I reload (painfully, as I have the issue a couple times during loading Windows and once after it was loaded) and now I'm contemplating what to do next. I pull the two 850 EVO drives (Gigabyte found a couple bad sectors on one) and replace with the 2 256GB drives, but this time I leave off the RAID completely. A couple weeks later I get the laptop, but the RAID still exists according to the BIOS which makes me wonder.Īnyways, not 30 seconds in, while in BIOS, the laptop hard locks. We have to do SOMETHING." They decide they'll replace the mobo, then change their minds, and I promptly change their minds back. My response is along the lines of "I can't use it for more than a papwerweight if it's unreliable. They claim they stress tested the machine for about a week without ever seeing the issue. I contact the support team and push them to hold onto it until they experience the issue as well. I decide on sending it back to Gigabyte once more while it won't POST so they HAVE to see that something's wrong. During that time I did replace the 256GB SSDs with 2x 1TB Samsung 850 EVO mSATA SSDs, because I like lots of SSD storage.įinally after the couple months I'm suddenly back to the same pattern of hard locks/no POST, although this time it ends with the machine not POSTing at all even after a day of waiting. Miraculously it works for 2 months without an issue, and I begin to suspect I'm insane. I'm really not excited by now, but I re-re-setup my laptop and continue to use it. They run THEIR tests, find no hardware issues, claim OS is bad and reinstall then send it back. I even loaded up Cinnamon and ran it for a few days, but I had the same exact hard lock/no POST while running it.įast forward another week or two of pain, and this time they have me send it to Gigabyte for RMA (Aorus' parent company). Anyways, I set the laptop up again, and within a couple days right back to random hard locks/no POST. I'm not ecstatic about it, nor am I an idiot, the POSTing issue after hard locks directly indicates hardware. They claim OS corruption, reload it, and send it back. They receive it, run their gambit of tests, and find no issue. Basically all clear all around.įinally I send it in to XoticPC for RMA. I tested the SSDs, the HDD, CPU, RAM, and video card again, and long story short there are no heat issues, no hardware problems, no bad sectors, etc. The hard locks continue randomly for about another week. Same process of no POST for about 15 minutes, can't keep it powered off, then it POSTs. I had started trusting it again, when I get a hard lock while the machine is idle (I was using my desktop). I ran stress testing and monitored heat via OCCT, MemTest86 for a complete pass, and graphics testing via Unigine Heaven for about 6 hours. This repeated a couple more times with me trying to keep it powered off, when it suddenly just decided to POST on one of its power ons. It again powered on automatically, and again wouldn't POST. I waited a minute or two, and attempted to hard power off again. It then failed to POST, it simply gave me a black screen. Before I could power it back on, it auto-powered on. I waited about 5 minutes to see if it would BSOD, but it didn't, so I held the power button and powered it off. It ran phenomenally for about 2 weeks, when during a gaming session I had a hard lock.
#AORUS X7 PROSYNC WINDOWS 8.1#
Windows 8.1 (Upgraded this after receiving it to Windows 10)
Here's a quick spec sheet from Aorus: http /I bought the laptop with the following:ġx 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4870HQ (2.5GHz-3.7GHz)
#AORUS X7 PROSYNC PRO#
I bought an Aorus X7 Pro Gsync about half a year ago from XoticPC.
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