I suggest you put tutorial on how to update the Optimus if the driver don't recognize the card.I pasted it from my previous tutorial with some minor editing

First MAKE SURE you already install Intel graphic driver AND uninstall old nvidia driver before proceeding.

First open up device manager, look under display adapters and open up the nvidia GPU (or standard display adapter if you haven't install it). Open the properties for it, under details tab select Hardware ID as below. Note the highlighted item as this is important.



Now extract the installer, if you already try to install but it failed to detect the nvidia GPU, the folder is usually at C:\NVIDIA. Open it up, look under display driver folder, full link is C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\270.51\Vista 64-bit\International\Display.Driver. There is plenty of INF file inside there but you need to only edit 4 of them, they are:

nvac.inf
nvam.inf
NVLT.inf
nvsm.inf

Remember the highlighted Hardware ID mentioned earlier? In my case the first one is '1050'. Open the INF file mentioned above and use F3 to find the '1050'. Once you find it you edit the number after SUBSYS_ to match the one on your laptop, as shown below. Do it on all four INF file mentioned. Edit every '1050' SUBSYS_ you can find



Run the installer again (C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\270.51\Vista 64-bit\International) run setup.exe. The installer should now recognize your card and begin installing the driver. Enjoy the new upgraded driver

Just try it yourself, its WHQL. What are you gonna lose? I've download and install it but because there is tons of work I cant test it yet.

You shouldn't update the BIOS via utility in Windows 7, just copy it to USB drive and flash it in BIOS; much, MUCH safer.

Unfortunately there isn't a way to recover BIOS for ASUS, so you need to send them for repair. Just say it won't boot, don't mention anything about BIOS

Yup, that will happen first rather than the mobo dead. The probability of the laptop died is less than the PC from my experience, but in a thunderstorm, its common sense that you should turn off everything electronics from the mains.

Electricity is a weird thing, I have a mobo dead TWICE because of lightning strike but the PSU is still alive till this very day even with a surge protector and voltage regulator. My laptop plugged to the same plug survives as well

Download the latest one, obviously

Hehe, been busy with my first Android phones, and also my final is around the corner

In the BIOS there is EasyFlash, put the BIOS file in the USB drive or at the root of your hard disk (for example c:\<biosfile>), select the drive and the corresponding file and let it flash by itself

Check for updated wireless driver then, or put the name of the wireless adapter here. Sometime there is a modded driver that allows more advanced setting to play with

This post has been edited by Najmods: May 16 2011, 09:50 AM

Yes on both.

What kind of laptop? Some provide XP driver, some don't. But still you could try searching, if you know the device name it would be easier

Huh? What is that thing do in the first place? Blocking unusable USB port? IMO if that thingy don't block or damage anything its better to leave it as is.

I seriously doubt there is two layer USB port in X42DE, I have A42JE which pretty much similar to this and its only got 3 USB ports and none of them are stacking each other.

Maybe the plastic inside of the USB itself?

No, the stupid seller tell you this isn't it? Plug it and you can use it when it charging. Usually battery is half full when you first bought

You can charge and use it at the same time. Only thing is the laptop itself might be hotter because it dealing with two load, charging the battery and running the laptop. Just use light programs (browsing, listen to music, watching movies) when charging

This is a very VERY old tip used during NiMH (Nickel metal hydride) and NiCad (Nickel Cadmium) era. Lithium Ion and Polymer don't need this anymore.

If you sure to run AC power all the time, discharge the battery to 40-50% and store it in cool, dry place. Lower the temperature the better, but make sure its dry place. Storing the battery when full isn't good idea, so don't do it. Plan your battery usage carefully.

Don't recharge too much before reaches 40-50%, and avoid at all cost discharge the battery till empty! This is again for old NiMH and NiCad battery. Only do it IF you want to recalibrate the battery, if you feel the battery meter in laptop is giving false info about its capacity.

What you do is right, make sure you charge it because you want to use it afterwards. If you just wanted to charge it for storing isn't good. But if you don't use the battery at all, sometime more than a month (like me), charge the battery and discharge it till 40-50% once a month.

In order to gain something you have to be brave.

I use BIOS modded by kizwan, if you know what you're doing its not dangerous at all. There's a wealth of options in BIOS that's hidden before like I could disable dedicated graphics, configuring amount of RAM to be shared with integrated graphics, enable/disable CPU features like Turbo, Hyperthreading etc. (if your CPU supported) and A LOT more. But this depends on your laptop BIOS, he can only enable what's hidden.

Duh, if he is a forumer here he should be famous You can find him at notebookreview forum, you can request BIOS mod from him on Acer subforum, there is a thread he made for such request. But don't expect immediate response as he modded tons of BIOS. Link to his thread is here.

Be warned though, make sure done your homework BEFORE flashing any ROM. I don't held responsible for anything happen, and so do him.

Lolz,but I don't think he is a regular here, most probably register to look things around. Same as me registering there

Open up device manager, it should display your harddisk name, or at least its codename.

Even if the LCD not good, what can you do about it?