So yeah.. sorry guys, I know I'm about half a year late in responding ;p..
Was really busy with college and stuff, so my precious G53 sat there for bout half a year getting covered by dust >.<
Anyway, this is how it went.
I rang my service centre last Friday and they offered to get my lappy shipped on Monday. So yeah, the delivery company picked it up on Monday and it reached the centre on Tuesday. Since I was watching the RMA status every hour, I was pleasantly surprised that Asus fixed up my problem only 3 hours after arrival at the centre. Needless to say, it was sent back on the same day... Though it finally only arrived on Friday.. (It could have arrived on Thursday, buy delivery messed up.. grrrr...)
Was kinda happy with the 3-4 day turnaround. All my files were intact too 😄 If ASUS RMA is usually this fast (and convenient), I'll definitely be checking ASUS out for my next lappy.
Ahh, but back to the main topic.. How was my laptop?
Well, First thing I checked out was the broken pin, It seemed like they had just soldered it back on, so I wasn't too happy... might break again who knows?
For now, that's the least of my problems..
When I got my lappy back, I noticed two problems.
1. Windows was asking me to reactivate. I was kinda confused with this.. Anyone has any idea why? I tried using the same product key, but received the error message that it wasn't valid.. The service centre didn't even reformat my disks..
2. My Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller was giving me the Code 10 ('the device cannot start') error.... Was wondering whether the service centre took it out.. Or knocked it loose from the mobo? Dunno ;p.. Some research online led me to conclude that I'll need to BIOS flash to fix it.. But I really, really can't be stuffed doing that now.. Too much of a hassle if I fail the flash...
Guess I'll just have to do without wired internet =(..
Unless anyone has a suggestion 😃