Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

[farid multintech]

at first i think there is problem with the processor.already change with another but condition still the same.any idea,thanks

[lord]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

Can you measure the temp of the CPU and the NB?

[tomodachi]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

First of all take out BIOS battery and short pins, then check if there are any liquid contacts on mobo, these mobos usually does not come with GPU or chipset problem,
if no good result, upload a picture of mobo please

[farid multintech]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

Can you measure the temp of the CPU and the NB?

how to measure without enter window,what tool can be use?

[farid multintech]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

First of all take out BIOS battery and short pins, then check if there are any liquid contacts on mobo, these mobos usually does not come with GPU or chipset problem,
if no good result, upload a picture of mobo please

ok i will try

[pctek]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

Have you tried a bios update (if there is any ) ?

[farid multintech]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

Have you tried a bios update (if there is any ) ?

ok i will try flashing bios later,now im focusing on other laptop,urgent!! thanks for your suggestion

[lord]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

how to measure without enter window,what tool can be use?

You can use a multemeter which measure temperature. Put the temp probe on the cooler above the cpu and the measure the gpu.

This is the easiest and the cheapest way. You have those low cost multimeter at any electronic parts store for 15$.

[farid multintech]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

You can use a multemeter which measure temperature. Put the temp probe on the cooler above the cpu and the measure the gpu.

This is the easiest and the cheapest way. You have those low cost multimeter at any electronic parts store for 15$.

ok i will try

[Amraks]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

I know its a long shot but any luck with this problem?

I have cleaned the fan, applied new heat sink paste.

after 10 mins - 15 mins laptop will shut down.

[Amraks]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

I think I cleared the problem it doesn't like some harddrives.
I suspect their harddrive went then they tried a new one and gave up.
installing a updated bios seems to have stopped it shutting down randomly at the moment getting further in my windows install i suspect the harddrive I am using is POS.

[Amraks]

Re: Asus A42J shutdown itself after a few minutes

Alright so far so good.
No random reboots, benchmarked on gpu. I assume it was a bios bug using with different hdd's