Question about reformating g73jh

Hello everyone, I hate to create a new topic for such a simple (generally) task, especially considering this is far from my first time reinstalling windows on a computer.

However, I couldn't find any information in the giant sticky, so I thought I give you guys a shout.

Do the g73jh's have a hidden recovery partition for restoring factory defaults? Also, beyond that, are there any tips for reformatting that have been discussed on this forum? Thanks for the help!

 

Yes, try F9 at startup, if the partiton is there you should see a menu. let us know

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...lk-through-doing-clean-windows-7-install.html
Best place for latest drivers http://www.asusrog.com/forums/showthread.php?1150-G73-74-53-Series-Driver-and-Application-Reference more comprehensive than the ASUS site and faster DL's

 

Ok, yeah. F9 definitely worked, but I haven't actually restored yet (need to back up everything) Also, the reason I'm wanting to reformat is that I'm having some performance issues here and there. Windows takes 4 minutes to boot (and I've taken the time to disable almost all starter programs)

sometimes it takes a bit to load certain programs or folders, and when a game is clearly streaming in new textures, it stutters (for example, upon loading WoW the framerate will stutter for a second, then if I turn around it will hang briefly and resume. This immediately goes away and doesn't happen again until another area loads in.)

I decided just a bit ago to grab some hard drive specs (I don't have an SSD or the Momentus XT)


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These number do not look good...

 

Try HDDtune and check the health of the Hard Drive. Mine had similiar scores to you and it was shot, around 3% worn and had a ton of bad sectors and reallocated sectors.

It would randomly crash and just drag when trying to load more than one thing. I would recommend an SSD though because as others claim it is the best upgrade you can get and it surely is. My cheapo mid range SSD that I have gives average scores of 220mb/s read and 180mb/s write after some tweaking. Only cost me £70 new. 15 second boot is like cookie dough ben and jerry's ice cream.

 

You sure thats not an Asus G7.3 ? 4 minutes to boot ?! Thats even slower than the desktop I had..10 years ago. Run CCleaner and clean that register. I'd run malwarebites as well, just to be sure. I wouldn't know if those crystaldiskmarks are normal, I'll run one myself tonight to compare.
I personally don't use the recovery partition, I just start all over with the reformatting.

 

Darnit, my freshly installed laptop only boots in 23 seconds Dallers, stop trying to convince me to buy a 920xm !

PS: If i were to buy one, what are the downsides to it? Like powerconsumption ? (saw that it only increased 10W, but hows your experience on that?). anyting else ?

 

The 920xm only really helps with CPU intensive gaming, installations copying/editing etc its the SSD that makes the big difference.

So to sum up you need to go buy both of them. Not you personally anyone that has not got one.

P.S 10 watts is if you leave it locked 2.0 - 3.2ghz if you want all 4 cores running at 3.2ghz + you will need to punch the wattage upto 90watts etc but it still handles it fine for gaming and general usage on mine and it does consume 90 watts it only throttles when it runs at 100% load which to be honest you do not need unless your stress testing. Im still on the stock brick and it works fine with my GPU overclock too.

I will throw up a movie tonight about how the 920XM performs and show some tests so it gives some more information of how it works.

 

Allright great! Ill get my popcorn ready I still wonder how the standard powersupply would react to that abuse 90W for the 920xm alone . Guess I'll get this instead of a new stove

 

Yeah I am still a bit like how is that not burning out my brick but will show all in my vid ill do some stress testing and show how the temps and throttling kicks in at different settings etc. Will see if I can get the brick to cook an egg and record it too.

 

Awesome! How bout I send you my corn, and you pop it on your brick ?

Btw, about your SSD, did you tweak it?
I mean the core-parking, powermanagement options etc ?
I'm askin cause I got the feeling that 23 second load time is not what it should be on a clean install.. Are you using the intel storage technology as well ?

 

Dallers, you've got an awesome G73JH setup there. Now hurry up and hammer in a HD 6990M.

I would also advise the original poster to upgrade to an SSD. After 10 months of usage my stock 500GB 7200rpm Segate HDD had started to run quite slow and one day while sitting idle it crashed/died. I pretty much lost everything including my installed programs and over 150GB of saved data. Luckily, I had a backup from 2 months back, but it did not include my downloads and some minor projects. In general, I've heard a high failure rate from the Segate 7200.11 series, so I replaced both my HDD's and would advise the same to you.

 

Valkeriefire kindly gave me these two helpful links and they were very helpful. I used several fixes/tweaks from them but stayed away from the registry editing and CPU performance settings when I reinstalled the OS because they did nothing for me. Most noticable was the page filing, hibernation and system recovery options that I switched off.

Links he gave me are here and here.

@ Mr cheese, thank you sir and yes I agree I had taken good care of my Seagate and did not neglect it by blunt force trauma or consecutive formatting it just began to die on its own. I was shocked when I ran a benchmark test and checked its health as it was only a year old. The SSD is most certainly the way to go and I keep a healthy seagate just for backup and general data that can be lost without disaster.

The 6990m is a dream but I will leave that implementation to the big boys and only attempt it once it is confirmed working, it would be costly lump of melted metal if I attempted it

 

Can I say that the standard hard drive is really a cheap dirty one?
Just the Scorpio Black I have is a new world, besides the firmware upgrades I did to the Seagate, and besides it was used for a total of let's say, a couple of weeks, it still made my games stutters and had continues drops while both reading or writing...

So yeah, if you do not wan't to go with an SSD, a scorpio or a samsung spin-point are very good alternatives.

@Dallers, what is your opinion about core parking"?
I had it disable for like 6 months now, but after my latest clean install (two days ago) I left it enable and I am not seeing any performance loss, if not even some gains...

And about the SSD tweaks:
Have you done this tweak too?
We and our 720qm can only do the "processor" one, since the other will disable turbo boost, maybe you can do both?

Also, insted of yours, I followed those ones, yet I have not removed pagefile nor prefetch...

Should I remove them?

 

With my 720QM yes I disabled core parking because it caused me some issues but now with the 920XM I notice no difference most likely because my cores do not park up. Only had the SSD with the 920XM im afraid fella so I cannot really help you in this instance

 

well no problem, for now it looks the same in both way, I can still force the unparking thing at any time if the need arise.

 

These are my cristaldiskmark numbers for my 7200rpm standard laptop disk;
I gotta say though, this is my secondary disk, and is only 100/230GB full with movies/music/pictures.

 

Interesting, look how mines are, guess you beat me in some because your is partitioned?

 

Ok, I ran a HD tune test of it, and after doing a sector test, I recieved no errors at all.

Also, the benchmark on HD tune was as follows:


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I also ran a second test with crystal disk mark:


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I can't find out where to check (I've check in computer-> manage etc etc) what my hard drive RPMs is, but I believe I have a 5000 rpm disc, not a 7200 rpm disc.

 

I think the 640Gb HDD is a 5400RPM if I remember correctly.

Just run HWINFO and check the HDD section for the model name.

 

thanks!

Yeah, I looked it up and it's a 5400rpm drive. Guess that'd explain the performance difference.

Also, referring to the boot time, it only takes about 20-30 seconds to get into windows, but I use a program called Soluto to calculate when all of my start up programs are loaded in.

On the bright side, I just uninstalled AVG (which soluto was reporting to take up a total of 150 seconds of boot time) and my total boot time dropped to 2:05.

I'm on the task of installing Microsoft Security Essentials.