Hi Guys,
I just got this 2yr old laptop that is amazing. But I got it for free as it has a problem. It likes to reboot randomly. A lot. And as far as I have seen it seems to boot UP randomly after I have shut it down.
Details : Its a top-of-the-line SAGER laptop. It was sent back to them and they said the GPU is faulty and causing the problems. I think they might have just been a little lazy, so I disabled the 780m inside and let it run on the default Intel integrated GPU. It still randomly reboot - sometimes lasting 30secs, sometimes 24hrs. If the problem is a voltage issue, would simply disabling the discrete GPU get round the problem?
SAGER have also heavily modified the bios such that I can do absolutely nothing with it. No overclocking, no adjustments - nothing. I cant even F8 / Del into the BIOS at startup. My suspicion is that SAGER has altered the bios such that the laptop never fully reboots. Even if I ask it to reboot I think it just goes to sleep. The reboot time is far faster than my SSD PC (like 10secs), so it looks like it is exiting hibernation more than a clean reboot - but I cant check because I am locked out of the damn bios. This I think is the cause of the random boot-ups.
In safe mode (current) there seems to be no problem - at least so far. The only problem here is that I cant get any sound. Any ideas on that? So this leads me to believe there is a software conflict somewhere rather than a hardware / voltage issue.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Edit : Just randomly restarted in safe mode too!! Damn
I just got this 2yr old laptop that is amazing. But I got it for free as it has a problem. It likes to reboot randomly. A lot. And as far as I have seen it seems to boot UP randomly after I have shut it down.
Details : Its a top-of-the-line SAGER laptop. It was sent back to them and they said the GPU is faulty and causing the problems. I think they might have just been a little lazy, so I disabled the 780m inside and let it run on the default Intel integrated GPU. It still randomly reboot - sometimes lasting 30secs, sometimes 24hrs. If the problem is a voltage issue, would simply disabling the discrete GPU get round the problem?
SAGER have also heavily modified the bios such that I can do absolutely nothing with it. No overclocking, no adjustments - nothing. I cant even F8 / Del into the BIOS at startup. My suspicion is that SAGER has altered the bios such that the laptop never fully reboots. Even if I ask it to reboot I think it just goes to sleep. The reboot time is far faster than my SSD PC (like 10secs), so it looks like it is exiting hibernation more than a clean reboot - but I cant check because I am locked out of the damn bios. This I think is the cause of the random boot-ups.
In safe mode (current) there seems to be no problem - at least so far. The only problem here is that I cant get any sound. Any ideas on that? So this leads me to believe there is a software conflict somewhere rather than a hardware / voltage issue.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Edit : Just randomly restarted in safe mode too!! Damn