With default settings, during full-screen non-windowed games, the display turns dimmed after a short time, and USB mouse is switched off shortime later. This does NOT help:
“Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Power Options \ Edit Plan Settings”, “Advanced Options”.
“Display / Display Brightness”.
“On Battery: 100%” ( default: “50%” ).
“USB settings / USB selective suspending setting”.
Some local vendors told me, that once - about 2010 - there were bags for notebooks with 18 inch displays, but now this kind of product disappeared from the local stores.
Bags for 17 inch notebooks might be suitable for the notebook, but you must test it! So you need test every “17 inch bag” if it fits, manually.
I got a free complimentary backpack by APC on a Hannover CeBIT fair in the early 2000th, which is suitable to transport the notebook. However, my free backpack is not one of the once commercially available backpacks and messenger bags of APC ( Archive.org "APC: Backpacks and Messenger Bags" ).
“If you need to run the BIOS Setup to set or modify the system configuration, press [F2] upon bootup to enter the BIOS setup”.
“Press [ESC] and you will presented with a boot menu with selections to boot from your available devices” → Indeed there is no classical startup screen.
“Emergency Shutdown - In case your operating system cannot properly turn OFF or restart, there is an addtional way to shutdown your Notebook PC: Hold the power button over 4 seconds”.
I suggest the BIOS setting “Boot / Fast Boot [Disabled]”, to extend the boot time and so to have better chances - subjectively - to get into the BIOS setup.
My experience: Usually it is necessary to do an emergency shutdown, before you have the chance to enter the BIOS with the next bootup.
You may install and run any edition of “Windows 7” ( “Windows 7 Pro”, “Windows 7 Home Premium”, ,.. ). During installation, you are asked for a proper serial number, as usual.
“Windows 7” crashes during installation if CSM is not enabled in the BIOS options:
With some early releases of “Windows 7” installation media, the installation process fails right at the start, before the partitioning, by the error message “A required CD/DVD device driver is missing” → Get another “newer” installation media where this bug is fixed.
Drivers for “Windows 8” and “Windows 8.1”, as supplied by Realtek and ASUS, are not suitable for “Windows 7”. The installation aborts by the error messages:
“FindFile failed”.
“The Realtek Network Controller was not found. If Deep Sleep Mode enabled Please Plug the Cable”.
After all, I did not find any driver for the device “Andere Geräte / Bluetooth - Peripheriegerät” - please tell me if you know what to install to solve the issue!
The Windows 8 product IDs, as shown within Windows in the “Systems” settings, look like “00179-60985-xxxxx-AAOEM” while “xxxxx” is a number which is different for different computers.
There is just a printing on the serial number plate “ASUS Windows 8”, but no Windows serial number!
I might not buy the backup media DVD at ASUS Service Shop, as my notebook was shipped with “Windows 8” ( not “Windows 8 Pro” ) - “Recovery Media: This Product is only applicable for the Notebook, EeePC, EeeBOX and All-in-one PC which are preinstalled with Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 8 PRO series. You can only install the SAME version as the one preinstalled by default (Windows 7 or Windows 8 PRO)”.
Instead, an original “Windows 8” or “Windows 8 Pro” installation DVD is suitable for installation. No serial number needed!
It does not matter if no operating system is installed, or a “Windows 7” or “Windows 8” edition:
If you try to install “Windows 8 Pro” with the proper DVD installation media, you are not asked for a serial number and instead of “Windows 8 Pro”, another copy of “Windows 8” is installed.
By this, you may install different copies of “Windows 8” on your computer. You are asked at boottime, which item you want to run.
You can enter your “Windows 8 Pro” key to upgrade your “Windows 8” to “Windows 8 Pro”. “Windows 8 Pro” is immediately activated, according to the “Control Panel / System” screen.
After a reboot, now the “Windows 8 Pro” installation is still activated.
At “Windows Update / Add Features to Windows 8 Pro”:
The once-free “Windows Media Center” product key, originally dedicated to “Windows 8 Pro” is accepted.
After a reboot, “Windows 8 Pro with Media Center” is displayed on the desktop canvas, but this “Windows 8 Pro with Media Center” installation is non-activated and unlicensed, activation error “0xC004C003”.
If you try to change the Windows product key with the “SLUI 3” command, the system rejects the ( same once accepted ) “Windows 8 Pro” product key but requests a product key for “Windows 8 Pro with Media Center” .
Sie haben darüber informiert, dass Windows 8 nach dem Reparaturservice nicht aktiviert ist. ASUS stellt den Windows 8 Produktschlüssel zum Abruf zur Verfügung, um dieses Problem beheben zu können.
Um die Sicherheit Ihrer Windows 8 Product-Key-Informationen zu gewährleisten, melden Sie sich bitte unter ASUS Member Site an, um Ihren Schlüssel abzurufen.
Schritt 1. Wenn Sie noch kein ASUS-Mitglied sind oder Sie haben Ihr Produkt noch nicht registriert, melden Sie sich bitte als ASUS-Mitglied an und registrieren Ihr Produkt zuerst.
Schritt 2. Sobald Sie eingeloggt sind, klicken Sie bitte auf den “Windows 8 Product Key”-Link auf der linken Menüseite.
Schritt 3. Wenn Sie dazu aufgefordert werden, geben Sie bitte den Microsoft-Error-Code ein. (Wie ist der Error-Code zu finden?)
Schritt 4. Nach der Überprüfung erhalten Sie eine E-Mail-Benachrichtigung. Eine Download-Schaltfläche wird neben Ihrem registrierten Produkt erscheinen.
Klicken Sie nun bitte auf “Download”, um Ihren Windows 8 Product-Key zu erhalten.
Schritt 5. Wenn Windows 8 nach dem Download noch nicht aktiviert ist, klicken Sie bitte für eine weitere Unterstützung auf “Kontakt ASUS”.
If you install first “Windows 8” and then “Windows 7”, you get the classical “Windows 7 Boot Manager” ( in text mode, with black background screen and white letters ) at startup.
If you then update from “Windows 8” to “Windows 8.1” by the Windows appstore, you get the “Windows 8 Boot Manager” ( in graphics mode, with blue background screen and white letters ) at startup.
Boot a Linux from DVD and delete all partitions ) - Just to be shure to start from scratch.
Boot a “Windows 8” or “Windows 8 Pro” installation DVD.
Delete all partitions on harddisk 0 ( where Windows 8 was preinstalled, originally ).
Delete all partitions on harddisk 1.
Create the Windows partition on harddisk 1.
For every fresh drive, where Windows wants to install, it creates the extra partition “MSR ( reserviert )”.
On the first drive where you setup a Windows partition, the partitions “System” and “Wiederherstellung” are also created - but just there. So you can´t setup 2 independant Windows installations on a computer with 2 drives where you can´t disconnect the drives easily ( and have the BIOS option to boot from any drive, as known from desktop computer motherboards ).
For a Windows 8 + Linux system, I select 358400 MBytes as partition size for a Windows 8 boot partition ( 715404 / 2 = 357702, I select 350*1024 = 358400 ).
In the Window partition manager, harddisk 1 has a size of 715404 Gigabytes.
If you install “Windows 8” and “Windows 7” on one drive, the boot menu of “Windows 7” is available. In opposite, if you install just “Windows 8”, there is no boot menu available.
For a Windows 8 + Windos 7 + Linux system, I select 237568 MBytes as partition size for a Windows 8 boot partition ( 715404 / 3 = 238468, I select 232*1024 = 237568 ).
Notebookplanet Blog "Asus K95VB Specs" - “This big laptop supports dual storage system. Overall, you can get up to 2 TB HDDs, consists of two 2.5'' 1 TB HDD. If you choose this product with i3/i5 processor, the maximum memory is 16 GB. If you go with i7 model, maximum memory increased to 32 GB”.