Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim Since getting the laptop back the rear USB/power port has started acting up again. I've adjusted by …glueing a clip to the lid so that the power cord does not move when plugged in. Three screws have… OpenAI GPT-4o vs Meta Llama 3 for Zero Shot Text Classifiation Programming Computer Science by usmanmalik57 …quot;, exceptions) ``` **Output:** ``` Total exception count: 0 CPU times: user 658 ms, sys: 43.4 ms, total:…quot;, exceptions) ``` **Output:** ``` Total exception count: 0 CPU times: user 899 ms, sys: 44.4 ms, total:… classification. However, the requirement of high computational power and low latency of some APIs like Groq … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim … it back they had replaced both the motherboard and the power supply and I checked in the store to verify there… were no power issues. I suspect you are correct about them not reconnecting… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim … instructions and show him. He had wanted to do F2-power up which gets you into the UEFI/BIOS. So finally… he did F12-power up which presented the reset-to-factory option. Once it… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim … laptop back from Best Buy this afternoon. I checked the power cord connection at the store and it was fine. I… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa If the power connector was replaced with the motherboard, then your charging cord … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim …/restore everything. When he tried the actual factory reset (shift/power) it failed to boot into the recovery partition. It is… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by rproffitt I've had a lot of their laptops at my brother's insurance office. We've been lucky with them. OK, there is a "thing" about some models where you have to install a media/storage driver for some drives to show up. So far Linux shows such drives since that driver is baked into all the current distros I've used recently. I can't offer … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim The previous unit was a Vivobook 15 X513EA-BH59-CB. The current one is a Vivoboox ASUS K350 2ZA BB51 CB. I'm assuming that the problem with the first unit was not a missing driver because both ASUS and Best Buy (Geek Squad) could not get it working. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by rproffitt https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1044458/ notes the Intel RST as well. As to BB/GS, I've found them hit or miss on this area. And on some models you "Disable Intel Volume Management Device (VMD) technology". I'm of the opinion that such steps should be automatic and built into "modern" Windows. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim Took my laptop in to Best Buy ths morning and they said it would have to be shipped back to ASUS for repair (again). The good news is that it's still under warranty and I have a spare laptop. The bad news it that it's also an ASUS, but at least it's an older one from before they started making (in my opinion) crap. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa USB-C ports can wear out, and become loose after 6 months of use. I've heard there was a dip in quality from ASUS. I haven't experienced it myself. I have 2 monitors from them, 1 has over 73,500 hours and ~98% uptime. Ironically, I was looking at this [ASUS Vivobook](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-vivobook-16-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-5800hs-with-12gb-… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >USB-C ports can wear out, and become loose after 6 months of use Seem like bad design to me. As for the price, the ASUS models I bought were both the best price that met my specs. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa Indeed, I recommend to anyone that has USB ports to use the magnetic plugs for mini and micro USB ports. I see you could have the Thunderbolt 4 USB-C, so I'm sure it did cost little more. That would check one of my boxes. 144hz+ would be another. I don't need bloodshot eyes from 60hz. If you are a DIY fixer, you can also [replace the TB4 ports](… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by rproffitt "I allocated a C partition and formatted as NTFS then boot back into my Windows 11 install USB." That can derail the usual Windows install. On today's PCs I start off with a blank, no partition drive, boot the Windows USB stick and once in a while need to add the Intel RST storage driver. I maintain that Microsoft should update … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim Likewise... Whenever I reinstall Windows, other than the times I've reset to factory, when it gets to the "where do you want to install to" I always get the installer to delete, then recreate the partition. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >Sounds like a very bad recovery image Possibly. But why didn't this show up when they did the reset prior to returning the laptop? Imagine that you just bought a car (should be pretty easy for you). You and your wife take a drive in the countryside and at some point you drive over a nail and get a flat tire. No problem because you have a … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim Got a call from Best Buy at 6:30 pm the same day. He informed me that the Windows system that the tech installed was not the OEM version for my machine. I asked why this should matter since I requested a reset to factory from the recovery partition. He said they couldn't do that because the recovery partition had been corrupted. So that's two … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >At some point you are stuck with a clean install I'm using my father-in-law's old laptop in the interim. When I inherited it I took out the old drive and put in a spare SSD. I didn't bother restoring the diagnostic or recovery partitions. It's quite peppy now. It's also an ASUS, but purchased before they started making crap. At some point, … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa I wouldn't worry about not having any ASUS utilities. You can always download them later, [here](https://www.asus.com/support/download-center/). I consider them all bloatware. Having the partition as an MBR and then installing a Windows image as GPT, is like going to replace your spare tire and finding out it has a different lug nut bolt pattern… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >I consider them all bloatware Something I may try on this laptop (old ASUS K53E) once I get my other one back is a fresh install from USB but selecting "World" as my region. I read somewhere a while back that if you select any specific region, bloatware for that region gets installed, but if you pick World then no bloatware. You … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa > Ever had to install Windows from 39 floppy disks? It was not fun, especially when disk 39 frequently had a read error. Not that many, I still have them. Highest was 6 for booting, so I could read a CD. I wrote on them, "BAD" if ever had that problem. > I actually tried this as well, running diskpart.exe. It couldn't see … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa > rproffitt commented: BTW, recovery drive failed me so many times that I carry no less than 2 bootable Linux sticks in my PC rescue bag. I've seen in the past failures due to having more than 1 drive installed. Disconnect all other drives and devices. I too, have used Linux live bootable CD's to get files off a broken Windows. It was way … Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim >I too, have used Linux live bootable CD's to get files off a broken Windows. I'm assuming the drive wasn't bitlockered? Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa > I'm assuming the drive wasn't bitlockered? Nope, I don't use that feature. In my opinion, it's equivalent to using ransomware on your own stuff. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim I always disable it as well. That's yet another thing I have to remember to undo when I get it back. Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa Sounds like you got it all squared away. One reason I don't want to ever do a Windows reinstall is the compilers, libraries, and other software configurations. I've done 1 since 2015 for myself, with Windows 10. I also expect since, NAND flash SSDs wear out, it'll happen sooner or later. Only 37% life of drive remaining. Best of luck! CPU power question Hardware and Software Hardware by John_54 Okay computer will turn on, no post, but HD and lights come on without power to the CPU plug in. When I put the plug back in for the CPU power (4or6prong dont remember) on the MB it wont start at all. Hope that makes sense. I am thinking bad CPU. I have tried multiple power supplies already. CPU Power or GPU Power Hardware and Software Hardware by Dj_Chow … below. I know that one has more graphics power but the other has more cpu power, so as you can see this is… Motherboard woudn't respond when the cpu power is plugged Hardware and Software Hardware by walata I have a Gigabyte g31m-es2l motherboard, and when ever i plug the cpu power into the motherboard from the power supply it wouldn't come on, I've tried 3 different power supply with different watts and voltage but it's still the same problem.... what can i do?