20 Most Recent ASUS K42F A1 Notebook Questions & Answers

The key your pressing will only enable the Wireless NIC. You still need to look up your wifi SSID in the Windows settings and connect with your password. Look for wireless icon on the bottom right of the display in he system tray. Double click or right click and select connect to a network.

If it's still under warranty you should call the support number and have them replace the motherboard.

go to control panel and then click on system and device management to see if your drivers are up to date!!!

problems with the webcam? More info is needed.

Have you tried uninstalling the ASUS Virtual Webcam software? If you do that, then you should only have the Laptop Integrated webcam option. I have an ASUS and I've never used or installed that software when I reloaded my machine. http://leteckaposta.cz/[removed for privacy]Unfortunately it did not work, I still discover this.

Your keyboard was damaged somehow. The best thing is to replace the keyboard.

have you tried pressing Fn+V keys? V key has a camera icon and when Fn key is pressed together with it, Asus lifeFrame utility opens. Only then your webcam will be activated. Enjoy!

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Windows 8 has updated drivers as much as you would get from Asus built into win 8.Go to devise MGR, if windows 8 did not load drivers, you will see a flag.See what hardware did not load a driver and then use the win 7 driver.You don't do anything to make a win 7 driver work, if the driver is newer, and signed it will install, if it's older then the driver windows installed, it won't install. If you see a flag and windows did not install a driver, then try the win 7 driver, or go to the MFG of the hardware and see if there is a win 8 driver.You can also run windows update, if win update see's a newer driver out it might pick it up and give you a install option.Now, your chipset, and most hardware has windows 8 drivers out.The drivers are the biggest problem, the biggest problem for you is the BIOS was not set for windows 8.So you could find even with the best drivers, win 8 slower or has bugs more then win 7 will have.Me, I would bench test all the hardware with win 7, then with win 8 and see which one is better.

try to update camera drivers

We need to know what the problem is enable for us to help you further. However, if you are unsure about the certain problem that you're having with your driver, then I suggest that you install RadarSync to your computer because it can fix all driver issues (it updates, maintains, etc). Driver issues will be fixed even if you are not doing anything. However, if you can tell us the certain issue that you are having then it would be better. Thank you for asking. Carlo

Graphics card? Have the tech. check has work, loose connection, etc.

It sounds like you have not install your touchpad Driver since you formatted last time.If you have Driver handy with you then install the toughpad driver if not then visit asus driver site,provide your laptop model number, version of window and instll it. I'm sure it'll work for you

Go to Control Panel -> Printers -> Select Printer that wants to be use as default -> right click on selected printer Icon -> Printing Preferences -> click on default buttonHope it Helps

When you plug in the power cord is there any lightswhatsoever on the laptop, where the plug goes in or on the AC Adapter of thepower cord?When you press the power button do you hear fans running, hard drive spinning,lights on the computer, hear any beeps or lights constantly blinking, hear theDvD/CD drive click and the light on the drawer of the DvD/CD turn on for asecond or two? If so the laptop is trying to boot or may have booted, butthe screen is not showing for some reason.Beep tones and blinking lights tells the technicians what is going on with thelaptop and why it is not booting. Most times it's a motherboard issuewhen you hear beeps or blinking lights continuous. Most times the problemis with the memory or Video Card. Count the Blinking Lights or Beeps and takenote of their pattern (1 Long or 1 Long followed by 2 Short).Maybe your power cord is bad if you don't get anything to happen whatsoeverwhen you press the power button. And if that's true maybe you wasoperating off the battery the last time you had it on and since the power cordis bad, it was not charging the battery so the battery is drained and the powercord is bad.Maybe you have a Static Charge Buildup. Remove the Power Cord, Remove theBattery, then Press and Hold the power button for 30seconds. After 30 seconds plug the power cord back in (leave the batteryout) and hit the power button to see if it boots. If it does, you can putthe battery back in and let it charge.Maybe your DC Power Jack which is where the power cord plugsinto the computer is bad. Take an ink pen and push the tip inside thejack and see if the little pin wiggles, if so the jack is bad. You'll have totake the laptop apart to fix it. Most times it is soldered onto themotherboard, so you will have to desolder the old and solder a new one.Maybe your memory is bad or the memory slot is bad.Remove the Power Cord, Open the Case and remove one of thememory chips. Set the chip aside then try rebooting the computer. If it boots, then you know the memory chip you set aside is bad so mark an x onit with an ink pen. If it fails to boot then move the chip to the nextmemory slot and try rebooting. If it fails take the chip out and set itaside, then put the other chip in and try booting it in both slots. If itboots, just to verify that the chip set aside is bad, mark an x on it and putit into the open memory chip slot and try booting.