* Asus N61JQ Owners Lounge *

[vilebackup]

Could you explain in a bit more detail? I've messed around with several drivers in Ubuntu and don't remember any system crashes from changing the driver settings. Sometimes messing with a compiz setting would disable the hardware drivers temporarily but that's it.

I'd suggest completely removing fglrx from package manager. Once it's gone, restart and install it from package manager. Do not use the drivers from the ATI site.

i tried activating the fglrx driver which was there by default after installing ubuntu. On restart, things would seem fine, except that i still couldnt enable compiz etc. then the screen would freeze. On restart, ubuntu (10.04 64-bit btw) would freeze onda login screen. Then i tried removing the ol driver and reinstalling fglrx again; same thing happened. Then i tried purgin the ol driver (found some instructions on an ubuntu forum), same thing happened.

[Risco]

For anyone interested in temperatures. Here is mine just sufing the net.

Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type CPU, HDD, Asus NB ACPI
GPU Sensor Type Diode (ATI-Diode)

Temperatures
CPU 55 °C (131 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 56 °C (133 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 52 °C (126 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 55 °C (131 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 52 °C (126 °F)
GPU Diode 55 °C (131 °F)
Seagate ST9640320AS 31 °C (88 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 2400 RPM
GPU 30%

[Danielek]

Don't you have a 2 year warranty?

Did you call Asus to get a RMA number and send in the laptop for repairs?

What you were reading was a post about my old laptop in reply to someone else who had the same model (HP Pavilion dv9644), hence the reference to two hard drives.

My ASUS I just got this week and haven't had any problems so far.

[guide155]

I can't install ati catalyst 10.4 It said kind of "user must be administrator". But my user already be administrative. solving by use "run as administrative" doesn't fix this issue.

How do i fix this.

(I can install catalyst form asus website)

[trinners]

How do i connect this to my HDTV? I use the HDMI cable but when I goto the input on the TV nothing shows up. Also when I try to"detect" alternate display settings on the laptop nothing shows up either. PLease help

[eunos82]

Typically when we get this type of problem in our Lab the first thing we do is ask the user if they have ever hooked up the laptop to an external monitor. If you have ANY way of doing that, do so - then work with it a few days. nex time you see those probs, see if it also shows up on the external monitor. If so, you likely have a video card issue. If not (the external monitor is fine but the laptop monitor is messed up) then it's likely you have an LCD issue. HP 6910/30 systems are notorious for their LCD's going out and the symptoms are as you describe so...my first 'gut reaction' is the LCD is bad...but this is one way to narrow that down.

Now, Asus systems may have completely different hardware issues so ... perhaps someone with more experience with these systems will have other insights.

I have this same issue

[scias23]

For anyone interested in temperatures. Here is mine just sufing the net.

Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type CPU, HDD, Asus NB ACPI
GPU Sensor Type Diode (ATI-Diode)

Temperatures
CPU 55 °C (131 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 56 °C (133 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 52 °C (126 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 55 °C (131 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 52 °C (126 °F)
GPU Diode 55 °C (131 °F)
Seagate ST9640320AS 31 °C (88 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 2400 RPM
GPU 30%

That's cool. I get 64+C just surfing the net for both cpu and gpu. Did you upgrade the thermal compund?

[yahweh]

That's cool. I get 64+C just surfing the net for both cpu and gpu. Did you upgrade the thermal compund?

same question

[Risco]

That's cool. I get 64+C just surfing the net for both cpu and gpu. Did you upgrade the thermal compund?

same question

Nope, but remember I do not live in a hot country ( UK ) Also it takes a while for the compound to settle in.

[k1492]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the boards but I registered here specifically because this only place that seemed to be discussing the N61JQ-A1 in depth which I've strongly been considering. I've currently got a low end Sager for low-end usage but I need something that can do some mid-range graphical work i.e. Flash CS5, Photoshop, Illustrator etc... also I want something that can run some of the more recent games[CODMW2,Boarderlands,Dragon Age]. I looked around and found the A1 to be the best for the price, the video of it running the Crysis demo sealed the deal. However in looking through the forums the reviews of this model are kind of all over the place. Some say it's amazingly powerful and well built, others say that it craps out on them first thing out of the box. Then there's also the horror stories of dealing with the Asus customer service. I know everyone has horror stories when it comes to laptops but the thing that concerns me is that most of the reports were posted from a few months ago, the most recent review on XOTICPC was from a few days ago. So I guess what I want to know is if anyone has an average of how reliable this laptop is and if anyone has any regrets after buying it. Thanks in advance.