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    G1s-A1 crashed, now wont boot.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by xmrmex, Sep 24, 2008.

  1. xmrmex

    xmrmex Newbie

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    Last night I was playing some warhammer and my G1S-A1 started freezing then I recieved the lovely BSOD.
    When I try to boot the computer up I get one of three things. None of which are normal and the HDD is making some funky noises that seem to be in a constant loop.

    Boot scenario 1: It starts up looking normal, goes through the vista loading bar and gets to a blue screen(not fully blue, its more of a back ground with some waves and stuff in it) and freezes at that.

    Boot scenario 2: DOS pops up and says i need to scan a sector of my hard drive, it goes through the scan and after it finishes the computer does nothing.

    Boot scenario 3: It loads up to a ASUS recovery screen with a few options, I ran the windows recovery option and it froze at some point during that.

    So at this point I am thinking my hard drive is probably on it's last leg, if that is the case I'll probably do a XP install on the new hard drive.

    Im going to make a copy of UBCD when I get home and run a hard drive diagnostic, -Hopefully- it's only the hard drive.
    I'm not sure what would of caused this, my guess is possible over heating?

    Any help or advice will be greatly appricated, i'd like to get some data off the drive if I can.
     
    xmrmex, Sep 24, 2008
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  2. brian.hanna

    brian.hanna Notebook Evangelist

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    send it in, this happened to me before, your hard drive is dead.


    p.s. you have about no chance of getting any data off of it.
     
    brian.hanna, Sep 24, 2008
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    Can you RMA it?
     
    Oldman, Sep 24, 2008
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  4. xmrmex

    xmrmex Newbie

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    Update: I emailed asus tech and they recomended reformatting my hard drive with the hidden partition, so I did.

    Everything was okay until I started the installation of windows updates, it froze.. crashed.. same as before.

    I call asus to start a RMA, he suggests its probably software related.
    I told him "crashing twice bad enough to not let windows start TWICE in one week doing TWO different things is a pretty good sign its not software"
    He gave me the "It's windows vista, its going to crash" speil.
    I told him "I've been using vista for well over a year now, no major crashes or issues and now I have this happening all the sudden, I doubt that's the case"

    After listening to him try to tell me to reformat this time using the recovery CD and doing 10 other useless steps and a big waste of time he gives me an RMA # and I'm just awaiting an email to get that going.

    Ugh what a head ache this has been, maybe they can fix the problem where my screen goes black randomly under heavy use too while they have it there. :confused:
     
    xmrmex, Sep 25, 2008
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