Recent content by gwybrain

Good people of Tom's Hardware, the results are in and the Laptop is repaired. The only listed repaired part is "[90NR00G0-R00010} GL703GM MB._0M/I78750H/AS]". As to how the CPU magically died is beyond me, however that does shed a bit of light onto the issue. But not enough for I presume the...

Update: I have contacted ASUS support, their only suggestion is to send in the laptop for repair since I am still under warranty. I will be doing so when my address is static again. Should they repair the problem and inform me as to what it was, I will update this thread accordingly.

Symptoms: Failure to boot or post. No indication of a power source. No battery indicator when plugged in. Symptoms started about half a day ago. I stayed up til' 4am merrily playing games instead of writing a final. Plugged in my phone to charge, set the alarm and went to bed. Woke up to an...