Asus G50 Weird issues

Just recently somehow all my hotkeys stopped working (the touchpad and FN key hotkeys).

In direct console only the OLED display settings are clickable, the options for performance and lights (on the back of the screen) are now disabled.

In the nvidia control panel all the ntune options are gone.

Power4Gear no longer opens.

As for the hotkeys I've tried reinstalling all the Asus applications, associated drivers, and updated to the latest versions from the Asus website which does nothing.

I've checked that I have all the latest drivers for everything else which hasn't helped with of the other problems.

 

Still sounds like a driver or asus program issue.

I would say uninstall them all, than reinstall them.

Dont just reinstall ontop them.

Make sure you get all the ATK drivers too... People tend to always miss some of those. I think it has 3 or 4. I forgot now, lol

Anyway I would take the ntune off also while doing all this.

Has anything else changed? Any new windows updates or driver changes or new programs?

Worst case you reinstall the OS.

I dont think its any type of hardware problem you will have to worry about.

 

I installed a lot of games around the time the problem appeared, they are chinese games from a not so legit market so they have custom installers (still uses the windows installer).

As for reinstalling the Asus apps I uninstalled hotkeys, atk, OSD, and direct console and reinstalled them from the G50 disc. After that failed I uninstalled again and reinstalled with copies from the Asus website with no avail.

I only found one ATK item labeled as a driver on the asus website so that might be the case.

 

Asus site is a mess.

You find some stuff under G50vt and other under G50v... If you get the title of the section with the file you can just search that on their site and find newer ones normally... for example if you go to the download section and just search ATK you find newer ones than on the g50 pages... You just have to look at the g50v and vt to make sure it applies to them and that they have the same type of driver/file.

But its at least 3 things called ATK if not 4.

Other than that I can only say try to load the C++ runtime stuff and maybe try to download and install the latest DirectX runtime things. Maybe its something else crazy messing with it.

As for the CD... I myself will never use those Asus CD's. The files are so old and buggy on it.. lol

 

probably be better off in the long run to do an OS re-install