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    My G73JH wont post

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by xxERIKxx, Aug 16, 2013.

  1. xxERIKxx

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    My G73 that has worked flawlessly for the last few years just decided to die on me. When I press the power button all the lights come on but the screen never turns on. The fans start going after a few seconds and I have to hold the power button to turn it off. One strange thing I noticed is that it will turn itself on as soon as the ac adapter is plugged in. I suspect mobo/gpu issues but was wondering what the members of this forum thought. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
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    I tried looking for the reset button but I can not find it. Is it true that the best buy models do not have a reset button? That wouldn't make sense to me but they could have skimped on it to save money i guess. I have tried an external monitor with no success. Thanks for that thread I may give that a try.
     
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    I assume it is BIOS bricked.
     
    James D, Aug 16, 2013
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    Can that happen randomly? I never updated the bios. I was playing BF3 when it locked up so I tried to reboot but got the blank screen.
     
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    ~~~~ JamesD - Forever the optimist :D
    This is a pic of the reset pinhole, I am not sure if your model has it
    asus-g73j-16-bottom.jpg
     
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    Ahhahhaa :D
    I just said about BIOS because I had (and many other on other laptops) such a symptom that when you plug AC in it autoboots itself.
    On the other hand it is really strange and small chance that BIOS somehow corrupted itself just like that. But if it was a power jump and AC didn't manage with it... who knows.
    Anyway I believe it is mobo problem. This is all I can say.
     
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    Nope I don't have the reset pinhole on mine. Looks like I might take it apart to get to the cmos battery this weekend.
     
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    Sorry for being optymistic but it will give nothing because it is the same as take battery off and press power button for 10 seconds. You can try though but do not expect much.
     
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    Yeah I'm not really expecting much as is. I am most likely going to sell it for parts if I can't get it working.
     
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    does it feels like it loads the OS
    you know like blinking HDD light
    maybe the display has dies
    i would suspect the mobo last ...
     
    mite_jan, Aug 16, 2013
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    I had this happened. System turned on but nothing on the screen. Probably a video card issue. That's what was wrong with my. I swapped the 5870m for a 7970m. Worked flawlessly
     
    F9zSlavik, Aug 17, 2013
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    You could try to see if removing the GPU changes the behaviour at all but doing a complete rebuild could rule out any assembly issues.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 19, 2013
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    Try removing pieces of your ram or cleaning them, it might solve your problem. :D
     
    nikolai090, Aug 22, 2013
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