Asus G2S-A1 Booting Problems

Hey everyone,

Its been about 2 days since my purchase and I've got a rather irritating problem. Whenever I cold boot the system, it'll get past the usual moving green "progress" bar and afterwords when that disappears, along with everything on the screen, windows vista should eventually load up fine right? Instead of loading windows vista up shortly after, I get a blank screen with nothing and 20 seconds later, the system reboots and then it does eventually load Vista! Seems to load vista when the system is still warm, but not after I shut the laptop down for a few hours. I updated the RAM to 4GB and Installed a 7200 RPM hard drive, nothing drastic

I've done everything from Installing a lesser rpm hard drive, to removing certain bits of memory, to reorganizing the BIOS boot sequence updating the BIOS and still nothing seems to fix this problem. Nothing seems to be wrong with the components I've checked. Has anyone else had this problem too, or is it just me? Help please..

PS: contacted technical support endlessly..i really don't feel like getting this lappy sent in to Asus if I don't need to.

 

I have had that happen to me couple of times. And i noticed that my battery was running low around 6%. At that low battery power when i plug in the charger it boots up fine.

 

If only it was the battery. I haven't got out a lot lately, so I usually just have the AC adapter plugged into the laptop. Battery is usually at most drained to 68. I did a test to see if it would boot fine by removing the battery and just plugging in the ac power adapter and vice versa. Nothing seems to be wrong with the battery , nor the power adaptor. The lappy just kind of...refuses to boot up the operating system and hangs there for a whole minute now before shutting itself down. Windows classifies it as a "blue screen" shutdown, yet there is no blue screen.

It will **always** boot up the second time, but I worry about the system components (especially the hard drive) getting damaged eventually from shutting off all of a sudden. I can deal with this minor boot annoyance..but would like to have it taken care of. No one else has posted a thread for this (that i could find), so I guess its just me. Maybe it is the OS?

Note: this problem only occurs when I leave the laptop off for at least 3 hours and do a cold bootup.

 

I'm noticing some issues with my G1S in that if I close the lid while running off the battery and then plug-in the ac adapter (while the machine is off/hibernating) and the try to turn it back on to resume Windows (while still plugged into the ac adapter) I only get a back screen. If I turn off the laptop and try again I get a Windows error telling me that my Windows session data may be corrupt so I just start from fresh.