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    Asus G1 - Grey screen of death? Rolling restarts.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Maxamilus, Jul 13, 2009.

  1. Maxamilus

    Maxamilus Notebook Consultant

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    Just woke up to a frozen pc with just a grey screen. After doing a hard reboot, the pc seems to just do rolling restarts, at 3-4 minute intervals.

    If anyone is familiar with the G1, it still has that explosion start up sound, but the screen is grey with black horizontal lines, which eventually fade to a solid grey color.

    Any clue to what the problem is? I'm guessing it's just another bad motherboard. Already had it replaced once.
     
    Maxamilus, Jul 13, 2009
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    G8GT594 Notebook Consultant

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    Almost sounds like a bad GPU
     
    G8GT594, Jul 13, 2009
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    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    After reading that you woke it up and found a frozen screen it could be that your HDD has failed. Can you get into the bios?
     
    King of Interns, Jul 13, 2009
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    Hooked up to an extrenal moniter, and i can start in safe mode. I see fragments during the windows loading screen. Pretty sure I sent it in for warranty work last time I saw fragments and they replaced the MB, but this grey screen thing is new. I'm guessing it's a combination of both the GPU/MB now.
     
    Maxamilus, Jul 15, 2009
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