Asus N43SL/SN Owners' Lounge

[too456]

Do you mean my driver list or Realtek's driver list? There's only one option for mine, it's here.

[dorsk81]

Well, Asus tech have been very fast. Laptop was taken on Monday and Friday has come to me repaired.

I was able to put the latest BIOS from a USB stick, but both before and after wearing them, I've noticed that now the VGA gets hotter than before. Ugh, what a hell ...

They have also done something wrong, Asus have placed seals blocking the compartments of the RAM and HD. Do not assume that I can extend it if I please, without affecting the warranty?

[IcySoya]

Do you mean my driver list or Realtek's driver list? There's only one option for mine, it's here.

I get redirected to Station-Drivers: le site de drivers, bios, firmwares avec un forum d'aide :/

[too456]

Sorry, that link was broken. Try this one.

[Lightspeed Champ]

Hi, this is my first time posting.

I have a N43S with i7-2630QM, 4Gb of RAM and GT 540m and I really like it.

However I'm a little worried about how it heats while gaming. While playing Mass Effect 2 for exemple, I get the temperatures shown on the picture, it seems to be pretty hot. Is this normal?

I was thinking of opening it and trying to clean the dust, but don't know how to open it. Are there any videos explaining how to do this procedure?

[too456]

Actually, your temperatures are very good. Did you play for 30 minutes or is that temperature from when the game just starts? After playing for hours, the maximum temps for CPU and GPU for my computer are 90 degs and 78 degs respectively.

[osnamj]

Hi, first post here.

Got a N43SL i7-2630QM / 8GB / 1GB GT540m / 500GB Travelstar 7K500 7200rpm.

Great machine, although had to reinstall everything form a Windows 7 DVD instead the ASUS restore, because all of the bloatware... Clean install with only the software that matters is way better!!

But then... when updating to BIOS414 with easyflash, everything went ok, everything verified, the computer shuts down after update... and never got up again .
Went to ASUS support, they even tried to recover the BIOS, but no success, got to have a new MB. Damn...
Now I'm waiting for the repair...

Although I'm very satisfied with the machine, they have to make the BIOS upgrades way better. Had HP for years and the upgrades always went smooth, with 0 problems.

Rgds

[too456]

When using Easyflash, you have to load the bios file from a thumbdrive or external HDD formatted with fat32. Flashing the bios from any device formatted as NTFS will brick the computer. See here for details.

[osnamj]

Yeah, I read it but, completely distracted, updated from the internal hard drive.
My fault...

Funny thing, already did the upgrade to 413 with winflash, and went perfect... Damn easyflash...

One thing that intrigues me about this NB is the GPU led... never saw it light up . Maybe it's like this...

[too456]

I have never seen it light up either. If you can, drop an email or call Asus and ask why. I don't know why no one's GPU light never seems to light up at all.