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    G53SW Freezing while gaming

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by juggar, Oct 15, 2011.

  1. juggar

    juggar Notebook Consultant

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    I have recently bought a G53SW-XN1 from newegg and I have been happy with it so far but as of today it has started freezing after 5 mins of gameplay. It has done this in both Mafia 2 and Bad Company 2. I have restarted and cleared the CMOS and let it sit for an hour. I ran furmark and the max temp I reached was 93C and i was stable at 92. I am beginning to suspect the ram as the cause of the freezing. As I did take a 2 gig stick out of my old G73 and I put it in my G53 so I would have 8 gig ram. I know I need to run Memtest but I am at a friends house for the weekend so I cant burn a disk. Can anyone help me out? :(
     
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  2. ALLurGroceries

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    Yeah I would run memtest on it. Or take the G73 RAM out and see if it stops freezing.

    Do you have a USB stick? There's an installer for making a bootable USB stick here: Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

    It will wipe whatever is on it, so back it up first if you need to keep what's on the USB stick before running the memtest86+ installer.
     
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    Ah ok, I will try the bootable USB stick option. I really dont want to have to take apart my G53 just to get to the RAM if that's what it takes then I guess I have too.
     
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