Weird problems after disassembling my laptop ?

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Sairam D

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Few days back I disassembled my laptop (almost removed all the parts) and fixed it again.

From the day of doing this I am experiencing some weird behaviors from my laptop. Still I couldn't find what causes these problem. I have listed below the problems noticed so far.

1. Sometimes while shaking or moving the laptop it gets turned off suddenly with a beep sound just within a second.

2. Some games like GTA 5 and Watchdogs starts to lag after 10-20 mins of game-play.

3. Laptop gets heated a lot.

4. I also personally feel that the fan runs slower than it used to be. But it runs.

Laptop Model: ASUS X541U
Configuration: i5, 4gb ram, 2gb 920mx Nvidea graphic card.
OS:Windows 10

Note: It has been just 2 months after the purchase of my laptop.


So where the problem exists? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
 
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Bad connections? RAM issues, maybe with the lag. Disassemble and reassemble making sure everything is firmly seated. The fact that it gets heated and you think the fan is slower means it's overheating because of something you did in there. You can always get it serviced. It's still under warranty unless you violated it by opening it.
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Bad connections? RAM issues, maybe with the lag. Disassemble and reassemble making sure everything is firmly seated. The fact that it gets heated and you think the fan is slower means it's overheating because of something you did in there. You can always get it serviced. It's still under warranty unless you violated it by opening it.
 
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It is possible that you may have messed up the thermal paste/glue on your CPU and/or GPU and it shuts off due to overheat - log temps while under stress and confirm that it is shutting off due to over temperature.

I would also recheck any ribbon cables coming from your motherboard (or charging circuit/PCB, if your laptop has one), but be careful as those cables are very fragile and could easily break.
 
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Thanks for the chuckle .. post reminded me of this .... No disassemble ! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjeptaI2T8E


1. Not a good idea to do that, very bad for HD

2. Related to 3.

3. Temps ?

4. Some lappies have fan control utilities (some undocumented)

5. Sometimes laptop vendors offer a base model that you can buy with an upgrade to a faster CPU ... all too often, the cooling system is not up tot he task of the faster model. If you get a custom built lappie, no problem but these days, almost all come with the top CPU available.

At 2 months old, Id call TS.
 
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"It's still under warranty unless you violated it by opening it". What does it mean can you explain it in detail?

My laptop doesn't have any void warranty stickers pasted on it. That's the reason why I disassembled my laptop without fear.

So did I just void my warranty by disassembling it?
 
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Usually, yes depends on how well you can convince the manufacturer that disassembly was necessary..:ange:

 
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Yes.

Fixing them costs money ... regardless of you dd anything or not, once you open the case, the warranty is void. If it's broke, someone has got to fix it and if they do it they lose money. You gave them the excuse they need not to have to do that.

Three choices:

1) Give up on getting them to fix anything
2) Lie ... tho if picking option 2, you just said you did on a public forum
3) Admit what ya did and beg :)
 
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I dis-assembled it just to explore my laptop. Like whether it had an external ram slot or not.....(Actually the ram slot was beneath the motherboard which made me to remove all the parts attached to the motherboard).
Then I re-assembled it as how I dis-assembled. I didn't add any thing.

Also I want to know whether this action voids my warranty or not? I didn't see any void warranty sticker pasted on it which used to tell "voids warranty if removed".
 
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One thing I can't understand. How can they find that I opened my case. As i said there was no sticker pasted on it how come they find i opened the case. Is there any hidden way to find it???

 
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1. Well, the 1st question you have to ask yourself is "Are you willing to lie" ?

2. If you say "yes", then the next question is will you get caught ?

3. Yes, they have ways of telling whether you opened it, I am aware of some that are used. But to divulge such information would be in violation of the forum code of conduct, no different than telling someone where to get non-genuine software,
 
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By the way I think I have a valid reason for dis-assembling it. The reason why I dis-assembled my laptop is to upgrade my ram and the ram slot was beneath the motherboard. Hence there was no way to upgrade the ram other than removing all the hardware devices attached to it. So do you think this reason helps?

Anyway I think I can able to fix the laptop by myself cos I am the one who dis-assembled it and am damn sure that I didn't break anything.

Thanks for the help everyone. Will try all the methods soon and update which one worked.
 
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"I dis-assembled it just to explore my laptop."

BAD reason. This might be a lesson that's expensive. I was trying to mod some HD668b's and wrecked em, but I was willing to take the chance cause they were cheap so it was on me. Some of that stuff is so fragile that it's way easy to screw it up by messing with it by opening it from a closed state. But, as the other suggestions said, check da stuff and re-seal it. You can't really hope for anything worse and sometimes, re your earlier question, the manufacturer will leave small stickers that indicate that it was opened by them being broken. But call em. It's your best shot.
 
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Sairam D

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Sorry for the late response.

Finally I fixed the problem. I just disassembled and reassembled the laptop again. That's it the auto turn-off problem was solved. But still I doesn't know what caused this problem. Now its working perfect. Also the lag with games was exactly as you said they were RAM issues.

Finally I learned a lesson that not to play with hardware stuffs.
 
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