Hi all,
I've had my G74sx for a little over a year and lately something strange has been happening. I'll try to break it down as concisely as possible:
It will run fine for about 30-50 minutes, then one of two things will happen: Windows will slowly freeze up, forcing me to cold shutdown, or the whole machine will crash, sending me to the blue dump screen before restarting saying there's no valid boot drive (or something of that nature - I'll post the exact message when I get home.) After I turn it off and let it sit for an hour I can power it back up again, before the whole process repeats. It should be noted that I'm not doing anything memory or graphics intensive, ususally just listening to music or browsing the web.
I don't think it's a Win7 issue because it's happened with Ubuntu as well. I thought it could potentially be an overheating issue, the back vents feel very hot every time this happens, though I'm not sure if this is normal overheating behaviour. I have a 1-2 year old SSD as my boot drive, so I'd be surprised if it's a dead or dying drive. I've tried doing a system restore on the off chance it's a windows issue, but it didn't help.
I'll most more complete system specs once I get home, but has anyone experienced anything like this before?
Thanks for any responses.
- Steve