Asus UL30VT FAQ / Official Owners Lounge redux

Anyone else's UL30VT hard drive make crackling noises every once in a while? When lifted.

 

my ul80vt does this, and it has done so since I bought it in october.

every now and then, when I close the lid and it hibernates, the drive also makes a very worrying juddering sound. It could be time for a new one.

 

yup, i assume its an unhappy hdd?

 

I hear some clicks - could you listen to the mp3 I posted on page 78 and let me know if it's the same sound?

 

Back to the undervolting thing, just so I can try it out. Should I keep the laptop in High performance (1.73Ghz) or keep it at 1.3Ghz before running CPU Genie. Does it matter?

 

Apparently thats not normal, and so ASUS is sending me a replacement one in a few days (let's hope their RMA process doesn't suck too badly).

 

LOL omg I thought I had this I was so worried
Apparently this is NORMAL... I put a WD Scorpio Blue in the laptop and this happens all the time the laptop is idle... it clicks in some intervals...

I've been reading around many users have this but its bearable

 

You should keep it at 1.73ghz (or turbo mode).

 

Thank You!

This ultra quiet and thin laptop tends to reveal every tiny HD noise. This is all fixed by an SSD, no?

 

As Jako, then you can use Throttle Stop after you find your lowest stable voltage. Throttle Stop lets you set 4 pre-sets from high to low performance. This way PG4 can be set at max turbo and ends the re-boot hassle.

FWIW, i run 1900mhz down to a feisty calculator speed of around 400-800mhz for surfing. .9125V ended up as my OC gaming VID, .8750 for everything else.

 

you mean you just called them telling about the noise and they are sending you a replacement??

 

i got my replacement (from JR) because of the seagate HD noise, and this new one was built in May 2010 (previous one built in Mar 2010), and it came with a WD drive (wd5000BEVT), so i am guessing all the new ones built after May10 come with a WD drive? can anyone else confirm? (it also came with kindle software and time's reader which the previous build didnt have)

btw i am asking for another replacement because this new unit has a little scratch above the power button which irritates me a lot! I will report back about the HD after i get my new replacement.

 

Interesting... I thought the only UL30VTs that came bundled with Kindle SW were the back ones and were designaed with a K" in the model number. In any event, congrats, it appears J&R (the same vendor I recently got my A1 from) came through big time for you.

Sorta threadnapping, but since Kindle was mentioned, has anyone downloaded the Kindle SW and if so how well does it work?

 

Which laptops are direct competitors to the UL30VT-A1? This can't be the only ultraportable with switchable discrete graphics.

 

Acer timelines

 

Crap. Perhaps I should've done that instead of contacting ASUS, so I could get a new laptop all together. It is my understanding that ASUS is shipping me a replacement Seagate drive. I think.

Sigh. It better work. Eventually I'm gonna get an SSD, so all this will be moot. But still.

Do you know if making an image of your file system and smacking it onto a new, identical hard drive is bad for it? Would it screw up the boot sector and stuff, since it's not a natural installation/partitioning of Windows?

 

i returned the new m11x for this laptop. i must say the screen size is perfect and it's way less reflective than the m11x. i love the battery life and the thin/light form factor. my only wish (hopefully for the next ul30 series) is a upgraded discrete grqaphics card.

 

Who knows which UL30VT's will be made with WD or Seagate, or Fujitsu, or Hitachi for that matter, HD's? Asus has had a lot of complaints about Seagate HD's during the past year, and I would guess that even if $$$ is the only object that determines which HD's are being used (where Seagate's are the cheapest they can get), that maybe, just maybe they are changing HD suppliers...or at least they are trying out "other vendors" vs having just Seagate HD's in their notebooks.

I have yet to have a good experience with a Seagate HD in an Asus notebook, they have all been bad, one way or another, and I can list them for you all: Asus 1201N, Asus N71JQ-A1, Asus UL30VT-X1, all of which came with Seagate OEM HD's.

The N71JQ was the Queen of the Seagate Ball, as it had two (2) Seagate 500GB 7200RPM HD's in it, OEM box stock, and they were both terrible, so much so that with them both in the machine it would vibrate like the buzzer in my Apple iPhone 4! With one removed, either one actually, it lessened, but not much. Finally I resorted to a Hitachi 500GB 7200RPM HD for solace and relief, but by then the notebook had developed other significant issues and it went back to the reseller as defective, with bad WiFi and BlueTooth, and sound issues...a train wreck 100%.

It is good to read that the above notebook came with a WD HD, a good choice for Asus if they are trying out other vendors. Is it a WD Scorpio Black by chance? 7200RPM or 5400RPM? Which model is it?...curious.

As for the Seagate 500GB 7200RPM OEM HD that came with my G51JX-A1? It never even got turned on once, as I removed it when I got the notebook (same day), installed an SSD, and clean installed the OS and drivers and my programs, so I'll never know about it, I guess, sighhh...it will probably never be used, as it sits in my studio in its anti-static bag, forlorn, the wallflower in my HD collection.

I have no love for Seagate's notebook HD's, as they are generally miserable excuses for data storage, with out-of-round spindles, platters that are not balanced, just pretty much no good QC with Seagate's notebook HD's in my experience thus far.

You just have to wonder what that company is all about? When the other mfr's can make very acceptable 2.5" notebook HD's of all sorts of sizes and descriptions, Seagate just doesn't have its act together at all, and I honestly don't know what it will take to get it together. Perhaps they just plain need to go broke, and have nobody buying their HD's, maybe that would do the trick!

 

Well, that's an interesting tech question, and I'l try to answer it as best I can with limited knowledge of your situation.

Is it "bad for the HD" to install a freshly imaged HD system onto a new, identical HD? No, of course not...it should be fine. You will have to be using some sort of Cloning software to get a bootable image though, so keep that in mind, such as Paragon's utilities (Partition Manager 10.x, Hard Disk Manager 10.x Suite, etc, they all have cloning software in their appliances), or Acronis True Image (Home or Professional), either of those will work for such a purpose.

The point being you won't necessarily be able to start up the notebook with a rudimentary "file system, boot sector, and stuff" installation. I would recommend that you do a full Cloning operation, one to one with the two HD's, then you should be all set with correct parameters in the HD partitioning system, boot sector, etc.

You will need an external USB HD, and one of the Cloning softwares to do such a thing, but it's routine, I do it all the time, and it works easy and clean. The only caveat being when you do cloning on an SSD, that is another story altogether! SSD's have to be Aligned, and partitioned properly, or they just don't work worth a darn, and high speed will be low speed if you do it wrong.

If you were to pick Acronis True Image Home software to use, you could use it in the 30-day "Home Trial Period" and get away without having to actually pay for it, by the way. Same for Paragon's utilities, they have "trial software" of their individual utilities also, and they are fully functional copies of the software.

Good luck, and maybe you won't get another Seagate HD...at least you can hope!

 

Hey, just a quick note. The other day I noticed a small screw on my desk where I charge my laptop. Sure enough the screw from the front left corner had come out on it's own. I've never taken anything apart on it since I bought it in late May. Ya'll might want to check that all of your screws are tight. (My wife always said I had a screw loose. I guess she was right.)

 

it's a 5400RPM Scorpio Blue (WD5000BEVT)

 

Thanks, satisfied my curiosity anyway. Yes that's right, the UL30VT's come with 5400RPM HD's don't they? I was hoping for a 7200RPM WD Black, alas, but that is for another laptop, like my G51JX-A1.

You could have done worse though with the 5000BEVT HD, as that's a solid, stable little number, and you probably won't have any issues with it. They tend to be quiet also, a good thing--and concentric, even better.

Anyway, good for you, I'm happy with your HD because the OEM Seagate HD's from Asus of the past year or so have seemed to be the "B" Grade from that vendor, and who can explain it because nobody benefits from that sort of thing continually happening. I have an unused 500GB Seagate 7200RPM HD (ST9500420AS) from my present laptop, the G51 I am typing on, that will probably never get used for any reason...it just sits and waits.

I am keeping it intact, in its OEM form and formatting, just in case this little piece of perfection ever defects on me, and it has to go in for service to Asus...I'll simply toss the OEM HD into the thing and send it off, if that were to happen, removing my precious OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD in the process. As to the Seagate I don't trust it for storing my data, and I really just want to keep it "as is" with all the OEM software and Emergency Recovery Partition intact, just in case.

You know there was a time that Seagate was all that I bought, they used to enjoy an impeccable reputation, one of great brand loyalty, also. But something happened about 2005-2007, when they had the great firmware fiasco's with their SATA and PATA 3.5" 500-1TB HD's, and things have never been the same since...sorry to say.

I have a couple Seagate Enterprise HD's, vintage 2007, which seem to be all right, both are 750GB SATA II HD's with the good firmware from back then, and I use them for backup with my PowerMac G5 server, and the 2nd unit backs up my network, it's the USB Network HD for my Linksys E-3000 router in fact, newly added as it is, so there's two Seagate HD's that are in use here, and critical uses too.

I am glad for them, as they seem to be optimum performers, although one had to be replaced last year as it died doing a Time Machine backup at some point with that PowerMac G5 server, but still, that can happen to any HD and it was being used 24/7 with constant reads and writes with Time Machine, so I'll give that one good service life even though it did fail.

The notebook HD's though? I dunno, it's a mystery to me, I have no idea why they have been so bad for so long. It's like Seagate doesn't give a GDMF thing about their reputation anymore with notebook HD's, and that is a shame. Here's hoping that turns around at some point, because good notebook HD's like those from Hitachi, and WD are in short supply, and Seagate should be a brand we can count on.

 

Oh man i dont know whats wrong with my new ASUS laptop. Ive already googled but found nothing regarding this.

When i first got the laptop the thing grayed/faded out on me on th initial setup.
It went away and i continued, but then it happened again in the OS.
Asus people had me hard reset the thing and it went away but came back.
I called a total of 3 times over and over and all 3 they just had me inspect the thing and call again if it persisted. Well today it happed the worse. I turned the laptop on and right off the bat it was already grey and nonfunctional. I reset the thing a couple of times and nothing. Out of rage i pressed a bunch of buttons and WhaLLa, the notebook boot up, but it boot up to safe mode with only command prompt at my disposal. Well i know nothing of command prompt so turned it back on again and it was finally functional again. So here i am backing up all my stuff to a 500GB external hard drive just in case it never comes back on me. Im going to call ASUS again and see what happens. Im hoping this is no biggy that i can fix?

Oh and another thing, the HD makes clicky noises at times.

 

My HD also makes some clicking noises from time to time. I think mine is a Western Digital. So far it seems to work fine, but I plan to replace it with a Seagate Momentus XT.

 

So if I do a full cloning operation, The bootloader and file system won't be prone to err? Windows's registry won't be out of whack for any reason?

Meh. I'll just wait and reinstall it fresh. I'm too lazy to do all that cloning business, plus there's nothing besides Firefox installed on my notebook right now.

 

So you can change the HD to stop the noise?
I believe you have to reinstall windows 7 right?
Will i need to purchase a new windows or can i just punch in the serial on the back of my laptop to activate it?

I think the full reinstall might help with my display problems.

 

Has anyone found a good way to physically lock/secure the UL30? There's no eyelet for a standard lock. Kensington's website says they can give you a free "Security Slot Adapter" but I can't find any good info or reviews on it. It looks like it may just be a slotted part and some epoxy to stick it on a laptop, not an ideal solution I think...
I got this laptop with portability and travel in mind, and I'd like to be able to lock it up. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

As you said, lock it up. The security hole, by the power cord, is so Micky mouse that your laptop would be damaged if someone gave it a good yank. Plastic no?

You can also add both BIOS and W7 passwords to render the laptop worthless to most crooks..FWIW.

 

No problems here..I got a cloned fresh install

I've done several clones; no problems other than time, which depends on size to be cloned. The software is free for both the WD and the Seagates. Download the version of badged Acronis True Image from either respective site. If your going from Seagate to WD, then you want the Seagate version

 

We can't fix Hardware problems by diagnosing them remote control like here on the forum, so don't expect an answer for the notebook doing a "greying out" anytime soon, sorry to say.

It simply sounds like your HD is having issues, if it's clicking and clacking and carrying on and you are having "greying out" session with it, there is little that can be done save to install another known good HD and see if that solves the problems.

Do you have a spare 2.5" notebook HD hanging around to try that idea out? If you do, why don't you install it, install fresh Windows 7 on it from the software DVD ROMs that you got with your laptop, and see if it's cured!? That is exactly what I would do if I were in your place, but I'm not, so I cannot do it for you.

I always have a spare laptop HD hanging around though, and I'm not sure how many of you are like I am in that regard. When you call Asus the next time, don't just talk to anybody who answers the phone, ask for a Supervisor the next time. You are getting nowhere it seems with lower-tied tech support people, and sometimes they are not of the caring type, in fact it seems like some of them read from a script!

Get a Supervisor on the phone and tell he/she what has been happening, and you'd like it to be fixed.

Other than that, do you have Return Privilege where you bought the laptop? Shouldn't you return it for another notebook? That is what I would do if I were you and you are within the 30-day return period at Amazon.com for example...return it for another UL30!

Did you think about that alternative? A new notebook would seem to be in order if the brand new one if faulty, don't you think?

Let us know what happens, and if you are going to return it or try and fix the one you have...generally I would advise against keeping such a problem notebook if it's brand new and doing what you say is going on.

Are you sure it's not user error (UE)? Did you do anything to the notebook to cause any of this stuff, or did it just happen out of the blue? If it just started happening for no particular reason, you have a legitimate case for replacing that notebook with one that works with your reseller, whoever that is.

Where did you buy it?

Good luck, and think logically about things, don't get emotional so much because sometimes Asus can make a bad notebook, you know?

 

Just got the UL30VT-A1. Didnt get much time to play with it yet. One thing I noticed is the prompt when toggling TurboBoost33 that the device needs to restart. Is that true? Need to restart each time I toggle it on or off?

Another question. Should I bother with unninstallling all the crapware, or not waste any time and go and re-format right away?

 

Personally I would just uninstall all the crapware.

I did that and have no complaints.

 

I purchased the X1 a couple weeks ago and so far have had a lot of problems. I certainly would not recommend this laptop to a non tech person. My issues range from wonky drivers to shoddy build quality (including melting glue in the keyboard) all of which have cost me hours and hours to try and remedy.

I wanted to post some ideas and hopefully I can get some feedback. First I find all of the ASUS software to be a real headache and have uninstalled almost all of it. It appears to be a mix (maze) of apps for the graphics switching, keyboard hotkeys etc. Things such as the volume up/down mute only working with the Realtek device and not working when another sound device is active (bluetooth headphones etc.)

All of the ASUS services are terribly marked and have zero description to try to narrow them in services.msc. The supplied graphics driver is garbage and didn't appear to be installed correctly. I am currently experimenting with the amazing Nautis1100's Hybrid graphics driver. However this leaves the garbage ASUS hotkey for switching apps fairly useless.

Has anyone used a different utility for mapping the keyboard shortcuts?

Also I have yet to figure out how the CPU cycles/down overclocks etc. I watch the core speed with a gadget and it is all over the place. After changing my display driver it is very hard to narrow how it is supposed to work with Power4Gear etc. I see that people are using a set fsb utility to overclock. Perhaps this utility could be setup to overclock and run the full speed on boot and then cycle down if it detects the cpu is running on battery. This perhaps could eliminate another terrible ASUS app. I would love some feedback/details on the CPU.

Lastly, I noticed in the c:\eSupport\eDriver\ a file called instALL.exe along with nested drivers, asus software and bloatware. This appears to be the app that installs after the first reboot after the device is first powered on. It seems to run just after the first stage of the Win 7 first run boot screen where the region, keyboard is selected etc. I think if this file was renamed or perhaps individual folders moved before the first boot it would not install the bloatware and therefore be a much quick way to a clean Win 7 installation. Basically if you booted the comp with a live cd and renamed that file I think you would be left with a clean Win 7 installation out of the box.

I think I am going to try this method as I plan to do a complete wipe/reinstall. I will first run the recovery which I haven't seen referenced. I assume this is the 17gig hidden fat32 partition on the disk. Anyone who has any information on the recovery program (what's the hotkey at boot?, what does it delete?, does it delete all the partitions or just erase the C:\ OS disk?) I would appreciate it.

Lastly, There is so much info available but it is very hard to search through these threads. Since these laptops have so much in common with other ASUS models it makes remembering which thread things are in difficult.

Would anyone be interested in starting a Wiki page?


Any info would be appreciated.

 

I'd reformat. That's what I plan to do when my new HDD comes tomorrow. I did it once already on this hard drive. Windows Update took care of 90% of the drivers. I had to download all the ATK ones myself though (some important buttons including the graphics switching one are powered by the ATK drivers) and the nVidia Hybrid one myself. After installing the nVidia driver, it hung quite a bit. After a restart though, it was all set. Button worked just great.

New question for you seasoned folks here: Whenever I plug in my UL30VT to my Vizio 720p HDTV, it always overscans (the extremities of my Windows screen are past the edge and I can't see the Start button or clock), even though the TV's resolution is 1366x768. I've tried setting it at 1280x720 and the same thing occurs. Suggestions?

 

Don't want to get too off topic but from my experience this is almost always related to a setting on the TV itself. In this case, perhaps the TV aspect ratio is set incorrectly or set to stretch. Also when hooking up a comp to an HDTV, I almost always find that the sharpness setting needs tweaked to get a non blurry image.

 

Alright. I'll check the TV's settings. Thanks!

I just started one and spent the last half hour making a very detailed tech specs page. I encourage you to sign up for an account and apply to "Be an organizer." I'm going to bed now but when I wake up, I'll make you a moderator.

If anyone else wants to be a moderator, please let me know. I encourage all to continue on the "Tech Specs" and "Windows 7 Installation Guide" pages, as I have other things to do right now.

 

Hello everyone, I got this laptop a few weeks ago, and i'm having some issues.. at times it will just restart on me, no warning or anything. It used to display a message when it booted back up, saying "windows has recovered from a crash" or something, but now it doesn't do that anymore either.

I checked the event viewer, and it's a kernel-power error, event id 41

It only seems to happen when the power cable is plugged in, so i played around with all the power settings, this didn't help. I've also re-installed the video driver, the audio driver, and the power-4-gear driver, and it still does it.

I've checked for solutions on the windows 7 official forums, but they weren't too useful.

Has anyone else had this problem? I really don't want to have to send this thing back, I was just beginning to get used to it.

 

Sorry for your build quality, I would ask for another machine or just return it.

The divers are not the best but work OK once you get the feel for them but agree, they could be much! better. I did my homework before purchasing so YMMV in what you expected. My Mac was given to Mom, MUCH more user friendly, no?

The speed issue you find is just PG4 trying to save battery, heat, or both. The manual actually explains this a bit but if needed the CPU is kicked into high gear in turbo mode and when work demands it. I use just two simple modes, max game and good battery, of course each to their own.

There were a few key re-maping utilities posted a while back, sorry.

Search is a necessary evil on both the ulv30 threads. An edited WIKI would be outstanding as it may help end the repeated same questions that was hoped to end with the OP of this thread

You can also find out many things including utility's that are needed or not here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/380681-asus-utility-bloatware-guide.html#post4838868

 

Yep, a pain but nice to be able to OC under warranty, no? You can just leave it in turbo then set/use PG4 to throttle back when just loafing. As you know, it just a ratio of battery vs performance or heat if plugged in. Kick back and read through the posts.

See above post for crap ware.

 

A wiki for the UL30 has been created here http://asus-ul30.wikispaces.com/ . Please create an account and apply to be a contributor. I currently merged the information from the first post into the Wiki FAQ page and updated the dated information at my discretion. Please add any information/pages to the wiki you feel to be valuable. I will be adding more pages such as a direct link page to the most recent drivers.

Thanks to belzebutt for compiling the majority of work in this thread.

 

I just got this laptop today and I'm having an awful first impression. After turning it on for the first time, the setup ran and seemed okay. The next time I tried to boot it, however, it wouldn't turn on. The power light, fan and HDD light indicated that it was working, but the screen never came on. I'm not certain that it wasn't simply the screen. The same thing occurs when I try to wake from sleep. Occasionally it will turn on, but only once every twenty tries or so. I've already begun to hate Asus.

 

Change your power settings to something else, and uninstall any Asus bloatware that deals with power. If it still happens, it could be a hard drive, motherboard, or power supply issue (the last two are rare).

In other news, the replacement hard drive they sent arrived today!
It's a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB drive instead of an identical Seagate drive. I'm quite glad, because the WD drive has much higher ratings and a much lower failure rate than the Seagate drive. I just finished the fresh install of Win 7 Pro x64, and I'm now installing drivers.

 

Not so fast to a bad impression there Grasshopper!

You are letting the notebook control YOU, and not the other way around, and the result is not pretty is it now? Stop saying how bad the computer is and examine the operator! YOU need to get a hold of the settings you have on the computer and CHANGE THEM! Energy saver settings, PG4 settings, Advanced Energy Saver settings, and the most important of all, the Windows settings for things like the Firewall, Defender, everything to do with Windows has to be configured correctly and/or to your satisfaction or the computer takes over and things will be very, very ugly as you have discovered.

User Error is a terrible thing to deal with if you are so lazy that you can't even set up the computer to work nominally, and expect it to magically happen out of the blue! Sorry, doesn't work like that.

Now instead of hating Asus you need to be examining what you have done to make the computer yours up to this point, which is apparently NOTHING at all so far. Have you ever owned a laptop before? Did you also not set anything up in that computers, and previous computers, and every computer you've ever owned? I doubt it, or you would be one miserable, terribly disappointed owner by now, or maybe that is the case!

I am probably jumping to conclusions, but this post above is not worthy of consideration if the owner can't even set up the base settings to his liking and expects the computer to do it "for him" you know that?

Of course things will be MISERABLE if you don't take the time to set up a computer to your liking, to your energy saver and PG4 settings, and the Windows Defender settings, and the anti-virus controls are probably taking over the computer at this point, and rendering it hopelessly mired in software controls that are running amuk! Good Grief People!

Get a hold of yourselves and take charge of things, don't sit there and complain to the skies and this column that things are going badly when you have done nothing to change it to your favor!

I am done with this post, but I hope the OP and this owner gets the message: nothing is for free, and you'd best get to setting up a new computer to YOUR STANDARDS and settings before you start complaining and saying how bad of a computer it is and expect it to magically set ITSELF UP and be perfect! ABSURD!

Good luck, and by George I hope that others read this post and figure out that they need to be Pro-active with their computer setup with a complex little number like the Ul30VT-X1/A1 or things just get ugly, bad, or worse and you wonder why it's happening?

 

I would be happy to change the settings if I could get the laptop to boot. It can't be Windows or any of the bloatware, as it never POSTs. I managed to get it to boot once a bit ago and updated the BIOS from 208 to 210, which did nothing. It also behaved as though it was coming out of hibernation on the few occasions it did boot, and I later disabled hibernation to see if it had any effect, which it didn't.

 

For the people who's having problems with their had drive, have you tried changing the drive's AAM?
Try downloading a trial copy of Drive Power management and change the settings around.
Drive Power Manager website

 

Good for you! I am pleased also that Asus has begun to address the Seagate issue, apparently,by going to alternate suppliers and giving people a break! Thanks for God and Angels of mercy...!

I wondered how long it would take Asus to come around to the facts of the matter about Seagate and their QC, products in general, and see the light of day, and it's apparently right about now. Wonderful!

These are amazing notebooks with the right equipment and settings, and I see no reason to lambast them and make out that the notebook is at fault when the user is usually to blame, unfortunately...or the equipment itself in light of the Seagate issues we have all seen I think, in graphic details.

I just wonder who is in charge of Seagate and why they are so lax in QC, in product features, with respect to the things that the consumer sees and uses and makes contact with, and most of all what in the world motivates a company to product sub-standard products in the 1st place! :cry:

If you are a big, famous company like Seagate who has a storied past with respect to things like the Cheetah SAS HD, amazing and fast Enterprise setups, and previous to 2006 a loyal and repeat-buying consumer base, you have to ask yourselves why in the world have things gone to Hell in a hand basket with Seagate products in general?

That's all I have to write about and I won't belabor the point, as I think it's obvious where and who needs to answer a post like this, and it's not people here in this forum...it is Seagate itself and they won't answer, they never do! :yes:

Until I hear, see, or am given evidence of a big product turn-around from this company I will continue to disdain, discriminate against, and spread the word that Seagate products these days basically suck Royal Jelly and squat on it! If they change I'll be the 1st to report such a thing, as it would be most welcome and preferred to what is going on right now, and has been going on for years and years, and it is really time for it to STOP!

 

Did you only read the last sentence of my post, rexrzer727? Had you actually looked at my post, you would see that I was unable to set things up to my liking, seeing as the laptop won't boot. I think your condescension was simply a result of not actually reading my post. I don't expect the laptop to "magically set itself up," I simply expect it to turn on. Again, I'd love to "get ahold of the settings," but the computer will not boot.

 

Well it's not right. Quickest fix is just return to vendor for exchange or you can DOA it through Asus. Sorry you got a bad one but it happens.

 

I've given up on standby mode, as it BSODs every time it comes out of that state. However, I've noticed that my screen won't come on lately upon coming out of hibernation. Here is my setup:

On AC power, my graphics is set to High Performance mode. On battery, it's set to Power Save mode.

On AC power, shutting the screen lid keeps my laptop on (no standby or anything). On battery, it goes into hibernation when the lid is shut.

Lately, I've been shutting the lid while on AC power, then unplugging my computer. So I would expect it to immediately hibernate. When later opening the lid and pressing the power button, the screen displays for a brief period and then goes black. The only solution is to reboot. Perhaps that's kind of the same issue being experienced by dagwaging.

Anyway, I'm going to experiment with this more and will report back my findings. I wish I could get standby mode working, but I think it may have to do with my SSD (reported earlier in this thread).

 

@signofthefish,

i am having exactly the same problems as you on my setup. i am also running win 7 x64 on an SSD.

i may try to reinstall P4G hybrid version 1.1.25 and change the graphics drivers to the nautius version.

anyone having any problems with the nautius drivers.??