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    Asus RoG G46 Boot loop

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by jivankovich, Nov 4, 2014.

  1. jivankovich

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    Hi all, I have a Asus RoG G46 series laptop, I've been having issues with it crashing a lot lately. First time was a few months ago, and I could do a factory reset. Second time was about two weeks ago, same situation. Yesterday it restarted saying "gathering info about problem" or something along those lines. Now I can't get it to boot on. It just says Republic of Gamers, and powers on and off. I can't boot it into any safe mode or anything like that. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
     
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    Have you tried running it with one ram stick (tested each module by itself in each slot) or seeing if removing the hard drive lets it boot to the bios without restarting?
     
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    I guess I should've said I could boot into the bios, but I will try the ram idea now.
     
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    Have you tried scanning the hard drive for errors? It sounds to me either a memory or HDD problem.
     
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    Tired everything ram wise, and I don't have the right hardware to scan the hard drive on another computer unfortunately. Unless their is some hotkeys like F8 to get to Windows boot options, which doesn't work either..
     
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    Figured it out I believe, I went and got a hard drive enclosure, and when I plug it in to another computer, it doesn't let me view the files. Just sits there and tries to scan for files. Thanks for your help Meaker
     
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    Not a problem, I hope there was no important data on the drive. A replacement should let you carry on. Of course you will need to re-install windows.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 6, 2014
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