My SSD has just crashed (after 2 years and 4 month...)

It seems that the corresponding SSD is the AData xm11 but i didn't find a replacement easily. But does a equivalent exist ? I don't know very well but it seems that the ones on the MacBook Air looks like quit similar.

Could someone tell me which SSD i could put in my UX31A ?

Thank you very much.

⟐ Answered October 02, 2024 at 21:01 MST

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⟐ Answered March 12, 2019 at 6:33 MST

I know that there's a version of my laptop that comes with the 1080p screen (also in matte finish) but I don't know if it has different cables/connector.

I appreciate the answer, because I have a bright spot on my screen and I want to replace it soon.

Thanks mates,

Yago.

⟐ Answered May 28, 2015 at 0:29 MST

My 'a' key randomly stopped working yesterday. Nothing out of the ordinary happened between me shutting it down the night before and firing up the laptop the next day.

However, I did spill water over my laptop around a month ago and am now in a more humid climate.

I have tried cleaning beneath the key (which is definitely the issue, I ran driver tests and was able to check using v USB keyboard.

I have spoken to two technicians and would love another opinion. One told me it would be ~£180 to replace and probably wouldn't ever quite be the same. another said could get away with just changing the key (£35). That doesn't seem quite right to me.

If you have insight on this, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Thanks in advance.

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⟐ Answered October 26, 2016 at 21:09 MST

I used to use my iSSD as a second storage partition. Now it died.

Until a few hours ago, I was running windows 10 preview. Here follows what I have done and my problem

1 - Removed the HDD and replace by SSD Saumsung EVO 850.

2 - Tryed to do a clean install of windows 10, it ends in an infinit loop and never reaches the installation menu.

3 - Tryed windows 7, the same problem.

4 - Tryed Ubuntu, it runned, showed several errors due to iSSD failure but installed and runs normally and very fast.

5 - Tryed to put the HDD with win 10 back, windows won't start.

My problem is the following, I don't want to be stuck with ubuntu, I think that I have not been able to install win due to the iSSD that is reconized by the bios that is already on version 214, the last one available on Asus website.

On ubuntu, sometimes iSSD is recognized sometimes not. But never I am able to edit partition or whatever.

If anyone can give me a hint on how to solve this problem. I have also contacted ASUS, but as my laptop is no longer under warranty I am hopeless on their solution.

Thanks for help.

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since i changed the keyboard on my asus zenbook i noticed a strange phenomena...when running on battery power the screen is flickering almost all the time. But this only happens when i am on battery power. The screen is also very dim.

When i use the ac everything works fine, i get full screen brightness and there is no more flickering at all.

I am running on windows 10, adaptive screen brightness turned of, as well as intel hd graphics battery safer mode...latest drivers installed.

I checked all the ribbon cables and connections, everything fine so far. It would be great if someone could help me out.

Cheers

Ben

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If I just start up and leave it idle the fan will kick in after a short time, the temperature sensors show core temp hovering around 32-38°C (90-100°F) and the CPU usage not rising above 2-5%. Once the fan is stuck on max even after a couple of hours idle it won't come down.

I've updated all drivers in device manager, updated the BIOS, downgraded the BIOS but to no effect (I have had other problems with the BIOS since upgrading to Windows 10, but I didn't have this problem for the first 4 months or so after the upgrade). I also tried to build this laptop fan control tool but didn't have any luck on Windows 10 (I know pretty much nothing about Windows system programming).

Any suggestions much appreciated :) It's not a huge problem but it would be nice to find a fix. The fact that the temperature sensors are showing sensible values makes me think it's not just a damaged/unplugged sensor.

⟐ Answered December 29, 2019 at 12:08 MST

I managed to reverse the polarity on the DC input for my laptop (cheap travel power supply with adapters). Laptop went out, reboot via battery was possible and the laptop ran until the battery was dead.

My hope is that i just smoked a fuse or a diode protecting the mainboard itself. I took the laptop apart to take pictures of the DC input area.

I have some experience in soldering (little in SMD), have a multimeter and an oscilloscope to debug.

Ordering a new board doesn't make sense compared to the price of a new laptop.

Motherboard Model is 60NB04Y0-MBB030.

⟐ Commented September 08, 2019 at 7:09 MST

after fixing one of the hinges of my Asus Zenbook UX303LA-R4342H, while trying to plug the display cable back into the mainboard, I accidentally let the display cable touch the mainboard. This lead to a small flash of light and it smelled burnt. (I still had the battery pluggged in.) Now the display backlight does not turn on anymore. If I shine a light through the back of the display I can see the Desktop and also with an external monitor everything works fine.

What do you think broke? Is it the mainboard, the cable or the display? How can I figure out?

Unfortunately, I don’t have any other divices on which I could test the display.

I did not see exactly where the cable touched the mainboard - I only saw the spark in the corner of my eyes - but since the cable is relatively stiff and does not have a lot of reach I think it must have touched the mainboard to the left of the connector.

I already tried unplugging the battery and holding the power button for 30s as suggested on some backlight problem questions here, but this did not help.

Here is a picture of the mainboard:

And here is the output of the CPU-Z Utility:

Update:

I took the mainboard out the check the other side. I guess I found the source of the burnt smell. The burnt part is exactly on the other side of the display connector. There are also these two smaller things further above that also seem to have burned?

What are these broken parts? Is that something I could fix?

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⟐ Answered August 17, 2017 at 4:28 MST

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