ASUS V1-series and Windows 64-bit compatibility

Hi folks,

Even though my fresh installation of Microsoft's New-Kid-on-the-64-bit-Block has not been exactly flawless, I can tell you there is no going back to its ancestor-XP. Having only 2GB-worth of RAM hasn't prevented me from opting for 64-bit flavor and I honestly fail to see why would one choose otherwise? Well, save for possible driver incompatibility... which is the culprit and reason for me posting.

Just as the other user says in his post on ASUS Support Forums some drivers for Windows 7 64-bit are nowhere to be found. Granted, they indeed are (as I stated in a reply to that post), but they refuse to install.

The reason I post here is to ask NBR-users (-readers?) to look at that post and assist us in getting web camera above all to work. Thanks in advance for your insights on this matter.

On top of something as general as "help request" I have more specific request to ASUS users that have successfully installed 64-bit version of Windows 7. Please, post your web camera's hardware ID (PID number) - especially if yours appears to be a D-MAX one and specify how have you made it to work (i.e. worked out of the box, courtesy of Windows Update, or thanks to manually installed driver - which?).

Big thanks in advance!

Cheers,
AdiQue

 

Hi... me,

OK folks, you haven't been much of a help I must say. I know that speculations of how your G51 will overheat after you give it OC and if it churns out better FPS in your "point and shoot-ers" is of ulterior importance. After all the more FPS in your favorite <strike>time waster</strike> 'masterpiece of computer entertainment of choice', the more satisfaction of life in general.

No, I have no problems with that whatsoever! Lets just stay . After all I've solved my issues with driver incompatibilities. And to make this post of any help to a potential NBR-user that may run into same issues with his/her/its/ET's Windows 64-bit, here are two pieces of advice of mine:

1. Don't let a working piece of hardware confuse you - they may be source of driver issues as well!
   I had unrecognized so-called "base computer hardware" which turned out to be MC and xD cards controllers. I never thought that would be it, because I've been using SD cards successfully and extensively.


2. Experiment with previous OS-es compatibility modes with each driver you give a try.
   I've made my Web Cam to work by DL-ing Vista 32-bit driver package that happened to containg 64-bit compatible drivers, which in turn run in Vista-compatibility mode would magically install on Win7 64-bit system!
   RMB > Properties > Compatibility > Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows Vista | Run this program as an administrator (optionally)

All in all thanks for not helping me. That would require pointing me out to a quite obvious solution, which would be somewhat embarrassing.
This way, I can at least rep myself up! Or, can't I...

Cheers,
AdiQue

 

Glad you've got it working. I tried Win 7 x64 on my V1JP during the RC phase, but I couldn't find a driver for the x1700 that would enable Aero. Did yours just install or did you have to hunt it down.

On a separate note, how is the battery on yours? I'm on my third and it was toast after only about 4 months. It's too bad because it has been a great laptop otherwise. I upgraded the hard drive to a Vertex 120 SSD when I put the RTM of Win 7 on and it is very snappy.

 

&lt;greetings&gt;
I greet. You.
&lt;/greetings&gt;

&lt;drivers&gt;
I second voices of the majority of users who report, that most of their hardware works out of the box with 64-bit versions of Windows 7. So does my V1Jp. I can't say for RC nor any of the betas, but Win7 Professional RTM self installed all drivers but one (web cam) and another one just partially (SD-card driver instead of multi format one).

Video card drivers seemed to be on place - Windows let me switch to Areo interface. Unfortunately I cannot tell how successful that "switch" was because before I played with Win+TAB combination which seems to be the ultimate test of how this interface works, I went on to install up-to-date ATI Catalyst 9.9 drivers (from driverheaven.net; no need for mobility modder though).
&lt;/drivers&gt;

&lt;battery_wear&gt;
As for the battery, I had been aware of "battery wear" problem even before I went on to buy the laptop (well, didn't "go" anywhere literally, I bought in on-line). The infamous battery drama showed soon after. As I knew ASUS didn't have any real solution to it (nor guts to admit the failure), I never bothered to RMA it until soon before my warranty was about to expire (well, that's another story, because I was actually 2 months past my warranty according to ASUS Poland and I had to fight f*****g hard for them to replace this piece of <strike> junk </strike> hardware at no additional cost).

At that time, the "battery wear" counter (as reported by software reading from ACPI) rolled over past 100% mark! The battery would last some 30 mins according to readings and then Windows would automatically close. With those warning disabled, I could use the laptop for twice that time, but I never knew when it would die on me w/o any notice.

After they have replaced the battery the problem seemed to reproduce itself at first. "Battery wear" indicator went to a few per cent quite soon, but it stabilized afterwards (fluctuated to be more precise in both ways by a few percentage points). It never actually went far from this mark. In other words, comparing to the previous state of things, I can say I have been given a well-functioning new battery.
&lt;/battery_wear&gt;

&lt;conclusion&gt;
Dunno if I answered you fully, but I surely shed some light on the matter(s) in question(s) from an actual product user perspective.
&lt;/conclusion&gt;

 

That's good to know. I might have to go back to Win7 x64. Right now I've to the 32 bit RTM version. When I tried x64, MS didn't have any drivers, and the ati catalyst all-in-one package wouldn't install either.

Maybe I'll have to break down and get another battery. Right now I get about 5 minutes use on a charge.