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just unscrew and use your nails to pry off the back cover

take photos along the way so you know how to put it back

You've lost half your battery capacity. You're at 27whr now, down from 66.

half your battery cells won't hold a charge.

typical asus, buggy hardware and bad batteries.

If your batteries are dying suddenly, it's because one or more of the cells in the battery pack are dead.
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Installed a samsung 970 evo plus 1tb nvme ssd as my main drive, and it's not getting advertised speeds. Not even close.

Same thing with sata ssd drive, with slow 4k random speeds.

My SSD...

Nope. google it. Heat causes outgassing and battery swelling.

dell xps users also had battery swelling, with their thin chassis and poor ventilation.


My room temp was always around 80-85F,...

i had bulging battery on my GL502vm too.
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?103360-GL502VM-owners-OPEN-YOUR-LAPTOP-Bulging-battery&p=725819

All that heat in this stupid laptop causes the...

nevermind, I just read on battery university website that lithium batteries normally discharge 5% in 24 hours, and then slowly discharge after that.

The battery constantly cycles between 95%-100% while plugged, under light to no load.

It actually loses 5% pretty fast while remaining plugged in. I would estimate it takes a day to lose 5% while...

i remember my old laptops used to charge to 100%, and then stop.
Were they actually trickle charging?

because the odd thing is, when I actually went to use the battery, it had very low battery...

There weren't many games to play.

However, when there was a new game, I played 6 hours straight until I completed the single player mode.

So I only played 6 hour sessions no more than 10 times...

yes, hard drive failure is like a lottery.
It's rare, but even newer drives can fail.

Replacing it is easy.
simply a swap out swap in procedure.

Download windows 10 iso to a usb drive, and...

I opened my laptop today because I was getting BSODs and needed to test the RAM.

To my surprise, when I removed the bottom panel, I saw that the battery cells were bulging.
I keep my laptop...

That's just Amazon misadvertising. Not Asus. Amazon is the seller.

No laptop in this class will last 10 hours. Not even with Nvidia Optimus.

easiest thing is to put a sticker or skin over it.

since it is illuminated by the lcd backlight- Whenever the screen is disabled, the logo backlight turns off as well.

you will need to block it...

95C is normal.

As long as it doesn't throttle, you're doing ok.

CPU can run 99C all day long, and you're not even there yet.

so basically, wait 5 years to buy a fast GPU for double performance.

Maybe the gtx1460 will be fast enough to double performance by that time.

that's what i hate about Asus.

They just stop releasing updates.

some of those test results are weird, particularly the resident evil one.

The other results are inline with what I expected.

a 4x pcie Thunderbolt would have a 20% penalty vs. desktop.

a 2x...

Since you already took the battery out, it's not the charging circuit issue.

When you boot up at the ROG logo, do you see the spinning dot circle?

if it were me, I would move everything to a...

open the laptop, disconnect the battery cable.

plug in the ac adapter and run it without the battery connected. Do you still get blue screen and lag?

Don't forget to downclock your desktop cpu, if possible.

We don't want the faster desktop cpu skewing results.


Here are some demos you can download....

could be a bad gpu.

But first, boot up safe mode so the graphics driver isn't loaded, and change to 1080p resolution.
Do you still see those artifacts ?

Don't disable turbo boost.

Just lower it using Throttlestop FIVR

it's part of the GL503 series.

It's just a bit modified on the outside.

https://edgeup.asus.com/2017/rog-strix-gaming-laptop-guide-gl503-gl703-scar-hero/
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it's the GL503 series, and it's already on sale.