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    X83Vm-X1 Issue force return

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by PrivateVoid, Jan 3, 2009.

  1. PrivateVoid

    PrivateVoid Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently purchased this ASUS from Best Buy and immediately noticed issues with the DVD drive... it would boot a LiveCD, but not work shortly after that... the symptom being after the initial spin down the DVD drive would not restart or would start to spin and never stop.

    I got by that with setting the controller to compatible mode, but after that problem I would get a laggy X session (Gnome) 1 out of 4 boots. The graphic update on system manager would be jerky unless I was moving my mouse. I then disabled the sound card and that problem went away.

    While I may have been able to fix the issues eventually there was a discussion on Launchpad.net in a bug report that indicated the problem was with the DVD drive itself and bad firmware.

    Depressed I returned the unit to BB.

    Other than those issues the unit was very nice and the LED lit LCD display was very bright.
     
    PrivateVoid, Jan 3, 2009
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