New Sager NP8662 onwer

Finally I have sold my Mac and bought myself this beast.

I had a couple of questions:

1. Is there a boot option to boot from cd? I've already set the cd as first priority in BIOS, but i can't seem to force it to read from cd to install my Win7X64.

2. For the synaptic pointing device driver.. is there a way to configure my right click easier? Such as the mac with 2 finger serving as right click? Or maybe you guys have some custom configuration that makes it convenient? (those buttons are pretty stiff).

3. How do i know if it's in silent mode or not (besides the noise). Is there anything available like a LED display saying its on silent mode?

4. As for installing the drivers, should I install it from the driver CD that game with the sager or use the links posted by some of the forumers here? (Thank you forumers^^)
Thank you guys.

 

Congrats, aigoya.

When you burned the Windows Seven ISO to disc, did you make it bootable?

I think there should be a GUI popup that tells you whether you switched to silent mode or not providing that you installed the hotkey software. Other than that, there are no other visual indicators for silent mode.

 

I'm pretty sure it's bootable. Using my DELL studio PC, during boot up i had to press F12 for bootup options and select boot from CD and it ran Win7 Fine, but the sager doesnt seem to have such an option.

 

Or can I just install windows 7 while already running windows? I've always thought it was safer/complete to it during the boot.

 

As far as I know you'll have to do it during the boot. And when I installed the same OS on my sager it didn't load right into the disk but a black screen came up saying press any key to boot from disk. Have you missed thos or is it just not saying it.

As for the silent mode thing as long as you installed the hotkey driver you should have a little graphic pop up in the top left corner that says either silent or full speed

As for the touchpad thing I have no idea but let me know if you get something to work. I don't think that the trackpad has multi touch though.

For drivers you can do either though the links are genrally more current. Also you can go to clevos website and download them direct from there and then you'll get the most recent official ones

 

Just figured out how to boot -> bios -> enable legacy OS boot.
It was disabled for some reason.


Now I'm having trouble with the installation. ->Windows cannot be installed to disk. Tried formating/deleting/new... etc not sure how to troubleshoot this =(

*EDIT* Wouldn't install even after i loaded the drivers for the HDD. But after i restarted the computer it seems to be working. -_-

 

Make sure you've got an NTFS partition setup for it.
Also, in the BIOS under Advanced, make sure AHCI is enabled and the OS is set to "Vista" (yeah, the BIOS is outdated like that...)

To customize the touchpad: after installing the drivers, go to Mouse properties -> Device Settings -> Settings.
That will launch Synaptiic's advanced configuration where you can enable all sorts of things to make life easier with the touchpad.

Multitouch isn't natively supported by the drivers (though in the Linux drivers it is); however I recommend enabling one of the "corner click regions" as a shortcut to your context-menu ( i.e. I use the type top-left corner)

 

What is the context menu?

Im currently using the bottom right for right clicking =). ChiralMotion also fixes my need for 2 button scrolling to view pages.

God I love my sager even more now.

 

context menu = right-click menu.

another cool thing to check out it is "edge-scrolling."

 

And where did you find chiralmotion?

 

I saw a pic of chiralmotion in action. It was pretty weird. It seems like a lot of resources for a simple task like scrolling, but oh so perty.