~F3sv Owner's Lounge~

Ah, thank you Thraken. I gave up on page 19 or so

 

Yeah, my screen is at the highest res (1440x900, I've WXGA+).
I downloaded lastest BIOS's drivers in www.asus.com ...

What I've to do?

 

Make sure your video drivers, are also upto date. The latest driver version on Asus as official release is version 101.19.

 

I finally got my F3SV in today and I'm totally impressed with the system. I'm installing XP on the machine and have managed to get everything working but one app. Does anyone know where I could DL the XP version of the hotkeys? Like Fn + F10 is supposed to mute the system etc.?

 

glad you like it, we have yet to find one person who is unhappy with it except potentially this guy with the grainy screen, but hopefully he can fix that.

feel free to steal my sig if you want (thank the graphics team if you want, i didnt make it myself)

 

I think this problem is not because drivers. When ASUS logo appears in screen I can see this grainy, and in BIOS setup too.

 

Hi, did you install all the drivers listed on page 24? I have them all installed and my hotkeys work great. Also, go into control panel>system>hardware>device manager> and make sure there are no devices with ! marks.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

 

do you have a camera? id like to see this

 

Almost all drivers can be installed automatically from the Asus Driver CD
the rest can be found on page 21

for hotkeys you need ATKOSD2(looks really cool, came w/ Vista), or ASUS ATK0100 UTILITY driver(aka, ATK Hotkey, looks a bit more primitive)
Check if you have ATK Hotkey installed under "C:\Program Files\ATK Hotkey\"

If you do, make sure HControl.exe is running, and run ATKOSD.exe from C:\Program Files\ATK Hotkey\ or ATKOSD2.exe from C:\Program Files\ATKOSD2\ and you'll have control of the FN keys

 

Also, is anyone else having problems overclocking w/ RivaTuner?
I don't know why, but I can't overclock; anytime i try to change the clock times it reverts back to default.

 

Did everyones power adapter come with a 3 prong plug? On top of the fact that its 3 prong, is the fact that the power cable is way too short.

I really wish they just kept to the industry standard of 2 prong.

 

how high are you trying to overclock it to? if your trying to do it too high that may be a problem, try only upping it but a little bit at a time.

whats wrong with 3-prong? id rather have the ground in there...

 

finnaly got my second GB of RAM back! wow i missed that

 

Thanks guys, yes I needed the ASUS ATK0100 UTILITY driver and now the hotkeys are working fine. Yes if anyone needs any drivers and such, just PM me.

 

Has anyone achieved any level of success in unlocking the additional pipelines with Rivatuner? I've been working on it for most of today, (got my F3sv-X1 yesterday ) and have made no progress according to Rivatuner's status (16SPs, 8ROPs). So far I've been trying to discern a pattern that would denote certain bits as SPs, and others as ROPs, but haven't even managed to change the numbers one bit. My next test will be to enable all bits, and hope I don't fry my video card.

I've just downloaded the Lost Planet demo for testing purposes as well. I haven't managed to see any performance changes or artifacting after changes, but I may not have been pushing it hard enough, it pegs Guild Wars at 60fps all the time.

 

how many of you got a backpack?

I got a targus. has a HP logo on the front though. didnt spot it while buying.

where do you hold it while putting it in the bag's padding area? dont want to break the screen or something holding it at the wrong place.

this is where i lift from when putting in :

 

Mine came with a Carry on bag, but I bought a Targus for it anyway.

 

do you find your F3SV solid ? isnt it too cheap ?

 

build quality is definitely not cheap! i find it quite solid and reliable

~1500$ is probably a bit cheap for its performance / quality

 

Ya it is definitley a very solidly built notebook, although I am noticing a little bit of creeking on the left hand casing of the screen, and after I unscrewed the bottom to add the 2nd Gig of RAM I noticed some creeking, probably my fault since I did not fully tighten since I dont want to scrape the screws.

Otherise really good build quality.

 

hey just got my F3SV B1

and i have one question can iI disable the shared memory with the graphice card ?? so it will use only 256 it has
because iI see vista takes alot of RAM
anyway i bought another 1GB ram but there is an option to disable the shared memory?

 

yeah i got a backpack too, but i really havent used it. Wont neeed it till i start school in september. For now i just use the supplied messenger bag

let me guess, it came with a mouse too?!

 

Thanks! is it made with magnesium or plastic ?

 

i do beleive its a tough plastic doesnt feel metal, but it is solid

 

It is polypropelene or plolyethelene plastic I believe. It is non painted plastic and is excellent quality. Its standard on most laptops. I wouldnt look at the materials, but more the actual method of build.

I got the messenger bag and mouse aswell. They are standard on non retail (by retail I mean Best Buy Circuit Cityetc). I think they are fine, but I might need a notebook sleeve so I can just put it in my school back bag.

 

lol, i was being sarcastic

 

thank you guys

 

Hi guys im looking to purchase this laptop in the UK. I have cancelled my order for the M1330 as it has taken so bloody long. Can I be convinced that this model will satisfy me since i play CS:S and BF2 mainly. Will it support the Intel Readyboost technology?

Thanks

Here is where I will be buying it from. Anyone know any recommended sites in the UK?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Asus_F3SV_Laptop_F3SV-AP073G/version-1.asp

 

Yes, yes, and yes, on all three of your questions. In fact, Eddie(Geared2play.com) has done some testing with Robson and the F3Sv, and GentechPC offers it as an upgrade.

 

Brilliant, I shall be buying it now.

 

Hello everyone. I purchased the F3Sv-b1 about 2 months ago and overall I've been satisfied with it's performance, although I've been most disappointed with both the performance of the video card, which was apparently underclocked by Asus.

Anywho, I've also been disappointed in the battery life, which lasts only 2 hours on a good day with the standard battery saving setting enabled. Anyone know how to extend the battery life?

 

youre gonna need a battery with a higher cell count. good luck finding that though. Otherwise...youre **** outa luck. The battery life for this system is abysmal.

 

I really would not consider abysmal. I have not seen any other systems with such specs that is able to push out 2 hours on battery saving out of a 6-cell battery. It is actually quite standard. If you really want 3-6 hours you are going to need to bump up to a 9-cell or a 12-cell. I think currently you can only purchase a 9-cell directly through Asus.

 

i play CSS all the time and i thiink it works great, it looks really good on this machine, i posted my video stress test results a while back (dont rememebr what page its on) but if you are interested i tested 4 different drivers and found that i get about 128 average fps.

this actually reminds me of a question i have, after i got my second GB of RAM back my fps actually dropped to like 83. Why is that? is this second stick of RAM slow or something? im really not sure what speed i got (it was on sale so i bought it, wasnt really thinking i guess )

 

Are you sure about that Fittserman. I highly doubt adding additional RAM will drop your FPS count. Make sure that the RAM you bought is DDR2-667, PC2-5300 ram, because that is the highest you can use on the Santa Rosa platform. If you bought a 533Mhz stick, then your both RAM modules will underclock to the lowest speed capable, and that might reduce gaming performance.

 

Hi guys,
I've purchased this notebook one month ago, so far with no problems (ain't Vista a problem?), I've installed another 1 gig of RAM and I was very pleased so far.

But today something strange happened - I can't hear any sound either from sounspeakers or headphones. I reinstalled audio drivers (tried both from asus pages) but with no succes... It looks that I'ts working properly in windows but all I can hear is popping sound when headphones are plugged. Actually even the pop-up icon that jack has been plugged or unplugged in is not showing anymore. Sound doesn't work in any application I've tried. It worked this morning and I don't recall doing anything with the sound settings since then. Any idea? Every input appreciated

 

head to the control panel, under "system" you'll find the device manager. check and see if your audio drivers have a yellow caution sign beside them.

 

o, nevermind i have increased the resolution since then... guess i forgot about that thanks for the help though

 

nope, everything is allright there. The volume bars are dancing too but I can hear only popping from the speakers, no sound.
Oh...geez...I've just found out that the hibernating\powering back on might help. Gonna try it

 

I just faced a weird problem.

I have a teammate with whom I would be doing projects. I made a user account for him. But when I try logging in with his, it doesnt and gives me an error asking me to contact the administrator.

anyone faced it?

 

Got it...I've only closed my lappy and then powered it on and it helped. Weird, I'm wondering why the multiple restarts didn't help It seems that I'm not the only one with the same problem. At least with a simple solution
Thanks anyway

 

I'm just wondering if anyone has the F3sv-B1 model and can please tell me their GPU idle-gaming temperatures on high performance..my idle on high performance is around 70-77 and during heavy gaming is around 85-90c...is that normal??

 

yeah man, i was worried about the same thing a while ago too, i thought those temps were pretty high but thats what im getting too. Also just a little bit of extra info, the CPU temp idle is around 50, but im havin trouble remembering what it is under a heavy load, it is posted back in this thread near the beginning , im going to say ~70 though

 

~65 idle for my GPU which is quite high, thermal paste is just bad i assume, i changed the thermal paste used and it dropped ~5 degrees...

 

Hi All.
Well got my F3SV-AK118G (Austrlaian Version) WSVGA+ Screen.
I looked for a new laptop for ages before setting on this one.
Overall i am very very happy with this notebook. Price vs built and quality is awsome.
My only dissapointments are the SPDIF output is on the front of the unit while video is on the side, a bit dumb really. Battery life could be a bit better.
Other than that it is a great unit. Hightly reccomended.

I dumped Vista and got XP MCE2005 on and it works great.
The only prob i am having is getting all the ATK hotkeys to work properly. But i am sure i will figure it out.

 

glad you like it, welcome to the family

 

This is the error I get when Vista starts.



This appears before the icons for different users is shown.

When I click on admin icon, Vista starts. But if i click the other, I get this



it seems to be a unique problem

 

Seems like the service isn't running. run services.msc from the run command window, and check whether Group Policy client is enabled and running. IF it isn't, set it to automatic.

 

Hi Sess.

I did that. Group policy was there and it was automatic.

 

Hmm... Is RPC enabled too?