My New P-7805

Guys!!! Guess whatt!!!!?!??! YES, thats right! its the 1920x1200 !!!!!!!!!! *Kisses everyones* even though i didn't get the LG screen i am still satasfied

Kinda feels like won a lottery haha....
Anyway I gotta thank this wonderful community for all your advice...you guys have been very helpful...

Before i start gaming all night...I have a lot of questions...

1.) Does 1920x resolution mean its WUXGA?

2.) One thing i noticed right away when i login even though its not really a problem is that the fan gets loud every few seconds...sounds like its turning on and off..it goes away after a minute but comes back once in awhile..is this normal? Is there someway to fix it? It gets a bit annoying when i'm trying to do some work..

3.) I think the first thing i will do is remove all the unnecessary junk...should i remove norton antivirus also? And which anti virus do you guys recommend?
What else would you definitely install first?

4.) The plastic on the FX seems very prone to scratches and definitely a fingerprint magnet...Is there anything i can buy to protect the case and screen? Do you guys think ZAGG invisibleSHIELD makes screen protectors for this laptop?

5.) So its vista x64bit right now and i should leave that alone right? and its dx10? Is there any updates or drivers i should download? Because i know nothing about this stuff..

6.) Hmm..anything else i should know? Or any warnings?

Thanks

 

1.) yes WUXGA
2.) prop the back up 1/2" or so, it will help but not stop the fan.
3.) I'm an Avast person, YMMV........
4.) I'll agree but I'm a big A when it comes to my equipment, it will never be near enough to something to scratch it........
5.) I prefer the DOX optimized 185.20's
6.) sound is weak, read my other post in the "I hate my P7805-u's" thread for an enhancement. It doesn't make it great but makes it more bearable.........

 

2) Happened to me and fixed itself after a few days....

 

This is the thermal paste settling and making better contact. Proping it up still helps in the long run. I have a NC2000 cooler as well. The GPU fan and even CPU fan never kick in unless running intensive respective tasks.

 

Yeah i heard about that..but i know nothing about this stuff...so what IS IT? haha..What is it used for and where can i get it? Do i just download a file and install?

 

Look at: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=265740

I prefer XFastest..but thats just me.

Yeah, I could guess that, but now I replaced it with Arctic Silver 5...

 

I went with MX-2 but also went with a P9600 too..............

 

Whats that?? Wow..i dont know about any of the things you guys are talking about haha....and about the cooler which one should i get? does "proping it up" mean to put the laptop on a cooler?

 

Propping up the back, say under the battery, with a bottle cap. you could also use one on each corner too. This help air flow.

Coolers are subjective, everyone has their experience. I use a Zalman NC2000, it is expensive but works.

The p9600 is a CPU upgrade, and MX-2 is the new thing for thermal paste. If you don't know what these are do not attempt them with out serious help.....

 

congrats!

time to change your name to "current FX owner"

 

Nah i like this name ....so can someone explain to me about the "185.20's"

 

185.20 is a driver for your graphics card.
Found here:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22942
The forum that was posted in an earlier post on this thread by Kazeari is a guide showing you how to install it.

 

Thanks SemiGamer! So would you also recommend i download this one?

 

Anytime.
That depends, personally 185.20 doesn't work well for me, but every system is different, alot of people are getting success with it so I suggest you try it first

 

My notebook prop is a cigar case. Drops temps by several degrees!

 

haha cool idea....so i can just put anything under it towards the back to make it tilt down a little?

 

I recommend lifting the whole thing to be honest.
If your using it on a desk or something I suggest putting 4 bottle caps under the 4 corners of the laptop.
Sometimes when you just raise the back, it makes the Harddrive hotter because its in the front and the slant cuts off the air to the harddrive.

 

haha alright im gona start saving bottle caps! So propping it or using a cooler stop the random fan noises? I owned this laptop for less than a day and the fan is already starting to bother me...it randomly makes noises even when im not doing anything!

 

The fan makes "noises" when the GPU his 48-50c and the fan will make the noise till it cools the GPU back down to 42c.
So if you keep the laptop cool enough to be under 48c it wont make the noise.

 

can you please post your Batch number please

 

I missed the announcement last night.

Congrats to you, glad the "secret code" worked out.

 

Unless you're over 18 and female you can keep the kiss's

But you're welcome.

Good job finding a 1920x1200 unit

 

Ditto. Regardless, Congrats, <s>Future</s>FXOwner!!!!

...so happy to learn that you got the screen you wanted.

 

Thanks guys! Now i have a slight problem....i updated the driver last night to one called 180 something that the others had recommended...i just downloaded it off the page and installed...i dont know if i was supose to uninstall something first but after i installed and restarted everything seemed fine...i tested cs source and had around 120-150 fps ...so i thought nothing was wrong...then i tried again today and i keep getting 35-50 fps in everygame....this isnt really a problem but i wonder why...

 

comon for a $1200 laptop....under 100fps in CS:S is unacceptable!!!!

I didnt do much just got this yesterday and only thing i did was install the driver that was recommended...how come my fps stays under 100

 

I'm not a huge gamer, so I don't know what you're running, but I get about 35-35 fps running Crysis at all medium settings. I'm using the stock drivers. Oh, and that was with Firefox, nVidia System Monitor, and Vista sidebar open in the background.

I wouldn't expect this thing to run graphic-intensive games at high settings with high fps. It does an amazing job for a laptop, but it still won't touch a similarly priced desktop.

Might you have changed the video settings in whatever game you're running? Do you have lots of other processes running while playing? Are you plugged in? Do you have your power setting set to High Performance? Other than those things, I don't know why it would have been so high and then dropped so low. You can always run Driver Sweeper to delete your new drivers and then reinstall the stock drivers.

 

yeah good idea thanks i think i will try it with stock

 

Hey was i supose to delete my stock driver first before updating?

 

Follw the instructions with the DOX drivers! They do say to remove the old drivers first. You need to also need to be sure the system is running in power mode as high performance.

Be carefull of the power supply. My original would cut out on load forcing battery and this cuts performance drastically..........

 

it...i only downloaded the driver from that site and installed...what should i do now? i didnt see any instructions and thought it was that simple...how should i fix this this..

Is it safe to leave it alone? Does this mean i have 2 drivers installed at once?

 

When you launch the DOX drivers it advises to uninstall the original drivers. This is what I meant by instructions. It means that for proper install you should uninstall the old ones so that you can then be sure all proper files for the driver are initialized along with proper registry entries.

I know you want quick and dirty answers to everything but the forum is a wealth of knowledge. This may entail alot of reading however. You will though find most problems you will encouter already have answers but this again entails you taking some time and reaserching for your answer and gaining knowledge along the way...........

 

To quote myself from your other thread incase your not readnig that one anymore:

And by the Guide we gave you last night, I mean this one:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=265740
Kazeari posted it on Page 1 of this Thread, remember?
Note: I explained the first step in detail for you above in my quote. You don't need to use that guide now that you know how to install and I explained how to uninstall, but I just pointed it out since you said we told you to just download and install..

 

yessir, i apologize for my stupidity! and lazyness...

+very much appreciate your help

 

Its alright

Congratulations with your new system and hope you have no problems with it like I haven't with mine
Also as TANware stated, read through these threads a bit, you'll find alot of information about your notebook and you'll earn a whole lot of knowledge on how to troubleshoot some problems that may occur and anything you can think of. Comes in handy trust us

 

uh oh i am stuck...trying to follow the instructions ..i rebooted the laptop after cleaning the display...but got lost at step 6..."Right click 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter' -- Click 'Update Driver Software'' but instead i only saw the name of my video card so i just did what it told me with that since it was only thing i can do, hopefully its right...
Then at the last step ''12) If you encounter the error 'Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver' click 'Install this driver software anyway'' i did encounter an error but i could only close it didn't give me any other option!

I think this might have happened because i messed up on step one...i was supposed to clean before rebooting...but i was getting errors from sweep and didn't know about running as admin..until after i rebooted...THEN i cleaned..if that made a difference...

So now i uninstalled the driver and cant reinstall the 18020..should i reinstall the stock driver first and restart? If so how?

-sigh- im hating myself now...

 

Waiiiiiiiit i think i just figured out why....haha...

 

Did you get it? If not lemme know what you need help with.

 

yeah i think i got it ..overlooked preparations haha

3) Extract the drivers and copy the modified inf file 'nv_disp.inf' into the extracted driver directory overwriting any existing files..

But my fps still isn't the best it can be...oh well

gracias mi amigos

 

Congrats.
As long as the game is running fine to your eye don't worry about the FPS.
Haven't monitored my FPS in I don't know how long.

 

1.) Yes

2.)Same thing for me with the fan, like everyone else says.. proping up the back helps a little, or just get a cooler.. you learn to get used to it though.

3.)I removed everything that was not vital. I don't use Anti-Vir, I haven't in 2 years.

4.)You don't need anything, just clean it regularly, close it when not in use, get a microfiber cloth (It also cleans the frame nice). It's a fingerpring magnet, and due to my OCD I'm always cleaning it.

5.) Pretty much Video drivers are the only thing you want to really worry about... read up on the "Definitive Driver Update" topic, and the overclocking topics once you understand everything better.

6.) Nothing else that I know of really, just READ! (Not to sound like a jerk ) I've been reading this section in and out... it's extremely helpfull and all these people are really good people.

 

yeah i definitely gotta agree with #6....My baby(FX) and i are very lucky there are so many good people here =)

 

Hope beer caps will do, seem to have too many of those lying around lately!

 

Haha
Not sure if they'd be to thin, maybe if you scotch taped 2-3 on top of eachother, need a total of 8-12 of them

 

Can manage that in one evening I'm sure

 

So what you guys think is the best anti virus software out right now?

 

there is no best....each anti virus has its weakness and cannot detect everything. I use NOD32 though for quite a while and they've been great.

 

How about, least resource consuming while not trading off too much in terms of reliability?

 

I like Norton Internet Security 2009, check out the reviews on the web.

 

I've had some rough experiences with Norton over the last few years, mostly with its bogging down of the system and incredibly pain in the rear end removal of deeply embedded registry crap that I get with it, it made me very sad.



I've been using Avast! lately and have really liked it on my desktop with XP Pro 32-Bit

 

they all suck imo.

just stop going to pron sites!

jk.