The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Asus Z81-SP graphical artifacts

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Nit3H8wk, Mar 9, 2006.

  1. Nit3H8wk

    Nit3H8wk Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Im im getting grapical artifacts/bugs such as black lines or spots while running 3dmark03 and 05. Tried multiple games all with graphics problems. Tested Doom3, FEAR, UT2004, HL2, CS-Source, Far Cry etc.. I have all the latest drivers installed i have also tried various 3rd party drivers such as omegadrivers and laptopvideo2go. Still no response from my reseller or from asus. I do have an RMA# but its a waste of time if this model has a common issue with graphic's bugs. I never overclocked the video in fact i tried to underclock but it appears that it is locked by the video bios. Any ideah,s?
     
    Nit3H8wk, Mar 9, 2006
    #1
  2. PROPortable

    PROPortable Company Representative

    Reputations:
    418
    Messages:
    8,782
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    The Z81sp doesn't have the best screen...... it's far below the Z70va and even pretty far below the Z71v..... I don't think you should be getting those artifacts while running 3dmark however... so I think you should get it checked out.
     
    PROPortable, Mar 9, 2006
    #2
  3. Geared2play.com

    Geared2play.com Company Representative

    Reputations:
    691
    Messages:
    4,770
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Geared2play.com, Mar 9, 2006
    #3
  4. Nit3H8wk

    Nit3H8wk Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thank you very much. My reseller is Leadcomp.com they had the best price so far. I work for a retail computer store as a service tech pcsforeveryone.com but they don't sell this model and everything is overpriced if you see the website. Anyway i will try the bios and let you know how it works thanks again.
     
    Nit3H8wk, Mar 9, 2006
    #4
  5. Nit3H8wk

    Nit3H8wk Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    New bios worked like a charm in fact both worked only difference in the 2nd is the asus logo at startup
     
    Nit3H8wk, Mar 9, 2006
    #5
  6. Nit3H8wk

    Nit3H8wk Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    latest benchmark with detect optimal clock frequencies. NO ARTIFACTS....
     

    Attached Files:

    Nit3H8wk, Mar 11, 2006
    #6
  7. kreidel

    kreidel Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    121
    Messages:
    445
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    mmmm World of Warcraft
     
    kreidel, Mar 11, 2006
    #7
  8. Mike_Qc

    Mike_Qc Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    When you do the "detect optimal frequencies" function then click on apply does those new settings stay when you come back to see them later on.

    Because on my Z81SP they always come back to default settings.

    Thanks a lot !

    P.S. I installed the latest BIOS. The second link up here, it works perfectly.
     
    Mike_Qc, Jun 19, 2006
    #8