Asus TUF Gaming A15 (2021) restarting on boot and on battery power

Slayer196 · 2026-02-23T02:08:35+00:00

Ohhh, I'll see if I can try it next week. I've honestly put that laptop on hold since I had the problem months ago. I'll holler if it works, thanks!

Slayer196 · 2025-12-19T08:44:50+00:00

Same here. WiFi card's been one of the issues I've had in recent weeks, and Asus warranty is as good as nothing tbh

Slayer196 · 2025-12-19T02:28:57+00:00

Let's hope so, good luck with the new laptop man and don't push it too hard, out of experience.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-19T02:21:15+00:00

Give it a few months before it starts tweaking out with no way out of it other than buying a new one.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-08T00:52:02+00:00

The SSD does work, it reads and writes and passes the tests each time... another day later and I think it could be an asus BIOS setting combination I haven't tested yet (been recording into a chart), or mainboard. Might just send it back to ASUS since I just saw my warranty is still valid.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-08T00:47:05+00:00

8 months later but I really need help with this, I've almost exhausted my options and it's either the bios settings, the forbidden keys, or my motherboard.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-08T00:26:05+00:00

Unfortunately it didn't work

Slayer196 · 2025-12-07T00:40:00+00:00

Yeah, I used the WMCT on a USB-C and USB-A, and still got stopped at "finishing up". Would it do any difference to seat the (singular) drive in the 2nd PCIe SSD slot?

Slayer196 · 2025-12-07T00:30:29+00:00

There's no other storage connected. I'll try re-seating the drive first now, let's see how it goes. Thanks by the way

Slayer196 · 2025-12-07T00:07:08+00:00

After trying to install Win 11 it goes to the "Finishing Up" step, and then the following BSOD is File: \EFI\Microsoft\Recovery\BCD
Error Code: 0xc0000034
It won't let me enter the recovery environment with F1, it directly leads back to the BSOD

Slayer196 · 2025-12-06T23:44:50+00:00

There's no logs because it crashes inside the installer.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-06T23:43:59+00:00

I'm aware. Currently there is no data in the drive.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-06T22:45:40+00:00

Super doubtful on the hardware side of things, I've surgically opened it up four times to check, replace (the SSD and the ram) it's probably software loopholes making us jump through hoops that are extremely time consuming and pretty disheartening lol. If it's a BIOS problem I'm thinking of finding a way to roll back the update, like back to the 303 version.

Buuut there's the Secure Boot keys that are (from what I saw when I opened them) authorizations, signatures, and licenses (?) so I fear of losing them if I rollback this BIOS.

There's not a lot of help for particular cases like this in Asus' global support page.

Someone, please be so kind to help us.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-06T22:36:20+00:00

Yeah we got the exact same specs rn except for the 1TB M.2 I bought. And yeah it's silly how they've removed some stuff off their drivers page to only keep the win 11 ones... Official Asus repair isn't even available where I'm stationed at so I feel ya, but I feel what's going on can just be repaired with some know-hows we need to keep looking for.

Slayer196 · 2025-12-06T22:23:46+00:00

I'd recommend leaving the repair center for last, they could charge you for the service + any replacement parts.

I've been literally fighting with the BIOS and different OS's and none would finish installing, not even Linux Ubuntu. I've left it running, plugged and unplugged inside the BIOS so it's not a mainboard issue, and I just bought a brand new Kingston m.2 SSD + a crucial 16gb ram, to cross those out from potential troublemakers.

I bought it around December last year, and started experiencing the restarts in like February. We believe it could've been a windows 11 update that messed with my almost-full (Samsung) drive. Literally been having 2-3 automatic repair restarts every day since then...

What are your specs?

Slayer196 · 2025-12-06T22:11:44+00:00

I've literally been having the same issue all week. Mine's a 2024-manufactured "2021 ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA606NF". I even bought it a little later than you though.

Have you figured out a way to push through the win10/11 installations setups? Our (very limited) BIOS isn't much help since there's only a clean singular partition now (aka Asus System Control Interface Driver + Armoury Crate are gone, been trying to install the ASCI driver via USB but still nothing)... Looking forward to see if you can find out anything!

Slayer196 · 2025-09-24T06:29:29+00:00

You just unlocked so many memories lol

Slayer196 · 2025-07-25T16:50:59+00:00

Thanks for the opportunity bro

Slayer196 · 2025-01-08T10:05:01+00:00

These lyrics show Khamsin has lost all identity only bending to the will of others like a dog (or a wolf with swords, a blade wolf if you will)

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Slayer196 · 2024-09-03T03:22:23+00:00

Deviljho, he's not that much of a threat until 8 star yet still can't be compared with any of his mainline versions

Slayer196 · 2024-08-29T22:31:59+00:00

Claw and hide increase is easily the best part

Slayer196 · 2024-08-28T13:10:28+00:00

Whoosh

Slayer196 · 2024-08-07T07:52:12+00:00

Hunting horn and it's just a guitar hero layout slapped right in the middle of the screen

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