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    A8Jp Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Fa310tx, Feb 2, 2011.

  1. Fa310tx

    Fa310tx Notebook Geek

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    I may be a little late in the game, here, but I just installed windows 7 on an a8jp for another person and wanted to give them the full experience (osd, hotkeys, etc...). It was a bit of a chore getting everything set up, correctly, but I think everything is as it should be.
    Allow me to list what I needed/used...
    This is for windows 7 home (64-bit), but I would assume that everything would translate over to 32-bit versions.
    Let me take this opportunity to mention a vista driver thread that was helpful in finding some of this.
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/100357-asus-vista-32-64-drivers.html
    I would have just posted this in that thread, but it's closed.
    After the initial windows 7 install, there were a few things with exclamation marks (camera, 2 card readers, and a couple unknowns that weren't obvious). Also, none of the hotkeys worked (including some Fn+ combos).
    The first thing I did was opened windows update and installed everything. I know most of it probably didn't matter and wouldn't fix the things that were missing, but it's for someone else and they would probably do it anyway.
    There were some drivers (the 2 unknowns were fixed through windows update).
    After that, I went to asus' website. Of course, there's no windows 7 section for the a8jp so I tried vista 64, then vista 32, then xp. I knew the card reader drivers needed to be installed, so I grabbed those, first.
    They didn't work. I'm not sure if was a vista/7 or 32/64 difference, but it doesn't matter. I did find vista 64-bit drivers in the vista thread from above. They are straight from intel and worked perfectly. Now, I didn't re-install the sd/xd with these drivers. I just did the 2 that were missing. The camera drivers came from asus. Installing from the executable failed, but I was able to install from device manager.
    So, device manager looked good, but there were features missing (osd/hotkeys). I got all of these from asus.
    ATK_Hotkey: Enabled Fn+ combos
    PowerGear: Enables power profiles
    Splendid: Enables monitor profiles
    ATKOSD2: Enabled fancy osd (note that it doesn't work until you already have osd running)
    ATKMedia: Enables the right-most button to open media center
    I don't recall if it was hotkey, powergear, or splendid that enabled normal osd (I want to say hotkey). Recall that normal osd has to be working before osd2 will do anything.
    Finally, I downloaded the latest 64-bit synaptics driver from synaptics' website.
    As it stands, right now, everything seems to be working well. One thing to note is that after windows update installed the x1700 video drivers, the theme was still windows basic. I had to manually change it to aero.
    There are some other things that I downloaded but didn't install (life frame, instant on, etc...). I figure that stuff is more fluff than funtionality. I left the install files on the desktop if the other person wants them.
    Hopefully, this can help someone, in the future.
    JJ