*** Official Clevo x7200 and Sager NP7280 owners lounge ***

It sounds like you may have a faulty keyboard, or more likely, a damaged ribbon cable. You might want to see about getting a replacement, if reseating it hasn't helped. Double check with an external keyboard to be sure that you're not having an OS software issue though (or boot a Linux live CD).

 

Yup did that, popped in a USB keyboard and no issues. I am probably gonna persue a replacement...cant imagine how fune this is gonna be.

jus re-seated the keyboard cable......seems to work now...will see in a few hrs.

Just finishes re-seating the ribbon cable......so much fun. Sems to be working now....we will see in a few hrs....

 

And...???

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Seems to be good now......still I wonder how it became unseated...I mean its not like the keyboard moves...

 

I could only guess....

Maybe the last time the ribbon was installed, it was not really seated in there ALL the way.

Then in time with the normal slight vibrations of a running x7200 it wiggled itself out.


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OK, could use a hand here.

I have been seeing this error in my application log:

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on the Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine returned E_INVALIDARG. Routine details GetSnapshot({00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000},0000000000FE1640).

anyone have any ideas whats up ?

I cant tell (and have googled) what disk this is refering to....I am not seeing anything failiing. I know this refers to the Volume Shadow Service, but my backups are going fine, no errors....so it dosnt make sence.

 

Maby.....best explination I can think of. Its workiing, I am a happy camper, now just to figure out what this weird error is (posted above)

 

what was the error ??

 

wounder when Clevo relese a 7950 for this monster

 

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on the Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine returned E_INVALIDARG. Routine details GetSnapshot({00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000},0000000000FE1640).

I have been the google route, checked the Volume Shadow Service.......cant find a reason.

 

Playing a few games really annoys me for this reason: The cutscene voice audio is extremely hollow/quiet compared to in-game voice. I have tried every speaker config I can think of and nothing changes. Plugging in headphones I notice that the voice either switches to the right or the left headphone and if directly "looking" at the voice source it doesn't play equally in both headphones. Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, Mafia Wars 2 are games that I notice it the most in. Has anyone else experienced this? What are my options?

 

Try updating your audio drivers.

 

Have you disabled surround sound in the game? Can you disable hardware playback in the game?

In sound properties in control panel, click on the "Configure" button in the bottom left of the screen. Run through that wizard.

In the properties of your playback device, make sure that all "Enhancements" are disabled.

Have you reinstalled your drivers, and set everything to default?

Couple thoughts

 

cant help you with this one couldent find any thing online either

 

OK on close examination of my keyboard ribbon, I seem to ave a small tear so that explains my ctl key(s) not working. (I think)

So, now...any place I can but a replacement keyboard ?

I have temporarially remapped the ctl key to the windows key...but still

 

A tear...did not think of that possibility. Your reseller should be able to get you a keyboard. If not we can.

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Thanks for the suggestions, tried those things but the sound still sounds hollowed out. I don't understand it. I plug into my 5.1 home theater and the sound is epic. I can hear the voices during cutscenes plays through the center speaker when plugged in to home theater. Wish I knew a way to force that when playing on laptop. I can go into speaker config and force stereo but then of course I lose laptop subwoofer and everything in the game sounds hollowed out and tinny, not just cut-scene voices. Argh. Glad it's only on a few games and not all of them at least.

 

I had the exact same sound problem in Dragon Age: Origins. It was especially frustrating because I would miss half the conversations between Alistair and Morrigan, and those were hilarious! I can't remember what I did to fix it either.

It sounds like the software surround sound in the game is conflicting with hardware surround. Have you looked at Bioware's forums for a fix?

 

Nothing but frustrated gamers from a year or two ago complaining about the same thing. Some think it's an overclocking issue, some think it's the fact that Mass Effect uses something called Wwise for the voice mixing, of course everyone says update your driver, which I have (R2.67 12/16/2011).

The only solutions people seem to have is to configure their realtek systems to stereo or buy a new sound card. Neither is an option for me, hopefully Mass Effect 3 has this sorted out. Are realtek cards some niche thing or bottom-of-the-barrel junk piles? I notice that the only games I have problems with cutscene voices are Bioware games. ...Well, at least their games aren't reliant on conversation wheels, narrative or story telling in any sense.

 

New Nvidia driver out: Graphics Driver - Verde 295.73 Driver - GeForce

 

I booted up DA:O again and the cutscene voices work fine. Also playing SWTOR and the voices in that game work fine. Is there a way to find out the sound settings of DA:O and transfer them to Mass Effect 2?

 

I was able to re-create the problem, in a way. In Dragon Age 2 the cutscenes sound great when I have "force stereo" enabled per the audio options. I disabled that and the game sounded like Mass Effect 2 does. Mass Effect 2 doesn't have a force stereo option in-game or in the little config program, so I was wondering if it's possible to edit it somehow in the config file, if so, how do I do that?

 

I don't have the .ini file in front of me, so I can't answer... right now. I'll reinstall ME:2 and check it out.

Realtek definitely isn't junk or bottom of the barrel.

ME:2 uses the Unreal Engine. You wouldn't happen to have any other games that use Unreal 3 would you? That's another way to test the surround sound.

 

Keyboard recieved today, installed and working great thanks. The old one had a pinhole in the middle and a small tear on each side, not sure how it happened.

Thanks again for the great service

 

I dont think I have any other Unreal Games, I could be wrong. I have many games and the only non-bioware game I had the same cutscene issue with was Mafia 2 and Alan Wake. In Alan Wake's command line of the shortcut I just added -forcestereo and the problem was corrected.

 

For any newcomers, new x7200/NP7280 updates for Feb 2012 include nVidia video and JMicron Flash Card. See link in sig.

 

About the sound problem, iirc, the issue was something about the laptop not supporting hardware openAL, which Unreal Engine 3 uses.
Something like that. So I don't think you can fix it. At least I couldn't on mine with the Roccat Kave 5.1 headphones.

 

So of course, what I dident plan on happening, happened this morn....system would not boot and the SSD had died.....go figure my only single point of failure....

Yea for daily images

Reconfigured disks as:

C: Raid1: Seagate Momentus XT Hybred 500GB
D: Raid1: WD Scorpio Black 750GB

 

On a different note, anyone playing with win8 preview in a VM ? Opinions ?

 

It takes some getting use too....

 

Not yet, but I'm currently downloading the VS 11 beta. Don't know if I'll have time to mess with it either. Perhaps on some rainy weekend...

 

Yea, I installed it in a VM earlier, after about a hr of working with it, said screw this and removed it. I dont see a upgrade in my future to this unless I can get rid of metro and have my start button back.

 

We are actually playing with it on another laptop we have in shop at the moment.

I'm really not sure what to think about it so far. It feels a lot like my Windows Phone, which I really am not impressed with.

It feels like they grafted my Windows Phone interface to Windows 7 and called it a day, but that was with the 30 minutes I got to actually play with it so I wouldn't really call that a fair review. More like first impressions.

 

I will only run that for trouble shooting clients with it installed, but as a main os...Not likely! But who knows...if this is going to be the new standard....I hope windows 7 out runs windows xp longer than life standing...haha

 

Hey guys, I have moved from Asus G73 to x7200 .
so I would want to know some info about x7200,
can I install an p270wm keyboard in this laptop because I need back lit.
and any upgrades possible with this?

 

Unfortunately your x7200 will not support a backlit keyboard.

What other upgrades are you considering?

What is your current configuration? You should really update your signature to include it, instead of your old G73JH.

 

Signature updated, which processor should I go with?
I actually didnt buy the Clevo x7200 , but Il be buying it for sure, Im buying it as barebone.
Things I need to make it work are,
1.CPU
2.Harddisk
3.Wifi
All other items are included,
I dont need a very powerful CPU , storage wise 500gb is enough for me,
but WIFI should be very fast , does this have 2x pci-e port? for wifi and WAN?

 

1) CPU will be constrained by your budget and want/desire at any over clocking. For my purposes, the i7-970 sufficed.

2) Harddisk - again constrained by your budget. If you can go with a Crucial, intel, or Samsung SSD - highly recommended. For more storage, you can go w/ a 7200 RPM platter based drive, or the 750GB Momentus XT Hybrid would suit as well.

3) WiFi - I'm using the Intel Ultimate N 6300. Great adapter. A few gotchas when connecting to known networks (as you have to be logged in to connect), but nothing too much to complain about. I also know others have strongly recommended the BigFoot card as well.

In regards to pci-e port? Are you referring to the network adapter? Dunno how it connects, as the manuals don't say anything other than a port in the x7200 for a wireless network adapter.

Also, what graphics cards are you considering? Do you want to overclock an SLI/XFire config along with the CPU? If so, you may want to consider the 2nd power adapter (along with coupling adapter) in order to provide your x7200 w/ enough power.

HTH

 

Hey thanks for the info,
CPU = i7 965
GPU = GTX 480 / GTX 580 ( middle of an ocean )
Ram = 12gb @ 1600
HDD = no decided yet , I mite buy the 7200 rmp ones,
WIFI = Big foot / intel 6300 (is the price range very high when comparing both)
pci-e = does this motherboard have an exta slot as alienware has for 1.WIFI 2.Wan .
I may overclock this to maximum ,Im not intrested in sli or crossfire.

 

Intel vs. BigFoot are roughly the same $40 USD.

When you say "pci-e", do you mean actual PCI-e or do you really mean [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard]Express Card[/URL]? If it is the latter, then the latest model of the x7200 comes with an ExpressCard/34 port on the front.

 

yes I ment PCI-e, there is 2 pci-e slots in alienware m17x , m18x ,
does x7200 also have 2x pci-2 , one for wifi , 2nd for wan?

 

umm u should read the serivce manual first, it will slove lots of questions with picture
link broken? i can send u one...

 

can you send me the link because I dont have adobe reader.
Thank you

 

Hey , thanks for the link,
as alienware ,clevo also has 2x mpci-e ports.

 

You sold your x7200?

 

right, going to trade x7200 barebone with him
waiting for p270wm3 680m sli and thinkpad w702?720?ds...

 

yes going to trade.

 

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Hello everyone. I'm having syncing issues with my gpus (460ms) in sli when using the latest drivers (295.73 & 296.10) resulting in a constant nasty stuttering. I've tried using the clean install option with the installer, but with no improvement. Would anyone recommend manually cleaning up everything before running the installer, and if so could someone post a link to a guide. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated as well.