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    ASUS M51TR - Crashes after couple seconds

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by William K, Sep 17, 2011.

  1. William K

    William K Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have ASUS M51TR laptop which boots up fine and works well, you can bootup Ubuntu, get to desktop and surf internet for a while but then the display shuts off. Laptop is still powered on but apparently theres no one home. After this crash you cannot start the laptop for a while which points to heat issues or more likely issues with soldering somewhere on the motherboard. I also noticed that the laptop drains battery by itself so there is short somewhere. Dust is not the issue and fan is running OK.

    Any tips? Should I attempt classic heat gun fix? I haven't used this laptop actively for about half an year so in that sense it does not matter, this does not even hard disk anymore....
     
    William K, Sep 17, 2011
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