Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.[br]
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Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives and hang the BIOS - it’s somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to the BIOS not being designed to be resilient to drive failure like most other laptops. Most laptops ignore the dead hard drive and PXE boot or complain about boot media. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed - if it boots, the drive has an issue and it’s a boot hanging BIOS.
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The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines (usually Clevo for mainstream/Sager for ROG), so they likely come from the same ODM and the Asus problem carried over to this model.
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The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines (usually Clevo for mainstream/Sager for ROG), so they likely come from the same ODM and the problem was inherited by Asus.
If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure or fried components. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users and board repair can be difficult to trace down the fault.
Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.[br]
The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines (usually Clevo for mainstream/Sager for ROG), so they likely come from the same ODM and the Asus problem carried over to this model.
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If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure or fried components. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.
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If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure or fried components. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users and board repair can be difficult to trace down the fault.
Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.[br]
The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines (usually Clevo for mainstream/Sager for ROG), so they likely come from the same ODM and the Asus problem carried over to this model.
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If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.
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If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure or fried components. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.
Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.[br]
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The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines, so they likely come from the same ODM and the Clevo BIOS implementation sucks in regards to handling a failed hard drive.
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The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines (usually Clevo for mainstream/Sager for ROG), so they likely come from the same ODM and the Asus problem carried over to this model.
If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.
Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.
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Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.[br]
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The RAM/WiFi/HD bay has a similar design to the Asus machines, so they likely come from the same ODM and the Clevo BIOS implementation sucks in regards to handling a failed hard drive.
If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.
Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.
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Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives in the sense the BIOS knows to ignore it and just complain. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.
If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.
Do you know if the hard drive works? A lot of laptops that aren’t properly designed to ignore dead drives hang the BIOS - it is somewhat common for ASUS and Acer to hang due to bad design around failed drives. See if you can boot without the hard drive installed.
If that doesn’t fix it, I would change the jack as @jayeff suggested and if that fails, the motherboard is dead - likely a BGA failure. The problem is BGA failures are rabbitholes for end users.