Asus G71G Owners

Can someone here please kindly do a 3mark bench with GPU at stock 260m gtx clocks and CPU at 2.8 ghz at 1280 X 800 res please? I will rep generously

 

There you go, kind sir:



This is GPU stock, CPU 10% overclock using Turbo Gear.
BTW the CPU oveclocking with TG gives quite a heat increase. Without CPU OC, in the same 3dmark test the CPU temp gets to 59C, compared to 69 now.
The temps are without a cooler, just with a $15 plastic laptop stand.

 

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Can anyone comment on this machine yet?

So far I've only been able to find threads on the X1 and G72

Wondering if the heating and other issues people had with the original x1 have been resolved in this model before I bought

 

OI, it's been forever...But I haven't had a single issue with my Q1 since i've had it...But of late, it's been kinda...Bleh. It's having real issues starting up. It'll power...But the OS or anything wont start. I've let it sit for a bit, thinking maybe a delayed action. I don't really wanna send it in, cause school just started again. So I really gotta depend on it now. But i'm afraid if I leave it at this, it may worsen. It does eventually start. After a few tries...But sometimes it's more like 10...Which is where the fear draws in. Anyone else who had a similar problem, know of a solution!? Thanks.

 

My G71G is about a year old, and the start button didnt respond on mine one day, so I unplugged it, then took the battery out for about 60 sec, put it back in, plugged it back in, and it worked fine after that.

I now have mine connected to a 1500 watt Uninterruptable Power Supply/battery back-up/power conditioner to get me some serious control of power surges & brownouts/blackouts here at my desk. 1500 watt is barely enough to protect my whole home office: laptop, scanner, printer, external drive, modem & router. Mine was made by APC, but there are other Power Conditioner/UPS manufacturers out there like Furman & Whirlwind who are also good, and I have never had a startup problem on my G71 since.

Electronic, or logic controlled touch switches like ALL 5 of those blue ones in the upper right of the G71's keyboard area, are naturally not very tolerant of inconsistent power, and the laptop doesnt even need to be operating to receive terminal damage, just plugged into an unprotected electrical power source. Because I'm sure you have noticed by now, the ASUS G71 never completely shuts off till the cord is unplugged and the battery is removed. (thanks to the "express gate" feature)

If an electrical storm is in your area, if you are in a rural area, or a very old building, or just a building that dims the lights as a major appliance kicks on, I learned in detail (since the episode I described above) a better-than-average power conditioner is MANDATORY with something as complex and electronically sensitive as a high performance gaming laptop.

Such high performance laptops have NO PHYSICAL ROOM to build-in reasonable protection from such hazards. Their internal power boards (or even entire motherboards on some models) will burn out easily after a strong enough/frequent enough Brownout or Surge. And every surge or brownout the laptop survives unprotected, will usually weaken it's ability to survive the next.

Power surges, or brownouts (aka voltage drops) are usually NOT covered by computer warranties. (as such repairs on a laptop, usually require replacement of something very expensive to the OEM, or something thats probably been discontinued, like the Motherboard, RAM, CPU, GPU and SSD-if you got one, all at once)

So clean up the power you feed your laptop! In some areas, the quality of electricity running your computer is just llike trying to fuel a Formula 1 Ferrari racer with Diesel! It'll run, but the car will cough & sputter, & eventually self-destruct if you keep on running it like that.

Also, final details for your specific situation Big_Peru, after you got the power under control, try running a virus/malware sweep, run "CHKDSK", & defragment your hard drives to clean up the scrambled & corrupted files an erratic or extremely long startup/shutdown will create.

Sorry for the long post, but thats all I can think of to help you preserve your G71! Hope something in here helps you out!

 

I"m about to install window 7, is there any driver incompat with window 7? Should i do a full clean install or upgrade? Ehhh this is so damn difficult...

 

A clean install is ALWAYS superior to an "upgrade". it is less cluttered, and therefore Windows 7 will be more stable & reliable.

To Update your g71g with Windows 7 drivers:

Download the Windows 7 drivers for the Intel PM45 chipset from the Intel website, and save them to a file folder on your desktop

Download the windows 7 drivers for the ASUS G71gx from the Asus Website, and save them all to a file folder of their own on your desktop (there will be a LOT of drivers to download from ASUS)

Download the VISTA version of Direct Console for your G71 model, from the ASUS website, instead of the W7 version of the same for the G71GX, save it in the same folder with your ASUS Drivers.

There are some devices (like the camera, and network adapters) that might vary in make or model from one G71 to another during the production run, so when ASUS presents you with a choice of W7 drivers for the same device, go back into your laptop and look it up in your device manager and write down the make & model number of the device ASUS installed in yours, and download the appropriate w7 driver for it from the list of G71GX drivers.

Gather the Windows 7 drivers for your laptop's built-in wireless adapter from it's manufacturer's website (get make & model from your device manager, or the tiny label on the underside of your laptop -ASUS changes them around during the production run too) and save it to the ASUS drivers' folder on your desktop DON'T use the ASUS wireless driver from the G71GX, unless it is for the EXACT make & Model of wireless adapter you have. -It pays to verify these things.

Get the W7 drivers for the items you frequently connect to, like Printer, Scanner, external sound card, etc, from their manufacturers' respective websites, and save them all to a folder on your desktop as well.

decompress any .zip files among your downloads

And burn all the folders (with their contents) to a DVD, & keep it safe. You will eventually need it more than just this one time.


Installation:
After you have installed the Windows 7 O/S:

Step 1: Install the Intel PM45 Chipset driver for Windows 7

Step 2: Install the ATK drivers, like OSD, Power deck, Direct Console, hotkeys, etc (I recall there will be about 4 ATK drivers)

Step 3: Install the VIDEO drivers,

Step 4: Install the AUDIO drivers (--do so if you wish, I have had better control over my audio with the generic Audio drivers packaged with W7)

Step 5: install your Network Drivers

Step 6: install everything else.

let windows download all of its critical updates and service packs, if W7 finds a better driver than one you already installed by hand, let W7 update it, and you are good to go!

 

Thanks, also one last thing, are the default video driver the only ones that are actually stable? I tried a lot from 18x.xx to 19x.xx and most of em are all unstable or gradually became unstable. I haven't tried 186.82 yet since no modified INF, but thats the only one i heard that is most stable. Anything else? The default factory one is 183.xx

 

Nvidia 197.45 is stable, at least for me. There is a thread about it at this forum.

 

Damn, this forum is long dead

Anyway, I have a problem of not having the wireless to work for me.
I installed win7 64bit and I can't seem to get this thing working, there's just too many drivers for the same thing, I installed some wireless console, 5300 wireless driver, the switch driver, nothing is working anyway.
Anyone care to shine some light on their update ?

 

did u check your bios to see if it is updated? i know there is an update in bios that concerned something about the wireless

 

FYI
I Just put a SSD in my G71G and had a heck of a time getting direct console 2
to work
It was something with the ATK drivers. I found these and installed them as a package. All is good now.

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I would like to know how Gordonian got 12 gigs of memory. Will this laptop recognize 3- 4 gig sticks????

 

Hi Ely94, If I remember correctly, I used the original direct console from x64 vista.

I am running x64 windows7 now, with a combination of drivers from the g71 "best buy" edition, (which shipped with x64 windows7) for the hardware both models had, and the x64 vista drivers that shipped with my G71g for the hardware the "best buy" edition did not have. You will have to search my other posts around here for the list of drivers (and maybe even their installation order) elsewhere on this site.

As for the RAM issue, the G71G DOES recognize 3 sticks of 4gb each, for 12gb of DDR2 ram. The chipset is the limiting factor when you run a 64 bit OS, and the G71's intel P45/P43 chipset caps the laptop's ram capacity at 15 or 16GB.

Here are the numbers printed on the ram I have upgraded my G71G to:

4GB DDR2 sticks (qty 3)
PC2-6400
Samsung PART# M4 70T5267AZ3-CF7

The same part number is a perfect fit for any ASUS G71 using the G71G v1.0 motherboard with the P45/P43 chipset and ICH10 southbridge installed. I do not have access to a duo-core G71 to confirm the following, but: I have heard this motherboard was used in most of the core-2-quad & core-2-duo G71 versions that shipped after February 2009.

If you want to try this, and you dont have one of these machines, I was very picky about getting identical specs to the original ram my machine already used, as long as the specs were identical, and the chipset's capacity is high enough, the laptop shouldnt have an issue with the quantity of RAM you supply, as long as there are physically enough sockets for it.

Take a look at the name of the manufacturer, the part number & serial number from one of the 2gb sticks you have now, and use the information to find the MHz, voltage, latency, etc of what the manufacturer installed. and take it shopping with you for IDENTICAL specs from the same, or another respectable manufacturer.

I was unable to get the same manufacturer as the Ram I had, but I did find some excellent oem-grade 4gb samsung Ram sticks on ebay at the time that was a perfect match to my original RAM's specs, and I know Samsung does an excellent job job making their own memory chips, including memory chips they use in their own line of very highly respected SSD's.

 

Thanks G
I did use your other posts around here and at the Asus site, thanks for that.
If you got yours to see 4gb sticks I'm going to go for it.
I'll let ya know.

 

Yup- it did recognize them, right now, the weakest link my G71G has is the video card, but the cards are modular. Meaning: upgradeable ("mxm1" standard connector I think) to the 1gb cards in other g71's (G71gx) & maybe some early g72 versions too (more video ram on the card produces less heat, & not work the gpu as hard as the cards the G71G's originally shipped with), but that upgrade will be a little more complex than a RAM upgrade, and the 1gb cards are hard to find by themselves.

 

It worked great G!!!!!
Thanks for the info
Have a great New Year.