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    G1s - Xp?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gibson00, Jun 12, 2007.

  1. Dylanamus

    Dylanamus Notebook Enthusiast

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    Since successfully installing XP, I've been working at getting all resources and components up and running. I have ran into several conflicts and still haven't resolved a handfull.

    Video was a bit of a headache, as I was unable to install video drivers due to the responsible PCI-e bus being involved in a resourse conflict. Through trial and error I found the conflict to be System Device: Intel(R) ICH8 Family PCI Express Root Port 3 - 2843.

    If you experience similar difficulties installing display drivers - the best of which I've found so far being these:
    http://www.tweakforce.com/goz5000/XTreme-G Mobile 163.44 XP 32bit.exe
    then at your own descretion I would recommend disabling each PCI Express Root Port, restarting, enabling the port back and and move onto the next port until the "New Hardware Dectected" pop-up appears for a new PCI bus.

    This driver is working fine so far, but due to not having an eSATA cable or a firewire device, I haven't been able to deduce which PCI controlled device has been shutdown to get around this conflict.

    Again, I hope this guide is helpful, but please only take it as a guide, as each system is different and I don't want to be responsible if anything goes wrong by taking my advice. Cheers
     
    Dylanamus, Dec 5, 2007
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  2. Dylanamus

    Dylanamus Notebook Enthusiast

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    I called Asus and they explained that...

    Intel(R) ICH8 Family PCI Express Root Port 3 - 2843.

    ...is the 1gb of Turbo memory for the video card and the conflict is apparent because in my system I have 3gb of system RAM, which is the maximum XP can address.

    The problem can be resolved by going back to 2gb RAM when in XP or by disabling the turbo RAM (which won't work in XP anyway apparently).

    I have not done any benchmarking to back up this theory with facts, but playing Oblivion on the same settings on both OSs feels faster on XP (FRAPS displays lower FPS on XP than Vista), even without the Turbo memory.

    I don't imagine I'm the only person wondering about these things, so again I hope my posts help someone out. Cheers
     
    Dylanamus, Dec 5, 2007
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  3. MRpigglywikkly

    MRpigglywikkly Newbie

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    Does anyone still have the xp driver pack that was posted? I just picked up this laptop and am having trouble finding them.
     
    MRpigglywikkly, Dec 20, 2007
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  4. yianniscy84

    yianniscy84 Notebook Enthusiast

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    yianniscy84, Dec 20, 2007
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  5. MRpigglywikkly

    MRpigglywikkly Newbie

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    yianniscy84, i will never stop loving you...NEVER
     
    MRpigglywikkly, Dec 21, 2007
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  6. Grelot

    Grelot Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone got ahold of the Base system device drivers..? what is it..? and is anybody beside me having this left out in the device manager..? i installed every drivers and got this standing there doing nothing but being there... ( on XP) but regardless of it being "there" everything work perfect... so i just wanna know what is it...
     
    Grelot, Dec 23, 2007
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  7. trOn.

    trOn. Notebook Guru

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    I cant seem to install the Intel Matrix drivers. Always says my PC doesnt meet the requirements. Am i doing something worng?
     
    trOn., Dec 23, 2007
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