Hi,
I have a weird problem with my laptop, an Asus U56E-BBL6. It randomly shuts itself down, no warning, no error message, no event logs, no bluescreen. Nothing. It's as if someone pulled the battery. Something else I note, this problem seems to happen more often when running on battery than when plugged in. However, it does happen sometimes when plugged in as well.
It seems to be related to the intel HD 3000 integrated graphics (the CPU is a core i5 2430M). I have never had it happen in safe mode, and I can run windows regularly if I disable or uninstall the intel graphics driver.
I have done a full format and reinstall of windows to no avail.
I have installed a few different versions of the driver, but the problem always happens again.
Do I have a hardware problem? (I'm pretty sure the answer is yes) Is it the CPU, motherboard, power supply? Any ideas how I can further diagnose this? It's a real pain as one of the main things I use this for is playing videos over HDMI and that won't work without a graphics driver installed.
Or should I not bother and just start shopping for a new laptop?
I have a weird problem with my laptop, an Asus U56E-BBL6. It randomly shuts itself down, no warning, no error message, no event logs, no bluescreen. Nothing. It's as if someone pulled the battery. Something else I note, this problem seems to happen more often when running on battery than when plugged in. However, it does happen sometimes when plugged in as well.
It seems to be related to the intel HD 3000 integrated graphics (the CPU is a core i5 2430M). I have never had it happen in safe mode, and I can run windows regularly if I disable or uninstall the intel graphics driver.
I have done a full format and reinstall of windows to no avail.
I have installed a few different versions of the driver, but the problem always happens again.
Do I have a hardware problem? (I'm pretty sure the answer is yes) Is it the CPU, motherboard, power supply? Any ideas how I can further diagnose this? It's a real pain as one of the main things I use this for is playing videos over HDMI and that won't work without a graphics driver installed.
Or should I not bother and just start shopping for a new laptop?