Need help. using a 2 yrs+ old Asus Vivobook S400CA.

the keyboard is going haywire where the key is not properly aligned and some key is not usable.

eg. 1 = x, 2 = q, 3 & 4 = no effect and etc.

whole kb is a mess.
USB kb is working fine but not the lappie kb.

any advise? warranty  is over i believe

if u can make a bootable usb with ubuntu OS, then boot into ubuntu.
if ur keyboard works normally in ubuntu,
then it is windows update that screwed ur computer up.

or if u are totally lazy, restart, spam F8 button,
select repair ur computer, then with the sign in part test ur keyboard.
if it types ur login name or password correctly then is windows screwing up in the previous update.

i had this with another laptop be4, whole keyboard malfunction and works in other os.
something to do with asus atk drivers and windows keyboard/update.
bloody annoying to solve.

alright. i'll try it. hope its the window screw up, but then it might be water damage.
will a 2-drop of water into the KB coz such huge damage? 

why on it 24/7? any porblem so far when you on it 24/7 ?

anyone here encounter the same issue with me? after updating to window 10, my touchpad is not working. tried re-installing the driver also same. Asus N56V laptop by the way.

Hi all,

Need some advise as well.
I'm looking at Asus A555lj model.

Thinking to:
1. Increase to 8GB RAM
2. Add-in 120GB SSD

Needs to sacrifice DVD-rom for SSD.

Will these void the warranty? And cloning the OS to SSD will still remains your OS genuine?

Thanks!

put ssd in hhd place, hhd in dvd rom space better.

then perform clean os install for ur ssd with ur hhd out of laptop.

non of this will void warranty. (unless to access to access hhd/ram need remove total back cover)

when claiming warrenty, just remove ssd, put back hhd in place and dvd rom back then can adi.

Sorry to barge in this specific asus model thread.

Just to ask for opinion from you guys. I owned an Asus S56CM ultrabook for about 2 years when lately my laptop starts to behave weirdly. It can't shut down properly. The screen went black/blank as it was shutting down but the LED lights/cooling fan still running and will running till the battery exhausted or i push the power button for 3 seconds (force shutdown). Moreover, all the USB port cannot be used unless i insert the USB drive/external HD right before i switch on the laptop.

I received error message from windows "Windows detected a hard disk problem. The following hard disks are reporting failure: SanDisk SSD i1200 24GB" which when i tried to access in the device manager will just made the explorer/windows not responding. From what i read, the SSD is not for storage but rather some speed-up technology/express cache or something like that for faster boot and shutdown.

Is the SSD failure is the root of all my problems? Is there any chance for it to be fixed as i am aware the SSD was not manufactured anymore. Thank in advance.

1st thing 1st, start backing up your files. ASAP.
(hard disk problem being reported is very very bad for hybrid ssd/SSD, as u may not boot into the hhd ever)

then u can start the diagnostics below.

try shutting down and booting up without battery inserted.
if things are normal, then your battery failure; just replace.

if u boot up and get  any error such as memdump or temp related,
and the battery removal did not work,
time to change to full SSD perhaps.
truth be told, 24GB cache is not a lot and who know if it's mlc or slc type or worse tlc type.
if TLC then i guess the error is prone to come very soon.
If you download a lot of ' 'content' ' for the last 2 years, then this is highly likely the case.
i suggest getting a 250gb ssd or at least 500gb ssd if so.

I would say the hybrid ssd is most likely the cause as when shutting down, the memory cannot dump and keeps trying hence not shutting down. moreover, u forcing it to shut could cause some corruption within the drive system files. so more and more error will prompt up.

If changing hhd/ssd did not work, then it could be bios update needed.
maybe some update u recently got can't match the current bios.
proceed with caution as flashing wrong bios will rekt ur motherboard and your whole laptop.

a) Though the SSD is the one which corrupt, will it infect/starts giving problem to the normal HDD?

you will never know, better be safe than sorry.
worse case is ssd hardware fail and the whole drive refuses to boot.

b) Will try to shutdown and boot without the battery. The boot is fine BTW but takes around 3-5 minutes. hehe

c) i have never stumble upon any error as you mentioned. However, i did download a lot. How is this can contribute to the SSD failure? I already updated the bios to the latest (BIOS 209 for this model).

if u know how p2p works, ' ' downloading' ' has quite a lot of caching involved.
combined with temp allocation while booting/shutting down, and commonly opened files, and hardware design,
putting this into perspective that ssd has limited Read/write levels before failure,
and heavily dependent on the each cell usage.

lets say u have a range of A,B,C,D. part A,B is always used for system and hardly moves around,
the remaining C,D (12GB) which is used for caching, will then be heavily used for programs, downloads, etc continuously and the wear (writes) is not distributed evenly to A,B.  therefore C,D will have premature wear and fail earlier. and when 1 sector fail, the fail rate will increase exponentially.

Thanks for your advice sir.

correct me if i'm wrong.
i did all this research long when i was choosing hybrid and ssd.
SSD sill best esp MLC/slc hardware.
newer hybrid is much better than your older hybrids.