3D not working on G53JW. Any help is good :D

[ChainSaw90]

Hi, Theres a problem that I have been having for a couple of months now.

I sent my Asus G53JW-3DE for a rma with a broken jack connector a couple of months back. When it came back to me, everything was working fine except my 3D glasses. There is no stereoscopic settings to be found in the NVIDIA control panel and when I actually click on enable or disable 3D at the start menu, it does nothing at all. Furthermore, the ROG button where you control the 3D is not working aswell, All it does when i click on it is changing my screen mode between normal mode, vivid mode, gamma correction etc.

Any help with this would be of great help.

P.S i just updated to the new 306.23 update hoping it would help me but to no avail.

[PILGRIM]

ChainSaw90 wrote:
Hi, sadly I do not know what my previous version of BIOS is. Really should have checked it out.

I saw the latest BIOS for the G53JW is BIOS 211. It most probably has that ROG button 3D functionality.
But the underlying fact is that except for that ROG button issue, any of the BIOS versions should at least
make 3D Mode to function..

I will try your method later today and I just found out something really weird. I just plugged my G53 into my external display with a HDMI output and the stereoscopic settings came up in my NVIDIA control panel but when i unplug the HDMI cable, its back to not having the stereoscopic settings. and when I try setting it up with the HDMI cable plugged into my laptop, it fails to detect my built in IR emitter. All it detects is a usb IR emmiter( i dont have this ), glasses(yes) or NVIDIA Discover glasses.

Does that mean that my IR emitter is not working or when I had it back form my previous RMA, somehow they did not set it back properly?

Checking 3D settings with an external 3D-capable screen (via HDMI), and finding out the Stereoscopic 3D settings were indeed installed, was good troubleshooting.
Now, the root of the problem is more or less isolated.

I remember way back- Brodyboy, the best technical advisor for the ASUS G-Series in this Forum,
has mentioned about 3D laptops having a separate tiny "3D cable/s" that connect the built-in IR emitter
to the motherboard. (Sorry, but with Brody's prolific postings, I can't seem to find that reference now..)

So, I also think that when you had that RMA, they hadn't reseated the IR emmiter to the mobo properly.
Thus, the reason why nVidia driver is acting weirdly.. Sorry to say, but set up another RMA?..

[DLea]

I recently bought a replacement screen for my laptop, after it's been cracked for over 6 months. When I go to NVIDIA control panel the "stereoscopic" option does not show. Yes it's being read as 120hz, and I verified the part # and it is HD-3D. Here comes the kicker, when I plug in a external monitor such as my TV threw HDMI or CRT monitor threw VGA (both devices only being 60hz refresh rate) and set them as primary, the option of stereoscopic shows up!

Things I've tried:
1) I installed the old cracked screen that I played 3D on numerous of times and it did the same thing with it as well
2) reinstalled different versions of NVIDIA drivers in safe mode, didn't work
3) Run stereoscopic setup menu while 60hz was set as primary, disconnect it and setup automatically shut down
4) Run stereoscopic setup menu while 60hz was set as primary, connect ir emitter, then upon choosing glasses, only discovery (red,blue) showed and 3D display not found.
5) Reinstalled windows 7, 2 times, and did a fresh install of all drivers.

One thing I've learned, whenever I did the fresh install of windows and installed the original phy x and graphics from ASUS website, the 3D button worked on the laptop shortcut key, but after updating to the newer NVIDIA driver, it stopped working.