G51J-A1 Owners Lounge

[sammygee]

Those Creative drivers are clearly a cause of multiple issues. I have now reinstalled the Copperhead drivers and am not experiencing any issues.

It is definitely the Creative drivers.

[mesoslo]

I plan on using the recovery disc that came with it to do a recovery to factory settings. Will this remove all that crap ware that came with the laptop? This way I can install the needed drivers and loose some dead weight.

Do you guys know if a lot of the crapware is installed in which partition? I want to get rid of all that software crap.

If this laptop takes 120W and airplanes only output 75W, and if I use a power inverter to output continous
150W, will the power inverter fry my laptop? would a 300W power inverter fry my laptop?

[MichaelKW]

The recovery disc will allow you to do a 'clean' install as long as you don't insert the driver disc when it asks. Instead, reboot your machine. It'll continue with its install procedure but without the asus utilities and drivers. You'll have to install the ATK drivers and utilities as well as a few others to have full functionality back (function shortcuts, etc) but otherwise it won't install the other 'bloatware'.

All utilities are installed on drive c... it just partitions your drives depending on what you choose during install, not put programs or utilities in those other partitions.

It doesn't matter how much wattage is provided to your laptop, as long as you don't exceed that draw and its provided in the right voltage. Running in 'battery mode' will keep your processor in the lower wattage range its capable of for example, from around 15w to 30w. As long as you don't exceed whats provided, you'd be fine. It can be somewhat dificult to figure that threshold out, however, since there's no provided display of total wattage use. A larger inverter shouldn't matter, its the voltage it provides that matters.

[mesoslo]

The recovery disc will allow you to do a 'clean' install as long as you don't insert the driver disc when it asks. Instead, reboot your machine. It'll continue with its install procedure but without the asus utilities and drivers. You'll have to install the ATK drivers and utilities as well as a few others to have full functionality back (function shortcuts, etc) but otherwise it won't install the other 'bloatware'.

All utilities are installed on drive c... it just partitions your drives depending on what you choose during install, not put programs or utilities in those other partitions.

It doesn't matter how much wattage is provided to your laptop, as long as you don't exceed that draw and its provided in the right voltage. Running in 'battery mode' will keep your processor in the lower wattage range its capable of for example, from around 15w to 30w. As long as you don't exceed whats provided, you'd be fine. It can be somewhat dificult to figure that threshold out, however, since there's no provided display of total wattage use. A larger inverter shouldn't matter, its the voltage it provides that matters.

thanks for the answer, I just want clarify a few things, on the drivers dvd, what drivers and utilities do I really need from that dvd?

[fuyuki]

thanks for the answer, I just want clarify a few things, on the drivers dvd, what drivers and utilities do I really need from that dvd?

you really don't need anything from the driver disk. Everything on the driver disk can be downloaded at asus website.

[avianu123]

Just got my laptop. COuldn't explore more, a bit busy since last 2 weeks of semester, grrr bad timing... Anyways, for some reason, whenever I run gtalk and try to sign in, the system hangs completely!!! Same thing with yahoo messenger!! SO far other softwares that I have installed are skype, office, acrobat reader and they have no problems so far..

[mesoslo]

I think I will just upgrade my ram instead of using window recovery.
Can this laptop's ram be upgraded to 6GB or 8GB? I assume yes because I have seen other setups with higher ram.

But, does this mean that all ram companies are compatible with the asus g51j, or do I have to find a specific ram company that is compatible with the asus
G51J?

I know that you should uninstall the creative sound drivers, what other drivers do you need to uninstall?

[stuckfugu]

CPUID Harware Moniter says that GPU temperature is around 83C when I'm idling or just surfing the net.

Is something wrong or is it supposed to be that high?

[largefarva]

Do you have your laptop sitting on your lap or is it on a table top while getting 83C? Mine can at times get almost that high if I have it sitting right on my lap, but that's because I'm pretty sure I'm partially blocking the air intake. If I put my laptop cooler (just sitting there...not actually running the fans in it) under it while on my lap it lowers down to the mid 60's to lower 70's. If I set it on a table top it stays in the upper 50's to mid 60's. All of this while just surfing the net etc.

[mesoslo]

Is this ram compatible with our asus G51j?

Corsair CMSO4GX3M1A1333C9 4GB 1X4GB DDR3-1333 CL9-9-9-24 204PIN SODIMM Memory

Its a 4GB stick, I wanted to upgrade the ram on my laptop. Do I have to flash bios or do anything special when install this ram stick?