Asus N51 Owner/Buyer's Thread

I just received mine yesterday from GenTech. Great machine but shipped with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. I immediately loaded Win7 Ultimate 64-bit. All devices were found with no problem (after a couple Windows Updates). However, the video was "Standard VGA Adapter" and no matter how many different NVidia drivers I tried to load (manually, setup.exe, etc.) using drivers from Nvidia's site as well as laptopvideo2go.com I could get it to accept nothing. I am thinking to drop back to Vista 64-bit, however after a quick call to Asus support, I was told this notebook does not have any 64-bit drivers available therefore that was unsupported at this time. I really couldn't believe what I was hearing.

So, I still think it's a great laptop so I will be loading Win7 Ultimate 32-bit this afternoon I suppose.

I have found that driver support for the GT 240M is somewhat lacking but I know it's a new part and it's early yet.

Anyone else have this machine and any issues like that? I see that people are clearly putting 64-bit OS's on the N50...

Thanks,
Mike

 

We already have a thread for the n51, http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=368522.

I do have a question for you though, what is the battery life like?

 

I have only used it briefly while loading drivers and such with several reboots last night and I think I got about 1.5 hours before a battery life warning (12% or so).

I did not see the other thread so perhaps a moderator can close this one, please.

 

Closed since it's similar to http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=368522 .