Asus X50SL bios/help needed
Good day folks. Today it came to pass that my dad's old faithful Asus X50SL notebook lived its last bit of life and died...or rather it's in a coma 
The problem is as follows: sometimes it posts, other times it doesn't. It just stays there with a blank screen, grinding the CD drive over and over. You remove all power, it would sometimes get it going and other times it doesn't. You leave it alone overnight, try it again, same story: sometimes it fires up, other times it doesn't. I thing it's a GPU issue (it's an AMD), because I blasted the GPU with some hot air knowing they're prone to failure, it worked a couple of times, but then it went back to only starting occasionally whenever it feels like it, with no discernible pattern.
The reason I believe it may not be related strictly to the GPU however is because it also loses its BIOS settings when it does decide to come on. You'd save them again, it would remember them for a while, until the next time it fails to start. As long as it posts OK it remembers them - it's only when it fails to post that it restores itself to factory defaults, regardless of whether or not you pull the CMOS battery, which I undoubtedly checked and replaced a couple of times now.
Just for the heck of it, since there's nothing to lose at this point, I want to try flashing its BIOS. During one of its successful startups, I actually updated it from ASUS via the BIOS itself, but it didn't solve the issue.....still, deep inside I know it's probably a GPU or motherboard issue since the display also goes completely blank sometimes all of a sudden....hard to track down really.....what do you guys think ? Can anyone help ? Cheers and thanks.
The problem is as follows: sometimes it posts, other times it doesn't. It just stays there with a blank screen, grinding the CD drive over and over. You remove all power, it would sometimes get it going and other times it doesn't. You leave it alone overnight, try it again, same story: sometimes it fires up, other times it doesn't. I thing it's a GPU issue (it's an AMD), because I blasted the GPU with some hot air knowing they're prone to failure, it worked a couple of times, but then it went back to only starting occasionally whenever it feels like it, with no discernible pattern.The reason I believe it may not be related strictly to the GPU however is because it also loses its BIOS settings when it does decide to come on. You'd save them again, it would remember them for a while, until the next time it fails to start. As long as it posts OK it remembers them - it's only when it fails to post that it restores itself to factory defaults, regardless of whether or not you pull the CMOS battery, which I undoubtedly checked and replaced a couple of times now.
Just for the heck of it, since there's nothing to lose at this point, I want to try flashing its BIOS. During one of its successful startups, I actually updated it from ASUS via the BIOS itself, but it didn't solve the issue.....still, deep inside I know it's probably a GPU or motherboard issue since the display also goes completely blank sometimes all of a sudden....hard to track down really.....what do you guys think ? Can anyone help ? Cheers and thanks.
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