Guy1524

Great, I just broke my laptop permanently, now the power LED wont even show up and it looks totally bricked.

So somehow I got it working, but now the sata port isn't working. The HDD turns on, but the BIOS doesn't recognize it.

Unfortunately I only have one charger, I have tried w/o the battery. The screen does not flicker and no components are responsive except for the power led turning on then immediately turning off and the charging led when the battery is in the laptop and the laptop is plugged in.

Bump

well the only part of the laptop I have opened so far is the part where you switch ram and a storage component so I don't know how to find that.

@exercutor5, your suggestion unfortunately did not work.

How would I find the CMOS battery?

Sorry @Johnscorner and @exercutor5, the forum didn't show me that you send me a message, just found out. @exercutor5, I will try that now.

The model is a GL551J if that is relevant

Anything else I can try?

Actually, on the side I see a hole with an icon that is a lock with the letter K inside. Is this the correct thing?

I don't see any reset buttons under the battery location for some reason.

Is there anyway I can diagnose what is wrong with my Asus ROG laptop from september 2015. The power indicator immediately turns off after attempting to turn it on. The screen doesn't light up at all. The charging indicator is on when plugged in however. I have no electrical knowledge. The laptop broke a few months ago when through the day it become more and more unstable freezing and turning off a lot. By the end of the day the machine because useless. Luckily it had nothing to do w/ my SSD and I took it out and am using it now in my new desktop but I would like to see if there are any solutions before trying to get a refund or a repair because I had tinkered w/ it a little (I'm a moron) and a lot of screws are missing and part of it is stretched out. Thanks!

Wow, so I found the problem. When I was adding the ram I got some wires stuck in the CPU fan making it unable to move causing the CPU to overheat and throttle LOL

It happens across various games did not happen before I added the ram, I must have messed something up inside. I'm tired right now but tommorow Ill test on windows.

Here you go: http://dereklesho.no-ip.org/hardinfo_report.html

Nevermind, now its back down to how it was before, so its not the ram

Wow, what the heck, now that the 4 GB stick is out, I am getting almost 200 fps in PVK2 as I did before!

OK, I am back, testing PVK2 now

Well it never slowed down before I did this. OK, Ill try that right now, be back in 5-10 minutes

OK, what else could it be then? Would be accidentally nudging my graphics card out of my PCI slot a little bit have any effect? I checked and ubuntu still recognizes my graphics card so I am not using integrated graphics.

Ok they are both 1333 MHz, so is it still worth removing the new ram stick?

I haven't tried removing the ram stick yet, I am going to try finding the ram speeds now.

OK Thanks, is there a way to test the speed speed of each ram stick? I am not sure of it's speed, I got it out of an old computer. I am running ubuntu 16.04 but I have a windows installation if it is absolutely necessary.

I recently but a new 4GB stick into my PC to increase my total ram from 8 GB to 12 GB, but after I did that, my SSD (with OS on it) was recognized but my HDD (with games on it) was not. To fix this, I put the HDD in another slot. I may have nudged some components around when doing this. The problem is that in minecraft where I used to get ~80 fps I get 30-40 and in PVK2 where I used to always get above 100 fps I am suddenly ranging from 40-70fps. Could it be that I nudged my graphics card or something like that. Keep in mind with PVK2, I don't go beyond 8GB so it only uses my first ram stick (I think this is the case because my 8GB stick is closer to my CPU), so I doubt the problem is slow ram. I appreciate any help (: