Are you using Windows XP?

Another way to get to it is go to your control panel. Click on System icon. Click on Device Manager.

In the list of all the devices, right click on the one with the display adapater and update it that way.

Yes, XP Pro. I'll check the CP route when I get off work this p.m. Thanks.

Norm

I checked. The reason I didn't have the same option you described in Step 10 was that I had not loaded ANY display drivers. I was going to just load the latest. That doesn't work. First I had to load those off the setup CD. Sorry for the confusion. Oh, and not haveing loaded the CD driver was the cause of my dodgy scrolling and window dragging. Sorry about the wild goose chase.

I think I can successfuly load the latest drivers now. Thanks!

Norm

Ah, if you have not load any display drivers yet, then going to the control panel method will work for you.

Control Panel
System
Drive Manager
Click on Display Adapter and go in to the properties there...there is a button to uninstall driver.

thanks, i hope it'll work. Before I just installed the driver 77.72 from the 77.50 without uninstalling 77.50 first, and I was still encountering the same problem.

btw, could it be that my video card is overheating?

Official NVIDIA GO 6600 Website
http://www.nvidia.com/page/go_6600.html

Memory Interface 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GBps) 11.2 GBps
Fill Rate (pixels/sec.) 3 billion
Vertices/Second 300 million
RAMDACs 400 MHz



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nVidia GO 6600 GPU Performance Test
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*Note:
* All test based upon Asus Z71V nVidia GO 6600
* Asus Z71V STOCK SETTING IS: 250/500
* Toshiba used GO 6600 TC, which is slower
than one used in Asus Z71V

nVidia Driver v71.13
* Asus Stocked Video Driver
3DMark05: 1720 (250/500 Stocked Setting)
3DMark05: 2018 (275/563)

nVidia Driver v77.77
Driver: http://download.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/7777.exe
INF: http://laptopvideo2go.com/infs/7777inf/nv4_disp.inf
Triple Buffer: http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=99001
3DMark05: 1816 (250/500 stocked) -> Triple Buffering DISABLED
3DMark05: 1835 (250/500 stocked) -> Triple Buffering ENABLED
3DMark05: 2156 (290/575 stocked) -> Triple Buffering ENABLED
3DMark05: 2236 (300/600 stocked) -> Triple Buffering ENABLED

* Note: It seems to be with this new release of the nvidia driver, the modification of
adding the triple buffer improved performance! Actual result of course will vary on each machine.

*********************************************
OLDER VERSION OF NVIDIA DRIVERS
*********************************************
Using XtremeG nVidia Driver v71.84
3DMark05: 1780 (Stocked Setting)
3DMark05: 1970 (300 Core / 500 Memory)

By CMYK (his Asus Z71v - Driver: v76.44)
3DMark05: 1787 (Stocked Setting)

nVidia 77.30
3DMark05: 1813 (stocked setting)
3DMark05: 2060 (300 Core / 500 Memory)

nvidia 77.50
3DMark05: 1820 (stocked setting)
3DMark05: 2060 (300/500 OC Setting)

nVidia 77.62
3DMark05: 1820 (stocked setting)
3DMark05: 2055 (300/500 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 2120 (290/575 OC Setting)

XG 77.62-HD Type 2 nVidia Driver v77.62
3DMark05: 1820 (Stocked Setting)
3DMark05: 2074 (300/500 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 2169 (290/575 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 2215 (300/600 OC Setting)

nVidia 77.72 Official WHQL Release
3DMark05: 1820 (stocked setting)
3DMark05: 2069 (300/500 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 2223 (300/600 OC Setting)

nVidia 80.40 Beta Leaked
* AA OFF, Resolution 1024x768
3DMark05: 1821 (250/500 stocked setting)
3DMark05: 2121 (290/575 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 2236 (300/600 OC Setting)

* AA 2x, Resolution 1024x768
3DMark05: 1813 (250/500 stocked setting)
3DMark05: 1975 (290/575 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 2072 (300/600 OC Setting)

* AA 4x, Resolution 1024x768
3DMark05: 1523 (250/500 stocked setting)
3DMark05: 1733 (290/575 OC Setting)
3DMark05: 1817 (300/600 OC Setting)

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WHERE TO GET NVIDIA DRIVERS
*********************************************
* http://forums.guru3d.com
* http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forums/
* http://www.nvidia.com
*
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How To Install
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1) Download the nvidia driver
2) Extract it to a directory

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3a) download the latest INF file from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/ and save it
to the same directory you had extracted earlier.

-OR-

3b) Use the NVAM.INF file that came with the original Asus Z71V display driver. You could download
it from http://support.asus.com and extract out the NVAM.INF from there.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

4) Right click on the desktop and go to properties. This will take you
to the display control panel.
5) Click on the settings tab
6) Click on Advanced button
7) Click on Adapter tab
8) Click on Properties button
9) Click on Driver tab
10) Click on Update Driver button
11) Click on "No, Not this time" when asked "Can Windows Connect To Windows Update..."
12) Click on "Install from a list or specific location"
13) Click on "Don't Search, I will choose the driver to install"
14) Click on "Have Disk"
15) Browse to the location where you had saved the INF file earlier
16) Select the video card from the list, in Asus Z71V case it is nVidia GeForce Go 6600
17) Continue with install...

*USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!*

Hi
I need help, don't you know anything about possible refresh Z71V? Especially that Express Card Slot or integrated BT? Thanks in advance
pm

Hey guys, first off having driver issues, posted in the general section instead. Sorry about that.

Secondly having a wierd thing with the keyboard. When I press Shift + 2 I am expecting the at symbol but what I really get is " and when I press Shift + " I am really getting the @ symbol. So basically my two keys are switched somehow. Anyone know anything about this?

French keyboard !

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?

New BIOS Release 11/21!!!

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Z71V/Z71V0210g.zip

BIOS Ver.0210G
1. Support Brazilian Keyboard
2. Update Intel VBIOS to 1224.

As well as update to ATK0100 Utility

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/..._2K_051122.zip

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

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.

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