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Problems with g75 and g55vw.

Hyeong
Level 7
What's with all of the problems with these laptops? I haven't had any problems except with the sub-woofer and horrible sound. Whats the deal? Are these laptops just poorly made?
StarCraft II Masters League player on three accounts. I own ASUS g75vw; and, I have a custom built desktop that includes the ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula with 8120FX 8 core processor OC'ed to 4.3ghz with 16gb ram and 1x RADEON 5850.
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dotvezz
Level 7
The subwoofer and sound issues are a driver or possibly bios issue. We can rest assured that since the hardware is fine it will be fixed soon with a patch.

As far as problems other people have had, I've seen most of them fix performance issues by deleting the bloatware.

Cecil_2099
Level 11
I for one don't have any problems (except for the subwoofer issue) with my G75. And I have all the "bloatware" still on the system and it doesn't impact performance one bit. I really think the outrage over ASUS "bloatware" on the G75 (at least the G75VW-BBK5) is a little over blown.
G75VW-BBK5 (Stock configuration with added Crucial M4 256GB SATA SSD as OS boot drive)

Need to know how to restore your G75 to it's factory-like condition? Go to my step-by-step guide:
Step-by-Step: Using ASUS Recovery DVDs to Restore G75

Want to download the latest drivers and utilities for your G75/G55? Go to this thread:
Downloading New Drivers/Utilities for G75/G55

Cecil_2099 wrote:
I for one don't have any problems (except for the subwoofer issue) with my G75. And I have all the "bloatware" still on the system and it doesn't impact performance one bit. I really think the outrage over ASUS "bloatware" on the G75 (at least the G75VW-BBK5) is a little over blown.


When you say "All the bloatware still on the system," is that including still using the included McAfee security and everything at default settings?

Kamil wrote:
When you say "All the bloatware still on the system," is that including still using the included McAfee security and everything at default settings?


The G75VW-BBK5 from Best Buy did not shop with any security software.

I've been using my G75 at default settings since I unboxed it. I only upgraded the video & audio drivers and the AI Recovery utility (to make my Recovery DVDs), and installed a SSD and used the Recovery DVDs to make the factory-like state on the SSD.

Here's a list of the ASUS programs that came bundled with my laptop with some notes in parenthesis:

  • AI Recovery (used to burn the Recovery DVDs)
  • ASUS Fan Filter Checker (supposedly a reminder to clean the fan filters but to date I haven't seen a pop up reminder; program actually doesn't run in the background so not entirely sure how it monitors)
  • ASUS Virtual Camera (when executed, runs in system tray; lets you use the Virtual Camera in chat applications so you can apply quirky frames and coloring effects to your video chats)
  • e-Driver (a menu interface of all the installed drivers; didn't come with much documentation so I never use it)
  • eManual (pdf version of the manual)
  • GameFast (shows you a list of programs and services running in the background and lets you disable them to get better gaming performance; pretty much like using task manager; doesn't run in the background)
  • LifeFrame (standalone program to use the built-in webcam to take video/photo/audio)
  • Power4Gear Hybrid (allows you to adjust power options to a better degree than the standard windows interface)
  • Rotation Desktop for G Series (lets you set up multiple "desktop layouts" that you can cycle through without having to restart or change profiles; doesn't load up at startup so I never really use it)
  • USB Charger Plus (runs in sytem tray at startup; enables the charging functionality of the USB 3.0 while in sleep mode)
  • WinFlash (lets you flash your BIOS from Windows, but you should NEVER do that...always flash BIOS from a USB stick and use the in-BIOS utility)
  • Wireless Console 3 (this runs in the background from the system tray at startup; it's pretty much the graphical interface for the wireless/bluetooth toggle switch Fn+F2)
  • ASUS Splendid Utility (has preset display settings for color, gamma, contrast, etc and lets you customize it too)
  • ASUS Vibe (never used it; I think it's kind of like a media center)
Then there's the non-ASUS programs:

  • Microsoft Office 2010 trial
  • Adobe X Reader
  • Cyberlink's CD/DVD burning software
  • Google Chrome, and
  • Roxio CinePlayer for playing DVDs
That's all that was loaded on my system.

All in all, the system's pretty light on pre-installed software that loads up automatically.
G75VW-BBK5 (Stock configuration with added Crucial M4 256GB SATA SSD as OS boot drive)

Need to know how to restore your G75 to it's factory-like condition? Go to my step-by-step guide:
Step-by-Step: Using ASUS Recovery DVDs to Restore G75

Want to download the latest drivers and utilities for your G75/G55? Go to this thread:
Downloading New Drivers/Utilities for G75/G55

I am now having problems with my webcam. The FPS use to be really good. Now however, there is a 4 second delay. I don't know what could have caused such a drastic drop. Anyone know how to fix it?
StarCraft II Masters League player on three accounts. I own ASUS g75vw; and, I have a custom built desktop that includes the ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula with 8120FX 8 core processor OC'ed to 4.3ghz with 16gb ram and 1x RADEON 5850.