windows 7 rtm 64 bit works great on it. no problem at all.

personally i think this asus K40AB got driver or system bug. You guys can choose not to believe me ,but i personally believe so after running intensive testing. Asus k40ab has different problem with different batch.. from battery, fan , sound...

Asus F80Q is free from all these problems.

Furthermore Asus forum dont have K40AB topic at all.

Asus should update the K40AB bios from 203 to 204 and fix all these problems.

u dont have to refer the previous pages
what u can do is u can simply click on his nickname and click on "find members post"
he didnt install any special software or any bug
he just open the back cover of the laptop
thats why the temperature can reach at very low degree.
please correct me if i have mistake

i will do a big project

open the back cover and stick aluminium pieces onto it..

coz dell laptop and expensive laptop have those stuff..

what he said is he configured the fan speed thru some programs or moddings.. its not the hardware issue.

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Added on September 6, 2009, 2:28 amyea.. i agree with u.. this version has lotsa bugs.. the built quality i'd say not that good.. the wireless receiver doesnt seem to be strong at all..

i think im gonna be trying out win7 rtm 64bit

This post has been edited by Batusai: Sep 6 2009, 02:28 AM

najmods
could u suggest the program that we can use?
because i pretty sure the other user ASUS K40 also would like to know how to do it
i already checked like he said but i found nothing at his previous posts relating about fan modding or etc..
thats why i said like that.
hopefully u can help us here

Well, regarding hardware monitor and fan control, I been using SpeedFan and HWMonitor. In Windows 7 32bit RM7100 both failed to monitor GPU temperature and fan speed, and there is only two temperature probe it displayed, the CPU and ACPI temperature. I haven't tried anything else though

While the only bug I have is the display brightness won't change, but that is because I use dGPU, if I enable PowerXpress the brightness can be changed but whatever driver I use, I cant seem to enable HD 4570 when I use the onboard I have flashed to the latest BIOS FYI

Even I puzzled by what he said, as I found nothing related to fan speed bug like you said I would like to ramp up the fan speed a littel while gaming too. If I find anything I'll definitely post it here There is some other programs I wanted to use

Oh another thing I found, the k10stats doesn't seem to overclock the CPU even though after reboot it displayed the overclocked speed, even the BIOS reads it has been overclocked! I 'managed' to overclock to 4GHz, that was so silly it impossible to reach such speed, the benchmark score reflect it exactly the same as before, but the voltage really did changed so you definitely can cooldown the CPU by doing so. Lowest I got is 1.0375V for load and 0.9V for idle. Force the idle to 1GHz 0.9V and watch the temperature drop I got 49C in non air conditioned room

This post has been edited by Najmods: Sep 6 2009, 03:25 AM

okay.
nice info
i will definitely try it on my own laptop
i'll post my report here after this

Ok. Here's how I do it for those who didn't really get what I said earlier. FYI, I'm using K50AB purchased from All-IT.

Step 1: Update Windows Vista completely (I'm using Vista Ultimate 32 bit).

Step 2: Install AMD/ATi drivers from official website (not Asus website). Other drivers, use the included driver CD to install all.

Step 3: Switch from HD4570 to HD3200 via ATi driver inside Windows.

Step 4: Go to Sleep mode via Start Menu.

Step 5: Wake up from Sleep by pressing any key or mouse click.

Step 6: The fan will now be spinning at full speed!
(Note: You can change to HD4570 back now for gaming, and the fan will still be running at full speed. However, if you plugged/unplugged your power supply, you need to restart Step 3 and onwards)

Key benefits:
- Temperature at idle is as low 36 degrees Celsius. You will realize even the hard disk and top-right-hand side corner is no longer warm!
- Temperature at gaming is still very low, since the Asus K50AB is designed to cool all parts of the laptop (comprehensive-exhaust system).
- The air that the fan is blowing out will not be as hot as before as the fan speed can push much more air out, thus preventing heat build-up.
- Longer life for your laptop components and battery.

well done, will try it someother days...

That it! The step I miss is to change to 3200 graphic. Now I can also make the fan full Speed!. haha.

Really convenient bug I would say. Could this be called an Exploit?

shockk, do you put the back cover on or open it up? I cabut the cover. and do nothing leave it overnight. That is how I get the 36c. If just like this maybe just around 40 something....

I'll try it on Windows 7 RC7100

The comprehensive exhaust system cracks me up, the cooling and layout is EXACTLY the same as k40AB, how can you say it was better than k40AB

I wanna ask that anyone bought this notebook from here?

Is it trusted? Because my parents gave me the green light but my area didn't sell this notebook. So I wanna try my luck by buying online.
Anyone bought it from that website?

Wow. Lelong usually dont have that much fraud cases when the user is a verified member. I say go for it. Coz I also have dealt with verified members and all of them satisfies me.

If you dont trust them, how about let someone from you trust in this forum to buy for you and let him courier the packages for you? It might cost more than the one in the lelong, but at least you trust can trust him more.

p/s - maybe the store jsut copy and paste it somewhere, but the actual proc is QL-64, and the Battery is 11.1V/4400mAH, 46Wh. and please do verify once more to the store that you will be getting 320GB coz I see the title sez "ASUS K40AB-VX003L-LINUX 14' HD NOTEBOOK,2GB RAM,250GB HDD"

This post has been edited by xKAIZERUx: Sep 6 2009, 04:03 PM

So by the bold-ed text I suppose it come with Linux?

linux or not its not the case. but 320GB hdd and 250GB hdd is much more to be concerned with. If you want Ori windows, Call them and ask them to quote price with the windows. If I not mistaken, most shops participated the Microsoft promo, "Buy Windows now and get free upgrade to Windows 7"

So you use Ori Vista now, and later on when Win7 become available, You can have Windows 7 FOC.

where is ur area?

Sandakan, Sabah. All you can find here is Acer, HP(Conpaq) Sony.

Toshiba and Asus is hard to find.

fabianz03
if u would like to buy online, cheap and reliable seller
i would recommend u to buy from hikari85
i bought from her Asus K40AB last 3 weeks,
pricing only rm2099 + rm15 postage with one working day delivery
i order on monday, then next tuesday morning i already have it
with full box and accesories free gift
the spec is
AMD Athlon 64 x2 2.1 Ghz
Harddisk 320GB
if u want to find her
simply search "WTS Asus K40AB"

Includes HD4570?
But I'm in East Malaysia, postal fee may vary. What is the free gift?