Asus warranty fail

[tijo]

There is a good chance it is an Atheros AR9xxx adapter in which case you could try those: http://www.station-drivers.com/telec...ivers.com).exe

Otherwise you can get the Atheros drivers here: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download N53SN. Just select the right OS and they'll be under wireless. The LAN driver will be under LAN and you have a Realtek adapter.

[ALLurGroceries]

Either that or AzureWave for wireless.

The ethernet driver is the only one under Ethernet, so you're good there.

[jasperchan]

It was the Atheros for local and Azurwave for wireless, indeed. Thanks!

I really should have done this reformat before sending the machine to RMA 3times and having those noobs do god-knows-what to it along the way. Fingers crossed it won't BSOD 2 weeks from now...

[link626]

Fingers crossed it won't BSOD 2 weeks from now...

why 2 weeks... reboot more frequently and see if it crashes.

[jasperchan]

what other drivers should i download? There's a list of 55 files in that link for N53SN...

[ALLurGroceries]

VGA, card reader, chipset, USB, touchpad, bluetooth, camera (check device manager for the USB ID)

You also need ATKACPI from 'Other', wireless console 3, keyboard filter, maybe power4gear hybrid if you like the asus power manager stuff, and everything else is pretty much optional. See the bloatware sticky.

[jasperchan]

I've been doing a lot of restarts but don't see any windows updates. Last time i reformatted, the first 20 restarts had dozens and dozens.

[ALLurGroceries]

Type wuapp at the start menu if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

[tijo]

Note that you did the clean install with SP1 if i'm not mistaken so you need way less updates that way. After you install everything there will probably be a few other updates popping up.

[jasperchan]

Type wuapp at the start menu if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

ah yes, 64 "important" updates. Are they really? seems like things only get worse when i run windows updates. On my 6-year old toshiba, I didn't install updates for 4 years, and it ran perfectly fine until i needed an update to do something and it was never quite the same after...