Long about 5+ years ago, I bought a pair of Asus G74Sx ROG laptops for myself and my wife and we have been really happy with them over all. I went back to grad school and took some advanced stat classes and lugged this boat anchor around for a few years and we both play games, mess with video, music, etc.
Recently, mine had the battery fried in a lightning storm and she....well, she spilled iced tea on hers....twice. I let mine sit for 6 months before reading that because the battery died, it wouldn't boot with a battery installed but it is now running fine with the battery out and off the power cord. Hers....well, it runs fine but her keyboard is trashed.
Now, what I would like to do at least in the short term is run hers like a desk top tower with an external monitor, USB keyboard/mouse, etc. but I'm not sure the best way to go about this. Here's where my lack of expertise is glaring.
Literally shoving it to the side and closing the lid doesn't work because it goes into power save mode. Is there a setting I can configure to eliminate this issue?
I'm running dual monitor with the native and a 23" Samsung as we speak on mine so I know that works but I'd rather shut the native laptop screen down and run all external without wasting resources on the things I'm not using.
I'm actually building her a new rig but this machine is plenty good for our 14yo daughter so I'd like to keep it up and running.
Any advice would be welcome.
Recently, mine had the battery fried in a lightning storm and she....well, she spilled iced tea on hers....twice. I let mine sit for 6 months before reading that because the battery died, it wouldn't boot with a battery installed but it is now running fine with the battery out and off the power cord. Hers....well, it runs fine but her keyboard is trashed.
Now, what I would like to do at least in the short term is run hers like a desk top tower with an external monitor, USB keyboard/mouse, etc. but I'm not sure the best way to go about this. Here's where my lack of expertise is glaring.
Literally shoving it to the side and closing the lid doesn't work because it goes into power save mode. Is there a setting I can configure to eliminate this issue?
I'm running dual monitor with the native and a 23" Samsung as we speak on mine so I know that works but I'd rather shut the native laptop screen down and run all external without wasting resources on the things I'm not using.
I'm actually building her a new rig but this machine is plenty good for our 14yo daughter so I'd like to keep it up and running.
Any advice would be welcome.
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