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    laptop and/or screen turns off when moving/closing laptop

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Sir Punk, Jul 10, 2008.

  1. Sir Punk

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    this is on an F3F, about 1 year and a half old.
    What happens is that at times, when I move the lid, the screen turns off, it goes totally black, but the power stays on. There's no way to make it turn on again.
    Other times just the laptop turns off all of a sudden. This happens with or without battery.

    After that I need to remove the battery otherwise it won't turn on.

    This happens also, at times, when I put down the laptop again after I set it down. Does anybody have any experience with this problem? I have tried to make it happen on a regular basis but I can't figure out what's the pattern that causes this.

    Temperature doesn't matter. It can happen when has been on even for 5 minutes.

    I noticed a light flickering of the screen when I turn it on, but then it goes away with a couple of minutes.
     
    Sir Punk, Jul 10, 2008
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    bump..................
     
    Sir Punk, Jul 11, 2008
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    can anybody help me?
     
    Sir Punk, Jul 12, 2008
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    It sounds like theres a bad cable or the motherboard is broken.
     
    Patrick, Jul 12, 2008
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    how could a bad cable cause the laptop to shut down? But it makes sense that would make the screen shut down.
     
    Sir Punk, Jul 12, 2008
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    Could cause a short...
     
    Patrick, Jul 12, 2008
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    should I send it to asus or try to fix it myself? will I lose warranty?
     
    Sir Punk, Jul 12, 2008
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    Send it to asus. If you try to fix it yourself, you will void the warrenty.
     
    Patrick, Jul 12, 2008
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    Reformat HD
     
    Oldman, Jul 12, 2008
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    why do you think that would do it? the hardest part is to replicate it consistently.
     
    Sir Punk, Jul 13, 2008
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    well, what I want to say is to restore your OS from hidden partition on HD. This procedure can't void the warranty.

    Secondly, I can't play with your laptop and my idea reflects my half educated guess (OK try to find perpetrator in temporary files folder, normally this folder has files with extensions others than .tmp)
     
    Oldman, Jul 13, 2008
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