Hi, thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
The laptop will freeze up randomly. It doesnt have at a certain time. Sometimes, I can go the whole day without freezing up. Other times, it'll happen immediately after the laptop boots up. It's completely random. After freezing, the only way to get it working against is to do a hard reboot.
I can usually tell when it's about to freeze because the cursor will change into the blue rotating circle. After that, everything starts to lag, and finally, the whole laptop just stops working, except for the mouse. I can still move the mouse around, it's just that nothing is clickable or anything.
I've tried everything I can think of. I ran memtest, which passed. I used Windows 8's refresh feature. I've run SFC /scannow and tests with Seatools. I've even formatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows 8 from scratch. The problem still persists. The motherboard has also been replaced twice. As a matter of fact, Asus replaced just about all of the innards when I had it RMA'd. I think the only things that are the same are the CPU and the GPU.
I ran chkdsk /r overnight. This morning, when I checked the laptop, it kept telling me to "insert boot disk and reboot" as if the hard drive was empty or wasn't being picked up. So, I took the hard drive out and connected it to a PC as an external drive. It's picked up fine by the PC. Seatools tests from that PC also come up as PASS.
I'm at a loss of what's going on. Anyone have any ideas? Right now, I'm running a Long DST on SeaTools right now, hoping it'll pick up something.
I've thought it could be the GPU/CPU, but wouldn't that also cause the mouse to freeze up as well if there was a problem?
My specs are:
Asus K53TA, 500GB Seagate Momentus XT. I'm using Windows 8 Pro. The notebook also has a Quad-Core 1.4Ghz AMD A6 processor and a Mobility Radeon 6520 GPU. If anyone needs any more info, I'd be glad to provide it. Any help would be excellent. Thanks.
The laptop will freeze up randomly. It doesnt have at a certain time. Sometimes, I can go the whole day without freezing up. Other times, it'll happen immediately after the laptop boots up. It's completely random. After freezing, the only way to get it working against is to do a hard reboot.
I can usually tell when it's about to freeze because the cursor will change into the blue rotating circle. After that, everything starts to lag, and finally, the whole laptop just stops working, except for the mouse. I can still move the mouse around, it's just that nothing is clickable or anything.
I've tried everything I can think of. I ran memtest, which passed. I used Windows 8's refresh feature. I've run SFC /scannow and tests with Seatools. I've even formatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows 8 from scratch. The problem still persists. The motherboard has also been replaced twice. As a matter of fact, Asus replaced just about all of the innards when I had it RMA'd. I think the only things that are the same are the CPU and the GPU.
I ran chkdsk /r overnight. This morning, when I checked the laptop, it kept telling me to "insert boot disk and reboot" as if the hard drive was empty or wasn't being picked up. So, I took the hard drive out and connected it to a PC as an external drive. It's picked up fine by the PC. Seatools tests from that PC also come up as PASS.
I'm at a loss of what's going on. Anyone have any ideas? Right now, I'm running a Long DST on SeaTools right now, hoping it'll pick up something.
I've thought it could be the GPU/CPU, but wouldn't that also cause the mouse to freeze up as well if there was a problem?
My specs are:
Asus K53TA, 500GB Seagate Momentus XT. I'm using Windows 8 Pro. The notebook also has a Quad-Core 1.4Ghz AMD A6 processor and a Mobility Radeon 6520 GPU. If anyone needs any more info, I'd be glad to provide it. Any help would be excellent. Thanks.
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