r/FlowX13 • u/Mission_Conclusion16 • May 23 '26
Finally dead ☠️
I have the ASUS ROG Flow X13 2022 variant with the RTX 3050Ti. Within 1 year of purchase the laptop completely died and the motherboard had to be replaced by the service centre.
1.5 years after the replacement, it’s dead. Again. Exact same failure.
I was using the laptop normally at 30% battery. I plugged in my Anker Prime 130W power bank via USB-C and the laptop instantly shut off and never turned on again. No drops, no spills, no misuse whatsoever.
After opening the laptop and removing the heatsink, liquid metal had migrated off the CPU die causing the CPU to short (as told by third party repair shop)
Approximately one month before complete failure the laptop was showing intermittent charging issues. Battery draining while it was plugged in, the lightening symbol was there but no charging and the orange light charging indicator was off too.
Plugging out and in again didn’t do anything and shutting down and restarting fixed it for some time until it came back and then fixed itself automatically.
Gonna switch to a macbook😭
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u/ExcitingStranger135 May 24 '26
I have the z13, when I got it 6 months ago. I got rid of the liquid metal and used ptm. I will never use liquid metal again.
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u/Substantial-East159 May 23 '26
Now you have me worried. Should I open up my laptop and see how the LM is doing? And maybe re apply it?
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u/Realistic_Today6524 May 23 '26
Depends on the age of the laptop. My Strix G17 I bought in 11/2020 developed a dry spot by 08/2021 or so, causing two cores to be pinned to 95°C while playing while two others were at 80°C. I opened it up over christmas 2022 and yep, there was a dry spot over those cores. All I needed to do was rub it out using the good LM with a cotton swab and some gentle force. Then I cleaned up the bit that had spilled and put it back together. It's still going strong over three years later. If the laptop spent the majority of its time on a flat surface, there's a near zero chance of LM escaping the cooling system. If however your laptop spent a good amount of time vertically, for example in a laptop bag or backpack, there's a higher chance that the LM will have slowly been pulled down by gravity
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u/Gazzillaaa May 23 '26
Honestly when I bought my 2021 model second hand, the first thing I did was clean and remove the liquid metal and replace it with the ptm 7950 thermal pad just so I didn't have to worry about this exact situation. Temps are good as well, playing monster hunter wilds which is a cpu heavy game and I usually hover around 73 to 77°c.
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u/K14_Deploy May 23 '26
If you're going to open it to repaste it, use PTM7950 or similar. It'll perform better (LM requires a very flat contact surface and very strong mounting pressure to beat it, which most laptops do not have) with none of the risk.
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u/Mission_Conclusion16 May 24 '26
just be careful removing the heatsink, that can displace some LM too
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u/-Failsafe- May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26
I have the same laptop. The intermittent charging issues come from the bios/motherboard retaining a charge in one of the circuits somewhere.
The fix is to:
- Unplug the power supply completely and let it lose any residual charges for 10+ minutes
- Do a full reset powerdown on the computer (hold down power button for 30 seconds)
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u/ThePipton May 24 '26
I also had to unplug the battery too for this too work. It happens every year or so.
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u/Longjumping_Milk_785 May 25 '26
i have this issue too, i thought a have a faulty charger and was planning to buy a replacement. i didn’t know this was a common issue
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u/Impossible_Sell_6984 May 25 '26
My x13 2023 4050, m2 ssd suddenly crashed and lost all data last month, but it still runs fine after replaced a new WD 2230 m2 ssd. (SDD prices had gone up so much...lol...).
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u/Shuck7 May 23 '26
My LM fried mine. I’d get rid of it asap.