Asus N61 Owners Lounge

It appears SC2 uses alot of memory ,I don't have an answer right now but have a search on a SC2 forum they might be able to help.

It might not be a memory leak it just might be that you have not enough RAM free. Try closing down everything and start up SC2 again to see whether you still have problems. Use MSCONFIG and disable everything that isn't system related and restart. You may also have a virus of some sort but I'm just purely speculating.

Are you running Windows 7 64-Bit? And does it show up with 3.8gbs of RAM or something close to that?

 

Is this happening in a network game or on a single player games (campaign) as well?

 

Wow, i had this...
On my N61Jq i now have a backlit keyboard that i installed today however, it is much better quality in comparison!

 

hello ,
8 month ago i bought Asus N61NV Q9000 2.0 , in portugal i paid 900 euro

1st - 1 month ago i found white spot on LCD wich was possible to see only on light colours.
2nd - mouse key was stucking sometimes.
3rd - Battery had some problems , like while using without charger sometimes there was error about , that battery has moved and u have only 10 % left, while it was fully charged .
4th - while playing NFS hot pursuit 3, it was turning of by itself sometimes.
5th - I bought speaker 5.1 (3 times) and when i was pluging it had tarible sound like high fracquencies . when i was pluging out charger the sound was lower but still it was.. i cheked all those speakers on other comps but was working perfectly..
After i bought 2.1 and was working realy nice.
1 week ago i gave to the shop for repairing . . . still waiting. . . Did Anybody had such problems?

 

I´ve heard that the new n61JV´s are having some issues, in what graphics regards... as the optimus from Nvidia, is giving some problems, when playing, is it that true??

 

My sons N61JV has had no graphics issues and works as it should.

He plays a few different games but mostly SC2.

The GT325M auto detects most all the games and software such as hardware accelerated browsers that will work with it. The games that he has had to add manually work with it also once they are added.

Overall he is very happy with the N61JV.

 

hi all, i just got a asus n61jv a few days ago and i wanted to do a clean install of windows 7 home premium. And my notebook came with the spanish language so i thought well if i install from an windows 7 home premium spanish cd i could use the same product key.

Am i right?

 

hello everyone, i'm a new proud owner of n61jq 1720qm, 4gb 1333mhz ram, 640gb hdd.

can anyone link for backlit keyboard, ssd upgrade replacing the dvd drive & which brand of ram to upgrade to 8gb ?

sorry for the noob questions but im sure non of us wanting to go towards the wrong direction and also did some reading on the forums but cant really get a clear answer.

 

Hi

I have an Asus N61jv and a bluetooth module compatible with its and i want install it on the notebook.

Can someone help me?
Can i discover any guide on internet for watching what have i do?


Thanks

 

Hi, I have a N61Ja and I just run into this problem. I have window 7 home premium 64bit installed but only 2.98g of the ram is usable in 4g. It ram used to be all usable. I googled it and someone say memory remapping. Did anyone run into this problem? How do you fix it? Do I have to do the remapping and how do you do it?

 

Found a fix for my problem already.

Edit: I know this is a very late reply and everyone probably knows it by now. But somehow W7 set my RAM to 2GB in msconfig after an update!!

 

Hi Eric Can you post your fix in case anyone else has this issue?

 

Okay, what the heck. I'm getting fed up with the issues of my N61Jv-X2 right now. I can't even do any high-CPU activities anymore because the CPU just overheats, fan roars, clocks back. Used to be just a little problem where Turbo Boost wouldn't go all the way up, now it won't kick in at all and the CPU roars at 82-85 C with no turbo. And am I a noob that forgot to clean the heat sink? Hell no, it's perfectly clean, religiously. It blows lukewarm air out the side, not even hot.

Is there anywhere I can get a replacement heat pipe for this thing? I mean, this is only one of a list of problems I've had... the touchpad left-click button doesn't work for a crap (I have to tap everything, or make a conscious "pressing on the button" effort to hold an extended drag), the inside LCD bezel is cracked at the right edge (yay for cheap plastic crap!), the USB3 port is the most physically unstable connection I've ever had to deal with (always drops my USB hard drive unless I hold it at a certain angle)... I'm just getting fed up with this thing. >.<

 

Sounds like you might need a new mother board. Warranty time?

 

Aye, I've already pulled warranty service twice on this thing... the buttons already went dead once and I had that replaced (HDD also had bad sectors, but I use a SSD now), and the second time around, I had the battery replaced when it started suddenly dropping from 19% to 0% battery without warning (other than 19% low battery). Sadly I'm just outside the 1-year warranty as well, but I doubt they'd honor it after the mods I'd done to it - added Bluetooth, replaced DVDRW with BDRW, swapped HDD for SSD, and even tried fixing the thermal problem with a professional application of Arctic Silver (and I spot thermal-application issues on homebrew rigs every time, I'm somewhat a pro on the matter after years of fixing laptop GPUs).

Now, I'm not very gentle with the thing either, which accounts for the cracked display bezel. But I mean, come on... I never dropped it (okay, never dropped it *formally*, just a soft fall or tip once or twice), and I treat it with an IT pro's care - that is, I know what will and won't hurt it, but I also take it to/from work and home every single day. The heat pipe thing is just a frickin' pain in the ...

I think it might be due to a slight bend in the heat pipe, which is why I wanted to just replace the pipe. These pipes tend to degrade over time in my experience, and this thing certainly has issues getting the heat from the chips to the heat sink. The heat pipe gets burning hot at the chip, but doesn't move it nearly quick enough to the heat sink. I just couldn't find a source for that part anywhere... :/

 

Does this sound like my battery might be dying? My N61JQ is just on 12 months old and I've regularly let the battery run down before charging it, as I was told to do to prolong it's life.

Over the past month, I've noticed it's losing charge much quicker than it used to. For example, this morning, only 20 mins from boot up it was already down to 30% and all I'd done was check email.

Is it worth buying a new one, or is 12 months the best you can expect for a battery anyway? If so, I think I can survive w/o a battery anyway, as I don't take it anyway away from a power source.

 

Whoever told you to run the battery down is a misinformed quack! Li-Ion batteries NEVER like to be fully discharged except on rare occasions. They're like lead-acid car batteries in their charging behavior: they operate best when fully charged, only PARTIALLY discharged, and *never* stored in a discharged state (they can never fully recharge after being discharged).

I'd say you toasted your battery with that full-discharge routine... time for a new one

You only need to fully discharge it if you haven't touched "3% remaining" in a long time (BE SURE to check your power options and set CRITICAL BATTERY LEVEL to 3%, not 5% - it's 5% by default which is bad!). Here's how it works:
100% to 5% remaining: this percentage is calculated by the battery estimating how much capacity is left, based on how much power the battery has provided or charged. It does not monitor the battery voltage or status for the ENTIRE 95% run of this percentage.
5%: Battery has less than "X" mAh remaining - based on a number programmed by the manufacturer.
3% (the important one): Battery has reached "EDV1" - End of Discharge Voltage 1. This is the voltage that also triggers the battery controller to "try to use the next discharge as a calibration", since it has reached a fully discharged level and can monitor how much power went into the battery during charge.

To get a good calibration, discharge to 3% then allow it to hibernate or sleep. Plug it in, then you can use the computer, but do not unplug the computer until it reaches 100% charge and stops charging (make sure both are true - sometimes it'll still charge "past" 100% relative charge, as it finds the "true 100%"). Windows Vista and 7 will show "100% available (plugged in, not charging)" (or 98%, 99%, etc).

Most important part is to make these changes to the Balanced power scheme and ALWAYS stay in "Balanced" mode:
- Processor power management
-- Maximum processor state - on battery: 50% (it's there for a reason; throttle to 50% on battery will give you at least 1/3 more battery life and rarely any performance loss)
- Battery
-- Critical battery level - both: 3%
-- Reserve battery level - both: 9%
-- Low battery level - both: 15%

Everything else is left to preference (sleep on close, sleep time, hibernate time, etc), but THESE options are the dead-central, core basic, absolute essential changes that need to be made to EVERY Windows PC due to Microsoft's ill-advised defaults. It'll make the system work a lot better based on specifications from the Smart Battery protocol

 

Wow I sure as hell have been given some bad advice. Thanks for all that great info FalconFour, much appreciated.

 

May I say/ask something on that issue?
On My N61 the battery lasted exactly 26 months, so just outside warranty.
To me this is ridiculously short. Are there others with like experience?
An original replacement puts me back about 130 US dollars/90 EUR.
And if the life of Asus orginal 'quality' batteries can be this short, does anyone have experience with other manufatucters that provide these battries for Asus??

Cheers,
Paul

 

I have to say, 26 months doesn't seem atypical, I expect a battery to last less than 2 years on any machine, dell, HP, Asus, etc. Anything more than that is gravy/luck.

 

I broke the audio plug of the laptop when I was wearing my headphone and forgot to unplug it and the headphone was pulled out with a great amount of force when I hastily walk out of my room to answer the door.

It is not the headphone's problem. I checked that by plugging that into my phone and the headphone still works.

So I bought a bluetooth audio receiver. It worked for my phone as well and can play music, but not for the laptop.

I though there is A2DP for the laptop or is there?

 

I am getting very frequent display driver crashes on my N61 laptop. I have heard that this might be due to flash. However I have uninstalled and reinstalled flash and it would crash even without flash installed. The driver recovers every time though no system shut down. I just get a whole bunch of weirdly colored squares all over the screen. Anyone have any ideas?

 

Bluetooth problem solved. Looks like I have to get the driver from Broadcom instead of the driver on ASUS support site to get the bluetooth A2DP to work properly.

jajo500, I notice the same problem after update to driver 11.12. If your GPU is in OC profile and you run Flash video (actually any DXVA video), it will have artifacts all over the screen. Simply close the web browser with the Flash video or the media player with the .264 video, the driver will recover. I go back to 11.11 and things are ok.

 

Hey Guys I own an Asus N61Vn-A1 and my motherboard has stopped working. You can find the specs for my laptop here. Newegg.com - ASUS N61 Series N61Vn-A1 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000(2.00GHz) 16" 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

I know it is hard to find the same motherboard. What other motherboard types would fit and be compatible with my laptop? Any help would be appreciated.

Please help!

Cheers

 

Hey I have the same problem too. Not sure how to solve it either. Mine actually goes to the blue screen 1 out of 10 times the crash occurs. For me the quickest way to experience this crash is to watch/stream video in full screen

 

The official ASUS website claims that Asus N61Vn supports up to 4GB RAM while other notebooks from the N61 series can have up to 8GB RAM.

On the other hand, the motherboad Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset officially supports up to 8GB RAM.

So, which one is correct?
Did anyone try upgrading their RAM to 8GB?
Or is it locked by ASUS (via BIOS? via some other software?) so that you can have 4GB RAM at the maximum?
What was your experience?

----------UPDATE----------
I've decided to take a risk.

I've bought 2x KINGSTON 4GB DDR3-1066MHz
Kingston Technology Company - Kingston Memory Search - Search Results for: KVR1066D3S7/4G

What's the result? It works! :thumbsup:
*BIOS shows 8192 MB RAM.
*DxDiag shows 8192 MB RAM.
*Windows Task Manager shows 8192 MB RAM with ~15% usage (Windows 8 Release Preview 64-bit). Note -- Win8 RP 64-bit uses some 1GB RAM for me so it used to be ~25% RAM usage (1GB out of 4GB). Now it's 1GB out of 8GB and the usage is around 13%.
*PC Wizard 2012, Astra32 and CPU-Z show 8192 MB RAM as the Total Memory Installed.

 

Can someone recommend a hard drive caddy? I want to send a SSD & a caddy as a present to a friend of mine. He has an Asus N61JA. I would prefer a caddy that has a removable face, so he can use the DVD drive face & keep the shape of the laptop.