Is my Zepto is working fine?

Simple poll. Almost the same as John Ratsey's but wider...

 

voted on one or more, but these are minor problems that are solveable

 

@Sprint, thanks for voting! Btw, just out of interest which issues do you still have on your side?

 

One of the memory sticks are damaged, most every modern game I play get's really, really slow after ~10min of play and only returns to normal speeds if I tab to the desktop and tab back again, and the computer has an instant shutdown problem that occurs whenever you play a game for more then ~20min.

 

I'll hold off voting on this until I have had a few weeks to see if my 6024W is behaving properly after the TLC in Zepto's workshop.

John

 

The GPU heatsink wasn't fitted correctly. It needed the AS5 removing, the plate then re-aligning to the core and new, thinner AS5 being fitted. Also noticed inconsistent AS5 on CPU-changed that too. Other than that. All's good.

 

my 6224w stutters bad, sleepfix only helps for 1-2minutes.

Another point that realy sucks, this ****ty laptop is out more then one year, and still there is no fully workin bios! WTF?!?!
DPC-Latency is still not perfect, "DPC Latency Checker" tells me:

"Some device drivers on this machine behave bad and will probably cause drop-outs in real-time audio and/or video streams. To isolate the misbehaving driver use Device Manager and disable/re-enable various devices, one at a time. Try network and W-LAN adapters, modems, internal sound devices, USB host controllers, etc."

my so called gaming-laptop isnt even able to handle "real-time audio/video streams" WTF again, my 3 year old Asus is able to handle that, no bad latency at all on a 3 year old ASUS-Pentium-M.

Zepto do something!!!

 

My wife has a brand new compaq with the same CPU as mine, Nvidia 6150 Go graphics in there as well, and she has no problems with the dpc checker. Always reading low. So I don't think it is driver issue or a Santa Rosa issue. BIOS maybe.

 

Well a buggy BIOS and a little too much heat generated ~ random slowdowns in-game (I should maby check the thermal pastes)

 

Thanks for all the feedback

I've already started telling everyone that looks at my machine and thinks it's really cool, that it's not! Hard earned money down the drain for me. I will not buy Zepto again and am advising everyone I know that they would have much better luck with a cheapo Acer than a dodgy Zepto! My next machine will most likely be a Toshiba, HP or from some company that has an ounce of respect for its name and fixes their problems quickly.

If anyone is willing to stick up for Zepto, fine, I could not care less. What I do stand behind is that a faulty bios affects everyone and is completely fixable - case closed.

Maybe all this is where it is because:
1. Zepto:"If we stick our heads in the ground maybe the bad bioses will go away..."
2. Zepto:"Our bios team in China/Taiwan is on holiday and we fired the lead dev and we are new at this bios stuff anyway so give us a break!"
3. Zepto:"It's not our fault! Go ask Intel why their stuff is not working. Stop blaming us!!"
4. Zepto:"Hey everyone! Look at our brand new machines! Nice aren't they? Now forget about those old machines with the little undocumented bios "features" and buy these new babies!! Then we can all be happy again!"

Sorry for the sarcasm, but spending SO much cash on a "high performance" machine makes me ill!

 

I'm in contact with Zepto's service department about the errors on my laptop so I'l reserve judgement on the company itself until after they have done what they can for my laptop.

 

I'd go for number 2 and 4

 

Well number 2 is closer than you think. We are really dependant on the ODM's work on the BIOS's as BIOS programmers are not somthing you just find on every streetcorner.

And about no. 4 I've already appologized for that comment as it was indeed out of place. One lesson learned is that you have to be really carefull about what to say to the customers, which is basically one of the reasons why I've held back at posting.

 

I've passed comment elsewhere in this forum that Inventec's main weakness appears to be in their BIOS development. Unfortunately, this is an area where purchasers (i.e. Zepto) have to take something on trust at the time of placing an order. I will be interested to see whether Zepto are using other sources for their next product range. It's not just computers that can suffer here. I ditched my Sandisk Sansa View because of buggy firmware.

John

 

John, I can tell you as much as we are using other sources in our next lineup.

 

I very much hope you will use that "other source" in fixing current line otherwise i asure you i will be next in line to never have anyting to do with zepto... fix the 6625wd asap.. i have had it almost a year now and still it is not ready for full use and if you won't fix then refund or let me switch to the new line for free. you can't expect us to buy faulty products.. and you are admitting it yourself that the bios in 6625wd and more is not working. fix fix fix.........

 

We can't use the "other sources" to fix our current line up, that is just not possible.
We are as said a hundred times before still working on getting fixes implemented for our current line up, but as i've also commented earlier in this topic we can't do it faster than the ODM is giving us proposed fixes in new BIOS updates for the issues we have told them about.

 

Hi Rene, I too would like at least the CDROM=NONE bios setting and the latency properly fixed as it's still too high for any real audio or video work that even a lowly 250 buck Acer can handle. I don't plan on buying a new machine at least until next year, so I'm pretty much stuck with what I have.

Even the simple "missing" CDROM issue causes my Acronis OS Selector not to work - which is very irritating.

Can't you really put the pressure on the Znote's ODM to get this sorted out or else..(saying something like you won't use them for your next range if they don't hurry up because you are losing valuable customers...).

It doesn't seem like they are too bothered looking at the time they are taking to fix all the issues.

 

Apparantly the 6625 and 6624 ODM's allready know fully that Zepto isn't their customer anymore regarding the quote below from Rene.
He states himself, Zepto will use a different source for their new (gaming) machines

So the ODM's still 'working' on the new BIOS's are only working for a former customer (Zepto) as it seems.

 

...yeah which most likely means not much in the way of completely working bioses even though the ODM has a responsibility to do provide them to Zepto. If you were the ODM, and were cutting corners, would you strongly honor your agreement after your client openly terminates any future deals? Not good. Miracles do happen, albeit rarely...

 

Well as far as i can understand from our Product & Quality controller there is still being worked on a new BIOS in the same pace as earlier from the ODM even though they are not featured in our next line up.

 

Well, almost working perfect.

This stupid hibernation behaviour and the always-powered-on USB-Ports are still bugging me.
All those rituals you have to remember if you want to correctly hibernate or shutdown the computer.

 

Hehe now I know for sure my laptop isn't right, I just got lag while playing Starcraft on my 3145W.