G73 dead after driver rollback?

Hello all,

Today my second G73 died after rollback to the stock Asus drivers.

A same situation happened to my previous unit within 12 hours of receiving it.

Yesterday i upgraded to the Ati Mobility 10.6 drivers. I played DiRT 2, Crysis and Half Life Ep. 2 all on max. settings except for AA and AF. Driver settings in CCC were set to 'Balanced'.

Today is started getting GSOD's (however it didn't do that yesterday, weird enough). So i did a rollback to stock.

The installation was smooth, until it prompted to reboot to let the changes take effect.

I clicked 'Yes', the the screen became black and the laptop did not reboot. Fearing that this was the same situation my previous unit died in, i did a hard shutdown.

I immediately restarted the unit and my fear was confirmed: the G73 was dead.

The unit starts and hard drives spin. However the keyboard does not light up, but the bar under the screen does. Numlock and capslock indicators are on but the screen stays black and there is no hard drive activity, so the unit does not boot.

I connected him to an external monitor to look if there was still output. But there isn't any, not via HDMI nor via VGA.

I already tried removing the hard drives and 3 sticks of ram and then try to start but still nothing.

Can anyone help me with this? I don't want to RMA it again because here in Belgium that means i can wait another month or 2 before i receive a new G73.


EDIT:
I've been reading around about these symptoms and it seems that this could be a dead motherboard, can someone confirm this?

 

If it's not beeping at you when you remove the HD's / RAM, it's probably a dead mobo. There should be some POST beeps.

 

I was afraid of that... Back to the RMA. Again. &#@!§$!!!

 

I would also look into checking your power supply brick and line source. I mean, honestly, something is killing your motherboard. If you have a UPS, plug in your brick to the battery side. It will act as a line conditioner.

 

It could always be possible that my power source is sort of unstable, if i should call it that.
But i think that is not the problem. I mainly use the laptop in the living room on a lapdesk thingie.
My sister has a HP 530 laptop that is plugged in on the same power line, as well is our tv, dvd player and our set-top box. And none of them ever broke.
So it think it is very unlikely that it problem is an unstable power source. But like i said it can always be possible.

 

How the hell can a driver update kill a laptop. I mean what the toot.

And to think I JUST downloaded the 10.6 drivers and was about to install them to see if they fixed a stutter issue I have in COD4 and CSS source.

Looks like I got scared out of upgrading again. (Last time around was when I downloaded ziddy's vBios then Quagmire started his "laptop bricked" thread 15 minutes later. lol

 

I didn't mean to scare anyone at all. It is just the fact that my unit died whilst i was messing around with the ati drivers. And that i want to know what this sudden death could have caused, i find it a bit crazy to believe that in my case a driver downgrade kills my unit.

 

LOL, Bumble hardware failures can just happen. If you don't want to update anything, then don't, but don't think that NOT updating is going to protect you against hardware failure.