ASUS U24E Review and Owners Lounge

[GenTechPC]

Thanks Ken, it's the 750Gb SATA 3 drive with upgraded BIOS I'm interested in... let's hope it comes together soon.

Hope you had a great Christmas and I look forward to an exciting new year with the U24E :-)

Cheers GPC.

Absolutely, I'll test all the SATA 3 drives we have if the new BIOS to fix this issue is release.

Thank you and Happy Holidays to you too.

[jamesman32]

I'm glad everyone enjoyed the tear down. I included the information provided by all of you.

jamesman32, why are you replacing the display? I thought Asus was going to replace it for you under the warranty? And lastly, will the replacement be a glossy or matte display?

Merry Christmas to all. Stay safe, stay warm.

After seeing your guide I decided to cancel the RMA and try it all myself. I can say that within 45 minutes of removing the first screw, the whole machine was back together with a new screen, booting into Windows. It was a simple and straightforward process, and no more dead pixel!

Thanks a bunch for the guide!

[zentrad]

After seeing your guide I decided to cancel the RMA and try it all myself. I can say that within 45 minutes of removing the first screw, the whole machine was back together with a new screen, booting into Windows. It was a simple and straightforward process, and no more dead pixel!

Thanks a bunch for the guide!

Can you post a tutorial?
Mine just get 1 dead pixel and sending to SC, if they refuse to change it, i might try it myself

BTW is there any matte panel replacement for this unit?

[jamesman32]

Can you post a tutorial?
Mine just get 1 dead pixel and sending to SC, if they refuse to change it, i might try it myself

BTW is there any matte panel replacement for this unit?

Basically, when you get to the step in David's guide where you take off the keyboard, stop there, and look at the screen hinges. There are 2 screws on each hinge. Unscrew those, and the screen unit will flop down. From there, there are 2 plastic circles on the bottom bezel of the screen near above the hinges, which you will lift off to reveal 2 screws. Unscrew those, and then carefully take a small flathead screwdriver and pry the 2 layers of the bezel apart, starting at the hinges where the 2 pieces meet. The bezels will "pop" apart like the keyboard did, and once that's done, just unscrew the 4 mounting screws for the LCD panel, unscrew the LCD mount rails, and you're done.

From there, all you've gotta do is disconnect the cable to the LCD, plug it into the new one, and do the steps in reverse order for the new LCD.

[xengren]

Is it possible to drive two external displays on the HDMI and the VGA ports at the same time? (Extended desktops and not mirrored.) I want to dual screen for development.

[GlabrousPC]

Hiya Guys,

has anyone had problems with the trackpad on the U24E? Mine has stopped responding even after reinstalling the drivers. It reports OK in device manager but just doesn't want to work. The buttons don't work either.

Any suggestions please?

Cheers, GPC.

EDIT: please ignore this post... it had somehow got disabled in settings (Control Panel - Mouse Settings). Doh! :-)

[davidricardo86]

After seeing your guide I decided to cancel the RMA and try it all myself. I can say that within 45 minutes of removing the first screw, the whole machine was back together with a new screen, booting into Windows. It was a simple and straightforward process, and no more dead pixel!

Thanks a bunch for the guide!

Well that's great news to hear the replacement went in smoothly. The U24E is actually easy to work on. Is the display glossy or matte?

Is it possible to drive two external displays on the HDMI and the VGA ports at the same time? (Extended desktops and not mirrored.) I want to dual screen for development.

I'd like to know this too. My guess is yes. Sandybridge CPUs are able to run upto two displays at once.

Hiya Guys,

has anyone had problems with the trackpad on the U24E? Mine has stopped responding even after reinstalling the drivers. It reports OK in device manager but just doesn't want to work. The buttons don't work either.

Any suggestions please?

Cheers, GPC.

EDIT: please ignore this post... it had somehow got disabled in settings (Control Panel - Mouse Settings). Doh! :-)

I was going to suggest the trackpad enable/disable shortcut on the keyboard, fn+f9. Otherwise, reinstalling the drivers and utilities would've been my next test. Glad you got it fixed.

Absolutely, I'll test all the SATA 3 drives we have if the new BIOS to fix this issue is release.

Thank you and Happy Holidays to you too.

Thanks!

Can you post a tutorial?
Mine just get 1 dead pixel and sending to SC, if they refuse to change it, i might try it myself

BTW is there any matte panel replacement for this unit?

There was a matte replacement panel that someone had linked in a previous post back. It cost around $80 and should be a direct swap but it was currently out of stock.

Here: AU Optronics AUO205C Laptop LCD Screen 11.6" WXGA HD Matte LED - AUO Laptop LCD Screens - Replacement Laptop LCD

Does anyone know if the u24e will be coming out with a model with a core i5 for the USA any time soon? Thanks

I don't think there is an answer for this.

Curious, why would you want an i5? What if you swapped in a i5-2430m and sold the i7-2620m that comes with the u24e-xh71?

I don't see any good reason to do this though.

[Addamus]

Hello,

There is another variation of U24E on Polish market - U24E-px071v - i5-2450m:

ASUS U24E-PX071V i5-2450M/4GB/500/7HP64 - Notebook / Laptop 11,6" - Sklep komputerowy - X-KOM.PL

[davidricardo86]

Hello,

There is another variation of U24E on Polish market - U24E-px071v - i5-2450m:

ASUS U24E-PX071V i5-2450M/4GB/500/7HP64 - Notebook / Laptop 11,6" - Sklep komputerowy - X-KOM.PL

That's a new processor I haven't seen before...

[Trunkz11]

I finally got one but I was wondering if all your WEI scores are the same as mine because I was checking out allurgroceries scores and the processor seemed higher than mine any thoughts?

Processor: 5.7
Memory: 5.9
Graphics: 4.7
Gaming Graphics: 6.2
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

These scores are with the Intel core i7-2620M, 2.7ghz with 4GB memory and 500GB HDD. Any idea what might be going on or are these just normal? Total newb as any ideas would help thanks