Official S96S Owners Lounge

[tomgrm]

Actually with a bit of scavenging you can install XP on most, if not all, ASUS laptops. We have good guides for doing that, for many popular laptops. See the Info Booth.

Also, Vista is not as bad as people make it. You should give it a try before you kill it, if you do buy a new laptop. I killed it myself on the W7Sg, but for you it may be different.

really? wow! thats awesome! when I do end up getting a new laptop I will make sure the one I buy can have XP installed on it. I just dont like Vista. all my friends and acquaintances that have Vista tend to have problems and I just know I wont want to deal with that. I duno though, maybe when the time finally comes for me to upgrade vista way have had a good service pack or something that makes it tollerable to me.
Thanks for the heads up though!

[davron]

k, guys i managed to fix the TEEEEEEEEEE noise using rmclock. use this thread to info S96S High pitched TEEEEEEEEEEEEE noise HELP
It is basically the c4 state and it has to be disabled to get rid of the noise.

Here are the steps.
Download this version http://forum.rightmark.org/topic.cgi?id=6:1217

1.Settings tab-run when windows starts via regis key.
2. Management tab-uncheck both use os load manage and run HLT
3.Management tab- under cpu default settings, pull down cpu defined fid/vid
4.advance settings tab,under processor- disable both c4 and hard c4states
5.advance settings tab, under platform 1-uncheck enter c4andc3 on command, check enable popup mode, check disable c4 mode, check enable c5&c6, check enable slow c4-exit.
and thats it the noice will be gone w/ loss in battery life!

try it , it works for me.

worked. thanks a lot. +1!

[davron]

PS: Just noticed that the temperature went from 50 to 82+ after that... almost ruined the CPU. Be careful with disabling c4 mode

[nictki]

hello,

I have a little problem with my S96,
I wanted upgrade my BIOS, but didn't see that battery is almost empty
[yes I know, I'm a big Idiot], and offcourse, laptop switched off in few min. later, without finishing the flashing,
after that, I see just a black screen, nothing else
I've tryed few methods that I found around in the net, but without success...

Have anyone any suggestion ?

PS.
sorry for my english

[tomgrm]

My DVD/CD burner is acting wierd. It reads like it should, and burns DVD's like it should, but when I try to burn any kind of CD with many different programs it appears like it has burned the CD, like it goes through the whole process and looks like the program has burned the CD but then when I eject it and put it in any machine it is read as blank, including my own Laptop..... has anyone come across this problem before or know what to do? Has my drive crapped out on me?

[satdog]

PS: Just noticed that the temperature went from 50 to 82+ after that... almost ruined the CPU. Be careful with disabling c4 mode

That is interesting...doesn't happen to me

[satdog]

hello,

I have a little problem with my S96,
I wanted upgrade my BIOS, but didn't see that battery is almost empty
[yes I know, I'm a big Idiot], and offcourse, laptop switched off in few min. later, without finishing the flashing,
after that, I see just a black screen, nothing else
I've tryed few methods that I found around in the net, but without success...

Have anyone any suggestion ?

PS.
sorry for my english

OH man! big mistake. I guess u can try removing your battery and then put it in again. if it doesn't post anything.....trouble

[MiSHAK]

Does notebook at least lights on/off|battery led?
When I flashed badly it went off totally (I was running on AC when flashing). I would suggest to sent it for repairs. Worked for me

[Ken_Afford]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with my S96: my laptop doesn't boot anymore, I have a "can't detect TPM device" error and the laptop freezes when I try to enter BIOS

An idea, anyone?

PS : I hope my english is understandable ^^

I have this same problem. Does anyone have a solution for this? It started when I tried AHCI setting instead of emulate IDE in SATA Bios option. I tried this before but was still able to enter the bios to revert back to IDE emulation mode. Now I can't enter the bios by pressing F2 and doesn't boot my hard drive or any bootable CD. I tried pressing the reset button underneath (labeled with >o<) and also tried reflashing the bios using ezflash (press alt+f2 on bootup with a s96s.bin bios file on a CD)

[Morgue666]

hy, i got my S96S last year, 2008, in august, and it has been in repair like 2 times and i am gonne take it again to fix it, one of my usb port is not working, hard drive has been replaced but sometimes it starts to make weird clicking, power off then on helps then, but its not normal, and it has 701 bios version i think, aaa and it creates alot of heat, gpu goes with vista up to 100C !!!!!!!, with xp its normal, like 70C, i think this heat causes freezing, just playeing, or on booting, the picture freezes, nothing helps than pressing the power button, they changed my MB and HD and still go to repair that PC :S

sry for my very bad english, but i hope that everybody understands and can give good advise