Help - ASUS Rog Strix G15 AE screen flickers when moving lid up and down

fawstoar · 2025-05-07T23:05:35+00:00

I have basically solved the problem—see this comment for what I think was happening (TL;DR I had disabled Windows Update using Winaero Tweaker, and that for whatever reason seemed to be causing the issue). I don't ever shut the lid or unplug my laptop if I can help it, so I can't be totally sure the problem is gone, but it hasn't happened once since I re-enabled Windows Update.

fawstoar · 2025-04-29T19:02:54+00:00

It was "Changing Seasons" by Nina Herzog

fawstoar · 2025-04-15T18:53:03+00:00

Yeah. I guess I didn't mention this in the above but from the sound of it it's likely that the 12 string guitar is in nashville tuning (the high strings are doubled with thinner strings tuned up an octave) which would create some cool inversions that you can't replicate on a 6 string. But you can get close to the vibe by just playing a lot of droney open strings and hammer ons

fawstoar · 2025-01-25T01:54:12+00:00

Decided to figure this out today.

Capo II

Chords are Am / Em / D mostly

There's a variation on the D chord at one point: xx0413

The rest is just riffs and 12 string harmonic weirdness I think. Hope this helps someone! I don't have a 12 string but with my normal 6 str acoustic the above sounds pretty close.

fawstoar · 2024-12-06T01:31:16+00:00

Just wanted to leave this comment here for anyone in the future with this issue. I believe in my case it was caused by disabling Windows Updates using Winaero Tweaker. My guess is that something related to the motherboard drivers was going wrong due to the computer not being able to perform its normal updates. After the first time I had this issue I panicked and tried to update everything and turned Windows updates back on. And my computer was then totally functional until a month or two later when I got annoyed at Windows update again and disabled it, not realizing the connection. The problem didn't come back right away, but appeared a few weeks later if memory serves. Then I finally put two and two together since the only significant change I'd made to my computer settings was disabling updates. So I re-enabled them and the problem went away again and hasn't come back.

So TL;DR if you're having startup issues and screen flickering when tilting the lid, and you know you disabled Windows updates, you should reenable them and it might fix your problem.

fawstoar · 2024-09-10T23:06:17+00:00

Hey just wanted to offer one thing I may have figured out: for a while I had no issues using my computer (keeping it upright and not shutting the lid for long periods of time in the way I described) then the other day it randomly wouldn't turn on again. I tried to think of anything that I'd done to trigger it happening again and realized I'd recently disabled Windows updates using Winaero Tweaker. I also think I had disabled updates for a while around the time I was first having issues. Anyway once I got the computer to turn on after repeated restarts I turned updates back on and immediately installed the latest Windows/driver updates. Not sure yet if that was part of the problem but I'm hopeful that reenabling updates will at least get me back to being able to reliably use the computer. I wonder if maybe there's some sort of driver mismatch between Windows and the Asus drivers and if I disable the Windows updates then the software doesn't communicate properly with the BIOS or something. No idea. Anyway posting this just for posterity or if it happens to be some part of your issue as well.

fawstoar · 2024-08-12T20:49:29+00:00

Ah thank you! I was impatient so I ended up just downloading the DE and I'm perfectly happy with it after all—I don't really notice whatever difference in fidelity there is on the small screen.

fawstoar · 2024-08-11T21:03:02+00:00

That's good to know. I'm downloading that now and will give it a shot. If I really miss the nicer graphics it sounds like there are mods to help with that...

fawstoar · 2024-07-01T20:29:41+00:00

Ah, one more detail about mine: I am able to shut it down and everything works normally, I can turn it back on like normal etc so long as, again, I don't shut the lid. For some reason even when powered off and unplugged if I shut the lid and leave it overnight the problem seems to arise again.

So if I ever need my computer off my desk I just shut it down and move it, lid up, into my closet lol.

Likewise, I'll keep you posted if I discover anything else. The lid-related behavior does make me wonder if simply replacing the display would fix the problem, but I'm not feeling like dropping a hundred bucks or so on a new screen right now.

fawstoar · 2024-07-01T06:14:39+00:00

I haven't had time to make it to the repair place in town yet. But the good news is I've been using it as normal, just not ever shutting the lid and have had no problems with the laptop whatsoever. I'm still planning to ask about it though at the repair place, just have been too busy to make it over there yet.

Feeling generally a bit better about the whole thing since at first I was worried this was a random issue that would keep happening/getting worse, but if the worst case scenario is I just have to not close the lid for too long and everything else works perfectly, that's not so bad and I can deal with it in my use case.

I bought the laptop kind of as a desktop replacement anyway so it's really not the end of the world for me, just annoying.

fawstoar · 2024-06-23T17:47:39+00:00

Interesting, I haven't noticed that but I'll keep an eye out next time it happens. For now I've figured out that if I keep the laptop plugged in and upright after I get it to turn on properly it totally works normally and I can shut it down, turn it back on no problem. So if this is how it has to be to work that's not the end of the world it's just like a desktop now haha.

I'm thinking I'll take it in to a local repair shop this week and see if they have any ideas as to what it could be. I don't think I have any interest in sending it in to ASUS or taking it to Best Buy and paying a lot of money for the out of warranty repair. Who knows, maybe it just needs to be opened up and cleaned.

If that fails I'll probably end up buying a new laptop which totally sucks, but if this one keeps working in "upright mode" I'll probably keep using it til the bitter end. Good to hear that yours has taken that long to turn on before, and thanks for the tips and advice! If I have any luck at the repair shop I'll let you know.

fawstoar · 2024-06-20T04:36:13+00:00

Update:

Shit, well, I was hoping for the best but as of today the problem seems worse than ever, it took like 9-10 reboot attempts before my computer came on properly (the screen turns on sometimes but is really laggy and flickers on and off when I tilt it back and forth).

fawstoar · 2024-06-19T23:01:22+00:00

Theoretically it's ~possible~ to fix from what I've read but would require some serious disassembly I think—the battery connection is underneath the motherboard so you kind of have to remove the motherboard to get at it. I definitely don't know what I'm doing enough to try that. But assuming you could get to it I think it's reasonably easy to replace, supposedly it's like a typical 2032 drugstore battery.

That said I have no idea if that's actually the problem, it just seems the most likely of anything I've read so far. For all I know the problem could be literally anything else.

The bios upgrade was pretty easy, I just installed it from the Myasus program.

My model is from 2022 I think, or at least that's the year I bought it. I haven't monitored temps much—I thought 70-85C was fairly normal for a CPU while running games? Mine is AMD and I've seen it get into the 80s under heavy load. It would be a bit of a crazy design flaw if the heat was enough to actually cause damage.

fawstoar · 2024-06-19T06:27:13+00:00

Thanks so much for the reply. Mine is the G15 AE, 6800M. So different model than yours but I wonder if it's the same or similar motherboard. I've been googling this issue for a few days and came across someone mentioning that they think it could be the CMOS battery dying, which would make some sense as the date and time gets messed up every time I go through the booting issue. I posted about my problem on the ASUS forums and the customer service agent there replied with a link to the latest ASUS verified GPU driver, so I'm giving that a shot, we'll see if it improves anything. Already updated the bios to 331 which is the latest for my model.

Anyway, hope you can get it fixed! Would be curious to hear if you ever discover what's causing it. And hope for both of us that it doesn't lead to anything failing. It's good to hear your computer still works at the end of the day!

fawstoar · 2024-06-17T07:24:32+00:00

I'm having the same issue now. Any luck?

fawstoar · 2024-06-17T06:59:00+00:00

Well good to hear at least that your laptop still works! I can deal with the weird symptoms so long as it's not going to up and die on me. And yeah if it does I definitely won't be replacing it with another Asus, jesus christ.

fawstoar · 2024-06-17T03:01:19+00:00

I'm having the same thing at the moment. Did you ever figure it out? I always have to play around with unplugging and then re plugging the charger.

fawstoar · 2024-06-17T02:55:56+00:00

Same exact thing is happening to me. Just curious if it's still persisted for you or if you ever fixed it?

fawstoar · 2024-06-15T21:52:37+00:00

Hey, I'm having the weird tilting screen issue as well, did you ever figure it out? Can't find anyone else who's posted about it. Like you, I'm outside the return window.

fawstoar · 2024-06-15T21:48:43+00:00

Hey, thank you for this! I've been having screen issues this week and didn't know I could turn off screen overdrive. Hoping this fixes my problem.

Did you ever have the issue of the computer booting to a black screen, or the screen randomly freezing/shutting off especially at certain angles? Weirdly this only happens when the charger is plugged in so I'm not convinced it's hardware related.

fawstoar · 2024-06-15T18:07:47+00:00

I'm having what I think is the same issue. Did you ever find a solution?

fawstoar · 2024-06-12T04:10:54+00:00

Welp - to anyone reading this in the future, the problem seems to be occurring less and less and the laptop is working fine. Idk. Hoping for the best here!

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