Asus UL30VT FAQ / Official Owners Lounge redux

[hydra]

You could always torrent it. There is a legal use for torrents after all. I can't really imagine Asus getting upset that you might share the iso of their drivers which are already posted online for all to download.

If you do torrent it, let me know as I will consider seeding it for a while.

It's already posted, the ISO, by Asus? Link please? Yes this disk should be on the site but all I could find was the $30, 2 disk set for DVD restore.

This should have been included with all ul30vts, no?

Lol, yea, I haven't used torrent software, uTorrent, in a long while. The last I checked it looked like it was loaded with spam? Any suggestions?

[Seto]

It's already posted, the ISO, by Asus? Link please? Yes this disk should be on the site but all I could find was the $30, 2 disk set for DVD restore.

This should have been included with all ul30vts, no?

Lol, yea, I haven't used torrent software, uTorrent, in a long while. The last I checked it looked like it was loaded with spam? Any suggestions?

I think he meant drivers individually are posted for downloads
anyway I haven't seen any torrents for this, and as far as I know mine didn't come with a recovery disc/drivers cd it was sealed with the asus sticker too so it doesn't seem to have been tampered with.

and as for the problems its not really a battery life problem I think more of a videocard switching problem, before I reformatted and updated to bios211 I was getting 8-9 hours on powersave, now I get maybe 5 if I'm lucky. I notice the difference as soon as I installed the drivers. Literally the day before I was getting 3 hours more on the same battery.

As for uploading there are ways around it. sites like fileserve allows you to upload and download you're own files so I could create an account, send you the info and you could upload it..

@micman

if you don't mind sending a torrent file over maybe seeding for a bit it would be greatly appreciated. I haven't seen the file anywhere.

[hydra]

Ah, single files, OK. No, only the the Driver DVD was included. I wonder if Asus will send it..not?

OK, if you want it I'll take a break with Risen and upload. Send fileserve url if this is easier than a torrent? It will be about an 2.3 Gig ISO. When set up is run, you check only what you want installed, like no Norton or such.

cheers

[Seto]

not sure if fileserve will allow 2.3gb but if you don't mind giving it a try the url is
Free Online Storage & File Upload with FileServe
might have to set up a free account though I know they don't allow sharing files so don't make the info personal, as the only way to actually get the file is to give me the account after its uploaded to it

thanks for help

[hydra]

Nope, 200meg split files, yuk. Everything I found wants $ for the bigger files. I have the ISO ready if anyone can receive it. My cable uploads will be slow but will do during the night.

[micman]

All I need is either an ftp link or you will have to set up the iso as a torrent in a torrent client. I have never done this quite honestly but with how prolific torrents are it must be covered out there on the google. Tonight would be fine for me to start the download and don't worry about the upload speed. Mine isn't that fast either.

Just let me know either on here or PM what link to use and I'll start downloading it from you. If my Asus router hadn't died I could have set up an ftp server and made this very easy, but it did die. Thanks for offering to get the iso out there hydra, hopefully we can get it shared just like some of the other Asus laptops have the driver cd's shared online.

[hydra]

Hey guys, I'm uploading to free MS Skydrive..25GB!

It's free, I used 7-Zip to break into 46 (50M) chunks. The breaking up of huge files was always a turn off for me. BTW, 7-Zip very fast on the ul30s.

So, when uploaded I'll send out link. My thinking is that no one has to seed and it should be fast, any suggestions?

[micman]

Sounds good to me. I didn't know skydrive would allow zip files, that's pretty cool.

[hydra]

OK, we should be good to go.

You will need to combine the files back to ISO, I used 7-Zip to split.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx...CfxshurvUPrgJw

I'll check back later if there were any problems.

[micman]

omg this is fast! 1.1 mb/s down atm. once i get it combined i'll report back.
+ rep hydra!