M51Sn: Review & Owners' Lounge

Only if you opt for a 9 cell battery.

 

How much will it cost?

 

You'd have to ask the Asus resellers for the exact amount. I'd say around $150.

 

$159 at GenTech Computers.
http://1toppc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=M51SN-B1

 

I'm looking to purchase the m51sn-b1 this summer. how are the build quality and materials? on notebookcheck they were fairly critical of the touchpad. do any of you find the touchpad to be in need of improvement?

 

One quick (and maybe stupid, but I don't care ) question:
I'm going to pick up my new M51Sn today (hopefully) and I've decided to crap Vista Home premium and install XP Pro insted. Can I expect any Driver-related problems with this switch? Or is it all clear sailing?

 

You shouldn't have any problems with XP. It should be a smooth install.

 

okay, now I'm puzzled :S
It seems that there are no specific XP Drivers at all on ASUSTek's homepage? Am I being stupid, or don't I need some drivers for the M51 to run XP with all the stuff in it?

 

You can use original drivers CD to install most of the drivers and utility, here is the list of the drivers you'll need to download:

VGA:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17739

Realtek HD Audio Driver:
ftp://202.65.194.211/pc/audio/WDM_R189.exe
Note: For XP with SP3 it's required to download KB835221 hotfix otherwise the Audio will not work, thanks to thadeej for the information.

Wireless Lan:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13000/eng/11.5.0.0_xDrivers.zip

Lan:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/C90S/LAN_xp_vista_070808.rar

Bluetooth (thanks to Konohasaint) :
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/W7S/Bluetooth_XP32_Vista32_070912.zip

Power4Gear:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/A6J/P4G_XP_060706.zip

 

LOL One more thing: How the heck do you get rid of Vista??? Can't even get to the format part of the XP intallation...

 

Well you'd need the SATA drivers, there's an entire wealth of guides out there on that, I'm sure. Or put your HDD into compatibility mode from the BIOS if you have such an option.

This one went straight to the Info Booth. Thanks.

 

M'kay!?! It's just, when I boot up, with the XP install cd in, it comes to a point, where I can chose to either; 1) Install windows XP, 2) Repeare windows XP or 3) Quit the installer. I chose to Install Win XP, with the thing in mind to format the C drive. But i just get the anouncment that there are no Harddrives pressent in my computer. Press F3 to quit. Is it all really just F6 to install second part drivers?

 

You have 2 choices:
1: Go to the BIOS> advanced settings and change the IDE controller from Enhance to Compatible, Press F10 to save the settings and exit.

2: Slipstream your Windows XP CD with SATA driver.

 

Yep, that's what I meant sorry for not being clearer.

 

Okay, Slipstream is a unkown term for me. You mean F6 when the XP install process askes for it?

 

No. Please look up the SATA slipstreaming guides. But try option 1) first it's the easiest.

 

okay, thanks. I'll go with option #1 first. And thanks for all the help

 

Is it possible to replace the Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 1.83GHz CPU in an M51Sn-B1 with a T8300 or T9300?
I've ordered an M51Sn-B1 (from Canada, but a friend is bringing it to the UK next week) and I thought this might be something to consider in the future, to speed up architectural rendering and maybe to improve game play (e.g. this 'Crysis' which looks pretty cool).

Any thoughts on whether this upgrade is possible/straightforward/worthwhile?
Thanks

 

Why aren't Asus laptops popular ?

 

Yes, you can easily upgrade the CPU, however, you will void your warranty if you do.

Simply because Asus doesn't advertise their laptops as heavily as Dell or Sony.

 

What emporiumboutique said is correct. Popularity isn't always the case. Over the years I've owned two Toshiba notebooks, a Dell, and an Acer laptop, recently though I decided to purchase an ASUS notebook and so far it has impressed me in every aspect in comparison to all my previous machines.

 

Hi all ASUS M51Sn fans

I still have some small problems with mine, after I installed XP. First of all, I still can't get the Ethernet Controller driver to work. I've installed all the drives for the CD's that came with the notebook, and all the drivers that is listed on page 10 or 11 of this thread.

Also the HD Audio Bus controller is not installed and there is a Unknown Divece whice is missing a driver, and I have no Idea what it is. The last thing is that I'm getting this failure notice, when ever I reboot or start up my notebook that the "LMGRD has preformed an error and will be closed. There are some files that list the error information, but I'm not skilled enough to decifer it. there are these two

1) MANIFEST:

Server=watson.microsoft.com
UI LCID=1030
Flags=1674064
Brand=WINDOWS
TitleName=LMGRD
DigPidRegPath=HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId
ErrorText=Hvis du var midt i noget, har du muligvis mistet de oplysninger, du arbejdede med.
Stage1URL=
Stage1URL=/StageOne/lmgrd_exe/10_8_5_0/unknown/0_0_0_0/0012e85d.htm
Stage2URL=
Stage2URL=/dw/stagetwo.asp?szAppName=lmgrd.exe&szAppVer=10.8.5.0
---&szModName=unknown&szModVer=0.0.0.0&offset=0012e85d
DataFiles=C:\DOCUME~1\Nicholai\LOKALE~1\Temp\WERdc45.dir00
---\lmgrd.exe.mdmp|C:\DOCUME~1\Nicholai\LOKALE~1\Temp
---\WERdc45.dir00\appcompat.txt
Heap=C:\DOCUME~1\Nicholai\LOKALE~1\Temp\WERdc45.dir00\lmgrd.exe.hdmp
ErrorSubPath=lmgrd.exe\10.8.5.0\unknown\0.0.0.0\0012e85d
DirectoryDelete=C:\DOCUME~1\Nicholai\LOKALE~1\Temp\WERdc45.dir00

2) APPCOMPAT

"For some reason, this text cannot be posted. It keeps missning when posted, but I will happily mail it to one of you in a word file, so you can look at it"

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?

 

Fone_Bone, I might be able to help ({don't bet on it though) but I will not do the infamous amount of horiz scrolling that is needed to read your post. Please fix it

 

I've installed XP on my notebook. Don't care much for Vista. I have my WLAN up and running. No problem there, but to access my home network, I need to first connect through the LAN cable, but nothing happens when I plug it in. I can see on the Network places on my notebook, that the driver for the card itself is installed and working, but the Ethernet-controller is marked with a '!' so thats the problem. And I've been searhing the net for a driver, but noting seems to work.

Also, I have this unknown divice with the unit-id number: ACPI\IFX0102\4&3AA5AEAA&0

What driver do I need for this thing? Have tried some drivers, but none work.

Whats wrong with me? I used to be good at finding and solving driver problems

 

What? Don't have widescreen
I've fixed it

 

How about the driver for Modem Device on High Definition Audio Bus?
Where can I find that?

 

Heh actually you didn't but I edited it myself. The problem was in the long lines from the error report copy-paste (I broke two of them in several places, marked the places with ---)

 

oh, sorry... On my screen, it was OK, when I finished editing it...

Its funny though. This thread has somewhat stoped being a preformence review and just a long thread of troubleshooting and help But its nice to keep it all gathered here, so its easy to find for other people, if they end up in the same problems with this notebook...

And thanks for all the help!

 

I think it's actually turning into an owner's lounge. Which wouldn't be so bad, actually, having it all in one place. I might contact the OP and see if he agrees to change this from "review" to "review/owner's lounge".

 

Have you found a solution to my driver problems? Not that I want to be a bothersome bastared or anyting

 

Nope, sorry about that and also the long string of off-topic messages. Maybe Ken will be able to help you (when he wakes up, that is).

A note by the moderators: As of today 29 April 2008, this thread is also the Owners' Lounge for the M51Sn. Enjoy!

 

Did you install all these drivers from the original drivers CD?

ATK 0100
ATK Hotkey
ATK OSD
ATK Media
Inf Update
Finger Print
EATA
Modem
Ricoh (card reader)
Touchpad
Wconsole (Wireless Console)


The rest of the drivers you can download it here:

VGA:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17739

Realtek HD Audio Driver:
ftp://202.65.194.211/pc/audio/WDM_R189.exe
Note: For XP with SP3 it's required to download KB835221 hotfix otherwise the Audio will not work, thanks to thadeej for the information.

Wireless Lan:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13000/eng/11.5.0.0_xDrivers.zip

Lan:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/C90S/LAN_xp_vista_070808.rar

Bluetooth (thanks to Konohasaint) :
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/W7S/Bluetooth_XP32_Vista32_070912.zip

Power4Gear:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/A6J/P4G_XP_060706.zip

 

is the newer version of the UAA driver compatible with this?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888111/ KB888111

 

The UAA is built-in in the new Realtec driver and work with XP SP1 and SP2, however, if you have SP3 installed you'll need to install KB835221 hotfix from Microsoft (thanks to thadeej ).

 

Why is your memory clock on the 9500M GS here only at 400MHz? The nVidia website says that it is 700MHz at stock. Check here http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9500M.html

Plus I'd push the overclocking to more than that

 

Because the video RAM is DDR2 and if Asus put GDDR3 it'll be 700MHz.

 

Yes, all that I have installed. It's the Ethernet-controller driver there seems to be missing or someting?! I have looked for about 3 hours yesterday, but I didn't find anyting that could be used...

 

Can you post the screenshot of your device manager?

 

Can anyone give me some information about the ethernet-controller? Maybe one of the drivers at Intel.com works? I need something on what model number it is...

 

Did you extract the file and click DPINST32.ext?

 

Eh... no? I'm sorry, but don't know what it is... Where do I extract it from?

 

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13000/eng/11.5.0.0_xDrivers.zip

 

Thanks Ken. I hope this one dos the trick... I can post a screenshot of the divece manager if this driver works. And once again! Thanks for all the help!

 

Heres the list, and the driver from 1300...0_xDrivers didn't work... Still no ethernet controller...

 

Try download and install this driver:

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13407/eng/LAN.zip

 

Nope. Didn't work either

 

can you please expand the network adapter and post the screenshot?

 

Like this?

 

Hey guys, I got this system about 3 weeks ago. Ive got some good games on it, but the heat its producing is incredible. In the very beginning of this thread, in the review part of it, they show some overclocked results. I would be curious to find out what the internal temperature was during that.

Playing COD4, with slight overclock at 517/1034/402 I reached a peak temperature of 93C and average of 89

Isnt that too hot? I even have a cooling fan under..

 

use this driver: http://www.station-drivers.com/tele..._yukon_10.55.3.3(www.station-drivers.com).exe