Reptrain wrote I feel your pain dude.


My Laptop is complete shit.


It goes so slow and is always freezing up.

It's not necessarily that, it runs games great. It had no problems at all, and then all the sudden it just died. If it had problems that showed it coming close to dying then I could understand, but this laptop just straight up died in a second.

Well usually if you read the reviews you could have prevented this, and honestly many laptops aren't good for gaming. Especially if your going to college I would recommend more of an ultrabook because it is lighter and more compact for class. But for the reason why they sell these shitty products is because $$$. People will purchase anything for a brand and as long as they keep getting paid, they don't care.

For that you may as well have bought 8 chrome books. Mine has lasted a year, so you'd have gotten at least 8 years out of all of them for the same price. Think about it; $200 a year for unlimited(sometimes) internet access, and unending(guaranteed) mockery. I'll stop while you reflect and regret missing out on such a purchase...I'm assuming you're done.

There are only three current manufacturers of mechanical hard drives and none of them are bad. There is always a chance the drive they shipped was bad and they are most likely to fail quickly if they are going to fail.

It's 2015 and we use solid-state drives because they have much lower failure rates, no moving parts, and are orders of magnitude faster. Don't buy a $1600 laptop without an SSD.

r00t wrote There are only three current manufacturers of mechanical hard drives and none of them are bad. There is always a chance the drive they shipped was bad and they are most likely to fail quickly if they are going to fail.

It's 2015 and we use solid-state drives because they have much lower failure rates, no moving parts, and are orders of magnitude faster. Don't buy a $1600 laptop without an SSD.

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I bought the version with IPS screen and 128gb SSD, and it failed after 2 weeks. And sorry forgot to mention the laptop is only 1200, but I also paid extra for the warranties, so I just said it was 1600, the laptop itself was 1200.

Disguise wrote

r00t wrote There are only three current manufacturers of mechanical hard drives and none of them are bad. There is always a chance the drive they shipped was bad and they are most likely to fail quickly if they are going to fail.

It's 2015 and we use solid-state drives because they have much lower failure rates, no moving parts, and are orders of magnitude faster. Don't buy a $1600 laptop without an SSD.

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I bought the version with IPS screen and 128gb SSD, and it failed after 2 weeks.

SSDs don't make any noise.

r00t wrote

Disguise wrote

r00t wrote There are only three current manufacturers of mechanical hard drives and none of them are bad. There is always a chance the drive they shipped was bad and they are most likely to fail quickly if they are going to fail.

It's 2015 and we use solid-state drives because they have much lower failure rates, no moving parts, and are orders of magnitude faster. Don't buy a $1600 laptop without an SSD.

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I bought the version with IPS screen and 128gb SSD, and it failed after 2 weeks.

SSDs don't make any noise.

It probably made the noise because since the SSD was full, I was going to download the steam game to the hard drive, so I think once I started the download the hard drive was in use, I had already downloaded MK X on it, and when I went to download 7 days to die on it, it just crashed after downloading for like an hour

Disguise wrote

r00t wrote

Disguise wrote

r00t wrote There are only three current manufacturers of mechanical hard drives and none of them are bad. There is always a chance the drive they shipped was bad and they are most likely to fail quickly if they are going to fail.

It's 2015 and we use solid-state drives because they have much lower failure rates, no moving parts, and are orders of magnitude faster. Don't buy a $1600 laptop without an SSD.

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I bought the version with IPS screen and 128gb SSD, and it failed after 2 weeks.

SSDs don't make any noise.

It probably made the noise because since the SSD was full, I was going to download the steam game to the hard drive, so I think once I started the download the hard drive was in use, I had already downloaded MK X on it, and when I went to download 7 days to die on it, it just crashed after downloading for like an hour

1. Open Device Manager and find the manufacturer of your drive
2. Download and run the correct diagnostics tool:

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Toshiba: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

r00t wrote

Disguise wrote

r00t wrote

Disguise wrote

r00t wrote There are only three current manufacturers of mechanical hard drives and none of them are bad. There is always a chance the drive they shipped was bad and they are most likely to fail quickly if they are going to fail.

It's 2015 and we use solid-state drives because they have much lower failure rates, no moving parts, and are orders of magnitude faster. Don't buy a $1600 laptop without an SSD.

[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

I bought the version with IPS screen and 128gb SSD, and it failed after 2 weeks.

SSDs don't make any noise.

It probably made the noise because since the SSD was full, I was going to download the steam game to the hard drive, so I think once I started the download the hard drive was in use, I had already downloaded MK X on it, and when I went to download 7 days to die on it, it just crashed after downloading for like an hour

1. Open Device Manager and find the manufacturer of your drive
2. Download and run the correct diagnostics tool:

Seagate: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
WD: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Toshiba: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

The thing is I can't, my computer is completely out, when I start it, it goes into a loop of aptio setup utility, it's like the Bios thing for my computer, and no matter what I do, when I leave it, it goes straight back into the utility after restarting. All the people with the same problems online had to reinstall windows 8, which they didn't give me a disk for, and sometimes that didn't even work. Many people had to send their computers off, which is what Asus themselves told me to do. This is why I'm in the rant forum, they screwed me over by not being able to fix it myself, if it was something simple I'd understand, but this is such a big problem that I'm going to be going without a laptop for who knows how long.

Edit: I was typing this before :thatguy: :thatguy: :thatguy: :thatguy: :thatguy: :thatguy: was posted. Some of my typing is now invalid.

Just because the laptop is priced high, doesnt make it special in any type of way and shouldnt be treated as such. Same goes for brand. Brands make a wide variety of laptops. Just because "Asus" seems reliable, doesnt mean to say that all their laptops are good because they are certainly not.

As r00t correctly pointed out, SSD's do not make any noise. Unless you have a second mechanical HDD in your laptop, then you should not hear any hard drive sound like sounds.

"Critical process died" is a blue screen of death. Not a death of a laptop. It can be caused by a numerous number of things. If you heard a noise, it was probably the speakers if you had sound running in the background. When a blue screen of death occurs, everything crashes including the sound and some users might hear a prolonged buzz from the speakers. Again, a BSOD is not the death of a laptop. Boot it in safe mode and see if it boots from there.

Since the issue is most likely a BSOD, it can happen to nearly everyone. Of course people are going to see that same error. You probably contacted Asus and they where like "yeah, you cant fix this... Send it in and we can fix it" But the more technically advanced can fix this with basic troubleshooting.

Laptops are not supposed to be for gaming. I cant say this loud enough. Im sorry, but if you wanted your laptop for gaming, then your going to run into these issues. Laptops are fragile. especially if they have mechanical parts in them like hard drives which you said yours has.

TL:DR - Buy a desktop for gaming.

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