Does ASUS not like us V6J users? No more Vista driver page.. where is it?

Seems any and all drivers for vista on ASUS's site are no longer posted for this notebook. They were there a week ago, now there is no VISTA section. Any ideas what happened?

 

Thats terrible. They better put it back, in case I get Vista sometime. Thats not cool. They build the world's best notebook, then stop supporting it.

 

Yep, ain't that just great. All Vista software has vanished from the FTP server as well, not just the links from the website. Probably they figured supporting Vista for the V6J was too much of a headache given that the notebook is discontinued and anyway there's just a handful of us V6J owners anyway.

Oh well, I didn't think I'd install Vista on this notebook anyway.

I think Seb has the drivers downloaded, I know he was using Vista on his V6J. Not only the ones on the Asus website, but also some other scavenged from various places. Maybe you should PM him.

 

do those drivers work on the V6Va? asus has not posted any new drivers for almost half a year for this notebook, not to mention no vista drivers.

 

I don't know how many of them work... certainly not VGA, ATK, and mainboard. Possibly audio but even that might be different. You need to check the hardware configurations for the two computers.

 

The notebook is just over a year old if that. Discontinued / No support? Be the last time I buy an ASUS product I guess. Support from them has been a joke.

 

The notebook is just over a year old if that. Discontinued / No support / Only a handful of us? Thought this was a popular notebook? Be the last time I buy an ASUS product I guess. Support from them has been a joke.

 

I will still buy from them, I think this computer is worth it. Maybe I will just have to be careful to not buy an EOL notebook again. I might have to ask Seb for some Vista help (I am 99% that I will install it before the next school year). Its too bad they got rid of this notebook.

 

I'm not sure if the situation is any better with other vendors.(Not posting drivers is better than giving unstable drivers and then not fixing them).

 

I suppose that is true. It just seems to me that it shouldn't be that big of a deal for them to leave the drives up on their site. Oh well. Seb!, Seb, where are you! (just joking, I know he isn't here).

 

I am getting Vista from my University soon, so I will be upgrading, I can try to make a document about the process, and share it as well as all the drivers for others.

 

I'm not sure it's legal for you to post the drivers themselves, but the document I would certainly welcome together with the other V6J users out there.

About support: yes, ASUS forgets about their products quite soon, especially one with such a small set of users as the V6J. We should be thankful that their tech support is not so bad as their driver update frequency.

I am also disappointed by the fact that the battery issue has not yet been solved after several people from several locations have tried to make ASUS aware of it. I wish it weren't true, but I believe ASUS knows there is an issue but they're just finding it more comfortable not to fix it.

We have to face it... all the companies want is money. Not quality. Quality is a side-effect of trying to get more profit.

I'm personally also disappointed by the current ASUS lineup; there's nothing that stands at the same uncompromising level of quality with a V6J, W3J, or even my old M6BNe. What's worse, I don't expect there will be anything in the future. ASUS is adding all sorts of useless (in my view) kitschy things like cameras, fingerprint readers, is increasing resolutions compromising screen quality for that, and is trying to make prices lower by dropping build quality just a little bit every time. So the quality decreases slowly, but steadily.

I am unsure therefore if I will buy ASUS again. Certainly, if they have something that is worthed. Otherwise, I will go to some other, newer brand, that is trying to gain its foothold by making high-quality notebooks. Zepto is an option.

Sorry, I'm sort of in a black "hate the Company" mood...

 

Seems the links have reappeared? I am downloading right now. They just spread them around, linking to drivers in other models' folders (probably the same type of LAN / audio / etc).

 

Hey guys and gals,

I've already made the transition to vista on my V6J and it was relatively painless. What I can say is that almost all of the drivers were already installed. All that was missing was the card reader and the ACPI driver and the sound driver. I just used the card reader and ACPI driver from the stickied thread and the sound driver from the original cd and that worked great!

You can install the nvidia drivers as well and that seems to bring up the windows experience rating a bit but really I think that is optional.

Other than that its mostly been smooth sailing, but the only disappointing thing for me is that vlc doesn't run perfectly in vista.

 

I agree. I am in Vista now, and other than messing up the partitions on my own (I fixed it later), it was very easy and pretty quick. I rather like it. I will write up more of a report at a later date, but the V6j runs Vista pretty well.

 

Found vista to be slower than xp in general on the v6j.

 

I would tend to agree with that. I just can't decide if it is worth all of the hassle to go back to XP.

 

Heh, Vista as it is right now doesn't work well on any sort of laptop hardware. It's just too resource-heavy compared to XP. My Vista Upgrade disk is probably never going to see the light of day at this rate...

 

Ya its sad that vista runs like sh|t on these asus laptops