Recent content by JohnKimble

I've had the laptop unplugged with the battery out for several hours, i am really hoping that somehow this will randomly fix it. It might be hard to access the memory on this particular laptop. As for Sager solution it would really depend if their motherboard warranties are 1 year+ as this...

The first time the laptop broke i sent it back to Sager they reported a motherboard failure and fixed it after a hefty fee. About 9 months later it seems to have broken again except in a even more spectacular fashion. I was playing a game when the laptop suddenly shut off with no warning. The...

I'm basically guessing right now it's some form of mobo or internal power connector damage. Without parts warranty i'm assuming that it's pretty much going to cost a large amount to fix or replace?

Somehow went through several days without any of the shutdowns happening but all of a sudden when it did happen it was accompanied with shutdowns ~1-10m after turning it back on combined with difficulty turning the pc on. When attempting to turn it on it will just flash lights/keyboard for a...

One of the steps i did take before was clean out the fans of dust and there was definitely quite a bit. However it did not immediately fix the problem though, as it still had the peculiar inability to boot until that random airblow on the underside. I've once had memory related crashes on...

That's what i thought originally but it seems kind of sudden. I considered temps as the possible cause back when it had the first random shutoffs and had coretemp on but the temps were out of the ordinary. As for memtest, it would probably be hard as i can't even enter bios right now. Like it's...

My laptop suddenly died after a short airplane flight. Immediately after setting it up post-flight it had several issues where it would randomly shut off and restart. It worked fine for a couple hours and was even able to watch some videos/play some games. It then shut off again and no longer...