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G74sx does bios 203 provide any benefits

DSellars
Level 7

‎03-24-2012 11:15 AM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 09:30 PM by Community Admin

As the subject says any benefits
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zsld0423
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‎03-24-2012 11:22 AM

If your G74 is the 3D model, it fixes switching to the 3D mode, but other than that there's no real reason to *have* to update to 203. I'm on 202 and everything is running just fine, but YMMV
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Cat
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‎03-24-2012 11:34 AM

Fixes missing keystrokes.
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fostert
Level 12

‎03-24-2012 01:09 PM

Its been a while since I put 203 on my G74, but I recall it did exactly squat for me other than force the numlock state to "on" all the time.
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G74SX-CST1-CBIL, i7 2630QM 2GHz
32GB DDR3 RAM @1333MHz
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DSellars
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In response to fostert

‎03-24-2012 07:13 PM

So the calculator no longer comes up?
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fostert
Level 12
In response to DSellars

‎03-24-2012 07:26 PM

DSellars wrote:
So the calculator no longer comes up?


Yes it does. In fact thats all that buttons does is bring up the calculator. It certainly doesn't act like a numlock toggle button. In Linux it does nothing; however, the numlock state boots off in Linux (i.e. numpad keys behave likehome,insert,end,pgup,pgdown, etc) and then when I hit the capslock key it switches to a number pad. Strange.
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G74SX-CST1-CBIL, i7 2630QM 2GHz
32GB DDR3 RAM @1333MHz
GTX560M 3GB DDR5 (192 bit)
17.3" LED 1920x1080
Sentelic TP, BIOS 203
Debian Linux Wheezy (Testing) Kernel 3.2, NVIDIA 295.40
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