G50vt won't boot

Hi everyone,
I go my G50vt-A2 less than a week ago and I've been really happy with it up until today.

I came home and booted into Expressgate, then pressed the power button (the one in expressgate) to boot the notebook to Windows. What ensued was the Asus screen, followed by a series of fast repeating beeps that didn't seem to end.

Further investigation shows that while I can enter Expressgate (where I'm typing from now) and BIOS, I still can't boot to Windows. I have tried taking the battery out for a while, but no help there.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

 

Try stick in a paper clip into the reset hole at the bottom of the notebook to reset the BIOS.

 

If you mean the emergency shutdown, I did that twice, no luck.

I used the Asus reinstallation CD and started again from scratch. Good news is it works, bad news is I lost all my data (as I expected I would).

If anyone can shed any light on what could have caused this, I would bemost appreciative - would hate to repeat this.

Some things I did just before/as the problem manifested:
- plugged ipod in as it was booting (may have confused the MBR?).
- booted from expressgate (NOT the shipped version, since I accidentally removed that and installed a later edition).
- may have closed the laptop just before it finished shutting down, causing a mix of hibernate + shut down.

 

Well one thing you can do is make sure to setup two partitions and keep your data on the NON OS partition so that no matter what happens in the future you can format without losing your data.

As for what happened? Dunno your the first to have that problem out of thousands so it seems a freak accident. I would have tried a few things before a full recovery though. Like just repairing the bootloader for instance.

 

First of course I assume you tried to clear your BIOS settings the normal ways. If this is not possible, this happened once before that I know of. The person had to take their keyboard and part of the top assembly off to get to the CMOS battery for a forced clear of the CMOS memory. They could also get into ExpressGate but not boot. The thread is here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4225385

 

I had this same thing happen to me. I also reset the bios. What's really weird is that pulling the battery (Not CMOS batter, but just normal batter in the back) out for a little bit and putting it back in fixed it. I also made it to where it shows the actual bios status and not just the logo, and it would start beeping furiously on "NVRAM" and wouldn't do anything.

 

That's a new one to me... are you running stock components? Overclock anything?

 

Completely stock and no overclocking what so ever. It actually happened to me about 30 minutes after opening the laptop, it's brand new. I fought with it for about 10 minutes with multiple reboots, changing of the bios settings and resetting the bios and nothing fixed it, but like I said when I pulled the battery out and back in, walla! it worked.

 

Have you had any problems since then? If you didn't reset memory there is a chance it could happen again, assuming it wasn't some freak power issue.

 

Nope. I installed a retail copy of Vista shortly after that incident because I was sick of all the bloatware, Ive updated vista and rebooted about 20 times since then, so far no issues.

 

Sounds like something went wrong with the OS bootup. I don't think it's hardware, purely software from the sound of it. Hope you didn't lose much!

 

So far so good, I'm pretty sure it was because after I lost expressgate (deleted the 10GB partition) I installed the wrong version. I've learnt my lesson and now have all my user folders on D drive.

 

I store all data backups on multiple external disks in standard and partition images format.

If something happens to your current Laptop hard disk, that extra partition you use for backups may also be gone too. You can just use a 2.5 external Sata USB drive for backups.