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    Asus N89VN issues

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Twiffy, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. Twiffy

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    Hi guys,

    I just bought an Asus N80VN laptop, and on the whole, I love it. It has the well-known keyboard lag issue, and I'm debating whether or not it's worth it to uninstall the Synaptics driver. But I have two other questions that I haven't answered yet.

    1) When I got the lappy, I noticed the sound was a little wonky, and it wouldn't play the first 1/2 second of any sound. I reformatted and installed Vista Ultimate x64. The sound worked right away - obviously Vista came with a compatible driver. Then I installed the Realtek drivers anyway, and it started having the same issue as before. Uninstalled that, and the problem went away. So my question is, am I missing anything by using the default Vista drivers? And, should I install the nVidia HD Audio drivers that come with the video card driver? (I didn't, but maybe those would somehow work and provide better sound?)

    2) I installed the driver / utility for my fingerprint reader, but I can't logon using it, and there is no utility for it that I can access. I didn't install "Data Security Manager Utility" - is that what actually lets me use the fingerprint reader? If so, do I need this utility to use the fingerprint reader for anything at all (e.g. website passwords), or is it just for logging on to Windows?

    Thanks! Any help is greatly appreciated.
     
    Twiffy, Apr 12, 2009
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