transcend's always my prefered brand. Very reliable. My 320gb portable hard disc is already 3years n counting. Not to mention i've dropped it once on the car road always on usb plug run avg of 6-8hrs per day

i've opened it once. not easy to open though. That's my first time exposing myself to the laptop interior n my first hands on for laptop (though i've opened my desktop n cpu heatsink etc countless of times) n it's more delicate to handle. There are MANY screws on this particular laptop, n you have to be VERY careful on the ribbon port for keyboard, subwoofer, n trackpad. Some of the ribbon locker use the push to lock/unlock n some use the flip method to lock/unlock. Due to my first time noobness i broke 1 of the ribbon locker n have to use small bits of paper to hold my trackpad ribbon in place. Haha all is fine when i perform my 2nd disassembly on my friend's laptop cuz experience before de lol. How to post up photos over here? Not the links thou, but to display photos here. I have an album i took when i was disassembling.

btw mine's n45. Not sure how different is it from n55 but suppose to be almost same? Hmmm

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Added on December 31, 2011, 6:47 pmthat requires some software skills? Hmmm

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happy new year guys! Hopefully i can get a ssd for my n45 wonder when only the price for 120/160gb drop to about 400? Lol will upload my photos probably in the afternoon or tomorrow

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Added on January 1, 2012, 1:22 amonly works with imageshack or http with .jpg right? Can't put facebook photos right? Lol noobie in this haha

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 1 2012, 01:22 AM

prefer ocz or any specifically good brands? See how lah. So many things to buy. Student only. Need to save money

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Added on January 1, 2012, 9:30 amthis is very subjective? some brands got higher failure rates?

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 1 2012, 09:30 AM

i too have no time to highlight all the screw areas & this was taken from phone camera, so quality was so so lah hope can give everyone an insight

btw can anyone tell me if there is any significant difference between a 1333mhz n 1600mhz ram? Lol

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 2 2012, 10:46 AM

thinking of ssd as well but not so soon. Still too expensive imo. Out of budget. Will consider once 160gb model ranges around 400 lah.

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Added on January 3, 2012, 12:34 amu mean it hang when u use the music now program without entering windows?

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 3 2012, 12:34 AM

to gain access to speaker grill & keyboard ONLY, just unscrew the highlighted ones

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

after that, pry open the speaker grill from both sides(left & right corner) just above the music now shortcut key (left side) & power key (right side). requires some force but do go slow n steady it should come off after the small hinge on the side of the speaker grill goes loose. then just remove the keyboard screws(about 5 screws) n you're off...

of cuz if u wanna access to the CPU area means every single screw securing the parts to the chasis must be off... err to answer question 2, it is good enough to clean from photo #4 but u will need a small brush & a tin of compressed air to blow off... but if u wanna 100% clean the fan u have to open all way through photo #6. thats my personal opinion though. anyone have better suggestion can help out as well

another example of repasting on laptop. not Asus laptop thou http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-s...-step-step.html

btw i saw this Kingston HyperX 8GB 1866MHz PnP Memory Kit For Notebooks review

seen the great improvement for upgrading, but for the price in malaysia... better off getting SSD

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Added on January 3, 2012, 10:04 am i dun think spillage is covered by warranty. but i think u can enquire & see the solution for this. meanwhile i don't think it's advisable to even start up ur laptop after a spill as it may short circuit more areas???

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 3 2012, 10:12 AM

just tell them out of sudden laptop hang den force restart. den after force restart keyboard went haywire. den try reformat den become lidat? try to act normal. its the best u can do

haha hopefully noone works in asus service here reading this

actually if u check the parts price from internet it's way cheaper like err rm 50-80(not sure but around there) but plus service charge everything usually they charge 150n above? Hmmm ya make sure very dry. Use hair dryer around the area should be ok kua?

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Added on January 3, 2012, 11:08 pmhmmm around that price la bro. Speed ah not really lah but u will notice ur system won't slow down that fast when u are loading alot of programs (more than 10 tabs in mozilla, game program in background n playing hd movies?) usually when a program's command or action is being processed it (cpu) will access the fastest type of memory, which is the cpu cache. If the size is too big/already full, it will then use up the ram, if the ram is exhausted, den the system will access the slowest type of memory, the hard disc. Lol. This is what i understand lah. Anyone can correct me if i'm wrong

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+1
Asus softwares are real nuisance at times. a couple of uninstall n reinstall should do the trick. but for this case, just remove the web storage

i think. . I think only. Don't blame if i wrong asusscr screensaver app? Hahaha err i myself install usb charger+ n instant on lah. It's of some use i think

used to be sonic focus? Now renamed sonic master?

so no parts replacement lah? good 'show' xD btw i'm getting tl at this laptop when gaming de. Just now tried gaming modern warfare 3. Zzz 4times try all end up hang have to force reboot. 4th time i fed up de straight off plug n sleep i wonder what cause this. it's random n occurs in any game the game will freeze n audio will distort like hell

NO!!! it does support all the games here GT555m is no nonsense graphic card although not comparable to GTX series just that maybe my unit buggy?

actually a few ppl in this thread have changes it to SSD i'm aso planning to do lah. but price still quite ex

i have a mostly if not all forumers using SSD startup less than 15 seconds I'm looking for 128GB SSD or 160GB

+1 i like the way u say. you get what u paid

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Added on January 5, 2012, 7:00 pmN45 forever problem

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 5 2012, 07:00 PM

oops just saw this message. Already off my comp. Will try tomorrow if i can remember