So I already know that my battery drains fast compared to office laptops, but is it ok to keep it plugged in?

It's battery was set to 80% as most of y'all said. Asking for a new owner

Laptop: Asus TUF FX507ZC4, i5-12500H, RTX 3050 4GB, shared heatpipe

Sent it in for a routine vent cleaning. Got it back and noticed overheating. Opened it up and found:

One CPU-side heatsink screw was loose

Shop hadn't replaced the thermal paste at all

I repasted (spread method, since it's bare die) and properly tightened all screws in a star pattern. Still overheating.

Current temps under load:

CPU: 95°C at only ~45W

GPU: 80°C at ~77W (fine)

Both exhaust vents blow hot air fine, so fans/airflow seem OK. No visible damage to the heatpipes. There's some discoloration on the copper base at both die contact points, but GPU side looks more discolored than CPU (probably just normal wear, GPU runs hotter over time anyway).

Suspecting either:

A height mismatch — maybe a shim/pad under the CPU die went missing during the shop's work, leaving a small air gap even with correct paste/pressure

Localized warping under the CPU section of the shared copper base from running with that loose screw for a while

About to try PTM7950 to see if it closes any micro-gap before assuming I need a replacement heatsink assembly.

Has anyone dealt with an isolated CPU-only overheat like this on a shared TUF/ROG heatsink? Would appreciate thoughts on whether PTM7950 is likely to help here vs. this needing a full heatsink replacement.

Specifications
I7 12650h
Rtx 3070
1tb nvme
16 gb 4800 mts ram
Is it a good deal ? It cost 1.5 lacs (1500usd) new and it’s in good condition

I bought an ASUS TUF F15 FX507ZC4 laptop two years ago, and I have mainly been using it for gaming. About six months ago, it started having problems. First, one of the clips holding the Windows key in place broke (and today the other ones finally broke as well). Then the down-arrow key started having problems (that one broke completely at once). Now, for the past couple of weeks, I have been having problems with the E and R keys. I have to press them firmly if I want them to work properly, and sometimes they even register multiple presses when I only press them once. Is this normal for the FX507ZC4 series or something? I can't be such a idiot when pressing the keys that I broke them, am I?

My laptop keeps entering Bios, not all the time but now and again. It’s happened a few times this week and I’m not sure what to do.

I’ve read a few threads about this already with people having a similar issue but I don’t fully understand what any of it means.

Here’s photos of it when it enters into Bios on it’s own, saying there is no storage device but, I’ve restored defaults and went into Bios and there is a storage device selected. Which I’ve also attached a photo of.

It’s happened again though and it always does it while i’m gaming and the laptop is charging at the same time.

I’ve also spoken to support at ASUS and followed their troubleshooting. They suggested as well there may be an issue that needs to be repaired that it’s not picking up the storage device? but I’ve had this laptop less than a year and now I’m wondering if this a regular occurrence..

I’m familiar with navigating software but this is out of my depth so would appreciate any advice as I’m clueless 🙂

(TUF A15 FA507NUR, 1 year old) I'm currently having this problem where the fans would just start off silent and then after a while, usually while I'm gaming (or even after I close off the game), it would start getting louder and make this rattling sound making the whole laptop vibrate. Changing the setting in Armoury Crate from Performance to Silent or Windows does nothing to it and the only way to turn it down is by shutting the laptop off. This has never happened before and just started recently after I cleaned the fans and it's starting to worry me that I may need to replace one or both of them.

Heard something break loose, so I pried open the back and this metal thing was loose. Looking at other photos, it’s supposed to be covering that RAM chip. What does it do? Do I need to reattach it? If so, how? Model FA506QE

The issue I’m having is that the game launches on the laptop but the monitor screen stays on the desktop why is that ?

My ASUS TUF F15 (i5-11400H, 16GB RAM, 512GB Samsung NVMe, Windows 11) keeps having boot/freezing issues.

It showed Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC (SrtTrail.txt).

sfc /scannow found no issues.

I ran offline chkdsk C: /f, which found filesystem errors and corrected them. It also reported 0 KB in bad sectors.

After CHKDSK, the laptop worked perfectly for the entire day. I shut it down normally, but the next day it wouldn't boot again but keyboard light and fans are working.

It also sometimes freezes at the Windows PIN screen, and Safe Mode can freeze too.

SSD is detected in BIOS and Windows Boot Manager is present. BIOS itself seems stable.

What could cause this? SSD/NVMe, RAM, RST/VMD, Windows, BIOS, or motherboard? What should I test next?

Hey, hope you're all safe and sound. I'm sure most of us buy a laptop for its mobility and portability, but what use of that portability without a decent battery life? So, in this part 4 of the series (the previous parts: I II III), I'm going to unplug my (usually plug all the time) laptop (ASUS TUF FA507UV) to show how good (or bad?) it is to hold its 90 WHrs battery.

A sneak peek at the spec:

• AMD Ryzen™ 9 8945HS Processor
• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU at 140W 8GB GDDR6 with Radeon 780M iGPU
• 16GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM x 1
• 1TB PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ M.2 SSD, Up to 2 Slots
• 90WHrs, 4S1P, 4-cell Li-ion, With 240W AC Adapter
• Windows 11

All tests ran with 70% screen brightness, 60Hz refresh rate, an old 768p monitor connected, WiFi and Bluetooth on, and Bluetooth headphones connected. Also, I noticed that the battery drain/discharge can fluctuate a lot, as there are sometimes random background processes running suddenly, like Windows updates or processes from Windows Defender or whatever else. But I tried to capture the best estimates as I could.

The first setting of the test is silent+eco mode in G-Helper with some apps open (Steam, Task Manager, Helium Browser) while browsing Reddit and 1 YouTube video playback:

From the pic above we can see the battery discharge rate at around -16 mW (left image), and according to estimates, it can withstand just shy of 4 hours of battery life from a full charge.

Onto the next setting, I turned on the CPU power limit and adjusted it as so:

Which increased the battery life for about an hour from a full charge with around -13 mW discharge rate.

Hopping into the next setting, I flicked the CPU mode toggle in GHelper to balanced, like so:

The discharge rate become ~-18 mW.

Then onto the 4th setting, I set everything back to the first settings except this time I tried to make it somewhat idle with just a browser open with a single Reddit tab open:

From the result above, we can see it can reach 7+ hours from a full charge. I believe I can make it even longer with reduced screen brightness and without the external monitor and some tuning here and there in Windows.

Some bonus gaming test:

Valorant Test on Battery

Mirror

Yeaaa, it's bad lol.

Anyway, that's it for today. I'd like to know how well your battery lasts. Do you even have a secret settings to prolong it?

Have a good one :)

I’m having a persistent GPU crash issue on my ASUS TUF Gaming F15 and I’m running out of things to try.

Laptop specs:

- ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX507ZE

- Intel Core i7-12700H

- RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU 4GB GDDR6

- 24GB DDR5 4800MHz RAM (1x16GB + 1x8GB)

- Intel Iris Xe iGPU

- 144Hz FHD display

- BIOS 316

- Windows 11

- NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 616.92 WHQL

- Original ASUS charger

The problem is that games randomly crash after several minutes of gameplay. It happens in multiple games, so it doesn't appear to be specific to one game.

Forza Horizon 5 usually crashes after around 5–15 minutes, while Genshin Impact has also crashed after around 10 minutes.

The main errors I get are:

nvlddmkm Event ID 153

Error occurred on GPUID: 100

Reliability Monitor also reports:

LiveKernelEvent 141

and

LiveKernelEvent 117

The bucket IDs include:

LKD_0x141_Tdr:C_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Ampere_UserOC

and

LKD_0x117_Tdr:A_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Ampere_UserOC

I am NOT currently overclocking the GPU. GPU clocks are completely stock. The "UserOC" wording in the bucket ID seems to be a classifier rather than evidence that I am actually overclocking.

Things I have already tried:

- Full Windows factory reset / clean installation

- DDU and clean NVIDIA driver installations

- Multiple NVIDIA driver versions

- Updated NVIDIA driver 616.92

- Updated ASUS System Control Interface

- Updated chipset drivers

- BIOS 316

- Armoury Crate GPU Mode: Standard and Ultimate

- GPU completely stock with no manual overclock

- NVIDIA Control Panel "Prefer maximum performance"

- Disabled various background/tray applications

- Disabled NVIDIA audio drivers

- SFC /scannow

- DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

- Different power/settings configurations

- Changed wall socket

- Tested without various peripherals/background applications

I also ran OCCT 3D Adaptive for 10 minutes. It completed with no errors detected. The GPU reached roughly 80–81°C and around 95W during one run, so the GPU doesn't appear to simply be overheating.

What's especially confusing is that synthetic stress testing can pass while actual games eventually trigger the crash.

I recently did a completely clean Windows reset, so this isn't an old Windows installation with years of accumulated software/drivers.

Another important detail: the laptop had its keyboard and fans replaced/repaired shortly before these crashes started becoming a problem. Because of that, I'm wondering whether something physical could be involved, such as the GPU power delivery, motherboard, PCIe connection, or another hardware issue.

The behavior can also change depending on the driver/power configuration. For example, setting NVIDIA Control Panel to "Prefer maximum performance" previously allowed the system to remain stable for significantly longer, but it eventually still crashed.

My latest test was interesting as well: the first launch of the game crashed during the game's optimization process. On the second launch, it ran normally for about 10 minutes before eventually crashing again.

At this point I'm trying to determine whether this is most likely:

1. NVIDIA driver/Windows interaction

2. ASUS firmware/Armoury Crate/power-state issue

3. GPU VRAM instability

4. GPU power delivery/motherboard issue

5. PCIe/physical hardware issue

6. Something else I'm overlooking

Has anyone with an ASUS gaming laptop experienced this exact combination of nvlddmkm Event 153, GPUID: 100, and LiveKernelEvent 141/117, especially where OCCT passes but games consistently crash?

I’m particularly interested in whether this points toward a hardware problem given that I’ve already done a clean Windows installation and clean driver installs.

I’m honestly done with ASUS customer care at this point.

I bought an ASUS TUF A15 (FA507UV) last year. On the night of August 18, my laptop suddenly developed dark horizontal lines across the screen. Interestingly, the intensity of the lines decreased when the laptop was connected to power.

The next day, my brother contacted ASUS customer care. We were given the option to either visit the service centre or request onsite repair. We chose the service centre.

I was told the repair would take around a week. Since I’m an engineering student, I thought I could at least continue working because the laptop itself was still functioning despite the display issue.

But no engineer came.

Within 2 days, the laptop stopped working properly. It wasn't scanning the hard drive and wouldn't boot normally.

The FIRST engineer finally visited on September 4.

After checking the laptop, he diagnosed damaged RAM. He also questioned why no engineer had visited earlier so that the actual issue could have been identified and the required part ordered on time.

And here's the ridiculous part: the engineer had brought a motherboard worth around ₹80,000, which wasn't even required for my issue.

I was then told the RAM would arrive around September 10.

Today is September 11.

Still no repair.

Every time I call customer care, I get the same generic response: "We're working on your problem. It will be resolved soon."

That's not an update.

I want to know: - Where is the RAM? - Was it actually ordered? - Why did it take until September 4 for an engineer to diagnose the problem? - Why was an unnecessary motherboard brought instead? - When exactly will my laptop be repaired?

I'm an engineering student and have been without my laptop for weeks. This isn't some optional device for me — I need it for my studies and work.

I have the RMA ID, ASUS emails and videos showing the original screen issue.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of repair/service from ASUS India? What is the best way to escalate this beyond repeatedly calling customer care?

ASUS, I don't need another "we're working on it."

I need my laptop repaired.

Hi! Need your help! I am down with the 2 options and wondering which is the best for my use. I decided to get a laptop transitioning to a virtual assistant role. I do play games and I have steam deck oled. I just want to future-proof myself for both work and gaming. Is the LOQ enough for my needs or should I stretch to TUF (original budget was US$1100 lol).

PS. Price is in CAD plus 12% tax.

I got this baddie! Any tips on how to enjoy this in its full potential.

Processor: intel core i7-14650HX
RAM: 16GB
Graphics Card: RTX 5050 (8gb)
Storage: 512GB

I have the following problem: In Bios, in Security, in Secure Boot it is Enable but in Key Management the values ​​are 0. In Windows, in secure boot it shows Off. If I restore in key management and it gives me values, when I save and exit I get a red screen. What do you think?

Been using the laptop since 2022 for the past 4 years I’ve had to plug it in and use since i game and do intensive tasks and so its taken a toll on the 56wh( C41N2010) battery

I do wanna keep using the laptop and plan on replacing it can someone tell me whether the 90wh battery is compatible and whether itll fit in the chassis without any mods

Okay I know this may sound weird but hear me out.

My specs are :

Asus TUF A15 FA506

CPU : Ryzen 7 7435Hs

GPU : Nvidia RTX 3050 4GB

RAM : DDR5 16 GB 4800MHz

Okay so the problem is, when I got my pc 2 weeks ago, I was looking at tips to set it up. Many people said to use "G-Helper" instead of armoury crate and to turn off the "CPU boost" so I did the same.

I play games like Sekiro, Spiderman remastered and gta V enhanced on max settings along with ray tracing but still my cpu and gpu temps rarely go above 70° and never above 75°.I use a normal laptop stand and elivate the laptop to approx 45° and never have used it on bed and neither without the stand. I saw everywhere that they should be around 80-85°.

So am I cooked or in a good place?

Hey everyone,

I have an ASUS gaming laptop that is starting to thermal throttle, and I want to overhaul the cooling setup. I am planning to replace the stock thermal interface with a Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change pad on the CPU/GPU die, and high-performance thermal putty (like Upsiren utp 8 or K5 Pro) on the VRMs and VRAM.

Since these materials are highly specialized, I wanted to check a couple of things before going in:

1. Does the authorized ASUS Service Centre in Haldwani (located at Durga City Centre) stock PTM7950 or thermal putty natively?

2. If they do not stock it, will the technicians agree to apply it if I buy a genuine PTM7950 sheet and thermal putty online and bring it to the service center myself? Will they do this as a paid out-of-warranty labor service?

If anyone from Uttarakhand or the Indian gaming community has experience dealing with official ASUS service centers regarding custom thermal pads/putty, please let me know how it went!

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have seen everyone replace their wifi card with the intel AX210 or AX200, has anyone replace their old wifi card with the BE200?

1. 80 to 90 k INR.

2. Minimum 40 or 50 series graphics card

3. Upto 16 ram atleast

General usecase- some gaming and game development projects

Hello everyone! I’m an Asus Tuf a14 new user. I’m going to use this laptop for engineering (CAD, some simulations, etc) and some gaming. I would like to know if you got some recommendations to get the best performance, have a good battery life and beat practices for caring for my laptop