G1-difference is speed while on a/c or unplugged

It seems Asus says my power4gear is messed up. They said I should be able to run at full speed if I remove the power4gear. So I guess since I'm leaving on a trip in a few weeks, I might as well try reformatting and starting over again.

 

Wow, never noticed this until I read this thread. Now I know about it and it's driving me insane even though I rarely run on battery anyways!

Though for me using NHC setting graphics to max got me a little more speed but nothing like off power.

If I remember OC'ing my friends card, ATI Tools supports both Nvidia and ATI cards.

I'm running XP PRO SP 2 so if you get it working lemme know!

 

AtiTools is just a name.

 

I hope this works. I hate formatting after I put everything on. Here is what they told me is needed.
Dear Customer,

Thank You for contacting ASUS Notebook Technical Support.

You would need to install int his order

UAA bus driver and audio driver
ATK driver/utilities
Intel Hotfixes
device drivers

ASUS software such as lifeframe, net4switch,multiframe,etc are all optional software that you can install if you wish

 

btw, I tried to install winxp over what I prev had. scared me when I saw the battery /AC icons appear when I removed the chord. Then I noticed all my directories were still there, so I guess I have to do a clean format. Wish me luck

 

AUGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok I redid everything.fresh windows. only installed the bare drivers and windows updates. The moment I unplug it, it tells me I'm running on battery (with a little icon) and straight to super slow. grrr.

 

now when you're on battery, set the power scheme to performance, and it ought to work. Now I don't quite remember what slowed down, was it the CPU or the GPU or both? Cause if it's the GPU and it still is slow, it might be an hardware issue. But also try OC'ing with Atitools (works with nvidia cards).

 

I didn't even load any of the asus power stuffs. gonna try one more thing. God it'll be dumb if it turns out its those nvidia drivers ver 101.

 

hmm missing called nvucode.bin whenever I try to install a modded nvidia driver. gonna try and dload the stock one form the net

 

windows have built in powerschemes. You access them buy right-clicking the desktop, choosing properties. Then choose the screensaver tab. There choose Power options (or something like that, i don't have xp right now). There you should be able to change powerschems. Or you can just right click the battery/power icon on the taskbar (i remebered this after i wrote the other part). There you choose Always on or performance or something like that

 

Weird, did you download a modded inf from laptopvideo2go as well?

 

I know what you are talking about now. I'll try that once I figure out how to reload my drivers. Now its locking up when I install the old drivers.... never easy

 

Ok, wow I just caught up with all 6-7 page of reading in this thread.

Sounds like a serious problem.

If you enable monitoring in NHC, it can show you a graph of certain things one them being power usage/charge rate. While gaming on battery power, P4G set to High performance and screen brightness at maximum, NHC shows -55W being discharged constantly on my W3J. A G1 with a larger screen and more powerful video card/cpu might draw even more power while gaming. If you have a battery/power problem that might help you check.

 

Ok, what controls Powermizer? I just noticed, while plugged in, I'm at Max Perf. When I unplug it, It goes to max power saving. Using NHC I tried to change it. I CAN while plugged into the AC. The moment I unplug the power cord, it goes to max power saving and I CAN'T get it to move from that setting.

 

Powermizer only affects the GPU, and it has to be available in the Graphics-drivers. It hasn't been available since like the 8x.xx-series of drivers (stock-drivers).

And that NHC problem seems weird, try disabling NHC and see if that works (or did you install NHX to see if that helps). Anyways, this seems like an hardware issue...

 

Could be a video driver problem, did you have the same problem right after you reformatted with the stock graphics drivers?

 

Oh god almighty! Its the F(*&# drivers! I've been using the drivers from laptopvideo2go since the very start, those drivers were wacked for some reason. When I reinstalled the original drivers from Asus, the drivers must've done a partial install since it found new drivers that I told it to overwrite. So it didn't work.
I don't know how I did it, but after removing and adding back the asus drivers, it removed the "newer" one completly. And installed the old.

IT NOW WORKS AT FULL SPEED, AND I HAVE THE OPTION TO RUN AT SLOW OR BALANCED TOO!

Running a 3dmark06 to see how much a hit I'm taking by going back to the old drivers. At least I know it works. I still have no idea why the drivers failed from laptopvideo2go. Most if not all users here uses those drivers.

 

Weiird, Could have been a corrput installation or something, or they just didn't work with your computer. But since it now works, all i can say is WOOOOOO! Have you formatted yet? If you have (and i'm partly to blame), I'm sorry. In my defence though (still asuming you have in fact formated), i though you had completely uninstalled the drivers by removing the device.

 

OK, 3dmark06 says I just hit 2385, about 100pts loss, hey I can live with that. Sad part is I formatted. AND the drivers that ASUS uses is way out of date. You can't use any of those cool OC features in the 90+version drivers. AND the powermizer is ALWAYS ON. SO make sure you set it to how you want your computer to be or you're battery will drain.

Fabarati- Nobody is to blame, I asked for help. I never figured it was the drivers as I reinstalled them how many times. All I know is since I was "clean" windows and that I FINALLY noticed that NHC was telling me it wasn't changing powermizer, I figured out it had to be drivers. So I went all the way back to the original asus drivers (I did that b4 mind you) and installed and uninstalled it a few times. It took.

 

I thought it was drivers at first, but it was strange you were having the problem in both winxp and vista. I've had this problem with ATI drivers as well, powerplay would go weird and there was nothing you could do to change it.

I'm happy for you!!!

 

The lesson: ALWAYS REVERT TO STOCK DRIVERS WHEN YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE RESPECTIVE COMPONENT.

And that should be the first thing to do... before uninstalling utilities, OSes and checking BIOS options... I had thought you were running stock drivers and that is why I never mentioned this... I wish I did I would have saved some time for some people. I have learned my lesson from now on it's the first thing I'll ask.

 

e.b.e.- You missed the part where I did revert to the stock drivers but made no difference. (it was corrupt reload of the stock drivers as far as I could tell)
hello- I was having issue with both. But I worked on the winxp side first. its probably those drivers too

 

Ok, sorry then

A handy utility for such situations is DriverCleanerPro -- it helps wipe out (almost?) completely the video card drivers (and other types of drivers as well). Much less likely for problems to propagate between driver installations due to leftover DLLs, config files or registry settings.

 

Yup. so true.
My next headache was restoring my windowsXP back up. Since I dual boot, it messed up the dual boot. (I have no idea why) anyways, 5 hours later, I got that to work. I recleaned out the drivers, went back to stock. STOCK is now working! I still dont know what caused the modded drivers not work.. well speedwise its close to the modded drivers so I won't complaine.

 

Probably nobody knows why it didn't work -- cause it's a bug . Moreover it seems to happen only on a few machines.

About the dual boot: i've heard on the forums of several instances when winxp boot didn't work after a Vista install. There are some incompatibilities there.

 

And thus the saga of starstreak's G1 performance problems comes to an end =P. All is good with the world.

Seriously, this has been going on since I got here almost.

 

So you accumulated 247 (useful!) posts in the space taken by this thread to get to 8 pages. Congratulations!

(And you should probably get more sleep. )

 

As I've said before (not sure which thread though), Laptopvideo2go has NOT modified the drivers themselves for more performance or whatnot. What they do is modify the inf-file in the installer so that Drivers are allowed to install on your computer (and maybe remove multilanguage support). The drivers are the same. So the 97.46 drivers Asus supplies and the ones laptopvideo2go supplies are basicly the same (they even supply the asus inf in that driver). And also, the stock winxp driver is better than the newer beta-drivers (9x.xx and newer) for performance, but it drops improved purevideo and built-in OC'ing (not sure which versions had this). But third-party OC tools worked better for me anyways.

NGO on hte other hand supplies drivers modified for performance.

My thoughts on your lappy working is still: WOOO!

Agreed!

 

fabarati- I've been using laptopvideo2go for years. They got the 101.XX drivers from guru3d (I think. thats what it says when I opened it) which is a good site by the way. They modded the drivers to make it smaller and probably explains why I was getting that error while installing the drivers (see a few pages back) I did a search on the net and some people had that same error. Why not everybody? Dunno. But asus stock drivers seem fine.