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    ASUS notebook broke - repair worthwhile?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ICTag, May 12, 2011.

  1. ICTag

    ICTag Newbie

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    Hi,
    My ASUS notebook (30 months old) stopped working. Nothing shows on the screen (booting windows or splastop from ROM), nor on an external monitor even though I can hear it booting normally.

    I guess it's something to do with the GPU. Is this worth trying to get repaired (ASUS or elsewhere) or is everything so integrated that repairing is not an option and buying-anther is the only option.

    Any advice?
    Tom
     
    ICTag, May 12, 2011
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    If you don't have your data on an external, remove the drive and buy an enclosure for it, along with a new system to put it on.

    30 months old is too old to resuscitate, imo.

    (Sounds like the nVidia gpu horror).
     
    tilleroftheearth, May 12, 2011
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  3. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    What is the model? What are the specs?


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  4. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Yes, model would help. But 30 month old, would probably sell for a lot less than it would cost to repair.
     
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  5. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    30 months old would put it in Montevina territory or late Santa Rosa, which SR houses the infamous Nvidia chip. Do you know which ASUS model you had?

    If it has a G84M/G86M chip, they aren't worth repairing as there is no permanent fix for it.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, May 12, 2011
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  6. ICTag

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    Sorry - I wasn't expecting such detailed answers (which is great :) )
    It's an ASUS F5Z-AP037C

    Benq Asus F5Z AP037C on Notebooks catalogue

    According to this source it's got a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphic processor.
     
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  7. tilleroftheearth

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    Yeah, as I guessed: (nVidia gpu)/time to throw this one out.
     
    tilleroftheearth, May 12, 2011
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  8. ICTag

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    yes, and @Tsunade_Hime was spot on guessing the N86M - unfortunately.
    Oh well, now I know.
     
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    COuld you not try baking it back to life that way you might get a few months maybe even a few years more use out of it and it costs nothing to do and you have nothing to lose as the notebook is worth nothing in its current state.
     
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    wildman, good suggestion. Just that a non-reliable notebook is worse than no notebook at all, imo.

    No matter what, it will happen again and it will eventually die completely (if it's not there already).
     
    tilleroftheearth, May 12, 2011
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  11. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    I'll pay shipping for you to send it to me... ;)
     
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  12. tilleroftheearth

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    Lol... he'd get more on ebay. ;)
     
    tilleroftheearth, May 12, 2011
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  13. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    yes... but if he was just going to pitch it I would make it worth his time to ship to me...
     
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  14. tilleroftheearth

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    But, you didn't say that... :)
     
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  15. ramgen

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    It is actually good that the defective nvidia chip ran for 30 months. Most of them died much sooner.

    Part it out and sell it on ebay. LCD, CPU, HDD, RAM, keyboard, case etc. will make some money for you.


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  16. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    wonders when the I need a laptop with X, Y config thread starts
     
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  17. ICTag

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    In Germany the guarantee is 24 months so 7 months less run-time would have been better.
    Even 2 years seems kind of short to me for something like a laptop. Guess I'm lucky I hadn't bought an expensive ASUS model.
     
    ICTag, May 13, 2011
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