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In regards to Ryan's answer, the only thing I would add is keep an eye on the temperature. If it runs too hot (AKA you're gaming on it for decent periods of time), you risk damaging the components. Easy solution to that is just a cooling pad ($15-20 is easily enough). Performance is important...

For it remaining on, even with screen down, it could be if you have something like a mouse connected. Even if you put the laptop to sleep with the mouse plugged in, an accidental click can cause the laptop to wake. Especially if it is fairly quiet, you won't notice it and it'll drain battery as...

Sometimes the wait part takes longer (upwards to 1-2hrs). If it starts doing a restart loop during the reset, you'll have to RMA it, as it is a hard drive issue. But for now, I'd say wait a bit longer to see if the reset goes anywhere. Btw, was it a full factory reset or just resetting...

Asus. The Lenovo isn't bad but Asus is more geared towards gaming, which is what I'm assuming you're buying it for (hence the Strix). The ram difference isn't gonna be noticeable unless you're doing heavy editing, but it's not bad to have a lil more.

Not necessarily a slower HD. Have you updated all drivers to newest per Asus' website? We performed a test with an Asus Strix a few months ago to see the difference between brand new straight from the store and after it had been fully updated. The difference is incredibly noticeable. And I...

If anyone else experiences this; Resolved: it was a manufacturer issue. The hard drive was faulty and was replaced via an RMA (still under warranty), which would explain the random fixes working temporarily and overall consistency otherwise of not being able to locate a DirectX and files...

Still an issue, and still staying at once per day. I have noticed it seems a little slower on initial bootup, going from the MSI screen to the log in page, and the blue backed loading screen now shows up just before the log in screen (the one that shows up after updates, but with just 'loading'...

So, I have an MSI laptop (about 1.5yrs old now so still fairly new). It has been working fine till about 2weeks ago. Whenever I start it the first time in the day, it starts, loads a little (usually to the MSI screen) then after a little metallic click type sound, it shuts down (like a force...

Haha yup! Thanks regardless, I appreciate you taking the time to try and figure out solutions for the issue!

So not sure what happened, think there was an update last night, maybe something to do with it? But it works fine again now. Other browsers worked fine as well, didn't have any issue like it. Suppose worst case scenario, I wait out the minute if I really need a site from frequents, but most...

Edit: The issue seems to be with the dedicated Nvidia GPU. Running above games on the integrated Intel, they open. Very laggy, but that's a given. We tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers for both graphics cards but it didn't help. We did get a code 43 for the Nvidia and it stopped...

Yea, I even tried clearing everything from the beginning of time. And no extensions at all. I'll try other browsers to see if its the same problem with them (Chrome is main and very rarely IE and Edge, so I'll pay more attention to see how they are).

So I have an MSI GE62 laptop and I really only use Chrome as my browser. Suddenly (as of the past week or so), when I first open Chrome (whether it be as soon as I start my laptop or if it has been running something else before I go to Chrome), it loads very slow. I can search as usual as soon...

Hello, So we got a new Asus GL553VD DS71 Strix laptop in the beginning of September. The day we got it, we updated its drivers accordingly to the Asus website. It had been working fine up to about 3 weeks ago. Since then, when launched, Battlefield Bad Company 2 opens as a white screen then...