Series 3 11.6" with i3 - np300u1a - anyone else have one?

It does, I have an 8GB Corsair stick in mine.

 

I guess it's 4Gb max for the AMD APU's then.. Sorry.

Seems a bit much of a hardcore mod for my laptop. It bought it only this March 1st, I still have 2 years warranty (in Portugal we get 2 years) which i intend not to void.
Right now i'm testing Windows 7 USB Stick Edition, to solve my 32bit OS issue, if it works out fine, i'll wait and save some money to buy a new 7mm instead.

 

Yes, mine is the i3. Sorry, didn't notice yours is AMD.

 

i already have an external mouse, but not always is with me. however the windows drivers don't support gestures.

 

But ELAN options do. You can choose between 2 finger or side scroll, zoom, rotation, etc... To be honest i really don't understand your problem, dunno if it's bad english on my end, but mine never lagged or froze, or even missed any of his functions (after configuring ELAN, obviously..).

 

the freezing of the mouse happens for me with wireless dongle one and the regular pad. I'll try to install those different drivers you said. Where can I find them so i don't have to search?

 

If you're having problems with both mouses, try a third wired mouse.. This will allow to know if the problem really on the mouses, or on computer performance..

I never needed to install any drivers, they came pre-installed with OS. Under mouse proprieties, select ELAN tab and click proprieties (check picture)..
If you don't have it installed it should be available either in ELAN or samsung support page.

 

you also have different cpu....sooo none of you have the problem where you hold the arrow key to scroll down a couple pages on the web browser and then try to move mouse and its stuck for like 2-5secs?

Note i have virtual memory turned off

edit: tried it again and my wireless mouse doesn't freeze but the mousepad does...what the heck


EDIT: yes!!! I got the scroll option from the mouse pad now!!! I thought this dumb thign just didnt have that option lol. When i scroll using the mousepad it doesn't hang. Only when i use the arrow keys but now i dont have to use the arrow keys now yes!!!!! Still freezes when you right click on some things but no biggy. Must be glitchy drivers

 

I'm sorry, what is exactly the arrow key? I scroll down either with 2 fingers or on side pad, depending on definitions like i showed you. Don't get this "arrow key"..

Also, i don't what the CPU as to do with the mouse.. I'm pretty sure the mouse is the same, considering both my RC530 and NP305U both use same pad drivers. And virtual memory to basic functions like a mouse? Don't think so.

 

if the hanging was a result of the cpu it would be different because you have a different cpu but the hanging is due to bad mouse drivers like i said in my edit after playing around.......is this take hard to keep track? The arrows....the only arrows on a keyboard???? you push down the page goes down....you push up the page goes up. If you hold the arrow key down to scroll a couple pages or more the mouse gets stuck for a few seconds. Note only the mousepad will get stuck. If you use a wireless or wired mouse it wont get stuck. When you use the slider function on the mousepad the mouse doesn't get stuck. For some reason the drivers make the mouse get stuck when you slide down a page with the arrow pad. Also note i did not know this had the slider function on the mousepad. It was disabled for some weird reason when shipped. Try what I said with Earth's Special Forces: News and you will see it hang. But now i wont have this problem because i can scroll with the mousepad instead of arrow yippee

 

Plugged into an external monitor, I'm getting around 65-70C. Still works fine though...

 

lol, glad to help but..

Dude, this is the disable pad while typing function!! I'm 95% sure this is your problem. I thought the arrows keys were something on the mouse, not actual keyboard keys.. lol

It comes this way by factory settings, dunno why but my best guess is because we have many different ways to use same functions.

 

I have noticed that it depends quite a bit on the outside temperature, I am to use it with an external monitor and now it's been 52°C

 

how do you turn that off....(never seen that in a laptop before)

 

Although i know this exists (had the function more visible in my Asus 1201N), i can't find anything on it. I've been all over Samsung control center and user guide, and the closest i could find was Palm detection function, which is not quite the same, but could explain the behavior.. Also, have you tried updating drivers? I update all mine using Driver Genius every month or so..

 

does the samsung automatic driver update not work?

 

No idea, my guess is, probably not. Samsung support is not focused in latest drivers as much as is in BIOS and software updates, and (maybe) driver bug or windows related hotfixes.
Driver Genius focus directly on hardware manufacturers and all downloads are made from manufacturer support website. This will guarantee you latest drivers in all devices, without having to do it yourself, searching one by one...

But hey, it's just a personal option, do it or don't, it's up to you.

 

yea i bookedmarked it. i'll run it on both computers later (laptop and netbook) thx

 

has anybody tried to overclock the i3? Is the performance you get out of it worth it?
I imagine it reduces the lifetime of the cpu.

 

setFSB doesn't support it so i dont know how else you can overclock it. I emailed the setFSB guy's asking how much i would have to pay him and he ignored me :/

 

^^ FSB overclocking is a no go for SB chips, so no point in doing that. And this is an ultraportable capable of handling almost any thing you throw at it, why reduce the battery life and increase heat dissipation as well? No point in overclocking this.

 

Hi all,

Ok so i am having some really bizarre issues with my laptop now...

I have just replaced the hard drive to an SSD, installed windows again as well as all of the most up to date drivers directly from Intel as well as the Samsung control centre ... Everything works as it should APART from the wireless...

When the laptop is in high performance mode AND plugged in - i lose any and all wireless connections (Works fine from the battery). I have to be in any of the other performance settings for the wireless to work.

I have checked the advanced power settings and set the wireless mode to high performance and still no joy. I know the obvious answer would be to use the balanced performance setting while plugged in... But I would rather find out the root cause of this issue.

I have tried installing both samsung and Intel drivers for the wireless card, tried uninstalling samsung control centre and all to no avail.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Demon

 

Have you checked Samsung Control Center power settings?

 

Hi bud,
thanks for the reply - yes i have checked Samsung control centre, nothing in there to remedy the situation.

i have just spend the best part of my evening switching between the standard hard drive and the SSD... As soon as i go back to the old unit the WIFI connects immediately and is flawless - As soon as the SSD it all goes pear shaped! on battery power its absolutely fine but as soon as i go onto AC it simply stops working (even on balanced / power saver it is very slow...).

At my wits end with this now and very close to throwing the SSD out of the window.... metaphorically.


Any other help would be appreciated.

Warm regards,
Demon

 

it has to be an OS/program setting...it can't be a SSD fault. check every setting control panel, eco settings, intel wirelss, windows 7 power, samsung power. reinstall adapter if you have to

 

I would clone the known good Windows installation onto the SSD. Many of the SSD manufacturers provide a free cloning software.

John

 

Hey all,

thanks for the help but i ended up putting the old hard drive back in... The advantage of an SSD just was not apparent for me... the boot up time difference is notable admittedly but the actual use performance i would dare say inst much better! Battery life in my case was about an hour more (using a 7200mah battery)...

I know it is 99% a software problem but for the moment i need the laptop for business so cannot afford it to be down... Will probably throw the SSD in it next month at some point to try again but for the moment... good old mechanical drives ftw!


Thanks again for the help
Take care all,
Demon

 

It could be your SSD is drawing too much power from MB than it can support. Try to adjust PCI performance through power management and see if it remedies the problem.

 

does anyone else notice that the netbook can't play HD on netflix?

 

Plays Netflix and HBO (silverlight) just fine: I have noticed some intermittent wifi issues and they seem to have accentuated after putting the SSD in, definitelty not bad as the poster above but something is going on, played with almost all wifi card settings, changing channel in router, wifi card power setting etc, new drivers etc. and while some of these changes help, it still slows down to very slow downloads speed every so often.

Need to get to the bottom of this, I refuse to believe the SSD could be the issue as in my case it's a Samsung 7mm SSD (that I paid a premium for) which fits exactly in place of the original HDD (rubber sleeve and all) so that's not an issue.

 

May I know will bigfoot killer N1103 compatible with this 11" laptop ?

 

Well my current theory for the wifi issue is that MAYBE the SSD is physically impeding the WIFI signal? I know its a long shot - But one of the antennas for the WIFI card goes directly underneath where the HDD sits... (or at least, its soldered to a small tab that goes underneath it). Could the plastic case of the SSD itself be somehow blocking signal to that little widget? ( I know - long shot... but its the only thing that i could think of...).


Regards,
Demon

 

Shouldn't be, I've moved mine to the side of the drive and the drive is still enclosed in a rubber sleeve.

The signal strength shown on mine does not vary, just the actual download speed goes down.

I'll test it with a zero-footprint usb 'nano' adapter and see, the SSD makes a great difference in usability so can't take that out, this may be the best compromise solution.

Also, the black and white antenna wires originate from the pci-e lan card and terminate in the housing, the black wire goes either on the side or slightly underneath the HDD sleeve but is not soldered there (can't be as it is all sleeved, nothing exposed to be soldered to) so not sure what you mean by soldered underneath the HDD?

 

what browser were you playing it in and was it playing HD? I was playing HD in IE. SD works find but HD it goes all choppy

 

I don't have netflix but HBO high-def (also silverlight) works fine as does Hulu (flash).

I use Chrome. I do think this lil guy has enough processing power to play 99.9% of all video files, it's got HT enabled as well.

 

video is done by GPU not cpu so i wonder if silverlight with IE takes more gpu then chrome. I'll give chrome a try

 

Is the CPU (Intel i3) not upgrade-able for this laptop ?

 

i dont know...that is interesting idea

 

Well that would be sweet, even though I could not be positive I would say it is not possible, usually these super integrated laptops do not allow CPU swapping

 

Hi Hopeless. Yesterday i was helping out in another forum i usually provide some support and came across an issue identical to yours. You can check the thread here.
Touch pad on laptop has a delayed response after using keyboard - Tech Support Forum

Anyway, It's a different laptop, and has different setting but they were adjusted in mouse settings. Thought it might help you and others. Hope so. Regards!

 

yea i was browsing through the mouse settings a few weeks ago and found that setting and i clicked it off and it still seems to happen for some reason or to come extent....i will take a look at it one more time to make sure it didn't work but yea i figured that out a few weeks ago and was sad it didn't work/completely work. I'll get back to you when i try it again later to see if it works for a second time lol...you never know i might have not restarted for it to work or something stupid

 

I just don't get why they didn't kept it simple with the original "disable pad while typing" (ish, or something similar, as i don't remember precisely the actual function name) function, and had to complicate it massively, even for advanced user.. Ain't corporate world magnificent? lol

 

so are 9mm SSD a no go with this laptop? Can we compile a list of SSD that fit on this?

 

This thread should be a good starting place except that the list at the start hasn't been updated recently so you have to trawn through the rest.

John

 

Mine was a go-go after stripping it from the case.. But you're buying new, just get a 7mm, easier that way.

 

sucks because i wanted to put in a hybrid drive. :/ Glad i saw this thread before buying lol

 

well which one was it?

I found this http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8774/file1120128ssdc.jpg

John, that thread is really old. I know crucial has a 7mm version of the M4. Prices are plummeting but maybe I should really wait for a 256GB before making the jump, they are faster and I wouldn't have to worry about running out of space.

 

yea wait for 256...any lower you are cutting corners to not max space...plus you don't have a second bay for another hardrive.

 

Sure, 256 is much better than <128, but all you need to do is better manage your drive.
I have a 96GB Vertex2 with more than i need installed and still have ~40Gb free. Only thing that become different to me is instead of backing up download data every 2 months or more, i started doing it every week, but even that's not a bad thing, just got me more serious in backing up and protecting my data.. Or you can look at it as an hassle, your choice. lol

Hopeless, cool heatsink mod btw.. You one crazy dude!

 

Thanks man.
If setFSB worked with the series 3 11.6" i would have started overclocking my netbook and see if i could mod the netbook at all but its pointless because it doesn't work. Someone said you can't overclock SB but i dont know why.