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    My G73 Experience

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by lyfestile, Jun 22, 2010.

  1. lyfestile

    lyfestile Newbie

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    Hi All,

    I'd like to first thank the community here, your guides make for useful reading while I waited for my laptop to be delivered. I wanted to share my experience with display drivers and bios issues in the hope that it might benefit others.

    Today I recieved my G73 X1 from newegg canada, the manufacturing date states 05/2010 with a stock 206 bios. First, I updated my bios to 209 using the bios posted on the asus driver website, I loaded the bios onto a usb drive as per the recommendations on this board and updated using ez flash from the bios menu...I had forgotten how nerve wracking a bios update is :) Everything went well, and I'm happy to report I still have my keyboard lighting.

    Having completed the bios update, I decided to try my luck some more, and update to catalyst 10.6 drivers without removing the previous drivers. The install completed fine, and I ran the windows experience test which completed without a gsod. I followed this with League of Legends, which behaved strangely, it did what I would consider a partial GSOD. It flashed an empty green screen, and I started spamming alt tab and ctrl alt del. It minimized LoL, and windows notified me the display drivers crashed and restarted. I maximized LoL and it worked fine, but going back to windows I had artifacts.

    Before trying a different version of catalyst, I figured I would try a clean install of the drivers. I uninstalled, restarted, and installed 10.6 again. Success! I've been playing Bad Company 2, and League of Legends for a couple hours now, with no issues!

    The next step is to wipe the hdd, install Windows 7 Pro, and get the drivers installed. Followed by an install of ubuntu 10.04 for work. I'll post the results.

    Here's a question: Is it worth it to manually downclock the gpu memory for battery savings, I was thinking 300/500 would be reasonable. If anyone has experience with this, what sort of power savings would I be looking at? I look forward to an official vbios update from asus.
     
    lyfestile, Jun 22, 2010
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  2. ryukenden

    ryukenden Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm not sure about the "official" but ziddy made a vbios thread around here. I heard great thing about it. There are risk that you need to be aware unless you want to brick yours like Q.

    P.S I also play LoL, runs just fine on mines.
     
    ryukenden, Jun 22, 2010
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