New Asus G53-XN1! Now What?

Ok, so I bought one last month and got it, had the famous power button issue, and now the replacement should be showing up this Thursday.

Assuming that everything works... This is what I will have on the table.

Asus G53SW-XN1
Crucial 4 GB 10600 204 Pin Ram
Crucial M4 128 GB SSD

What do I need help with is what order I should take putting this thing into full gaming readiness?

Do I install the ram and SSD before doing the rest of the things listed below?

I've looked this link over
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...rivers-everything-you-need-fresh-install.html

and got this advice from Kingpinzero BUT that was before I was going to add the SSD and Ram

These are the steps.

1. Get the iso from here and burn it on a DVD-R possibly at 4x speed.
2. Launch the disk just burned by pressing ESC during Bios post and select the dvd drive.
3. Once it boots into Windows 7, proceed to the installation up the point it shows all the drives installed and relative partitions.
4. You can remove the recovery partition if you want since theres nothing really interesting in there. Its up to you. If you want to keep the recovery partition however it become useless once you install a clean version.
5. Select the HDD/Partition you want and Format it. Or Delete it. I guess format it is ok thought.
6. Proceed with Windows 7 installation and when it asks for a product code, insert the one in the sticker below your laptop.
7. Done

Now:

1. Go to Chastity thread over Asus Rog forum and get all your stuff from there: G73/74/53 Series Driver and Application Reference

2. Get Intel Chipset INF for Series 5 v9.2.0.1025 and install it
3. Get Keyboard Filter 1.003 (Use of Microsoft HID driver is acceptable)
ATK Package 1.0.0008 (Enables custom keys) This plus Power4Gear Hybrid enables Twin Turbo Button with animation. Install first one the the other one.
4. After the Intel driver and ATK/KB, go to Chastity driver page linked above and get Nvidia Notebook Drivers 280.26 and install them. Update Direct X.

Then install all of these:


USB (All)
MS Hotfix KB2529073 Post SP1 - fixes USB updates of drivers for more info : Binary files in some USB drivers are not updated after you install Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Touchpad
Synaptic 15.2.16.1 driver package

USB 3.0 (Fresco)
[JW/SW] Fresco USB 3.0 v3.0.119.1 Asus Release (06/25/11)

LAN (one of the two)
Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet v1.0.0.29
Atheros AR813X/AR815X Series PCI-E Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) v1.0.0.36 WHQL 10/22/2010

WiFi (one of the two)
Atheros WiFi AR5B95/AR9285 v9.2.0.113 (default Wifi card) (8/16/11)
Intel 6200/6300 Wireless N x64 - Drivers Only - Drivers + Utilities (popular upgrade card)

Bluetooth
Bluetooth 6.3.0.55

Memory Card Reader
Alcor AU6433 Multi-Card Reader V1.7.17.25416 [JH]

Webcam
Chicony Camera v061.005.200.310
Azureware 5.8.54000.206

ASUS Applications
Power4Gear Hybrid v1.1.43 Has Super Hybrid Engine

 

Put the ssd in and the ram and then install windows with the drivers and etc on the ssd

 

@Joshanator: Off topic but your siggie really had me going.. I thought there was an insect inside my new m18x screen! lol

 

Do I need to swap the places of the drive that came with it and the ssd?

 

Bump,

Laptop should be arriving tomorrow night. So I still would like to know if I need to swap the SSD into the primary drive slot or can I just put it in the second slot and then reinstall windows and the drivers?

 

Yes, the SSD in the primary slot will utilize SATA III while the secondary slot is only SATA II.

 

Thanks Alex,

I almost bought my laptop from Xotic....

 

Ok, so I have the Ssd and ram installed. My laptop shows the ram when it boots up but not the ssd. I also downloaded a windows 7 iso and burnt to a dvd. The iso was like 3gb. Disk is in the computer. Now how do I reimage? Its been 10 yrs since I've done it.

 

I figured out how to reimage, thanks!