Asus M51Ta Owners' Lounge

[Tshroom]

I get BSD almost every time I try to install or uninstall ATI drivers.

I hear that Driver Heaven is working with ATI on making 10.1+ drivers compatible with mobility modder. Maybe that will solve our problems.

[imanol]

Well, the 10.7s are out. Any brave soul willing to give them a try?

[maus64]

"Well, the 10.7s are out. Any brave soul willing to give them a try?"

No thanks!!! I'm happy with my buggy 9.9 ;-)

[hirichardshi]

I need to replace the LCD on an Asus L50, which has the same design and structure as the M50 series. I can't find a service manual that shows how to disassemble it to replace the screen. Anyone here have a suggestion? Thanks!

[ZanQuance]

Negative the 10.7's do not display on the LCD, they detect the 3650 as a TV output device and will only work on HDMI...

Lame that there isn't a way to set the display output device in an override setting somewhere.

All in all, the 10.x drivers do indeed work just fine, but as mentioned before they only display the 3650 via HDMI output.

I want a new laptop with the 5xxx series in it *drool* Starcraft 2 doesn't play so well on this lappy unless everything is set to low/medium

[imanol]

I'm using my M51Ta mostly as a media center nowadays. I bought the MSI GX640 and highly recommend it. It comes with a 5850 with 1GB GDDR5. In my opinion, it's the king of the best-bang-for-buck category at 1,099 USD. Plus if you're from North America and register within 30 days, your 2 year warranty gets upgraded into 3 years. It does run a little hot, though.

[cody1212]

@bacon612 Currently in a long line of emails with the same guy, they're trying to pawn off a replacement laptop on me that is 1 grand less than what is being replaced. I also cannot get any answers from them, they never call back as they claim, and all inquiries into their Indiana repair facility are met with lies, or vague information. (IE: It will be fixed and shipped by next week; We can't change your shipping information; They'll have to call you back; and on)- Oh yeah, 1 month after ownership, dies won't start. 1yr later, graphics card now blew, W90VP-A1

[bacon612]

@bacon612 Currently in a long line of emails with the same guy, they're trying to pawn off a replacement laptop on me that is 1 grand less than what is being replaced. I also cannot get any answers from them, they never call back as they claim, and all inquiries into their Indiana repair facility are met with lies, or vague information. (IE: It will be fixed and shipped by next week; We can't change your shipping information; They'll have to call you back; and on)- Oh yeah, 1 month after ownership, dies won't start. 1yr later, graphics card now blew, W90VP-A1

Any luck resolving your issue? Are you saying that Asus is willing to replace your M51TA with a different model?

[femturul]

Hi all! I only have a short question for you, m51ta veterans!
If i install one of the new (10.*) catalysts, will the discrete 3650 shut down completely(so no power consumption persists), if i only use the notebook's lcd? I'm using win7 pro x64 atm, with mobility modded 9.9 catalyst, i think the power usage of the 2 gpus are added together because while idling in the least consuming power settings, my notebook eats up a minimum of 22-23 Wh-s... Normally, under factory vista it used only 15-16Wh-s, or so.

Thanks in advance for any answers you might provide:
Alex

[ZanQuance]

@femturul
When you disable a device in the device manager, it will shut it off. So use the 9.12's for now and just disable the 3650.

@Everyone else
Just installed the 10.10e drivers, these also do not support the 3650 properly. So back down to the 9.12's I go. Although the 3200 does work with all of these driver sets so far.