ASUS X540SA won't turn on

[keemst4r]

So I bought this laptop a few months back from Best Buy. 2-3 weeks after I bought it I got a blue screen.I brushed it off and figured it'd be a one time occurrence. Occasionally after it had given me a few blue screens, which had concerned me since it was a brand new laptop. Tonight I was transferring a huge number of files between the laptop and an external hard drive, when around at 60% it gave me blue screen and instantly shut down. After that, the laptop didn't want to seem to turn on at all. I was able to get it booted up a few times, but it either froze at the Asus logo or gave me another blue screen once I got past that. Won't even turn on now.

First BSOD stop code : DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION
Second BSOD stop code : KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED

Anything I can try before I take it back?

 

[webworkings]

Since that is often triggered by either a bad hard drive or a bad graphics card/GPU, I would just contact the place of purchase or the manufacturer.

 

[keemst4r]

Is it possible for me to recover data on the laptop?

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from keemst4r : "ASUS X540SA won't boot, several BSODs"

So a few nights ago I was transferring a large number of photos between my laptop and an external hard drive. I was copying files from the laptop to the hard drive to put them on another PC. Around 60% through the process the computer gave me a blue screen and instantly shut off. This PC is only 3 months old, and it's given me a few blue screens on occasion prior to this, but not many. But this time, the computer didn't restart on its own. For a couple minutes after it wouldn't even turn on, and after I did get it on, it just froze at the Asus logo screen. I was able to get past that screen a few times, but it would instantly give me another blue screen after that.

Basically now it's pretty much unable to do anything. When I start the Laptop up, it will either freeze during boot up or will give me the blue screen after. Sometimes the blue screens have a sort of pixelated error, like several small black lines of pixels across the screen. I've gotten into my desktop one time, immediately after I had plugged it in to a power source after the battery died, but was I met with a blue screen shortly after.

Sometimes it will try to go into automatic startup repair, but usually freezes before that. It occasionally lets me into the recovery screen. I've tried to boot into safe mode, got a blue screen. I tried a system restore, got a blue screen.

I still have files on the Laptop that were unable to be transferred to the external hard drive. These files are important to me, and I'd really rather not have to lose them. I don't know what's caused this to happen to this laptop, but I have tried so much and I'm not sure what else I can do before just going back to Best Buy, getting my refund, and purchasing another laptop.

All blue screen error stop codes I've received :
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION
KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

Recovery screens :
\windows\System32\drivers\pci.sys
Error code 0xc0000221
\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\NTFS.sys
Error code 0xc0000221
\windows\system32\config\system
Error code 0xc0000098
\windows\system32\winload.efi
Error code 0xc000000f

 

[webworkings]

You 'may' be able to recover the data. You can try pulling the hard drive and hooking it up to another computer, externally using an adapter, and see if it can read the drive.