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Asus G75 Randomly Cutting Power

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August 14, 2013 10:36:41 PM

Hey guys,

I have an Asus G75 gaming laptop that is approximately 8 months old. As of the past 2.5 weeks I have been having an odd power issue

What happens is:
- Ill be gaming or randomly surfing the internet
- Computer randomly cuts power and turns off
- I hit the power button and it comes back on, occasionally going to CHKDSK first

This happens once every couple of days.

What I have tried:
- Ran a full EuroSoft PC-Check. My SSD & HDD check out, RAM checks out, processor checks out, whatever MOBO tests they run check out.

Now, my suspicions are leading me towards sadly some shortage in the motherboard or something motherboard related. Now what I am wondering is if there is ANY other possibility for this occurring outside of the motherboard? My laptop is not overheating or anything either. There are also no memory dumps.

PC Specs
128 GB Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD
750 GB HDD
Intel i7 2.3 GHZ Processor
16 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

Thanks

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August 14, 2013 11:12:45 PM

do the random shutdowns occur while it is plugged in or on battery. or how is the fan speed during your gaming sessions. your laptop could be overheating.
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August 14, 2013 11:20:09 PM

invisibilian said:
do the random shutdowns occur while it is plugged in or on battery. or how is the fan speed during your gaming sessions. your laptop could be overheating.


It is plugged in. I dont believe it is overheating. I mainly think this because it seems the fans are going alright, and it has happened one time within around 10 minutes of powering on. I blow out the fans with a compressed air canister occasionally as well.

GPU Temp is maxing at around 69º C
Highest temp on any of the 4 processor cores is around 70º C
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August 15, 2013 2:20:52 AM

Alright then, that eliminated the possibility of overheating. you probably want to head to ASUS website downloading and installing all the latest drivers. I myself had weird issues with my ASUS z87 motherboard until I updated the BIOS.
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August 15, 2013 10:25:27 AM

I'm not so sure that drivers would help too much in this case. Since the unit is physically shutting off I would think its more related to some sort of hardware issue. Its still possible that the unit is overheating. How often is this happening and do you notice any patterns? Does it only happen when there is heavy use, gaming, etc? If you like please send me an email at cl-fred@asus.com so I can get further details and we can try to troubleshoot it.
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August 15, 2013 10:30:20 PM

Asus_Fred said:
I'm not so sure that drivers would help too much in this case. Since the unit is physically shutting off I would think its more related to some sort of hardware issue. Its still possible that the unit is overheating. How often is this happening and do you notice any patterns? Does it only happen when there is heavy use, gaming, etc? If you like please send me an email at cl-fred@asus.com so I can get further details and we can try to troubleshoot it.


E-mailed, thank you.

I also repaired a corrupt service via 'sfc /scannow' and installed an updated driver for my GFX card. Not going to hold my breath on this but on the 1% chance its software related.. we will see..
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November 15, 2013 11:11:32 PM

Hi, i faced the smiliar problem now. Are you able to resolve? Care to drop me a mail at limweehuat@gmail.com. thanks
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February 28, 2014 9:24:24 AM

what was the solution to the problem?
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March 15, 2014 4:57:33 PM

Hi, just some additional information. I have a G75 too, which shuts down all of a sudden. Thing is, once it shuts down and I restart it, it can run for 5-6 days in a row (if I don't shut it down manually, that is and that's the longest I've managed to keep it running).

I think that too is a bit weird, right....? Somebody else who did notice that?
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June 8, 2014 9:51:17 AM

Nadova, I have the exact same issue, but no answers, have emailes ASUS, will let this forum know of any working solutions I get. Anyone with similar problem?
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June 13, 2014 11:42:46 PM

Asus_Fred said:
I'm not so sure that drivers would help too much in this case. Since the unit is physically shutting off I would think its more related to some sort of hardware issue. Its still possible that the unit is overheating. How often is this happening and do you notice any patterns? Does it only happen when there is heavy use, gaming, etc? If you like please send me an email at cl-fred@asus.com so I can get further details and we can try to troubleshoot it.


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September 30, 2014 7:25:22 AM

Ripspeed450 said:
Nadova, I have the exact same issue, but no answers, have emailes ASUS, will let this forum know of any working solutions I get. Anyone with similar problem?


I have the same problem :(  I used to have it, like 3 months ago, 1 month before my guarantee ran out. I didn't have that much and then my harddisk broke. got it prepared, but I still have this random crashing (and turning on by itself), so it isn't software or driver related.
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October 2, 2014 7:52:13 PM

I have exactly the same problem here. My G75 is powering of by itself...just like if Im holding the power button for 5 seconds; everything die suddenly.

Since it only happen while gaming, I think this is must be related with the videocard (GTX 670); maybe the 3 GB of ram is not managed properly as if it would be with 2 GB or 4 Gb (binary thing)...

Like I said, for me it only occur while gaming. Can watch Neflix for hours and then Launch a game...power off.

It happen to me in every games I played on this laptop but some games are kinda more "resistant"...

Arma 3 is kinda stable... Powering off occur more often on Arma 2 (Dayz Overwatch mod) ; I even see differences between servers. On specific server...at a specific spot (balotata for instance) ... I go around on of the building threre... and as soon as I look through an hole in a chainlink fence... it shut off!... and it doenst do this at the same place, doing the same thing on a different server...

really weird.

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