Sager 9750 died on me after 3 weeks :(

Got my new sager 9750 first week of May.

AMD A64 X2 4200+
2 gig RAM
80GB 7200RPM SATA

got it from PCTorque w/ the 2 year extended warranty. (interestingly enough looks like PCTorque will no longer be selling Sager)

The laptop was awsome for the first few weeks. Fan noise was noticible, but not bad. Got a little hot playing WoW and Oblivion at high graphic settings (made me feel good loading Oblivion and auto detect told me it could do ultra high graphic (or something to that affect)).

Then this past Sunday, it started giving me problems. It would randomly restart itself, sometimes even only after having the computer on for less then 5 minutes (and definetly not even starting to get warm yet). It would then get caught in loops of restarting, and as I am watching the sager load screen with the blue bar moving across the bottom, it would restart again. Sometimes it would finnaly start XP pro, but many times after watching this for 10 minutes, I would just turn it off.

Then on Tuesday, the screen went black, and I couldnt get it to even get to the load screen. I get the lovely blue lights, and the clock comes on. Even hear the hard drive spin, and the fans kick on occasionaly, but nothing on the screen. All I am left with is a blue light around the power button, a blue light on the hard disk activity LED, and a green light showing that the computer is on. (check that, just turned it on again to see if anything else happened, and there is no clock anymore)

*sigh... and I was just getting really attached to it.

Currently in contact with Sager to get it taken care of

 

That sucks...
PCTorque says they'll still be supporting all of their current customers that bought from them.. is your warranty thru them or sager? I would contact PCT first anyway.

 

1st year of warranty is through Sager...

contacted PCT and they directed me to the Sager site...

 

Thats too bad to hear about your sager steele.

I hope everything will work flawlessly with the 5760

 

Sounds like a bad mobo..i had similar symptoms but between warm boots where it would just sit there and "think". In the end due to some other issues, i ended up RMAing it back to Sager, they replaced the mobo and so far so good except for the odd battery leak (unexplainable battery drain/drop while on full a/c) which is happening once a week.

Also, next time anyone with the 9750 games, suggest you use the Fn+F2 key combos to kick the fans on high to keep things nice and cool while you're fragging away...

 

d13steele-
Let us know how this turns out, and how it was dealing with Sager.

 

Those big 9750 and 9890 monsters are supremely powerful, but have been known to be problematic. Sager is pretty good with warranty service, though. Good luck!