New owner of G73JH-TZ008X - Noob thread on how to fix it.

G'day guys,

Brand new here, have been reading a lot and in desperate need of help.

Just bought my G73JH-TZ008X (the Aussie one, so i am told) and it is basically a piece of crap so far.

It was giving me all the problems with the battery that i have read on here (i will add my +1 to that thread soon after this) and it is slow as hell, even though i have had it plugged on to the power at the beginning of each session.

I am a freelance illustrator and i use graphics programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, ZBrush and Sketchup. For each of those programs i push it as far as it will go so i am running the comp hard. I have no idea how this compares to gamers experiences but i am starting to think the 2 differ a lot.

Basically my comp is slow. Like really slow. When i zoom in and out of a 300dpi image, 2000w by 1700h in pixels, it does not do it smoothly - it does it in blocks. THe same if i use large brushes, it does not slow down smoothly, it's in big chunks, with the screen refresh in between each go being very visible.

It is really frustrating.

I have read some of the threads about the bios (206 and 209), the battery with the throtling prob, doing the clean instals with none of the bloatage - as much as i could.

It is rather overwhelming though.

Anyone willing to set out some easy steps of what to check and in what order for noobs like me? No need to rehash whole threads, but i would love it if you could tell me which threads to checkout in order. Including if i should be contacting Asus before attempting anything.

I really did not expect to have to learn all of this when i bought the laptop, it should be turn on and use it should it not?

Any help will be extremely useful and highly appeciated.

 

Are you missing the gpu driver? Did you set the mode from "mainstream" to "performance"?

 

Have you changed anything?

I would check power plan settings first.

 

Yep, been on performance for the last day and a half - nothing. I don't know about the gpu driver. I have not changed anything, shouldn't it have been in there to begin with?

 

The only thing i did was flash the bios with the206 update, just 2-5minutes ago, because i called Asus and they told me to.

Nothing. No improvement (and it did not kill the backlighting neither - at least not so far).

 

You've read about the bloatage, but have you taken steps to remove the bloatage? Doing a clean install can make a computer run better, but it will require you to do a fair amount of work.

I realize this approach isn't for everyone, but that's the direction I would go. Starting with using AI Recovery, with quality discs (such as Taiyo Yuden) to make a backup of your hard drive. Then followed by a Windows 7x64 install and then only install the stuff you need. What you need is outlined in the guide, see the link in my sig for more information.

 

i would check in the event viewer and task manager if there are some process/ critical errors which makes your computer slow.
i do myself development+graphic design+video editing and no particular performance issue

 

Do you use flash? when you open a regular actionscript 2.0 page and grab the pencil tool, just as is not canging any soze or anything, and you draw with it, nothing appears on screen unti it is done. If you stop drawing but don't release the mouse button, it takes like 10 secs to render the line.

When i open a ps file, in A4 (under international sizes) you grab any brush and bring it to anything over 100 pixels and it takes awhile for it to catch up to the mouse or pen cursor.

I open up the task manager while i am doing this and the never goes above 30% and the RAM never above 25% and the comp is idle both of them are at 0%.

Did everybody else's back up of the 6 DVDs take 4.5hrs as well? The first one took over 1hr, and for every disk there was a 15minute gap between when it reached 100% and when it started checking if the data on the disk was ok.

 

Kalim i did a re-install of the OS in the manner that the support guy from ASUS recomended (by pressing F9 when it was booting up and then following the prompts) and then deleted a few programs before installing Adobe's Creative suit to try again. NO change.

No only that but the lappy would not go past the ASUS screen this morning on the first boot.

It's not like i am trying to make the comp run faster than what it sould by making it sleaker or overclocking it - i just want it to run as fast as it should from the word go, that's good enough for me.

 

The F9 method to reinstall from the hidden partition isn't the same as doing a clean install, as it puts back much of the bloatware. A clean install would be to install the OS from the Recovery disc (or the like) and install only the drivers and applications you want.

However, from what you are describing it sounds to me like something else is going on there. Even with the bloatware installed and Adobe's inability to write lean code, it sounds as though it's unusually slow.

Random thoughts because I just finished dinner and am lethargic: You should have Twin Turbo mode off. You should probably try running HWiNFO32 and see if you notice anything out of the ordinary, such as CPU, GPU, temps, etc.