Recent content by hxrsmurf

Do you think the magnetic lid would disable the viewing on an external display? I am refusing to believe it is the graphics card. Because at the time of the incident all fans are running and everything was working.

The screen is black with no picture or backlit display. Similar to when you open a laptop that is off. Unfortunately, it is not under warranty (ASUS doesn't recognize eBay's ADP warranty, which came with the laptop). But, I should contact the eBay seller. I have tried it on both vga and hdmi...

The CPU fan is not spinning upon power button being pressed, either. I think the laptop is supposed to inject the W8 Key when it boots up. I was able to boot the drive on my desktop sucessfully, so I can rule out the hard drive being bad. Maybe it is my BIOS or something? But, at the same time I...

I put a "Windows Boot Loader" in front of the pxe boot. I didn't choose a hard drive, because there was only the WBL option. Three days ago, for some reason, the laptop would try to boot into PXE instead of W8 and I hadn't updated, changed any hardware, or added drivers.

Hey Tom's Hardware, I recently purchased an ASUS S56CA from eBay's NewOpenBox. ASUS doesn't acknowledge the warranty from eBay, I got a ADP card of some sort. But, just three days ago the laptop was trying to boot into PXE, so I went and disabled it in BIOS. I am pretty sure I didn't turn it...