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    My ASUS keeps going to Startup Repair what's the problem??

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by dushbadge, Sep 18, 2011.

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    It's an ASUS G73JW

    I was just using it normally yesterday until I put it to sleep. When I turned it on again it went to start up repair instead of the log-in.

    I don't know what's going on really... it happened before so I reformatted, now its happening again.
     
    dushbadge, Sep 18, 2011
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    (Sorry for the double post)

    Ok...

    I'm yet again putting my w7 disc and doing an upgrade....

    Once it starts working again can someone please tell me what not to do to prevent it from breaking?

    Last install what I did was I DL'd the nvidia driver and realTEK audio.

    Aside from that I downloaded like 5 programs.

    I really want to use this machine =/

    Thanks
     
    dushbadge, Sep 18, 2011
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    Have you done a clean install yet?
    Thats the first thing you should do with laptop when you get em
     
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    What do you mean by a clean install?

    It says I can only upgrade to x64 or do a custom, but custom seems useless and it always gives me a compatability error.

    So I do upgrade which does makes it like-new and leaves a windows.old folder
     
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    A clean install is just windows no drivers or bloatware.
    Then you can go to a driver page and get your drivers and not the bloat which can cause problems.
     
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    Ok I'm on my ASUS and I haven't downloaded any drivers yet and windows updates are off. I'm a bit afraid to download the nvidia driver.

    Can someone help me out?

    Where do I start?
     
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    Sure get your graphics card ones from here
    Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers
    As for the asus page get all the atk ones, audio, chipset, card reader, lan, usb, nothing from utilities the wireless one that fits your card blue tooth AzurewaveR for camera and that should do it.
     
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    Hey man, thanks for the help. I've updated all my drivers but one small thing bugs me. I opened up my device manager and I see 1 driver that has a yellow exclamation mark.

    It's called a PCI Simple Communications Controller.

    Do you have any idea about how to update this driver?

    EDIT: Nevermind I downloaded the Intel Management thingie. Now I see 0 yellow exclamation marks. Looks good and I hope startup repair doesn't come up tomorrow morning =/
     
    dushbadge, Sep 18, 2011
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    Looks like for NO REASON it decided to BSOD on me. Told me it had a hibernation fail. I'm getting sick of this so I'm gonna jus return it, obviously its hardware is messed up or something. I had thought it finally worked perfectly...
     
    dushbadge, Sep 20, 2011
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    Open an Admin Command Prompt, and run

    powercfg.exe /h off

    wait a few seconds, then run

    powercfg.exe /h on

    This will clear up your hibernation file, which is what is probably causing your hibernation error. And it's not a hardware issue, but an OS issue. ;)
     
    Chastity, Sep 22, 2011
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