Hi folks.
So I have an "old" Asus ROG G73JW laptop that's started to show some signs of age. I'm getting some pretty nasty system freezes where the last few bytes of the sound buffer play on repeat, the screen's image stays static put, and it becomes wholly unresponsive to input. Generally after about 5 seconds of this on another computer, it would BSOD.
Sadly, mine doesn't do that. It stays frozen as long as I leave it (while it has power, of course), which this far has demonstrated to be at least 6-7 hours while I'm at work (conveniently, the clock stays frozen so I can see when it happened).
I've checked the event logs, and beyond "We didn't expect the system to restart" events, there's nothing. Heck, the 5 minutes before the freeze tend to not even appear in the event log, probably because that process dumps its events every 5 minutes or something.
Any thoughts on diagnosing it? I don't think formatting will terribly help because I had to try to do a system restore from my factory-default backup a few times before it made it through it without playing its freezing game.
I'm also open to replacement suggestions. My gaming horizon is taken up with Borderlands 2 and Guild Wars 2 for what it's worth. And for the sake of argument, let's say my budget goes up to $2000, though I'd rather spend in the $1000-1500 range if I can.
So I have an "old" Asus ROG G73JW laptop that's started to show some signs of age. I'm getting some pretty nasty system freezes where the last few bytes of the sound buffer play on repeat, the screen's image stays static put, and it becomes wholly unresponsive to input. Generally after about 5 seconds of this on another computer, it would BSOD.
Sadly, mine doesn't do that. It stays frozen as long as I leave it (while it has power, of course), which this far has demonstrated to be at least 6-7 hours while I'm at work (conveniently, the clock stays frozen so I can see when it happened).
I've checked the event logs, and beyond "We didn't expect the system to restart" events, there's nothing. Heck, the 5 minutes before the freeze tend to not even appear in the event log, probably because that process dumps its events every 5 minutes or something.
Any thoughts on diagnosing it? I don't think formatting will terribly help because I had to try to do a system restore from my factory-default backup a few times before it made it through it without playing its freezing game.
I'm also open to replacement suggestions. My gaming horizon is taken up with Borderlands 2 and Guild Wars 2 for what it's worth. And for the sake of argument, let's say my budget goes up to $2000, though I'd rather spend in the $1000-1500 range if I can.