 

Wow, talk about over dramatization, perhaps you can try your hand at adapting true to life stories for Hollywood?

Just for the record:

a) The drivers in question were in fact the 10.1s downloaded from ASUS Not the 10.6 cats.

b) There was a spark in the vga port (it did not burst into flames) which shut the machine down and burnt out the adapter and the multi-plug.

c) The VGA port still works, without any problems on the stock 9.12s,

d) Tested another G73 (with everything stock and the 10.1 drivers) and voila...same thing happened again.

e) Surely, its completely due to the user!

Ref: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...-adapter-not-working.html?highlight=vga+spark

For future reference, if you are going to quote someone, at least have the professionalism to quote accurately, and not make sweeping generalized statements for the love of god!

 

He was wrong to make such a generalization but at least he didn't mention you by name and since a spark is not a fire -- nothing said it was you. However, I too was very skeptical about your story until you ran the test on another G73 and were able to duplicate the issue.

I suppose not many people use the VGA port or do not have the exact same monitor since if this was a common occurrence people would have seen more ethan this single instance.

Good I only connect via HDMI and am using the 10.6 drivers.

Cheers,

 

My advice to you:

If everything is running fine, don't update unless you are obliged to. (Specific game requirement)

By the way, the "many many many G73 owners that have never had a G/S/B/PSOD" might be users that don't play or haven't yet played much games on their G73...
"Many many many" have also had terrible G/S/B/PSOD while gaming...

Watch the threads and always PLAY IT SAFE.

 

I only had the one PSOD-like flicker in my entire ownership of the G73. But after flashing the new vBios, upgrading to Cat 10.6, I've had no freezes, no lock-ups, better fps, no micro-stuttering, and absolutely no GSOD/PSODs with screen resolution changing.

Also, with 10.6, I got the option of 1600x900 for game resolutions where previously I only had 1280x800 to 1920x1080.

4th of July marks my 1 month anniversary of ownership of the laptop. How poignant.

 

CONGRATS

 

I use my VGA port regularly through a KVM switch with my desktop. It seems like a possible scenario for others too.

But I am still on stock Cats and don't have any pressing need to upgrade them yet.

 

Was this VBIOS the V3 that I've seen mentioned here in some threads? I'm not up on the pros/cons of the Vbios upgrade. Isn't it more a less a hack, and not an official thing?

 

Running Cat 10.6 with custom vBios 3, posted in another thread by Ziddy. My "Kraken" as i call my G73 has never been as stable as now. Too bad i cant play GTA EFLC...freezes and shutdowns. But everything else is good i think.

I am one of those people who installs new drivers as soon as they are released, but with the problems i had installing the 10.6 cat i had to stick to the 10.5 drivers.

Im running blind on 209 bios, and i say blind because i lost my kb lights D=

I dont see why you shouldn't use 10.6, but what the others say is reasonable as well: if you really need to go for it, else, keep the current ones and avoid some surprise headaches, like my non-lighty keyboard D=

 

Don't upgrade to a new vbios unless you need too. It's not really a hack, considering it's common practice in an enthusiast machine to upgrade/update the vbios ... but it's not official asus, either.

 

Its a modified asus bios...