Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
OH SNAP!
I present to you and for the other G73 owners a solution base that I have just figured out no less than 15 mins ago.
I am an avid programmer , gamer, hacker (not cracker), and all around super nerd. When my baby... my g73jh-rxxb05 took me into a heartshattering display today. Exactly as described in the topic.
Your having the same issue if your system is suffering exactly as follows:
You have power led's and numlock and caps lock are on. No backlit on keyboard.
You get no sound from the asus logo, no display, and no spinning fans.
You will hear your optical drive and possibly harddrive move.
Your problem?:
You GPU died. End result.
The breakdown:
-I tested every stick of ram I had for this baby, nothing wrong. All clean.
-I took the entire thing apart to get to the akwardly placed memory under the keyboard.
-As stated all clean.
-I gave a suspended animation test.... Nothing attatched to the board, only DC power and hit the power switch. 1/2 second spin on the CPU fan. I was able to deduce that if the cpu fan was spinning, it was attempting to initialize. My deduction was correct.
- I then tried clearing cmos---- No result.
- From there I got bold. I wanted to know if it was the board or the GPU.
-I removed the GPU and did another suspended animation boot. Guess what? CPU fan started spinng at full rpms. Pluged the speakers in and beep codes ahoy!
I hope this will help someone out of warranty with they're g73. Just replace the GPU if this is EXACTLY what's going on.
- To add: I also reattached the GPU to confirm and it did do the latter with the cpu fan. I believe the GPU's initialize at the same time as the CPU.
[Solution Base] G73jh Power/Lights, No sound, No video, Memory Ruled out.
Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by MassDivide, Jan 14, 2012.
