G50V - New Drivers

Here is a new tread to report all new drivers coming out for the G50V. Please keep this to new driver and driver problem post only.

Just saw that 2 ATK Beta drivers are official

ATKOSD2 Utility - Version V7.0.0002 - 2008/09/12

ATK_Hotkey Utility - Version V1.0.0042 - 2008/09/12

New Vista 64 Video drivers and they rock. My system seems to run a little cooler.
Nvidia Video Driver - Version V7.15.11.7623 - 2008/08/27

 

What exactly does ATK do? There's also an update for the Intel Wifi card. What other useful driver updates are there?

 

it has something to do with controlling the extra buttons and I guess other functions. I would use the latest WIFI drivers from Intels website. Here is the link to the WIFI driver - http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16980/eng/12.1.1.0_V_Drivers.zip&agr=&ProductID=2963&DwnldId=16980&strOSs=&OSFullName=&lang=eng

 

The 1.07 bios in on the website and I downloaded it and installed it on my system. Have not played with it a whole lot but I hope it fixes a lot of stuff. Would be nice if they gave a list of stuff it fixed.

 

I've had my G50V for just over a week. Early on I removed the Asus/Synaptics touchpad drivers and used the Microsoft default drivers. This worked fine, except I sometimes accidentially hit the touchpad as I type and get various unexpected results as the cursor goes flying.

Yesterday I updated to bios 207, installed the two updated ATK drivers, and the Touchpad driver V10.1.8.0 (which installs Synaptics driver v6.5). Now I can turn off the touchpad, which is welcome. Unfortunately, at startup my computer shows confirmation dialogs about running two Synaptics programs. I thought I unchecked the "always ask" box, but they keep appearing. I have also noticed a few dropped characters as I type. I don't know what to make of it.

Edited to add: The keyboard is definitely dropping characters now.

 

You could try the other fix, the script that puts the Synaptics processes to lower priority upon Windows startup. I think the thread describing that solution is linked from the 1st post in the G50 owner's lounge thread.

 

Anyone know exactly what the new Bios fixes/adds?

 

I thought it was suppose to fix up the e-sata port..but apparently not
I just flashed it, haven't noticed any differences :S

 

I upgraded to the 107 bios a couple of days ago and now my system seams to run really good and a bit cooler. Has anyone else had good luck too or if you have had issues what are they?

 

Does you eSata port work?
Mine is still not working :S I'm sure that it's not the drive because it works perfectly when I'm using it with a usb port :S

 

My eSata port works great on my G50V-A2. The only thing that does not work is the over clocking in Direct Console.

 

Arg..which bios are you using?
Direct Console is working for me lol

 

I have tried it with 204,205, and 207. Direct Console works but when I try turbo or turbo extreme it will work for maybe 5 seconds then my mouse pointer will freeze for a second and go back to normal.
Any ideas?
Thanks

 

This sounds like a horrible option but I loaded mine from complete scratch and loaded all the latest drivers and now my system runs flawless.

 

I may try that eventually. I don't know how much I would use the over clocking feature but it's nice to have everything working. I have 4 os's on here now (tweaked and running great on all) so it would take some time getting it all back.
Thanks for the input!

 

Overclocking works on my G50V-A1 on all 204, 205 and 207.
This was done via Direct Console 2.0.

EDIT: On that note, since installing BIOS 2.5, my touch hotkeys don't work. Not a big deal since I rarely use these but...it would be nice to have a fully functioning computer in this household .

 

Try reinstalling ATK hotkey, who knows...

 

I just realised that after flashing into 207 if you disable the POST sound in Bios, you can still have sound after booting into Windows