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Hi all Got the missus a new laptop a few days ago, bought it as an Ultranote but it now seems to be called an Initia. She noticed last night it wouldn't shut down properly as the k/b lights remained illuminated and the drive light was still on. After about 10 minutes it went off. Then today the...

Hi all I was just wondering what the button to the left of the power button does. It looks like some kind of turbo button judging by the speedo graphic but i'm wondering what it "turbos". It's currently lit orange. Im guessing it's a feature for gaming ?? for the graphics card but would really...

Hi all Does anybody know the chassis that the above uses please, just so I can forensically research as I like to do. Many thanks ;)

Hi all I just noticed the AMD chips will soon be available for the 17" laptops (7th July). I've been hanging on as the intels sound a bit toasty for my liking and over heating is my real bugbear also I don't really feel competent enough anymore to go down the under clocking route. I noticed...

Hi all Been doing a bit of window shopping as i'm contemplating a new laptop to partially replace my slightly creaky but still useable Vortex IV. I'm somewhat out of the loop with components, so a bit of advice would be very welcome. On the machine I was looking at as an example (Optimus in...

Hi all I was just window shopping and noticed the Optimus VIII "special offer". I've configured it to my requirements and it does seem a good price. A couple of things i've noticed, firstly the battery is stated as Cosmos VI series. Is this just a typo, as I thought the Optimus would require...

Hi all Just looking at the specs of the current laptop offerings with a view to possibly upgrading/replacing my nearly three year old Vortex IV. One of my primary requirements is an internal blu ray writer....something that is as rare as hens teeth with the current range of chassis, and I...

Hi all As above I've lost the 5G option on my Vortex IV laptop 2 1/2 years old, 2G still works. Windows 7, Killer N1202 network card, VM superhub 2 router. 5G is still seen by other devices. The router admin page reports 2.4G is on channel 11, whereas the 5G is on "auto compatability"...

Hi all My webcam has never worked, the installation shortcut on the desktop just refers to a missing path to the driver. It hasn't bothered me so far, but now I would like to use the webcam so need to get it working. I've looked at my account in the driver download section, but there are at...

Hi all My backlit k/b has stopped working, only comes on blue and I can't restore it to my normal multi colour setting. I keep getting a popup message when I boot up saying something along the lines of "driver did not load, system need to be restarted. This used to happen occasionally and a...

Hi Guys Just bought Doom and it won't run. Getting the GL_ARB_CLIP_CONTROL fatal error. Seems it's probably my old (not updated for 2 years, in fact ever) graphics drivers. Has anyone used the above drivers and do they cause any problems. Just that i've never had driver issues before which is...

Hi all I've had the above for nearly 2 years now (bought mine around same time as Spyder tracks). I realise I'm very overdue to clean all the dust out but i'm rather unsure of how to go about it regarding what panels to take off etc. I've noticed that the GPU fan ramps up a lot more now and...

Hi all Does anyone have a PCS blu ray writer in their laptop and found it a bit slow ?? I'm fairly sure it's rated at 6 x Mine very gradually gets up to a maximum of 4 x during the burn (using TDK or Verbatim discs), the same discs reach a full speed almost immediately of 10 x and 6 x...

Hi all Recently when booting laptop (vortex IV win 7 64 bit) randomly the usb ports seem to fail (wireless mouse fails to initiate) although i can use the track pad. However when i try to shut down the pc it stays on "shutting down" for ages and i have to do a hard shut down with the power...

Hi guys n gals i've seen several people mention that they are able to customise their backlit keyboard to any colour of their choice. However i only seem to have a choice of 8 colours in the palette offered (including black). The software says "ver 2.3" in the bottom right hand corner of the...

I'm a bit confused about a fan in my recently purchased Vortex IV that is permanently running. I can't say for sure if it has always done this but now that i've noticed it it does always seem to be on (although it only blows hot when gaming). I'm guessing it's the GPU (770M) fan as it's GPU-Z...

It's probably only news to me but when i was browsing the PC World site last night i spotted a PCS laptop for sale ! It's called the Vortex IV RS-880 and based around the 4710 MQ cpu and GTX 880 processor. Also seems rather pricey as you might expect at pc world :yes:. I didn't realise PCS sold...

I finally put my order in on 23rd April after months of deliberation and indecision. Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz...

Just pondering a thought...which is more likely to fail on the Vortex IV, the backlit keyboard or the power brick ? There are 729 backlit keyboards available for purchase but the power supplies are out of stock. Has anyone successfully ordered a spare power supply in the past ? (i'm hoping the...

Well i'm looking forward to receiving my Vortex IV (day 6 still in testing-has been since day 2 !)... I was wondering if anyone has some experience of the Killer card...do i have to install my own drivers before it will work ? I realise there is a downloads page with drivers specific to my...