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    Strange problem with W3V

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by wwwdotTIMdotcom, Sep 7, 2005.

  1. wwwdotTIMdotcom

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    After having my w3v for about a week I noticed a strange problem. I have both my optical bay battery and the normal battery in the notebook. I was using it (on battery power) for about 30 minutes and then left it unattended for less than 5 minutes. When I came back the notebook was off. Pressing the power button was unresponsive.

    I find this strange because I was still somewhere between 60-70% power left on my battery. It wasn't until I stuck the AC charger in the notebook would it power back up. A minute after I booted up I took the charger off and seems to be working fine.

    On an unrelated note I have a stuck/dead pixel in the lower right corner that is annoying. Its green and sticks out like a sore thumb. Anything darker than a pale gray and its pretty obvious to notice. It has no problems changing white (unless it just blends in) and it also flickers when changing resolutions. I guess there's little I can do about that, however. Well, pray, maybe. ;)
     
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    Did you run that full screen or just in the localized area where the pixel was? I'm afraid of stressing the LCD too much with the changes between RGB.
     
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    Seems to be an interesting program...I'll try running it on my M6Ne to see if it can get rid of my two stuck pixels.
     
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    After some continuous use I am able to repeat my initial problem.

    For some reason when using the optical bay battery and that is completely discharged of power it won't switch to the main battery properly and thus shuts down my laptop.

    I am still unsure of why I have to put it on AC power before the main battery is useable again.

    If anyone has any ideas of a solution it'd be great!
     
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    Sounds eerely familiar. Had this same complaint on an unrelated model. It turned out to be the one of the batteries. If you charge the batteries by them selves do they charge fully? I belive one of your batteries is bad. Also are you running CHC? If you remove chs does this problem still remain?
     
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    If its a dead pixel you should be able to get a replacement since Asus has that zero dead pixel guarentee.
     
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    The zero pixel guarantee only applies to the w1n, v6v and the European m6 series
     
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    Don't forget the W2v ;)
     
    AuroraS, Sep 8, 2005
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    Right, I forgot since it was so new :D
     
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    Ugh. I'm really starting to get frusterated with my W3V. A new problem arose this morning. When I boot into windows normally I get a blue screen of death and says ati2dvag is stuck in an infinite loop and reboots the machine only for the same thing to happen. The only way I can boot into windows now is through safe mode.
     
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    UPDATE: I tried using that video to get rid of stuck pixels... didn't work for me. I left it on for about 8.5 hours.

    Oh well... I still love my M6Ne :asus:

    Update 2: Now that I look at it...the green stuck pixel has become less noticable... I can barely see it, even against a black background!
    The red one is still noticable though...
     
    AuroraS, Sep 8, 2005
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