The Unofficial Asus Z71V Support Thread - Page 6

That would explain why I get £ when I hit Shift + 3 but all the other keys are the same. But if it's a French Keyboard, why doesn't it have the £ symbol above the 3 instead of the pound symbol?

Nvidia 82.04 drivers provided by ASUS: no modified INF required!
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...showtopic=8221

Just built mine

Just built my Z71V last week. Must say I am very impressed with this machibne. It games well, and I also use it to perform Nessus security scans (am a network security major). This means I am running windows xp, vmware, and running a nessus server in VMWARE on the same machine! This laptop does it very well!

Here are the specs:
Intel Pentium 760
2 Gig DDR2 533
80 GiG SATA Hdd
Internal a/b/g wireless

Total cost was under $1700 at http://www.directron.com

So far no real problems, no real worries.

Is the Z71 Linux compatible

I was just on the phone with ASUS support and they told me there is no support for Linux on the Z71. What distros of Linux work on the Z71? I've been trying to install Fedora core 4 and I can't get past the install screen when I get a kill kernal message - not syncing kill init. Has anyone else had any trouble or success with installing Linux OSs?
Kenny
kschork@gmail.com

Here are 2 websites installed Linux with Z63A, at least the chipsets are the same, I don't know if this helps but you may email them to see if they can help you.

http://wingware.com/support/asus_z63a_ubuntu_5.10

http://z63a.koneko.org/fc4-z63a.html

I remember reading somewhere that Ubuntu and Gentoo worked, with some modifications. Google?

linux on z7v1

I run Fedora core on mine. I do security scans with it. However it isn't the primary operating system. I run Windows XP Pro and run Linux through VMWare Workstation. The workstation cocts money, but VMPlayer is free, and will also let you run Linux distros on your laptop.

I can't believe the performance I get! I can run Nessus scans on all ports of a networked computer in minutes! My peers sometimes take an hour or more to do a similar scan.

The part I like the best tho, is the snapshot ability. I can create snapshots of my Linux machine, so if I mess something up bad, I can revert easily to an earlier state.

Problem Solved for the Intel ProWireless 2200bg?

I've tried everything that I could think of to solve the problems with the 2200 dropping speeds. I am using a Linksys WRT54GS router.

I've tried 2 other routers - a Belkin and a Netgear - all with the same results.

I've finally did the following:

1) ping www.dslreports.com -f -l 1500
This is to test the MTU of the router. Linksys says to leave in auto, but keep it between 1200 and 1500.

I found that I had 100% - no lost packets, at 1150! Add 28 to account for the IP header, to 1183. the 1500 in the ping command is the MTU forced setting.

Keep lowering it until you have no lost or fragmented packets.

Once you get to that point, slowly increase until you start loosing packets again, then go back to the last good, or maximum, setting. Add 28 to account for the IP header. Use this for your router's MTU, and you should be good to go!

2) I Set my router for 1183 MTU.

3) Change 2200 settings to HIGH for throughput, power, etc.

4) Stopped using the Intel management software. Just using the Windows application.

After nearly 24 hours, there has been no drops in the signal speed even though the quality varies from good to excellent.

I am using a static IP with the 2200, and not broadcasting the SSID and using WPA-TKIP.

Hope this helps.

Al

Hey guys I've got an interesting question for you, this is not necessarily restricted to the Z71V but that's the notebook in question

I know that this laptop supposedly supports dual channel, but I only bought a stick of Kingston 512 because I was being cheap and the thing was on sale. Now I would like to add another stick, but the price is hiked back up on the Kingston and similar chips such as the OCZ I can get for about 30% cheaper, except I know that you're not supposed to mix and match brands

So, being the cheap bastard I am, what do you guys think are my chances of just buying an OCZ stick and have it work in dual channel with the kingston?

Also, I've read some problems with the keyboard latch installing the 2nd memory module, is there anything special I should watch out for? I've seen some vague pictures but it really doesn't give me any idea at all as to how to actually pop the keyboard open - without doing damage to it. THanks.

most important thing is don't forget to unscrew the 2 "K" screws at the bottom of the KB.

like Ken said, don't forget the screws on the bottom. After you unscrew them, there are three tabs on the top of the keyboard. press them in with a small flathead screwdriver, and you can lift the keyboard out. the RAM slot is under the lower left section of the keyboard.

lowering the temps and increasing battery life...

sorry I'm a newb... but how do I lower the temps and increase battery life? I'm not overclocking or anything... I downloaded the rm clock and the temp monitor, but not sure how to... any help??

You can use RM clock for undervolting, which does what you're looking for. In RM Clock, go into the "Management and Profiles" tab and expand it. then go into whichever profile name you chose in "profile selection", click "use P-State transitions", then right click inside the empty box and choose "add" you get to choose up to 8 voltages for your CPU to run at for different multipliers (multiplier number times 133 Mhz = CPU speed when on that multiplier) The voltages are peculiar to your individual CPU, so you might have to do some trial and error to find the right ones, but if you do a search for "undervolting", you can find threads that will give you a lot of different people's voltages to try.

thank you!!!

Hey guys, so after all these months I've finally run into a major show stopper. Couple weeks back my computer started crashing during games, sometimes to desktop, othertimes it freezes. It also started BSODing when my gf plays youtube videos in full screen as well as playing HD 720p anime clips. Since the game I was playing is notorious for exposing memory errors, the first thing I did was ram a few pass of memtest, which came out fine, but then the crashes would not go away, sometimes it would come right away, othertimes it would be perfectly fine for a very long time. Then one day I ran memtest again and it failed on the first pass on test #3 and #4, but it did not fail on subsequent passes. I was convinced that I had the culprit, so I ended up buying a new stick of 1 gig of ram to test it out. Initially I had been happy to see that it actually wasn't crashing anymore, but it didn't last very long till my game started doing it again and it BSODed on TCPIP.sys when my gf was watching youtube. I installed the latest lan driver I could find, did a scandisk and fixed harddrive errors but the crashes still didn't go away. So then I ran memtest again (having run it on the new stick twice previously), and it failed witht he new ram at the exact same location 00000100014, this time only test #3, but ONLY ONCE. I ran memtest overnight and no subsequent problems came up.

Now I'm forced to conclude that it's not my RAM that's gone bad, but rather something wrong witht he mobo. Since there could be all sort of reasons why it's fubaring, my primary suspect is heat where it would only catch errors right after running cpu intensive tasks, but as it cools down it doesn't find any anymore. When I come back today I'm going to be flipping the dipswitch so it goes back to a 1.7ghz instead of 2.23 and test it for a few days to see whether it is a problem. I can certainly RMA for a new stick of ram and test it too, and sometime this weekend maybe I'll try the keyboard slot (I don't have a screwdriver that unscrews the kb screws :/)

Anyone have any ideas?

How often do you clean out your fans? If your GPU / chipset fan has a lot of dust or lint in it, that would cause some of the failures you described (all seem video related)

I stopped overclocking, things are back to rock solid stable with 1.5 gigs of ram, gpu temps are 5C lower too while idling, so I think I'm out of the woods now

z71v gpu

I think I have the same problem B Nietsnie had with his z71v, fried GPU. I was wondering if anybody knows if getting his replaced fixed his problems. Also I was wondering what fps people get when running video stress test in counterstrike and at what settings? Trying to confirm problem. I have 17fps at recommended settings and res, 23fps at 800x600 and lowest settings. This seems awful to me, and due to the video choking i get all the time, I think i have the same problem as him, and want to get it repaired, just want to confirm this first.

btw I have reformatted and tried a bunch of other things, and still problem persists.

Just got mine back from repair, and now it seems whenever my cpu fan kicks in, any game i try to play will just go to hell. Frames will randomly jump from 70-20 and back very randomly in a 4s time period over and over, making things very difficult to play at all.

Anyone have experience with this? im using hte 212 bios froma asus.