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Help with Clevo P170EM

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ggadrian

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Well, I have a rebranded Clevo P170EM and since I reformted it I'm having all sort of problems (the f..ink laptops are gonna drive me crazy😡 Can't they just work like the desktops?).

I think (I'm pretty sure actually) that I've installed all the drivers for this model and they're up to date, but I'm havin 3 issues right now. I'm really ofuscated with this laptop so even if you think that it might something really basic say it because I've reinstalled everything so many times that I might be forgetting something:

-If it suspends it doesn't come back. I think that the laptop actually gets off suspension but I don't get screen output.
-When it's idle and the screen turns black the the fans go to maximum speed without aparent reason, once you move the mouse or touch any key they spin down.
-Virtualbox doesn't recognize the laptop as x64, so maybe Vt-x is not working? I checked the BIOS, but it's a AMI that's as shitty as it gets, so no option to enable/disable virtualization.

If you're interested in the specs (just what might be relevant, to keep it short):
-i7 3740qm
-16GB DDR3 1600
-GTX680m
-120GB SSD
-750GB HDD

Appart from that just one advice: if someone is looking for a laptop like that, just forget about it if you can get by with something else. It's powerful, yes, but appart from that it's an overpriced pice of crap.
 
denis280 said:
is it clean.is it overheating and did you try to clear cmos
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Well, it throttles at 100% load to about 3'3-3'4GHz, but it doesn't have temperature problems while I'm using it.

How do I clear de CMOS? Just disconnect de motherboard battery and put it back in?
 
ketchup79 said:
OK, what were the original problems that made you reformat in the first place?
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None, I just wanted to give windows 8.1 because I have afrind that's a microsoft student partner and he talked me into it so, despite hating windows 8, I gave it a try. I hated windows 8.1 as much as w8 so I came back to W7.

I think that the problems started when I messed with the memory configurations in Intel Extreme Utility (or something like that) and I had to remove the battery from the motherboard because it refused to boot. And from then I suffering all this problems.
 
ketchup79 said:
Also, did you use the drivers off the Clevo site?
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I had a lot of problems with clevo drivers, I also had problems with the laptop "manufacturer" drivers.

I spent a whole week trying to install drivers because when I tried to install them the computer said that they where not compatible with my system. I called the manufacturer and they didn't help me at all. All they could come by was: "well, you can send the laptop to our offices (paying the shipping) and we can look into it, and about a month later you'll get it back, but if it's not a hardware problem you're gonna have to pay the technicians"

So, I bought what they said it was a mobile workstation (they had a gaming line, I bought the workstation one) with pro support and it turns out that the support is pure shit.

Anyway, finally I found a Clevo CD that came with the laptop and those drivers did work, so yes, I've installed the Clevo drivers.
 
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