The official P-7811FX lounge

My fellow Americans, I appreciate your support.

 

and you found it. what more do you want?

 

I did? It certainly isn't the 7811. Guess being a fanboy makes you guys asses too. I will leave you guys to your circle jerk. Later

 

My screen is bloody fantastic and im a picky mofo . maybe you just saw a couple from a bad batch cause mine is sexy and what makes it even sexier is the price i paid for all got.

 

Anyone else struck by the irony between the poster's name and his comments?

 

You will be missed.

 

Sounds like malignant wants in on the circle jerk

 

Hey,

If you guys are done. I found a P7811 FX on eBay thats been upgraded with a X9100 3.06GHZ 6MB CACHE. For only $2200. Has 2 - 5400 RPM drives in RAID 0. Got mine at Best Buy 3 weeks ago so I'm not interested. But I'm wondering if the X9100 is for real. Mabey I'll try it in the future...........Raymond

 

Yeap. It's for real. E-wrecked has one.

 

Well if i get the Gateway 7811 from BB now, will it be free from all the problems/issues it had earlier?..Any idea whether the ones being sold have problems or not?

 

You stole my crystal ball. I was wondering who took it. Bastage.

 

Hi people, I'm got here because I'm going to buy the 7811FX. I always look for price/value, so there is no doubt that the 7811FX is the recommended gaming laptop for me if I lived in the US and I could return it to the lokal shop whenever its broke. I live in Europe and they don't sell this great laptop over here. (If there is a problem) Can I still return it to the factory even though I bought it from ebay? Or should I look for another laptop that is being sold with waranty in Europe?

apologies for any spelling mistakes, greetings from belgium.
Dries

 

I bought mine a 6 days ago. It was an 888 (vs 887) serial number with the newer BIOS. It overheated to the point of crashing when stressing with Furmark. Unfortunately not all of the "newer" batch of models were fixed. I exchanged mine, really really hoping it was a fluke...

 

Greetings to the person from the land of wonderful beer!

I'd be really hesitant to get this laptop off ebay. If you have a friend or relative you trust state side, the best bet would be to have them buy the laptop, stress the heck out of it for the 14 days, then ship it to you. The number of these laptops that have had problems would make me really really leary of buying from ebay.

Even if Gateway DOES warrant it overseas (or at least says they'll fix it but you have to pay to ship), you'd probably wind up spending a lot of money shipping it to them. If you have a unit with several issues, it may take shipping it back and forth a few times before they're fully resolved.

 

Good question. I've seen it asked before but have never seen an answer. Have you asked the ebay seller? Kind of like asking the fox to watch the chickens, but he may know something. Also the Gateway support email gets back to you promptly but maybe you need a serial number to use it ... can't recall.

So no help but brought attention to your question. Good luck.

And yep, evancg has some excellent points.

 

Gateway offers no support overseas or warranty. Bestbuy warranty with accidental cover is international, but cost 349.99.

 

Just go to the gateway website you only see support for the UK, China, Mexico, Japan and US where they sell them, but support is localized because not all products all sold in their respective markets.

 

anytime!

enjoy your stay

 

u can buy a used gateway p7811 fx w/o problems on ebay, just dont buy a brand new sealed one.
its not going to be cheap adds up the customs tax.

 

i forgot, packard bell in europe has a model exact same as gateway p7811?

 

Now that is interesting ... what is the model (search lazy). This can be handy info for driver/bios dead ends.

Packard Bell - a ghost from Christmas past.

 

Thanks a lot for giving me some new insights. I think nomoredell is referring to "Packard Bell's iPower GX" I'm going to ask my friend at the computer shop if he can order them. It would cost me +- 1500€ so the price would be about the same as the P-7811FX after paying 25% tax and transportation costs on the US $1,569.00 "buy now" price on ebay. its a good alternative for the non USA people who are interested in the 7811FX, thanks nomoredell and others.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to go off topic here, but yeah we've got great belgian beers! Has anyone tried some of them in the USA? I really enjoy sitting at a café with my friends, drinking a good Leffe, Duvel, Westvleteren, McChouffe, Karmeliet Trippel, .. good times! I can imagine the names of the beers sound silly to you all, its worth trying to order one of those whenever you are in Belgium. Just don't try to drink em all in one night

 

Ooohhhh Leffe I remeber going through a phase of only drinking that, a nice bottle of Leffe blond after work good times!

 

I searched some more and the "iPower GX" is released in october, I'll probably buy one of those and I'll write a little review and post it at the right place on the forum.
@robaloi: Leffe blond is an exellent choice, nice taste!

 

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/packard-bells-ipower-gx-laptop-for-hardcore-gamerz-sniff/

Ah yes, it has a familiar look.

It seems to be mysteriously missing from the PB site. Not expecting driver help from PB ... not that we need help.

 

Ohh yea. Looks VERY familiar...



Thanks for the info!

 

I'm taking odds it has finger prints on the lid ... any takers?

 

Oh I guarantee it. These are the biggest fingerprint magnets I have ever seen. Pretty much a forensic techs wet dream.

 

but with only one could be slight difference.....

it has the 55/1g ddr3.


now this would be great news, if it we're built on a 512 bit bus. (speculation of course)

 

I thought these were built by Arima, but was told later on they were built by Foxconn, so who knows. I know Arima builds the 15.4" models.

 

It seems the Function and Control keys are still in the wrong places.. dead ringer.

 

im sorry. i mean it has the smaller die with with a 9800m gts 1 gig video memory.


dammn, if thats the case...foxconn is right down the street from me...will be checking them out tomr...*LOL*

 

I am trying to slide control of the sound from left to right speaker. Any body know how to do this without having to go to speaker properties and levels.

I use to be able to do this on other notebooks and desktops. Seem this volume mixer lets me do nothing except high and low.

 

IDT Control panel

 

Got one yesterday. Love it so far, all my temps are incredibly low. GPU didnt even reach 70C after hours of playing GRAW2, CPU is very low as well. the only thing that bugs me is the HD temp. It idles at 45C and goes up to 50C while gaming. Is that normal for 7811? Everything else is perfect, no stuck or dead pixels.

 

Sounds to me like you got a great unit right there. I wouldn't worry too much about anything other than perhaps the power supply(they sometimes tend to get hot and make weird noises). Your hard drive temps are fine.

 

Is there a way to show that on taskbar, I can't see to find it in Vista. Do you know where it is?

 

check your control panel. should be in there

 

So you have a 7811 and 9262?

 

What gives you that idea??

 

since you running the same os, could you be a little more specific. I don't see it, only sound. I gone through the options in sound.

 

Don't have that. I also have conexant audio. Is yours sigtel or something. I know they have IDT drivers.

Anybody else running IDT drivers with the conexant audio? Have a link to the specific driver I need.

 

Hey guys, I just picked up this bad boy around a week and a half ago. So far I love it, especially the battery life. I can't believe I get near 3.5 hours out of a gaming rig. Sweet.

P.S. New member to this forum.

 

Welcome EVGA!

 

Glad your here, EVGA! Lots to love about this laptop!

 

Thanks! Seems like a really active thread.

 

Did any of you came across some one who had problem with Conexaant audio drivers? When I do a cold boot, Microsoft's driver (hdaudio) gets loaded but on restart (warm boot), system loads conexant. Help!

 

Wish I could help, but haven't had any issues. Other than with my work software. But that is a question for another time.