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Question

Asus K56c Issue

Aug 28, 2013 3:03AM PDT

Hi everyone,

I've recently bought an ASUS K56C laptop and this annoying issue started occuring. Sometimes it happens during the first few minutes after i turn on the laptop, sometimes it can occur during the first hour. Here is a video where you can see how this issue looks http://youtu.be/VBZNctHwfQ8 . The screen goes crazy and the only that i can do at this kind of moment is to force shutdown the laptop.

Does anyone have any idea what can be done to fix this? Thanks in advance!

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Aug 28, 2013 4:08AM PDT

If this is brought new or from some vendor where you can return it under warranty, why should you have to live with it.

Next, it appears the video signal isn't sync or locking down the scan rate 100% or similar. If this is a used laptop it maybe damaged goods or the wire harness or the electronics that make-up the video is hosed. Either that or you have a extremely strong outside RF signal overriding the video signal and interferes.

Try the laptop elsewhere a great distance where its at in the youtube location. If possible try another laptop AC adapter as another source of a test. Otherwise, use the warranty period. I see nothing you could do s/w wise to fix this as it appears to h/w fault based, IMO. So if that's the case how would you fix it, order parts, etc.. If warranty, you viod it if you open the laptop. A decent test is to make a bootable Ubuntu "live version" disc, boot from it and check results. if the video acts up even under Ubuntu, then its a h/w fault.

tada -----Willy Happy

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Back it goes.
Aug 28, 2013 4:12AM PDT

My son and now I have the k55n ds81 now. At 399 and a 2 year drop and spill warranty it was hard to ignore.

Is there more to this story? That is, I encountered some one that installed Windows 7 and it was fine with the supplied OS.

They were not calm and I never heard how it turned out. They were flaming anyone and everyone about it. I walked away since they were not ready for the discussion.
Bob