G73JH Boot Issue: Randomly Does not boot

I've been reading up on a bunch of posts on these forums for days now trying see if anybody has had the following issue, couldn't find any mention of it:

Waking up from Hibernate, or just turning the machine on:
- Randomly does not boot.
- It just sits at the ASUS boot screen.
- I do not have to hold the power button to turn off, just click it once and it turns off.
- Most of the time the second time I click the power button to boot up, it boots fine.

I'm currently running bios 206 or 204 (not sure, whatever was default when i bought it in March) and Catalyst 10.5 Mobility without ANY issues other than this boot issue. I've not seen any lockups, GSODs, PSODs, no shut downs no nothing.

If anybody has experienced this issue, have you seen it alleviated with the 209 bios upgrade?

Since its been so stable for months now after installing 10.5 (never had issues before other than the LONG A$$ load times on BF:BC2, which is why I updated to 10.5), I fear touching anything.

Thanks in advance!

 

I would update your bios to 209 using ezflash and see how it goes from there. If its still the same then probably want to give asus a call. I sometimes have these kind of problems with my desktop. The rams were usually the cause of it. I would then remove them and put it back and it would work again.

 

I get that every so often. Get the boot tone and sits at the ASUS logo. Happens maybe 2-3 times a month. Mostly after sitting for awhile.

I've ignored it since everything else works fine. Perhaps right before the warranty runs out I'll get it sorted.

Cheers,

 

I thought I was the only one with this issue, so I didn't bother posting it earlier but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. Only difference in my case is it happens every single time. Press power on button, screen freezes at Asus logo. But get this: try pressing F1 a few times after the screen comes up. Doing that should prompt the computer to load up Windows, at least it does for me. I've checked the bios half a dozen times - there's nothing regarding pressing F1 on boot, so I've just learned to live with it. Although if anyone could find a fix, that would of course be greatly appreciated.

P.S. I have Bios 209. The problem started occurring with the stock Bios (can't remember which one that was either) and when I upgraded to 209, no dice.

 

sounds to me Rhynoxx that you need to reconfigure your bootup drives in the BIOS.

 

Just a thought, my old ibook has this trouble everytime i restart, but if i start up from being off completely its fine. The problem was the hdd wouldn't mount. But then again, thats a 6 year old laptop.

 

Thanks for the replies guys!

I'll update the bios sometime here just to see if that fixes it.

EZFlash is the utility that is built into the bios right?

 

Yes, use the BIOS update utility within the BIOS and use a USB mem stick that is NOT NTFS, do not update through windows to 209!!! There is a long thread about this and if not done right some have bricked their machines!
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...jh-bios-update-step-step-newbie-tutorial.html
Kudos to StubbornSwiss

 

Chastity, the drives are named the same, the only way to differentiate them is by their locations - one says P0 (that's the one set to boot first) the other says P4. Is the drive located at P0 not the drive that contains the OS?

 

You can:

rename your partitions on the Property pages for each one

you can use Disk Manager to bring up and identify your partitions.

 

What property page? You mean in the BIOS? Never saw an option for that but I could check again. And I would love to use the Disk Manager, but when I try to load it up, nothing happens, it gets stuck on Loading Disk Configuration or something like that.

 

right click on drive and select Properties

Disk Manager failing to load? uhm, that's bad

 

Oh that Properties box? I've already done that - renamed each drive appropriately. Doesn't change how it's labeled in BIOS, though. And ever since my second drive threw one small error (something about a corrupted sector; I was possibly working with a corrupted file) and freaked out Windows to the point of it throwing a disk failing warning (the drive is fine though, I access it every day and even if it does die for some reason I have it all backed up) the Disk Manager has failed to load. Not that big a deal since I haven't needed it since first setup, but it is a little bit annoying that it doesn't work when it really should.

 

Hey Guys,

I've just got a g73jh-a1 (2 days) and already have the same problem.

Every time (EVERY) i turn on the notebook it freezes at ASUS boot screen, it let me do nothing but look to the asus logo, i cannot even enter the BIOS setup.

I tried all the buttons on the keyborad . . . mouse . . . .but nothing works.

PS.: The notebook was at default configurantion, i didn't change anything. just intalled Firefox XD

 

Take it to a local computer shop (or do it yourself if you have the software) and test the hard drives and the RAM. either one of those could stop the machine from booting properly each tiime.

 

I can highly believe the RAM could be causing it, but can the hard drives be the problem even if it is freezing at the startup screen ?

Because before this problem i experienced 2 blue screen on windows.

 

yeah if the drive isn't being recognized properly at boot up it will cause the system to hang as the bios is searching for the drive and the drive isn't responding as it should. easiest way to determine if it's the hard drive is take the drives out and boot it..it will post then complain because there is no OS.

add the drives one at a time an see if it acts up, as for the RAM download the newest version of Memtest86+ Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

 

Thaks for the help, I'll try out these steps, after that I'll post the results here

 

I did the memtest (2 times) and nothing went wrong. . . i found someone here who can repair asus notebook and he will see the HDs for me.

Thanks guys.