thinking of ssd as well but not so soon. Still too expensive imo. Out of budget. Will consider once 160gb model ranges around 400 lah.

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Added on January 3, 2012, 12:34 amu mean it hang when u use the music now program without entering windows?

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 3 2012, 12:34 AM

Good morning ,
Hi , i owning a n55
And i now having difficulties with the laptop
My keyboard keep pressing "3" after i have spilled some drink near the touchpad and keyboard area.
I think that this is because of short circuit at the keyboard area.

So my question is. Should i bring this to the service centre or bring to computer shop near my place. Because im not that alert with the warranty thingy . I hope all sifu can help me with this matter. Thank you for ur time

This post has been edited by sceletraxx: Jan 3 2012, 03:25 AM

@nuttyking91:

Thanks for the photos. It's clear enough to see so don't worry about the quality of it.

I have a couple of questions though.

1) How do you even begin to open up the speaker/keyboard area? Where is the entry point?

2) Is it possible to sufficiently clean the FAN @ photo #4 (counting from top-bottom), or do we go as far as photo #6?

to gain access to speaker grill & keyboard ONLY, just unscrew the highlighted ones

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after that, pry open the speaker grill from both sides(left & right corner) just above the music now shortcut key (left side) & power key (right side). requires some force but do go slow n steady it should come off after the small hinge on the side of the speaker grill goes loose. then just remove the keyboard screws(about 5 screws) n you're off...

of cuz if u wanna access to the CPU area means every single screw securing the parts to the chasis must be off... err to answer question 2, it is good enough to clean from photo #4 but u will need a small brush & a tin of compressed air to blow off... but if u wanna 100% clean the fan u have to open all way through photo #6. thats my personal opinion though. anyone have better suggestion can help out as well

another example of repasting on laptop. not Asus laptop thou http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-s...-step-step.html

btw i saw this Kingston HyperX 8GB 1866MHz PnP Memory Kit For Notebooks review

seen the great improvement for upgrading, but for the price in malaysia... better off getting SSD

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Added on January 3, 2012, 10:04 am i dun think spillage is covered by warranty. but i think u can enquire & see the solution for this. meanwhile i don't think it's advisable to even start up ur laptop after a spill as it may short circuit more areas???

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 3 2012, 10:12 AM

thanks for the replies Mr.nuttyking91,
actually when i spilled the drinks ,i arldy wiped all the spillage
after few minutes , the computer goes crazy and the keyboard keep pressing "3"
the worst part is i carelessly try to reformatting my laptop and hope that the problem will be solved , but its not.
now im stuck at serial number stage at the windows installation.
so i need help from all sifu's that can give any opinion how to settled this problem.
btw im going to the service centre tomorrow

^ u shouldn't have format ur laptop lol. IF spillage, what u should do is to wipe off any visible spillage, turn off ur laptop(off completely including the plug), then if u know how to do it u open up the laptop and let the spillage dry(if just plain water, if chocolate/milk then thing can get worse). By the means of drying i mean just dry it under fan just like that. Don put it under hot sun or else it may spoil

I spilled drinks to my previous notebook few times before.The first thing u have to do is to switch off the notebook and let it dry under the fan for few days.Even if u wiped off all the spillage,some liquid might went under the keyboard.It's bad that u actually went and format ur pc instead of drying it.FYI,warranty do not cover harm caused by spilling liquid on it.But u do not hav to tell them when u send ur notebook to the service center

This post has been edited by Duckies: Jan 3 2012, 06:11 PM

Thx for the tip mr.htpkevin & mr.duckies.
So what should i do now ? Yeah i realize my mistake by reformat it. So any way out for me? Im going to the asus service centre tomorrow

This post has been edited by sceletraxx: Jan 3 2012, 06:34 PM

just tell them out of sudden laptop hang den force restart. den after force restart keyboard went haywire. den try reformat den become lidat? try to act normal. its the best u can do

Short circuit is something beyond a software can repair.Unless u r a computer engineer/technician,then u can fix it urself.Else,going to the service centre is ur best bet.Just dont tell them the truth

Thanks mr.nuttyking91 & mr.duckies.
I"ll try my best to convince them tomorrow.
Wish me luck for my dramas ~

haha hopefully noone works in asus service here reading this

Hope so bro.
Btw i need to ensure that my laptop completely dried right b4 submit it to the service centre ?

Btw , can i know how much its gonna cost to fix the keyboard issues?

Guys I'm thinking of upgrade my RAM to 8GB but I wonder how much faster will the computer be... if not that much then I won't pay RM60+ for now.

actually if u check the parts price from internet it's way cheaper like err rm 50-80(not sure but around there) but plus service charge everything usually they charge 150n above? Hmmm ya make sure very dry. Use hair dryer around the area should be ok kua?

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Added on January 3, 2012, 11:08 pmhmmm around that price la bro. Speed ah not really lah but u will notice ur system won't slow down that fast when u are loading alot of programs (more than 10 tabs in mozilla, game program in background n playing hd movies?) usually when a program's command or action is being processed it (cpu) will access the fastest type of memory, which is the cpu cache. If the size is too big/already full, it will then use up the ram, if the ram is exhausted, den the system will access the slowest type of memory, the hard disc. Lol. This is what i understand lah. Anyone can correct me if i'm wrong

This post has been edited by nuttyking91: Jan 3 2012, 11:08 PM

i already tried with hair dryer , but some said that do not use hair dryer, because it will push the liquid more to unreachable places .
and it make my laptop kinda hot too

hey pros, i wanna ask.jus bought a win7 prof, wan to format myself..
but b4 this, wan to ask, is it all the driver are inside the cd that n55sf provided?
and 1 more thing, my win7 home basic is always cant work, always show "window explorer is not working", after i keep many times "online solution and restart the program" juz ok... so, what can i do? should i need to go to ask the shop i bought to solve it? (jux bought in a week) or go to asus customer serv?

just uninstall asus web storage solve the 'window explorer not working' problem

+1
Asus softwares are real nuisance at times. a couple of uninstall n reinstall should do the trick. but for this case, just remove the web storage

What is AsusScr_n5_En actually, it's 200++ MB so big I jut uninstalled coz I afraid this program contributed to the slow boot-up... of course every confirmed bloatwares already uninstalled la

Then there are Instant On, USB Chg + bla bla bla... if I uninstall them will I lose some of the functions?