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    Anyone figure out the Instant On function on the A8Jx?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tallshorty, Jun 23, 2006.

  1. tallshorty

    tallshorty Notebook Evangelist

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    I still can't get this to work probably. Anyone have this button working properly?
    Is it also on the W3J?
     
    tallshorty, Jun 23, 2006
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    tallshorty : Lots of discussion about this already. ASUS is trying to cover up by saying it's a documentation error. They've re-written the documentation to say it'll just load Windows and default media player.

    But if you ask an owner of A8F to veryfiy (one with integrated graphics card), apparently they should tell you that it works fine on their machine (ie. when pc is off, hit InstantON, it'll load external media player without booting to Windows).

    Seems their programmers haven't been able to figure out how InstantON should run without loading Windows on notebooks with dedicated graphics cards..
     
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    ic, **** that sucks. Ok thanks.
     
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    bump,
    anyone figured it out? someone tried a new bios if there is one?


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    Insane, Nov 7, 2006
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