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Keyboard problems are common with the G74, return this one and keep returning them until you get a perfect one. Keep an eye open for a glitchy touchpad, too.

I surmise that you have become the "proud" owner of a ROG notebook and have "seen the light" . . .

Black Viper's links are in this post that used to be a sticky.

Boot from a win7 installation DVD and do a repair installation or reinstall windows.

You don't need to reflash. Either the flash was successful or it wasn't; there's no in-between.

You might want to go into the BIOS setup and "load optimized defaults", though.

I don't know... nothing on the site says English only. You can look here - http://techdows.com/2011/07/download-windows-7-integrated-with-sp1-iso-official-direct-download-links.html

My feelings EXACTLY! Plus the support is abysmal... actually that's the worst part about Asus ownership, IMHO. :(

Thank you, Chastity. I didn't know you got it from Hilbert's site. :D

01/04/12
Added link to ATI Crap Cleaner thread

Several people have requested this so I was able to get of a copy to post here.

Copy the code and paste it into a text editor then save it as a file with the .bat extension. Dbl-Click to run...

Go into the BIOS setup and under the Advanced menu set USB Charge to enable and see if that helps.

Let us know, OK? :D

"Wow ..." is right!

If you have Asus Web Storage installed, uninstall it.

A tiny bit of toothpaste works well to clean contacts, but only in places where the toothpaste can be cleaned off, too. Not good in a headphone jack, I don't think . . .

A shot of WD40 on the...

I wonder how long before we start seeing modded G74SX BIOS's all over the place? lol

This eamibcp.zip phenomena proves that it wouldn't be hard for Asus to give us a full-fledged BIOS if they had...

Thank you! Happy New Year to you, too!

01/01/12
Added Realtek USB 2 Card Reader V6.1.7600.10001

Does the one in my sig work?

12/30/11
Added Fresco Logic USB 3.0 v 3.5.24.0 driver

+1 That's a good motto to go by!

I'm using 285.38 but I'm not a gamer. I only use this because 285.62 was giving me the TDR errors.

I don't overclock but those in the know say nVidia Inspector is the one to use.

Yeah, the keyboards ARE sort of crappy, and in my opinion it's only amatter of time until they wear out... a short time comparitively.

I hardly ever use my KB so I'm not overly worried, but it...

They KNOW the specs, dude. Overclockers go beyond the specs, hence the "over". :p

Merry Christmas! :D

Go into your BIOS and make your DVD the first priority to boot from. You can leave it that way after you have everything set up.

If that still doesn't work then you still don't have a proper boot...

Geez, I remember when having 1 GB was a big deal....