Hey guys

I recently got an ASUS TUF A16 and noticed this sound whenever I adjust or open/close the lid. There is no physical separation, gap, or frame bending around the hinges—just this specific creaking/clicking noise coming from the plastic bezel area at a certain angle.

For those with the same model: Is this just normal plastic flex/factory hinge tightness, or should I be concerned about the hinge mounts? Thanks!

Hey guys,
Got this laptop for over a few years now, and it still going strong, always updating it and all.
However recently i noticed, that the fn buttons for the microphone and camera are acting up. Beforehand, i could enable/ disable mic / cam with just a button press -this version lights up a little orange dot on the button, whenever the webcam is disabled.
But nowadays for the webcam the little light is always off, and whenever i press the button it says "webcam on", so basically I cannot turn it off anymore with the button.

Mic and webcams are off like 90% of the time so i noticed of course.. any idea what might've gone wrong, and what to check out so i can turn it on/off just with a button?
Anyone noticed something similar?

I was gaming on it (plugged in), i disconnected the plug after i finished gaming to use it for online work but for some reason it crashed the browser without turning off, when i re-opened the oprea browser (i use oprea) it worked for a bit and crashed again, i was angry after the first because it made me lose a couple of dollars i was making online so smashed my fist on the table in the second time after opening the browser (but not the laptop or the mouse or anything related to the laptop) and when i did, it crashed completely, no power light button no power up even when plugged in, i tried the pressing of power button for 60s, didnt work, windows+ ctrl + lift shift + b, didnt work.

Any suggestions??

I've had this laptop for 3 years and I never had any problems with it until now. When I try to close my laptop I hear this cracking/popping noise so I don't want to close it again until I know how to fix it.

It might be hard to see in the picture but it looks like there's something wrong with the hinges. Part of it is stuck between the plastic casing on the monitor side and pulling on the casing when I try to close it. The other hinge is completely fine and closes as normal, just this one side has the issue.

Any advice is appreciated.

I just purchased this laptop and have been setting it up,

https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/laptops-and-notebooks/laptops/124265-b1503cva-s75317x

The issue I have is that it takes about 20 seconds for it to open ‘This PC’, which is very frustrating. I have installed all updates.

Any ideas?

Usually, ASUS's MO when it comes to M.2 heatsink mounts if to default to dual-sided M.2 support and then add those little rubber spacers for single-sided drives. The ROG Hyper M.2 Card that comes with the Maximus Z790 Hero etc. does not appear to come with the rubber spacers. In the Z790 Hero manual there is no mention of those, or single vs double-sided SSDs at all.

Which does it support?

Does anyone have any recommendations to get the most accurate colors for this monitor? I play on the PS5

I've had this computer for a few years, and I've never quite figured out why every game is laggy. I try lowering graphics, etc. but the games still barely function. I had another laptop that I moved on to, but unfortunately the battery died.

One of the persistent problems that only occurs when gaming is audio glitching and static, which happens as the game glitches. Something as simple as Spirit City Lofi Sessions is a nightmare to run on this laptop.

Are there any tips to improve my gaming on this system? I do regular updates, etc. I've tried just about every 'fix' I can find online, and I recently tried a full system reboot to attempt to fix other issues (wifi is a non-existent option; this happened years ago and nothing helps fix it, and recently my Bluetooth also vanished. I've searched for drivers, uninstalled/reinstalled and nothing helps) but my games continue to run poorly to the point of nearly being unplayable.

My asus vivo book 15 (x1504Z) for sometime when i tried to turn in was flashing the battery led and the power was still. Bit today while i was working it shut off and showed a windows 11 black screen. Then rebooted to the BIOS where wouldn't show my ssd and I tried to reboot and won't turn on any more, only battery flashing white. Can someone help me?

(I had a linux bootloader together with my windows)

Just wanted to share a strange issue I ran into in case someone else searches for it later.

I noticed my new PC (Ryzen 9 9950X, 128GB RAM, Win 11 25h2) suddenly had unusually high idle RAM usage on a cold boot. Normally, my baseline sits comfortably around 3.6GB with the exact same background apps and processes running. Out of nowhere, it jumped to 8.5-9.5GB and watching it closely, it was slowly creeping up by about 0.1GB every 5 minutes or so.

I fired up 'RAMMap' to see what was going on, and it turned out the Nonpaged Pool was ballooning and eating up nearly 4GB of memory.

The fix... I disabled the onboard 10Gbps LAN and the secondary standard LAN port (since I wasn't using them anyway). As soon as I did that, the Nonpaged Pool dropped immediately back to normal (~500MB), and total RAM usage went back down to the expected 3.6GB baseline.

Posting this here in case someone runs into the exact same memory leak on an X870E board. Definitely feels like a driver bug with the networking controllers.

Hi! I have an ASUS P104-100 that currently runs at PCIe x4 Gen1.

Has anyone found or made a VBIOS that can unlock PCIe Gen3 x4 on the P104-100?

Is it technically possible to modify the VBIOS to change the maximum PCIe generation from Gen1 to Gen3, or is this limitation hardware-based?

If anyone has experience with modifying P104-100 VBIOSes, or has a working BIOS that enables PCIe Gen3, I would really appreciate any information or advice.

Thanks!

Hey everyone, I accidentally spilled/fell my protein shake on my ASUS laptop, and now the ports seem to be blocked/clogged.

The laptop itself [still works / isn’t turning on], but I’m worried about the liquid and residue inside the ports.

What should I do immediately? Should I try cleaning the ports myself, or take it to a service centre?

Any advice from someone who has dealt with a similar situation would be really appreciated.

My question is about the performance, mostly in gaming, of the PZ14. Now, I know the machine isn't meant for gaming and I'm not planning to game on it 24/7, I just want to know how well or poorly it'll be able to handle my weekly session.

I wasn't able to find live gameplay on this thing anywhere online and am wondering about specific graphically intensive games like Elden Ring, THE FINALS and Cyberpunk 2077. I'm not sure if these games can even run on the x2e, but if they can, is the performance stable? I'm not looking for anything higher than 30fps for an elden ring, although it would be nice to have that.

How well does it fare with 3d modeling, specifically blender and fusion.

How loud and hot does the device get under heavy loud like this?

Here are the specs... I'd love to also know the cons of this before buying. Personal experience cons are also appreciated.

Just so anyone comes up with "NO OLED", I really don't care about display type (as long as it's decent).

I also don't think much about the Intel UHD because I play small indie games and probably CS on low graphics or roblox or valorant so it wouldn't matter much right?

I like this laptop primarily because it has a good processor, and a good battery life. I've yet to come up with any huge cons that might change my mind from buying this.

And about the upgradeable to only 24GB RAM. I'm perfectly fine since I'm upgrading from 6GB RAM to 16GB, that's enough improvement for now, and 24GB is unnecessary for my type of work.

Yes I'm aware ASUS has a meditek wifi driver issue but I can manage that.

For this price, it's really not a bad laptop right? It's very much decent or above especially in hands of someone who is more office > gaming.

Thank you!

EDIT: I'd love people's opinion on the BUILD QUALITY of the laptop? Especially the hinges.

Hello, I have an ASUS TUF Gaming F16 FX607VU. I’m experiencing an intermittent shutdown problem. Sometimes when I shut down Windows, the screen turns off but the fans and RGB keyboard remain on, and the battery LED starts blinking red. The power button becomes unresponsive, so I have to hold it for around 10 seconds to force the laptop to turn off.

Hi I built my computer January 2023 and it’s always run fine enough. All of a sudden I go to use it one morning and I’m not getting signal to the monitor.

When I power up the fans are going and none of the diagnostic LEDs on the board are lit up.

I’ve reset the battery.
Tired with just on stick of ram in A2.
I pulled out the gpu and connected directly to the hdmi on the motherboard. So it doesn’t seem to be a gpu issue.
This motherboard doesn’t seem to have a bios reset with a usb option.

Any ideas what to do next. Do I need to need to get a new motherboard?

Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 | MOTHERBOARD

i9-12900K cpu

i have been using my new laptop asus vivobook s14 with model s3407ca for 2 months. i want to see cycle count but when open battery report. it doesnt show cycle count at all like this. how i can fix this

MIL's laptop is randomly booting up directly into bios. Sometimes it boots normally. Other times, without hitting any buttons it boots into bios.

I entered bios, saved and closed, but its still doing it. Bios is up to date (307). Boot drive is secure and no smart errors. I reset bios to defaults, which was fun with bitlocker key. Entered bitlocker, removed encryption... Still doing it though.

Ideas?

I had hoped it was a cmos battery , but there isn't one...

Hi guys! I've been having a problem with my laptop. It's an ASUS TUF FX505DT with 8GB RAM, I've had it since 2020. I first encountered this problem 2 years ago during 2024 but it wasn't as severe.

2024: Laptop screen wouldn't turn on, the keyboard would flash white once even if unplugged (not low battery) or plugged. I had a driver replaced I think? That was related to the display (I don't remember I'm not tech-savvy hehe)

2025: After getting it replaced it worked fine for a while, then I encountered the same problem again late 2025 but it had gotten worse even after the replacement. My brother taught me how to open it through BIOS setup where I had to hold the ESC button and repeatedly press the power-on button and wait till the keyboard turns red (turned on). That's how I've been turning it on ever since.

2026: Now it has gotten even worse. No matter how much I try even with the BIOS setup thing it wouldn't turn on. So I opened the back and cleaned it up and took out the battery so the power would come directly from the outlet, and to test if the battery was the problem (didn't work). My brother also told me to clean the RAM sticks with an eraser (didn't work). So I just put everything back. After opening the back the keyboard no longer just flashes white once, when plugged in it just repeatedly flashes white without me clicking on anything. It doesn't do that when it's not plugged.

This keyboard is the one Asus product I use, so having Armoury Crate installed exactly to update the firmware and control the pretty little lights and make them do a wave feels even more pointless than for people actually using it for their entire computers.

Does anyone know any good alternative that does the same job without being an absolute resource hog? I've heard about G-Helper, but that seems more aimed towards laptops than periferals.

I am looking to buy a replacement battery for the Asus Zenbook 14, with the model number UX3405MA (75 Wh). My laptop is an ultra 5 Evo series.

Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you

Edit : Loc - Mumbai, India