Notebook Unknown Problem Asus A9RP

Hello,

I hope i find an answer here, because all the people I've talked to, they all say that they have never encountered something like this.

I have a ASUS A9RP-5A023, and for a year i had no problems with it, but from a month or so, it started acting strange. When the notebook stays closed for a couple of hours or a day - two... when i press the power button or any kind of button, it has no reaction as if it's dead or something, but when i remove the battery for a second and put it back, the notebook starts acting normal, and it powers right away.

When it's in that "fake death" stage, even if i plug in the AC, the power led or the battery charge led isn't flashing, so it's just dead.

And after the battery "reset", every thing goes back to normal.

I can't figure out what's the problem...
Can anyone help?

 

I dont know much about electrical circuits, but you may have a bad resistor on your board? The only thing I could think of is maybe a resistor/capacitor/transistor/whatever has gone bad allowing the current running through the board to be too high, and when you pull out the battery and pull the plug it drains the current from the board?


LOL yah I definitely shot at that one in the dark, but in my head it makes sense.

 

The laptop ASUS A9RP comes with a power management software called Power 4 Gear that manages your power settings for you. Basically, if no one is using the laptop for an extended period of time it will send your laptop into Standby or Hibernate mode. Uninstall the ASUS Power 4 Gear software if it is installed. Check the Power Management settings. Make sure that you have Standby and Hibernate turned off.

Hope this helps.. GOOD LUCK!!

 

i will try to uninstall power 4 gear and see what's happening...( and nope, it's not getting into hibernation because is disabled, and i know what P4G does ) as for the electronics i have the warranty... i hope that should be the last resort, because i don't know how much it will last.

 

Wait, if the computer does not resume when you press the power button then it is not in standby or hibernation (or it is but there is a problem which prevents it from snapping out of it).

I suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the ATK drivers and utility, and the Power4Gear.

If that doesn't do it, update the BIOS as well.

Before sending it to warranty resort to less radical things like Windows recovery.

 

NO! it's not about hibernation!!

But I think I'm gonna try a fresh windows install if nothing else works.

As for the bios, i don't think a bios update would work because if the problem was the bios, how did it worked for a whole year without problems.

 

"NO! it's not about hibernation!!"
My point exactly.

"As for the bios, i don't think a bios update would work because if the problem was the bios, how did it worked for a whole year without problems."
I agree.

 

I've tried every possible thing.... it still does the same. I'm gonna try a windows reinstall... maybe it will work, it's my last chance.

ANY MORE IDEAS!?

 

Try it... Although I fear it might be hardware. Perhaps it's just the battery in that case you may solve it with a cross-shipping using the warranty.

 

Ok, I've tried every thing that was possible.. windows reinstall... etc. When I install the video driver ( and I've tried a lot of them ), I'm still having the same crash.

I think the thing maybe started when they've updated my bios at warranty... I will go again this month.

In the meantime... anyone? any solution?

 

Try downgrading the BIOS if you think that might help. I have a guide (signature)