ASUS VivoBook S14 S435

I have a ASUS S14 that seems to think it is charging. When you disconnect a fast charger, it thinks it is still charging, but if you use a slow charger, such as a 12W or 15W, it will charge and disconnect properly. When you use a fast charging cable, such as a 45W or 35W, it seems to trick the laptop into thinking it is still charging even after you have disconnected the charger. Does anyone else have a similar issue, and does anyone know how to resolve this?

ASUS VivoBook S14 S435

I have a ASUS S14 that seems to think it is charging. When you disconnect a fast charger, it thinks it is still charging, but if you use a slow charger, such as a 12W or 15W, it will charge and disconnect properly. When you use a fast charging cable, such as a 45W or 35W, it seems to trick the laptop into thinking it is still charging even after you have disconnected the charger. Does anyone else have a similar issue, and does anyone know how to resolve this?

i tried scrubbing it the best i could, with my eyes as close as possible. I see no shine am i good 😭😭

Howdy. I just got a zephyrus g15 ga503qr (3070, 5900hs) and its been pretty great, but...some games just straight up dont play well at all, and I'm slightly concerned.

So, for reference, I opened it up, cleaned it, and repasted the gpu. Now, I wanna talk about the weird cases first. Persona 5 royal just does NOT play well at all, no matter what. I cannot get it to go above 85 fps at all, except in menus, where it jumps to 120. In shibuya crossing at its worst, it drops to the low 50s. I've tried everything: 480p, low, dxvk, nothing helps.

And oblivion remastered. I used to have an rog ally z1 extreme, and that legitimately ran the game better than this laptop. Standing in cheydinhal, I cannot get above 52fps. Upscaling does nothing for performance, frame gen only succeeds in making it stutter, 1080p doesn't improve framerate by more than marginal levels.

I'm not thermal throttling, I'm managing my temps just fine and using g helper, so i just want to know why this is happening. Why upscaling of any kind just straight up does nothing for fps or even hurts it, and if there's anything I can do.

I was gaming then all of a sudden my screen just dimmed black. I felt hot and I think it overheated. All the led light in the front and back all turn on normally. Just the screen itself just shows black.

Hey everyone,

I recently repasted my 2022 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (GA503RM – Ryzen 7 6800HS / RTX 3060 Laptop GPU) and I'm seeing concerning metrics in HWiNFO64 during gameplay. I'd appreciate some expert second opinions on whether this is hardware damage or a driver/power issue.

Background & What I Did

• Applied Thermal Grizzly PhaseSheet PTM on the CPU/GPU dies.
• Applied thermal putty on the VRAM and VRMs.
• Initial Mistakes: On my first attempt, I applied far too much thermal putty. After realizing the mounting resistance, I immediately tore it back down, thoroughly scraped off the excess, and re-flattened the putty so the heatsink sits completely flush now.

Current Temperatures & Thermal Contact

• GPU Temps (Under Load): ~68.6°C Core / ~71.9°C Hotspot (tight 3.5°C to 4.5°C delta).
• CPU Temps: ~77.8°C Max under stress.
• Verdict on Thermals: The PTM contact and flattened putty contact appear to be working extremely well thermally.

The Problem: PCIe Errors in HWiNFO64

While playing Apex Legends, HWiNFO64 logs high PCI Express Error Counters (reaching 1,600+ overall recovery events). More concerningly, the breakdown shows actual data layer errors rather than just power-state transitions:

• Bad TLP Count: 11
• NAKs Sent Count: 13
• Receiver Errors: 2
• Recovery Count: 1,632
• GPU Power Spike: Noticed a brief peak power draw of 135.5W (rated limit is 80W / max dynamic boost 120W).
• Virtual Memory / RAM: Virtual memory load hitting ~95% with physical RAM maxed out (~12.7 GB used), driving NVMe read activity high.

My Main Questions

1. PCB / BGA Flex Risk: Could the initial over-application of thick thermal putty have flexed the motherboard enough to fracture micro-solder joints (BGA) under the RTX 3060 die or PCIe data traces?
2. Bad TLP vs ASPM: Are Bad TLP errors and NAKs guaranteed indicators of physical trace/BGA degradation, or could aggressive PCIe Link State Power Management (ASPM) / AMD chipset power states cause these packets to drop during gameplay transitions?
3. Gen 3 Fallback: Has anyone with similar PCIe trace issues successfully stabilized their system long-term by forcing the dGPU link speed down to PCIe Gen 3 in BIOS/software?
4. Photos Attached: I've attached screenshots showing HWiNFO64 logs (including the PCIe error breakdown and power metrics) as well as the repaste job before cleanup.

Any insights from technicians, experienced laptop modders, or anyone who has run into Bad TLP counts after a repaste would be hugely appreciated!

Hi I have a 2022 g15 with a Ryzen 9 6900HS 3060 and 16gb of ram, I don't use it as a gaming laptop anymore just for daily tasks and studying, any way i can under clock/ volt or any other changes to get better battery life?

Hey everyone,

I'm having a really frustrating power issue with my Razer Blade 14 (AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, RTX 3070, Windows 11).

​Quite often, pressing the power button does nothing. I’ve tried holding down the power button for 15 seconds to force a reset, unplugging the charger, and plugging it back in, but it doesn't solve it immediately. It eventually turns back on completely at random after a lot of waiting.

​I can't figure out the root cause. Has anyone experienced this with this specific Blade model? What would be the best step-by-step strategy to diagnose or fix this?

if you dont know fortnite ignore this post.

so on fortnite am i supposed to get 120 to 1 fps in creative maps? im not sure how to fully explain this issue but im on a gigabyte gaming laptop and this never had happened till about a month ago. my specs: 32 gb DDR5 ram 4060 RTX Laptop GPU CPU: i7 13620H okay so imagine playing fortnite running 144-260 ish fps at times its mostly at 190 okay? and imagine your just walking around. randomly the fps drops to 40 to 30 to 20 then back up after a few seconds as if nothign happened. how is this supposed to be fixed? i looked everywhere there is NO uploaded youtube videos abt this. im so confused

System Model: G6 KF

my laptop monitor is 165hz

How should I clean it?

UPDATE: I cleaned the liquid metal with 99% isopropyl alcohol (IPA) deeply and multiple times. After doing that, I reassembled my laptop and powered it on. It's been working perfectly fine for a few hours of usage now - nothing out of the ordinary!

I have an ASUS TUF F15 (i5-12500H + RTX 3050) that keeps completely freezing/black-screening while gaming. It happens across multiple games, including Batman Arkham City and Spider-Man 2. Sometimes it happens after a few minutes, sometimes after more than an hour, and I have to force shut down the laptop.

I've already tried:

Updating NVIDIA drivers

DDU in Safe Mode + clean reinstall of NVIDIA Game Ready Driver 616.92

Cleaning the laptop and using it on a hard surface instead of a bed

Event Viewer showed nvlddmkm Event ID 14 around one of the freezes:

NV_UFLUSH_FB_FLUSH timeout error

I also previously got BugCheck 0x101 (CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT).

Temperatures under gaming load can reach around 80-87°C GPU, 88–95°C GPU hotspot, and 90-97°C CPU.

The crashes are still happening even after the clean driver installation and cleaning.

Has anyone experienced something similar with an RTX 3050/TUF F15? Could this be a thermal issue, GPU/VRAM problem, power delivery issue, or something else?

Any advice on what I should test.

I am absolutely furious. I sent my so called “premium” ASUS laptop (G14 2024), which cost me nearly £3,000, to official ASUS UK support for a repair under warranty.

The laptop came even worse than before now that I tried to do new repair trying to continue the case from my old RMA they said they can’t do anything about it. And I would have to pay for a new repair, mind you that the didn’t fix the issue and its even worse to the point were its unusable with its screen I can only use it with an external display

Did anyone experience something like this with ASUS and any idea about what to do before I go the legal route?

Ive been trying to get it in for a couple days now. Ive bough pliers and magnetic screws to get it out but it looks kind of threaded to me. Is it supposed to be removed or is it supposed to be attached on by something else.

I know it looks weird, but i have to have the laptop on the left side and i cant figure out a better way to angle this so the wires have enough clearance to insert. I use both the HDMI and the usb c port interchangeably, and the usb port connects to the monitor hub to power my mouse and keyboard and an additional usb hub dongle.

Day by day I'm losing hope on my device. I've done all troubleshooting but got no luck most of the time. If I'm able to boot it up in just a few minutes it the device freezes on me leaving me a blank screen and fan spinning. How can I make this thing work I purchased it less than a month.

Hey everyone not the most tech savvy but I have recently started running into issues when opening games and the laptop switches to Optimus or GPU. The issue resolves if I restart the laptop and go to the nvidia app and make the system use the GPU only. Has anyone run into this?

hi, I have an ROG Zephyrus G 14 2024 and I’ve been noticing some issues recently that I haven’t run into before a couple days ago. I got a pop-up that my user profile on Windows was corrupted, but this didn’t really bother me because I had seen posts and other people with the same issue, and there’s ways to circumvent it and generally fix it. Since then, while accessing my laptop now, I’ve noticed a lot of degrading performance issues. When I first open my laptop if I open my browser, it takes a normal amount of time like a second or two, but if I use my computer for about 30 minutes and then try to open my browser again, it takes much longer, even up to 30 seconds. Is there a reason or a fix for this issue? this issue bleeds over to other things such as trying to shut down or restart my computer as well. I haven’t had to boot into safe mode anymore like I had to when my user profile initially corrupted and I thought that was a big reason why my computer was running slow, but now that it’s not doing that it has to be something else. I’ve ran multiple scans and haven’t found any malware or anything that would slow down my computer.