jester959
10-26-2007, 07:58 PM
To Justin or whomever,
Figured I'd make a post with these questions rather than emailing as I'm sure there are others who may wonder the same thing.
First & foremost, I am curious about forceware drivers for the 8700. I have the 101.38 drivers from Sagers website loaded. From reading some of the threads at notebook review, it sounds like the actual forceware drivers from nvidia's website are better to use, but need to be 'modded' in order to work on laptops, as Nvidia has no drivers listed for 8000's in the Go series. Any information on this? As a gamer, which should I go for?
Secondly, the hard drive. I have read some complaints that some of the newer 5791's are shipping w/ the jumper on the HD, rendering it in a slower SATA mode. I know for my desktop HD's I had to remove the jumper to force them into the 3gb's mode. Then again, I think I've also read that the 5791's are only SATA 150 instead of 300. Info on this would be appreciated as well.
And as a footnote, the fan is on quite bit more than usual. THere's one poster at NBR that had to open the case up and noticed the Artic 5 paste wasn't completely applied, etc. I can never seem to get speedfan to work, what's a good alternative to check my temps? (I don't think the Ntune will work very well, with the intel chipset and all)
Thanks again, especially Justin, you are a hell of a good worker. PC resellers need more guys like you.
EDIT -- Also had a couple other questions. I still have an 'unknown device' in my device manager. Everything' been installed that I can tell. (Fingerprint reader, webcam, bluetooth,etc). It's all workin wonderfully, but I still can't figure out what this is.
Figured I'd make a post with these questions rather than emailing as I'm sure there are others who may wonder the same thing.
First & foremost, I am curious about forceware drivers for the 8700. I have the 101.38 drivers from Sagers website loaded. From reading some of the threads at notebook review, it sounds like the actual forceware drivers from nvidia's website are better to use, but need to be 'modded' in order to work on laptops, as Nvidia has no drivers listed for 8000's in the Go series. Any information on this? As a gamer, which should I go for?
Secondly, the hard drive. I have read some complaints that some of the newer 5791's are shipping w/ the jumper on the HD, rendering it in a slower SATA mode. I know for my desktop HD's I had to remove the jumper to force them into the 3gb's mode. Then again, I think I've also read that the 5791's are only SATA 150 instead of 300. Info on this would be appreciated as well.
And as a footnote, the fan is on quite bit more than usual. THere's one poster at NBR that had to open the case up and noticed the Artic 5 paste wasn't completely applied, etc. I can never seem to get speedfan to work, what's a good alternative to check my temps? (I don't think the Ntune will work very well, with the intel chipset and all)
Thanks again, especially Justin, you are a hell of a good worker. PC resellers need more guys like you.
EDIT -- Also had a couple other questions. I still have an 'unknown device' in my device manager. Everything' been installed that I can tell. (Fingerprint reader, webcam, bluetooth,etc). It's all workin wonderfully, but I still can't figure out what this is.