XNOTE P330 Owner's Thread

Welcome to the Owner's Thread for the LG XNOTE P330!

This thread is a place to discuss your P330 and share information on your system with fellow owners.

Pictures


Videos
Release Video
Boot Time
Express Cache vs SSD

Models
P330-UE40K
P330-UE70K
P330-UE75K
P330-UE4UK
P330-UE7UK
P330-UE4DK
P330-UE4WK (Silver)
P330-KE1BK
P330-KE1WK (Silver)
P330-KE4WK (Silver)

Comparison chart for the UE40K and UE70K:

Spoiler

Drivers & Manuals
BIOS Version F12
Nvidia GT555M
ElanTech Touchpad Driver
LG Intelligent Update <-- Manuals and the rest of the drivers can be obtained using this application.

Guides
Disassembly Tutorial
How to add a language pack to an installed Windows 7 Professional or Home Premium

Reviews
dieselpower666: Part 1, Part 2
hyttjo
Natadiem
Comparison between the P330 and P310 by giannos


2.5" SSD Compatibility (pre-F12)
[ ] Crucial C300 (Marvell 88SS9174-BJP2)
[ ] Crucial M4 (Marvell 88SS9174-BLD2)
[X] Intel 320 (Intel PC29AS21BA0)
[ ] Kingston SSD Now V (JMicron JMF618)
[ ] OCZ Agility 3 (SandForce SF-2281)
[ ] OCZ Vertex 3 (SandForce SF-2281)
[ ] Seagate Momentus XT 750GB

mSata SSD Compatibility
[X] Intel 310 (Intel PC29AS21BA0)
[X] MyDigital SSD Bullet Proof 50mm (Phison PS3105)
[X] OCZ Nocti (SandForce SF-2141/2181)
[X] RunCore RCP-V-T50 (SandForce SF-2281)

Other Threads
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lg/585292-lg-p330-i7-nvidia-555m.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lg/636568-lg-p330-review-natadiem.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lg/636896-p330-how-get.html

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Feel free to PM me with additional information and suggestions.

 

Very nice thread and structure! Thanks!

BTW, I will give a mini review soon! Most likely I will be receiving my LG P330 UE40K next week

I cant wait !

 

Thanks! Looking forward to it.

 

Great job convel! Love the collection of info you put together

 

I noticed the GPU-Z ASIC Test thread today and did the test. My 555M chip managed to get 97.4% (lucky!). It would be interesting to see how well the rest of the P330 owners score.

 

Mine only 94.8%

 

Poor thing. No wonder you haven't posted your result in the aforementioned thread. (j/k, your score is very good)

 

I got 90.5 for mine!

 

Thanks Convel for the thread .

My gpu has 95%.

 

No problem. I wanted it myself anyway, and it didn't take much time to create. It seems like the P330 has been blessed with some pretty high quality silicone. That'll come in handy when overclocking is needed.

 

Ha ha haaaa

 

I will check mine in a second.. My baby just came here

 

Congratulations and welcome to the club! Hopefully you won't experience the same problems I did before replacing my network card.

 

95,7 Percent.. Well, I guess everything over 90 is great huh?

Thank you, I cant give any info about that yet.. just did the backup.. I will write some more about the lg p330 in this thread once Ive got the time to test it a little

But for the first impression.. Great! Its much smaller then I thought it would be, could it be that its more of a 12,5 inch formfactor? I absolutely love the size and also the build quality, very nice that most of it is aluminum

One question I have though, is it possible to turn of turbo boost in bios? In the m14x there was an option.. I heard though that one can limit the powerplan of the cpu via windows powermanagement to processor maximum state of 99 percent and then turbo boost doesnt go on.. Is that right?

BTW: Can someone recommend a good back or neoprene sleeve that fits the p330 perfectly? Or just say which one you use

 

I use the Crumpler Fug for 13" MacBook Air.

 

I use an Incase sleeve

13" Neoprene Slim Sleeve for 13" MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro by Incase

And nice scores you guys! Mine seems to be the lowest right now lol (but I still love my laptop )

 

How do we overclock the graphic card in P330?

 

The bezel is certainly thin, so it should be a bit smaller than most 13 inch laptops. And yes, the finish and sturdiness is great.

I use the Vyper XS3 which seems to offer pretty good protection. The only thing that keeps it from being a perfect fit is the rear of the P330 (the battery makes it slightly too thick). When I need to carry it around I put the Vyper inside an EPIC laptop series bag for 13 inch laptops.

MSi's Afterburner should do the trick. Haven't tried it yet myself.

 

@dieselpower666: Now THAT is a golden chip. Make sure to post it in the ASIC thread as well.

 

Great Chip dieselpower666 ! I assume you got the ue40k too or the ue70k?

BTW THanks for everything guys, im still deciding on the bag though, the neoprene macbook one from incase seems very good, but I want one that fits perfectly

 

I hope I didn't scare you off with the battery thickness part of the Vyper XS3. The problem I mentioned is virtually nonexistent. It is a really good fit and has foam inside. The foam will adapt so that the case becomes completely flush on the outside. The exterior is also very rugged, more so than any other hard case I've seen. I remember seeing some guy here on NBR standing on his with the laptop inside and the laptop took no damage from it whatsoever.

 

Ill check if I can get yours in Germany too, for now I have a bag

BTW One big question!! The power input seems kind of wobbly when its inserted, is that normal or is mine somehow broken? I mean its not totally wobbly but you dont need to apply alot of force when the AC Cable is inserted in the notebook to wobble it around? My previous notebook, the m14x, had a rock solid power input, I couldnt move the end of the power cable at all once it was inserted

 

I hadn't noticed. Tried doing it now and it is present on mine as well. How's the network card working out for you so far?

 

Thank you so much for trying! I was really concerned that mine was somehow broken, but as I said its nothing too extreme, its just a little bit wobbly

About the network card, I havent really been able to test it yet, I live with my parents and we got a MAC ID safe network, so my dad needs to unlock my MAC ID before I can test it out, but I will be sure to test it enough during gaming sessions..

Sorry for not writing a review yet, Im currently finishing school (only a few weeks left) and very busy

But thank you very much for this thread, people like you are the reason why I even bought this notebook and why I had no trouble installing .inf modified drivers.. Thank you for taking your time to inform and share

And I absolutely love the p330, its the perfect size and quality Even if there will be alot of 640m and 650m notebooks with ivy bridge and kepler which outperform the p330, I wouldnt trade the p330 for them, except if its the p350 xD

 

It will be interesting to see if LG produces a competitive ultrabook with a Kepler GPU.

 

No problem. This community is all about sharing, and as a result I'm far from being the largest and only contributor. I have my fair share of things to be grateful for. About that review of yours: there's no need to stress it. It's not like it's mandatory or anything. If you feel like doing it then that's great, but again, no need to stress it.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm planning to write a short tutorial on how to replace the network card in the P330. As far as I know me and robohgedhang were the only ones that had serious problems with ours, so if you don't experience any problems I can allow myself to postpone it a bit.

Yeah, It will be interesting to see what they come up with. I really hope they don't discontinue the current series though as the form factor of the P330/P310 makes room for a beefier GPU.

 

New driver (296.10) are stable on lg p310. Only two lines to modify on the inf, not too hard this time.

 

Can you please tell me how? Havent installed any new driver yet

Or is the driver already downloadable from laptopvideo2go

Thank you

EDIT:

Okay my MAC ID is free now, and my wifi connection is very good and stable up until now (had about half a day on already)

 

gamba66 are you using Bigfoot Killer 1103 now?

 

I'm the one using a Killer 1103. Or does gamba66 have one as well?

 

No, I got the standard p330 ue40k without any upgrades whatsoever, so its got the normal wifi!!

And it works flawlessly, Ive had some time to test it now, and I could play online without any lags or anything and surfing is also flawless..

As a matter of fact, I havent had any better wifi than with this notebook, I got the full 5 Bars, even though with my desktop I only get maximum 3.. weird xD

 

Yeah, the range was very good on the stock card. Too bad I had random disconnects and sluggishness with it. How close to your actual connection do you get on wireless (speedtest.net)?

 

I havent tested it yet, but I will as soon as Im home again But I think its very good..

Its actually surprising, the m14x with the intel 6250 wlan module had a much worse connection.. and my linksys desktop card actually had such a bad connection, that I decided to use dLan (lan over electricity)

One question to you guys!

How can I install the newest 296 nvidia driver!

 

what's the max memory the p330 can handle? would it be possible to replace the ram with 2x 8gb sticks in there?

 

Head over to Nvidia to download the latest driver. Let the setup extract the required files and close it. Open the newly extracted Display.Driver folder and replace the nvwi.inf file with the one you'll find here. After that you can run the setup file that you'll find inside the root of the extracted folder and proceed to install as you normally would.

Note: To make sure you don't run into any problems I would recommend uninstalling the current driver before installing the new one and tick the clean install checkbox.

I don't think anyone has tried 8GB modules yet.

 

Diablo 3 runs even better than before. Ambiant occlusion doesn t decrease perf too much on our P330

 

Yes you can replace the ram with 2x 8gb sticks. My P330 has 16gb ram

 

Hey, I have 16GB total ram in my P330

 

Thanks! good to know it's supported, looking into getting one but I needed 16gb for vmware and I wasn't sure if it was supported.

 

FYI, I got a Runcore 120gb msata drive with a SandForce SF-2281 controller that works fine in my UE40K, Im getting 20second boot times on a clean Win7 Ultimate install.

 

You mean the RunCore RCP-V-T50, right? I only found two mSATA SSDs by RunCore, and those two are 120GB.

 

Ack, you are correct my bad, its a 120gb, I ordered it from here RunCore 120GB Pro V SATA 6G 50MM mSATA SSD | My Digital Discount

Orignal post corrected

 

No problem. Just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same SSD. Thanks for letting us know!

 

Hey guys. Now I have a big problem with this ue40k, its the second time but this time it doesnt post anymore. I mean I put power on with or without battery and it start, sometimes even not, only black screen.

 

Usually it doesnt fall under warranty if you exchange the HDD and/or RAM!

But if its the source of the problem you should maybe provide the original parts, I think it would be a good thing to build in the original parts, just in case!

You should contact the finnish LG if you have the possibility to somehow! I contacted the german LG through the german official LG forum, but if you dont have such a forum, just look on the finnish LG homepage for a customer service number..

You should be ready to provide your personal information such as name and etc. and the two serial numbers under the battery!

BTW Guys I have found an ebay seller that sells the LG p220 IPS display..

Do you think its possible to build this into the p330 chassis, since it even has the same resolution? Its just a little bit smaller (12,5 inches vs 13,3 inches of the p330)

 

Replacing memory or hard drive doesn't usually affect warranty, if the parts are meant to be user replaceable in the first place. Of course breaking the computer while replacing something is not covered by warranty anyways.

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Difficulty in this is that legally LG Finland isn't required to provide service for this model since it isn't sold here.

Techical side of the problem might be that maybe the service points cannot order spare parts for models not sold in Finland. I know I have this problem with some other brands I might be certified to repair

InfoCare is the service partner, their website has also some information.

 

Lg Germany says the warranty is international!!

Im already registered for a 24 hour pickup service..

Also they say, if parts are missing, they will be requested from s.korea, hence the repairs may take longer

I am sure you also get warranty in finland!

 

If it's international warranty, then contacting LG with those previous links should be enough to have it repaired

 

Okey, thanks. Ill try tomorrow to call there and see what they can do with this