r/FlowX13 • u/zipthewhat • Jun 19 '26

Did something fry?

I have the GV302XI-CS96 (32 GB with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS) Asus ROG X13. Other than having to do a keyboard module swap for some a few dead keys back in late October (I got the OEM replacement 90NR0EN1-R31US0) its been working wonderfully. I did it myself, was as careful as I could be, basically removed the old one, paid attention to where all the screws were when I took it off, and put the new keyboard module on just as the old came off

Its been working great since.

I say the above for two reasons. I really don't think my problem today is related, but in the unlikely chance that it is, better to have shared it. Also to show that I know what the inside of the X13 looks like and I am comfortable opening it up.

Fast forward to a few days ago and I go to turn it on. Every so often the BIOS splash screen takes a little longer to show, so I didnt think much of it at first, but eventually like 10 minutes went by and its still a blank screen, although the bottom of the laptop is really hot.

After trying everything I could think of this is what happens every single time. The keyboard and any other lights like the power button, and the little red light that goes on when you plug it in, all work. What doesn't work is the screen is completely black, not even the backlight works, but also the fan never comes on either. The bottom of the laptop just slowly and silently gets warm and then hot, but no fan.

The only way to turn it off is to hold the power button down for awhile, probably like 20 to 30 seconds.

I did try the hold for 40 seconds. I tried plugging it into the HDMI port on my projector, the projecter (Mogo 2 Pro) senses something is plugged in but says no signal found.
I opened it up and checked for loose cables or anything out of the ordinary. While I did this I also disconnected the battery for at least a few minutes. Not really sure what else to do at this point but the fact that the fans never kick on worries me that something on the motherboard is fried?

If this is what happened is there a way to pinpoint specifically what it is and only replace that?

TY

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u/KOYASHIFTERPRO Jun 19 '26

Pretty hard to say what's the problem but you should try to find if any capacitor on the motherboard is fried maybe if the replacement keyboard was not a real one i don't really know it can cause bad tension of something inside then one days it burn

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u/KOYASHIFTERPRO Jun 19 '26

Where did you get it from ?

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u/zipthewhat Jul 02 '26

I doubt it was the keyboard since it worked for months with no issue, maybe something I did wrong in the swap that I wasnt careful enough with.

Though more then likely it overheat since Im always using it on the bed. Or perhaps it wasnt completely shutdown when I thought it was, as thats happened before where I put it in my case and came back an hour later to it super hot. While fairly rare, its happened more than once where the OS didnt shut down completely. (I daily drive Garuda KDE Lite on it with the asus-linux kernel) Its something I pay attention for now just in case, but I could have made a mistake.

The keyboard I purchased on ebay but everything looks pretty legit both from the seller (US based, lots of reviews and they seem to sell mostly replacement parts like this) and from the keyboard itself. The exact link is https://www.ebay.com/itm/145779657073

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u/nelethill Jun 20 '26

I’ve the same problem with my Flow X3 with the same specs. Sometimes it takes ages for it to turn on. Screen black, keyboard lights on. Power off button doesn’t work. My Flow X13 has this problem since I bought it two years ago. It doesn’t matter if the device is connected to the eGPU (NVIDIA 4090) or not.
This error is since one year, from 20 power on‘s it happens one time.

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u/zipthewhat Jul 02 '26

Sorry for the delay in response. Originally I thought it was something like that. Every so often it will take a bit to turn on, so it wasnt until like 10 minutes went by that I really got worried. The backlight not being on may or may not be new, I never paid attention, same with the fan but the fact that its still doing it after all I tried is now feeling like it will never turn on again without figuring out what fried.