G51j Blue screen of death problems

[Hydeo]

Well, I have an update if anybody has been following my issue (that was a joke)

It seems that uninstalling all the audio software and drivers, and installing the realtek high definition audio driver found on the asus support site, fixed my freezing problem. Computer has not frozen once in the past 2 days , while i am running steam perfectly.

I am wondering if I am missing out on anything with the Creative software uninstalled from the laptop? does this affect sound quality at all?

I know that the laptop supports EAX Advanced HD. I usually use headphones (planning on getting a set of Razer Morays).. But im not too qualified in the audio department, so if anybody could advise me as to whether I am missing out on anything with my current configuration in terms of audio.

Good to hear you got your steam problem fixed, did it happen to fix your BSOD as well?

[braheem88]

Havent played games enough to notice... Will do some on the weekend though.. few hours of Fallout 3 and no bsod, did freeze sometimes tho (just the game, just used task manager to get out of it)

Seems fine to me

[Cheeseman]

Honestly ASUS what the h*ll is wrong with this computer? I have only one game installed and from the beginning I've only seen problems. First was BOSD, but that went away after turning Extreme Turbo on. Now whenever I play the game weird things start happening randomly with the laptop. For example, during the game the computer starts making beep noises through speaker or earphones and it'll skip scenes a few times and at time if I press "D" or "Space" keyboard key’s it'll start making the noise even more. At some point I couldn't use the in game chat, because the keyboard wouldn't type text. I mean its a 4 yearold game and it never game me issues on my ASUS M51, M50 or the G50vt.
It’s not only games that are an issue, but today I lost a portion of my work, because 3ds Max decided to freeze while the fan went on and so I was forced to end the task. For what its worth I love this notebook in most part, but it's been almost a month since people started noticing these issues, so I expect a fix from ASUS or a replacement.

[kainwalker]

by the way , where is this laptop made in? China?
because i heard the chinese people took old micro chips and made them look new and sold them to companies. I saw on news where the us military bought some computer chips from china and installed it on their fighter jet, and they would malfunction real bad.
If this laptop is assembled or made in china, chances are the chips are crap.
(no offence)
but china is well known for their "fake" products.
there was a case where they made fake baby food and it containted toxins from cement!!!! and many babies died.
ALSO!! FAke Eggs, fake money, fake i phone, fake monitors, fake computers, fake laptops, fake FOOD, Fake EVERYTHING!!!

For all we know, the Whole country is probably fake.

Anyways, is this laptop made or assembled in china?

PS.. I saw on news and they said that there is more FAKE coins then Real Coins in china!!?!
sigh....

Yes. Made in China, probably for the cheap labor.
I understand that most non-Chinese would have the same feeling towards China about its fake products, but I think it is a bit naive to draw a conclusion so prematurely.
To be honest, I do not like China either, but I believe in QC.
"Made in China" would not really mean the whole product is made in China. I presume some parts (e.g. the CPU) will be made in Malaysia or other parts of the world, and after assembly ASUS and the retailer will perform QC on the product, and even if it fails afterwards, there is 2~3 years warranty.
I do hope ASUS will provide an ultimate fix on the issue, though.

[drifter269]

Hi all... Just posting my experiences. Bought a G51j new from Ottawa on Friday. It had the latest BIOS already installed. Have been playing MW2 for about 3 hours and in that time had 3 x bsod. The word disappointed hardly describes what Im feeling about this notebook. However, Im optimistic for a fix

[ALLurGroceries]

I've had no BSOD yet on my G51J, I must be doing something wrong. I finished COD MW2 single player and did some multiplayer yesterday, probably a total of 5 hours, no problems on max settings @ native res in performance mode (no turbo). Stock factory Win7 install, latest BIOS, latest drivers.

[braheem88]

Honestly ASUS what the h*ll is wrong with this computer? I have only one game installed and from the beginning I've only seen problems. First was BOSD, but that went away after turning Extreme Turbo on. Now whenever I play the game weird things start happening randomly with the laptop. For example, during the game the computer starts making beep noises through speaker or earphones and it'll skip scenes a few times and at time if I press "D" or "Space" keyboard key’s it'll start making the noise even more. At some point I couldn't use the in game chat, because the keyboard wouldn't type text. I mean its a 4 yearold game and it never game me issues on my ASUS M51, M50 or the G50vt.
It’s not only games that are an issue, but today I lost a portion of my work, because 3ds Max decided to freeze while the fan went on and so I was forced to end the task. For what its worth I love this notebook in most part, but it's been almost a month since people started noticing these issues, so I expect a fix from ASUS or a replacement.

I think I may know what your problem is.

I tried playing Batman and the same thing happened to me... Turns out by default (maybe just for me), two additional chinese languages were added to my keyboard settings, and to switch to them you had to press shift and alt, so I would do that on accident, and it would render most of my keyboard useless in-game.

Check your keyboard language settings, and delete any additional languages, and the hotkeys to switch to them, if they may appear.

When I had that issue, pressing space in batman would bring up a beeping sound.


So far, with the creative EAX software uninstalled (just stuck with the Realtek HD audio driver provided on the ASus support website for this laptop), I have not encountered any actual freezing of the computer itself, or BSOD in game (played alott of fallout 3 the other day).

[thalanix]

by the way , where is this laptop made in? China?
because i heard the chinese people took old micro chips and made them look new and sold them to companies. I saw on news where the us military bought some computer chips from china and installed it on their fighter jet, and they would malfunction real bad.
If this laptop is assembled or made in china, chances are the chips are crap.
(no offence)
but china is well known for their "fake" products.
there was a case where they made fake baby food and it containted toxins from cement!!!! and many babies died.
ALSO!! FAke Eggs, fake money, fake i phone, fake monitors, fake computers, fake laptops, fake FOOD, Fake EVERYTHING!!!

For all we know, the Whole country is probably fake.

Anyways, is this laptop made or assembled in china?

PS.. I saw on news and they said that there is more FAKE coins then Real Coins in china!!?!
sigh....

Made in China means that was where it was assembled. if you dug into the laptop itself, the wifi card (maybe cpu/gpu) will have 'Made in' tags (1000 and 5300 are also China).

Honestly ASUS what the h*ll is wrong with this computer? I have only one game installed and from the beginning I've only seen problems. First was BOSD, but that went away after turning Extreme Turbo on. Now whenever I play the game weird things start happening randomly with the laptop. For example, during the game the computer starts making beep noises through speaker or earphones and it'll skip scenes a few times and at time if I press "D" or "Space" keyboard key’s it'll start making the noise even more. At some point I couldn't use the in game chat, because the keyboard wouldn't type text. I mean its a 4 yearold game and it never game me issues on my ASUS M51, M50 or the G50vt.
It’s not only games that are an issue, but today I lost a portion of my work, because 3ds Max decided to freeze while the fan went on and so I was forced to end the task. For what its worth I love this notebook in most part, but it's been almost a month since people started noticing these issues, so I expect a fix from ASUS or a replacement.

as mentioned, the keyboard thing would probably be because of the language packs.

what game?

I've had no BSOD yet on my G51J, I must be doing something wrong. I finished COD MW2 single player and did some multiplayer yesterday, probably a total of 5 hours, no problems on max settings @ native res in performance mode (no turbo). Stock factory Win7 install, latest BIOS, latest drivers.

never knew cod ran in wine .
it's not the greatest game to check, as i went through 6 hours of sp on veteran without issues as well. MW1 and borderlands are best, but still flaky on it.

[dune10191]

I think I may know what your problem is.

I tried playing Batman and the same thing happened to me... Turns out by default (maybe just for me), two additional chinese languages were added to my keyboard settings, and to switch to them you had to press shift and alt, so I would do that on accident, and it would render most of my keyboard useless in-game.

Check your keyboard language settings, and delete any additional languages, and the hotkeys to switch to them, if they may appear.

When I had that issue, pressing space in batman would bring up a beeping sound.


So far, with the creative EAX software uninstalled (just stuck with the Realtek HD audio driver provided on the ASus support website for this laptop), I have not encountered any actual freezing of the computer itself, or BSOD in game (played alott of fallout 3 the other day).

Whenever I press shift and ctrl (or was it alt) at the same time in the Batman demo it would somehow switch languages to chinese and render almost all the controls useless. Gives me the beep too. I would have to exit and restart to fix.

[Cheeseman]

I think I may know what your problem is.

I tried playing Batman and the same thing happened to me... Turns out by default (maybe just for me), two additional chinese languages were added to my keyboard settings, and to switch to them you had to press shift and alt, so I would do that on accident, and it would render most of my keyboard useless in-game.

Check your keyboard language settings, and delete any additional languages, and the hotkeys to switch to them, if they may appear.

When I had that issue, pressing space in batman would bring up a beeping sound.


So far, with the creative EAX software uninstalled (just stuck with the Realtek HD audio driver provided on the ASus support website for this laptop), I have not encountered any actual freezing of the computer itself, or BSOD in game (played alott of fallout 3 the other day).

You Sir were correct on that Chinese/Taiwanese keyboard language thing. I was not aware it came installed by default, but I quickly removed it and hopefully when I get the time I'll test it out with good results.

A rep to you.

as mentioned, the keyboard thing would probably be because of the language packs.

what game?

Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2.