Posts by ErikTheRed

Quote: Originally Posted by Djembe on what grounds? they fixed the battery charging issue at the beginning of last year, so that's not an issue anymore. Unavailability of replacement batteries 2 years after the system...

Is there anywhere to get a replacement battery right now? My laptop is now out of warranty and I can't find a new battery anywhere. Though with my experience so far I'm not sure I want to buy anything else that ASUS makes. My battery...

Has anyone had any luck getting ASUS to extend the battery warranty past a year? I got my battery replaced, and it soon failed but ASUS refused to replace it claiming the warranty did not extend with the replacement, it was still 1 year...

Chances are this is probably a battery issue, as it sounds like exactly the thing that is happening to me. The Z71Vs are known to have defective batteries. My first one went bad and now my second one has as well and ASUS refuses to...

I got my Z71V in July 2005, and I am now on my second Z71V battery that has failed. Asus says the battery only has a 1 year warranty on it and that warranty did not extend when they replaced the 1st one back in October. The symptoms are...

I had the same problem, the only fix i could find was compiling the newest kernel. Basically disable the soundcard in the bios, install, compile the newest kernel, and reenable sound. Then you'll have working sound and (hopefully) no...

Seems to work pretty well. I'm running Ubuntu. The only problem I have is my CD drive isn't working under linux. not sure why. Any help would be great. I have a Z71V

Same here too.

Well I'm gonna give upgrading to the newer bios again a shot. Maybe it'll fix something. I'm still not entirely sure if its the Drive or the actual controller. EDIT: Well that did nothing, my drive still isn't responding.

Okay so this is basically what happened. I had recently upgraded to the 0210 BIOS. After which i was having problems with my Linux installs. So I wanted to downgrade my BIOS back to 0208. The windows util did not allow me to do this, and...