Asus UX32vd owners lounge.

Hey all, I received some potentially useful support from ASUS! Check out what the tech support rep sent me:

For Windows 8, activation is done with a new process. There is no need for Certificate of Authenticity (COA) sticker or product key.So please check the product key in the Properties of Computer.

You can also cotact local service center for a windows 8 install disk and then use it reinstall your system.Here's the contact information.
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Service Center
I suggest you to apply it through the call 888-678-3688 (24 hours)

I suggest you call them in advance for an appointment so that you can save your precious time.

Welcome to refer Troubleshooting & FAQ for ASUS products in ASUS
website: http://www.asus.com/support

 

Well, I finished my upgrade (parts listed a couple of pages back). Everything went pretty smoothly. To anyone considering this upgrade (10gb ram + 256gb SSD) I will say that I was kinda on the fence but am really glad I spent the extra $200. This thing screams now. Anyway here are some benchmarks:

 

Dose somebody know how i can verify that my ssd samsung 830 is really in AHCI? In the bios AHCI is selected but PC MATIC tell me that AHCI is disabled on my system. And when i install rapid storage my boot time lastsd more than 4 minuts.
TRIM is enable but I don't know if it means that AHCI is enabled too.

 

i have a crucial m4 500gb ssd installed in my ux32vd and it works without a hitch.

 

does it become fathomable if you become self convinced that us guys just like playing with tech? which i wouldn't think would be that hard to believe given that we're on like page 46 of a thread about one single computer. Several pages of which has been dedicated to what/how/why there are difference windows performance scores...

I can't fathom why you can't fathom the clamouring for windows 8!

 

Yeah I know. I'm not trying to come off as rude or anything. I love tech as much as the next guy but It's just that I hear nothing but bad things about it. To each his own I guess. Maybe I am trying to talk myself out of it

On another note, anyone here who upgraded their HD to a SSD have any success getting Linux installed onto the old SSD cache drive?

 

I'm getting to feel like an idiot. I have a license for a full install of Windows 7 Home Premium. I wanted to install it on my SSD. I placed it on a USB stick and tried to install from it in MBR mode. I read the Samsung tools will only work in MBR. When I get to the part in the installation where it lists the drives where Windows is to be installed. I load the driver for USB 3. I can see my SSD in the list, but I can't format it. If I do shift + F10 to go in command mode and enter "diskpart", then select the disk number for my SSD and enter "clean", I get an I/O error. It's like my SSD is write protected.

There's not a whole lot of settings in the BIOS, but maybe I've got something set wrong. I've tried so many combinations and hours of trying. From reading the other posts, it looks like it was a pretty simple install for many. I'm just not familiar with these new BIOS and never had an SSD. I've been doing a lot of research and have learned a lot, but not enough it seems.

Once I get Windows 7 installed, I'll get the $39 Windows 8 Pro upgrade from MS and install it. I know my UX32VX came with Windows 8 installed, but it seems next to impossible to do a clean install at this time with what's available.

 

Follow this link: Installing Windows 7 in native EFI mode from USB - bit-tech.net Forums. I used it also for Windows 8 instalation. In both cases everything went ok.

 

what are the advantages or the usage of the efi mode?! I never thought about that. I'm used to the uefi bios of my mainboard but had no idea what that efi shell is needed for

 

Hi all, I have an issue. My UX32VD has a display of 1920x1080, and my tv Panasonic TC-L47E50 has the exact same resolution. However, when I connect my laptop to the tv via hdmi, the display resolution are not matching up. The tv does not display the laptop screen completely, both width and length goes farther off on the tv (i.e. the start button and the clock are cutoff on the tv display).

Is anyone else having this issue? I thought that since both laptop and tv are both 1080p, they should be able to display each's other screens perfectly, edge-to-edge. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

I had the same issue with a sony and samsung lcd tv.
there's an option in the Intel HD driver to adjust the display - it's kinda the same issue/action like with desktop graphic cards or let's say the same way to config it....
I'm not at home at the moment so I can't tell you the name of the setting

 

It might be that TV is over scanning. This is pretty common for TVs. There may be a setting on your TV to display one to one. Try looking in the TV menus. One of them will probably have a setting that will turn off over scanning.

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You might be able to resize the desktop using the laptops graphics card configuration. Not sure about Intel but Nvidia has this. However as I said in my previous post look in the TVs menu for a setting to turn off over scanning. If your TV had that its better than resizing the desktop.

Andrew

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enclosed a screen of the setting, the 2 slider at the bottom will do the trick (sry for the german one, but I think it's easier with this instead of a more confusing translation of mine ^^)

 

Multitouch works great with firefox for me. What i test is using two finger to swipe up and down, and pages scroll accordingly.

 

Works great for me too, three finger gesture for back/forward is awsome

 

New ATK package ready from asustrieber: atk_package_v1.0.0025

Downloads - ASUS ATK Komponenten - ATK Package

 

Hi folks,

I just hit a very strange problem with my one week old ux32vd. While installing the most recent intel graphic drivers (downloaded from the Asus download page), the LCD of my asus went black and I'm unable to make it working again.

The LCD backlight works as well as I hear the OS system sounds, as a response on my "blind" actions. So the OS seems to be working. I tried to restart the laptop and the weird thing is that I don't even see the status texts before loading windows. The LCD appears to be the same blank. The only thing I see is, when the LCD backlight goes on and off (during laptop restart).

Any suggestion what should I try before sending the laptop back to seller?

I left the VGA adapter in my office, so I cannot hook the notebook to an external LCD right now. Just to see if the external monitor connection works or not. And yes, I tried fn+f7 to turn the LCD ON/OFF.

What I'm hoping for is some kind of magic key sequence, to switch the graphics (from intel to nvidia). But my hopes are not very high Thank you in advance!

 

I assume that you tried this, but the BIOS didn't come up either? If so, I think it is a hardware problem. The graphics driver wouldn't effect the bios display.

 

Thank to you both for your quick responses and help!! It turns out it was a setting on my tv. There were apparently two choices for "HD" aspect ratio. The second choice worked like a charm. Thanks again.

 

Hi and thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, not even the Asus logo. So yes, I too think it's a HW failure Too bad. It's not even a week old. I just wrote to the Asus support, but I guess their advice will be "send it back to us".

 

No success so far. I followed the instructions in the link. I found another link with similar instructions. I formatted my USB 2 stick as fat32, copied the contents of Win 7 Home Premium, copied the efi\microsoft\boot up and under efi and added the renamed bootx64.efi. I was able to boot, to clean, create 3 partitions and format the primary partition of the SSD. Setup wouldn't let me install Windows, so it must have been in BIOS mode.

The only time I could get Windows setup to run, was if I enabled CSM in the BIOS. If I disabled CSM, then when booting, I get a bunch of text on the screen saying Windows couldn't load, the hardware might have changed, etc., try repairing Windows.

Next I placed a hard drive into a USB 3 enclosure, created a 16 GB partition, formatted it as fat32 and copied my Windows install to it. I got the same results as the USB 2 stick.

Also on the "Save and Exit" screen, when I select "Launch EFI shell from filesystem device", I always get Not Found. I'm not sure if that matters.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

 

Try to prepare boot USB 3 using this tool: Latest Beta version & downloads for the tutorials - RMPrepUSB. It is the only one tool, which properly formatted my USB3 stick as bootable. May be this help.

 

I tried that tool. In every case I was able to boot, what happened after that was the problem. I tried to follow the instructions exactly. I think the problem lies in my BIOS setup, maybe. I tried as many combinations that I could think of. I don't know if I can screw up the BIOS. Maybe I should try to reflash it?

 

I don't think it's a BIOS problem. Anyway try to reflash. So you should start a cmd.exe (or use total commander) and go into the c:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\WinFlash\ directory and start winflash with winflash /nodate. Now you also get a warning message, but you can click on the flash button.

In my case, when I installed my new SSD Samsung 830 (as it was, not formatted, no partitions), I started Windows 8 installation from USB 3 stick prepared as above. BIOS found it and gave me two options (if I remeber correctly): 1) UEFI: [stick name] and 2) Stick name. I used first option, didn't formatted disk nor created any patition, just selected my SSD. Windows 8 created 3 partitions itself (Recovery Partition, EFI System Partition and Primary Partition) and installed. Hope this help.

 

Right, in my BIOS I see two options to boot from, one prefixed with UEFI: and one without. I selected the one prefixed with UEFI:.With "Launch CSM" enabled, I boot into Windows 7 setup. From one of my previous attempts to install Windows, I had already set up the SSD in the manner you listed. I had found someone's instructions on how to do that using DISKPART. I select the primary partition and click next. Then I get the message "Windows could not format a partition on disk 1. The error occurred while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x80070057"

I went back and deleted the 3 partitions that made up disk 1 and selected the unallocated disk 1 for Windows to install in. Got the same error as I previously mentioned.

When I enter the BIOS, I only see my Windows install drive in the Boot section. Should the SSD show up anywhere other than the SATA selection?

 

No, only in SATA selection until you install OS, then you see it Boot section. Are your drives in AHCI mode in BIOS? And try to disable "Lunch CSM".

 

Yes, I have AHCI selected. If I don't have "Launch CSM" selected, I get a boot loader error when the Windows 7 setup tries to run.

This is from AMI's Aptio CSM Datasheet:

"The Compatibility Support Module (CSM) is designed to extend BIOS compatibility into UEFI
solutions ... supporting legacy Option ROM binaries and operating systems requiring a legacy
BIOS runtime interface."

 

I don't think your problem is that strange. Maybe it's same issue myself and others have had. Check my thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/695093-ux32vd-driver-corrupts-video-hardware.html

It seems to me something here is really messed up and as a result I am scared to play around with video driver updates until ASUS acknowledges this problem and remedies it!

 

Hi guys,

i recently got my ux32vd and among many stupid mistakes and learning about the efi system partitions as well as issds managed to delete all information on recovery partition. I recovered it and have a copy on my hdd but now cannot get the 25gb recovery partition to be efi and contain a copy of the bootable recovery option.
i never made an recovery discs either.

any advice on how to create an efi which is accessable so that i can copy recovery info back onto recovery partition?

also would like to hopefully recover system after that.. cause i messed around with issd partitioning as well and would like to start from square one..

 

Sorry, I don't know how to help you, must be a mistake somewhre. Read also this: https://hydra.geht.net/tino/howto/uefi/windows/

 

Could somebody please tell me or maybe give me a link where I can find the advantages of the EFI installation?
Can't find any useful informations and if it's worth it to install win again

 

Hi,

Thanks for pointing me to that discussions! It definitely looks to be the same problem.

 

hello everyone,
Any idea why my friend's UX32VD - R3001V zenbook only get sata2 speed when benchmark ?
Upgraded to Sata3 SSD , max speed should be 560 / 530 . but only getting 2xx and 1xx .

 

Hello!
Somebody told me that in UX32VD HD port is SATA-2 and iSSD which is placed on motherboard connected to SATA-3
Can somebody check and more tests to get SATA-3 speeds on installed SSDs, or maybe run some kind of sysinfo software that will check which ports are used on motherboard.

BTW, my samle is on RMA...

 

I appreciate all of your suggestions! I gave up and ordered a copy of Windows 8 Professional OEM. Hopefully, I'll have better luck trying to install a full copy of Windows 8 on the SSD.

I would have kept experimenting, but I've had the UX32VD apart for a week and didn't like the idea of repeatedly swapping drives for testing and using the laptop.

 

so...........for all the OTHER OWNERS, you guys never had an issue with intel video drivers or just never bother to update?

 

When I upgraded to Windows 8 it installed new Intel drivers. Everything works fine. I did a clean install so both the Nvidia and Intel drivers needed to be installed. Possibly though this is different from upgrading previously installed drivers.

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so what you are saying is, i have to move on to windows 8 if i want to keep using this ultrabook? not that i mind (win8 doesnt turn out to be so bad afterall) but would be nice if someone writes a sticky guide on how to install win8

 

I wasn't necessarily saying you had to upgrade but just mentioning that new driver's got installed. The way I installed windows 8 was to do the upgrade from a windows 7 install and just used the keep nothing option. Worked for me. YMMV.

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When he installed the SSD did he do a fresh windows install or did he clone to the new drive?

 

Gday everyone , its been a long time since I have been on here.
Just purchased my new Asus UX32VD last week in Aus. It hasd the 1920x1080 screen corei7 and Nvidia 620MGT.
I have a few questions. I plan to upgrade the Hitachi 500GB drive to a Samsung SSD 830 series 256GB SATA III . I have just purchased it fact.
It comes with Norton Ghost I have heard , but I have read that its less than reliable. I was going to purchase the Crucial SSD due to it coming with some decent cloning software but I got a really good price on the Samsuing (189 dollars). Anyone recommend some good cloning software ? The other thing I was going to do was use a USB bootable drive stick and stick my 4 Win7 back up ISO images on it using Win7toUSB software and do it that way.

Now what kind of changes to the BIOS do I need to do ? I know I need to select the USB to bootable in the BIO's. Anything else ?
Cheers

 

What's the consensus on downgrading to win 7? Just got mine today with win8 preinstalled, and my opinion on it is overwhelmingly negative - simply too buggy for use until service pack 1. Does the machine come with a serial number that can be used for windows 7?

 

Not sure why you would want to downgrade. Mine came with Win 7 and I upgraded to windows 8 and have had no issues other than learning the new interface. What bugs are you experiencing? Do far my experience with Windows 8 has been nothing but positive.

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I've made the switch to windows after using mac for 20 years, so part of it is the stress of getting used to a bizarre file system. In the mac world, it was often the occasion that upgrading before a service pack or two was released would not be the wisest choice, simply because the previous system was already pretty stable. Given the option, I would have waited for service pack 1 before upgrading to win8. Currently my biggest issue has to do with the inability to control fan speeds, as I see it is an issue big enough to warrant its own thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/687758-asus-ux32a-fan-goes-off-off.html

I've decided to use the Classic Shell program to revert away from the metro app interface for now. I'd like to learn more about the back-end of windows before treating it like an iphone

 

flash install , I did the installation .

 

Hi everyone,
I recently upgraded my UX32VD to Windows 8. But since then I've come across so many issues, I was hoping that you may be able to help me out. LiveUpdate doesn't report any updates, and I'm pretty sure all the drivers are up-to-date.

The issues are:
* When I go to shut down/sleep/hibernate/etc there's a 90% chance that it would just sit there, constantly spinning and then will restart with a message "Your PC ran into a problem". Restarting isn't cool when I'm shutting down. There are times when it does this stuff without any issues...
* But when it wakes up from sleep or hibernate, my USB ports no longer work! So I have to restart anyway to be able to use my mouse or whatever. Very frustrating.

I've checked the BIOS updates, but I'm not sure which one to download. I've entered the BIOS, hit F12 and it tells me (UX32VD), and the ASUS site says that I should only use the BIOS file with that model number, however I don't see one with just UX32VD, just a lot with UX32VDAS. Does it matter?

Thanks all.

 

Did you do a clean install of Windows 8 or did you do an in place upgrade where you choose to keep all your files, settings and applications? I originally tried the in place upgrade route but found the system was very unstable and didn't work properly. I reinstalled using the keep nothing option and all my problems went away and it ran perfectly.

As to the bios If what you have is the UX32VD then the latest bios is 212 I think. I believe ASUS had a utility on their site that is supposed to detect what unit you have. However if you didn't do a clean install that is most likely the problem.

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could anybody help me, I want to work all the time on Power4Gear High Performance power plan, but when I switch to battery then my computer start using Battery Saving power plan - hot to fix it?

 

Chances are I'm picking up a UX32VD-R4002H tonight, I'm also buying SAMSUNG 830 SERIES 128GB SSD SATA/600 MLC and KINGSTON 8GB SO-DIMM 1600MHZ DDR3 CL11.

Now, since I'm swapping out the HDD, I need some info on how to reinstall Windows 8 on the SSD. Is there any definitive guide for this? I know there's alot of info on this already but going thru 50 pages and trying to sum it up is quite the task.