Recent content by Quizzar

I'm back, unfortunately. After running flawlessly for a week I decided to update my graphics driver. Then, 2 days later, after turning it on from Sleep mode, I started to get stripes and blue dots on the screen and then complet blackout. Managed to turn it on by pressing the power button 60...

Update 2: I put some brand new thermal paste and the laptop started working again. As soon as I got into Windows I cleaned the system a bit and removed some malware (mainly RiskWare.IFEOHijack) and it's been going on for 2 days straight without any issues. I think it's fixed. Nobody replied but...

Hey again. Wanted to give you guys an update on the issue.Soon after I submitted this question the laptop died again. I pushed the power button and to my surprise it actually turned on ... for another hour. Then it died again. Tried resetting the CMOS battery but it didn't work this time, so my...

Hello, Excuse me if this is a duplicate and has a really easy fix (except going in service) but I don't trust my laptop to work long enough in order to browse the entire forum for related issues. I've looked at some older threads but many didn't relate to my issue. So, about a week ago while...

http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-2636681/problematic-asus-laptop-hdd.html < Original long description thread. I have a laptop Asus with a hdd that gives me a lot of problems. Does not boot windows or repair tools so I managed to boot from a live ubuntu and the disk is not properly...