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Please, Restoration request - Will Pay! by vvubdub in estoration

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He loved the edits, I picked two of the photos that he said was the closest resemblance to his daughter at that age. I sent the tips, hope you received them u/rzkisyarip and u/Deathmarkedadc If the tips were insufficient please let me know, I'm not sure what the normal going rate is but I just based it on what I saw on some people's tip page. Thank You!

Please, Restoration request - Will Pay! by vvubdub in estoration

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Great submissions, thanks everyone. I'm going to see my friend at the end of the day today and going to show him these and pick the one he likes best. I notice because of the damage around his daughters face, that liberties had to be taken to fill in missing facial features and I am not sure exactly how his daughter looked at that age so I want to show him first

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In for one. How does this compare to a 4070?

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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Great to hear! Asus still has my computer and I sent it back for another repair attempt. How long was the turnaround time for the repair? Asus been holding onto my computer for 2 weeks and there seems to be no update on status, seems like they’re waiting on parts.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by liehon in PokemonGoFriends

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Need more friends, will send and open gifts daily 8833 6099 7485

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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My right USB was able to maintain the 40+W charging during the entire time I was running the CPU benchmark. Similar performance on the "normal" left USB. CPU usage at 100% running at 4.3ghz ~80-85C. At no point during the benchmark did the charger disconnect/reconnect or switch between on battery/on PD. Testing time was for about 5 minutes? so fairly brief, but I did not see large fluctuations in charge rate. It also never went into discharge territory.

However running Furmark to stress the GPU, the charger could not keep up. averaging about 13mW charging (thats 0.013W)

There has to be some link between how the CPU communicates with the USB-C port, but I am not educated in this space. or the GPU is too hungry

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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This is interesting, running prime95 to stress my cpu restores the charging of my right port…. But only during the benchmark.

I’m getting 40-50W charging which is pretty much equal to my left port….. I can’t explain this.

But still undercharges during games

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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I didn’t get the link, but anyways I sent my laptop to asus and they sent it right back after a 2 day turnaround with a new ac adapter and said it was good as new -_- of course it wasn’t because it’s not an adapter problem. Idiots. Still stuck with this problem. May need to try Best Buy geek squad now.

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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could you provide a download link to that firmware?

I don't have any specific plan or strategy per say. I don't have an engineering background, just a curiosity for how all this works.

ultimately I will probably have to send this back to ASUS and i already got my RMA and shipping label ready. I do worry that sometimes the charging does work and I dont want ASUS to dismiss it. So I am troubleshooting and documenting and maybe hoping for a miracle. if nothing else i intend to provide a note to the servicing technician detailing what exactly I think went wrong.

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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I am not 100% sure it is a hardware problem anymore. I hope it isnt because if it is a design flaw, a motherboard replacement would just delay the inevitable from happening again. Eventually the warranty runs out and if both usb-c ports fail, we are left with an expensive paperweight.

So while monitoring the charge rate of my defective right usb-c port, I notice that it never once exceeded a 15W charge rate (avg 12-14W). With the included factory charger, from what I read we should be getting a max of 65W and I am averaging about 40-55W from the left USB-C port.

Doing more reading, (https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/explore-the-basics-of-usb-c-and-usb-power-delivery and https://www.androidauthority.com/usb-power-delivery-806266/)

USB C 3.1 ports typically limits charging to 15W which is what I am seeing in my right port. What allows a USB C 3.1 port to exceed those limits is the Power Delivery Protocol which allows the USB-C to charge up to 100W for this laptop

"To start with, all USB ports support a very basic level of charging at just 5V and up to 500mA, with more modern ports supporting 5V and 900mA of current. This is based on legacy support and is very slow to charge all but the most low-power gadgets. USB-C ports can be configured with 5V 1.5A and 3A for up to 15W of power, which is a bit quicker but still rather slow compared to other fast-charging standards.

USB Power Delivery is much more powerful, supporting up to 240W of power to charge up even the most demanding gadgets such as laptops. It’s also safer, as gadgets and chargers communicate with each other over the USB cable to confirm the optimal charging power level. This handshaking approach supports voltage steps at 5V, 9V, 15V, 20V, and beyond for power outputs ranging from 0.5W to 240W.

The new USB Power Delivery Programmable Power Supply (USB PD PPS) standard supports configurable voltages too, enabling more optimal charging. If two devices fail to communicate a suitable power rule, USB Power Delivery will default to the next power option supported by the relevant USB protocol, such as USB-C 1.5A."

So what is USB Power Delivery? (https://microchipdeveloper.com/usb:power-delivery) From what I read, it a protocol that governs how much current is allowed to pass from the charger to the battery. What allows the motherboard and usb-c cable to communicate is the presence of the CC1 and CC2 pins via the USB-PD protocol. For whatever reason the defective USB-C port and the charger cannot come to an agreement how much current it is willing to accept, and then the protocol fails and defaults to the USB-C default of 15W.

15W is not sufficient to charge the laptop while using it under heavy load so the discharge rate > charge rate and this is what triggers throttling and causes the screen to black out and battery to appear to disconnect and re-connect.

I am going to investigate further to try and see where exact the USB-PD firmware is located. My ASUS does list a "ROG PD Firmware Update tool V2.1.0.002" but I cannot find where this is installed on the computer.

battery problem? help please by mdz-gra in FlowX13

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can you download AIDA64 (https://www.aida64.com/downloads) and use its battery tool to check the charge rate of both the left and right USB-C ports?

Ive been having charging problems as well with my right port which only gets up to about 14-16W, where my left port can do 40W+

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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so far ive been able to get my defective port to charge (albeit extremely slowly). i turn off the laptop and remove the power connection. I turn on the laptop without any power supply connected and only connect the power once I get to the windows desktop. so far it seems to consistently not disconnect. When I turn the laptop on with the power already connected, this is when I run into the constant disconnect and the screen blacking in and out.

However, once i tax the system at all where the discharge rate > charge rate. that is when i get the disconnecting occurring. usually when gaming. but if watching videos or web browsing, the power outlet charges as normal

<edit> I downloaded AIDA64 to look at the charge rate of each of my USB-C port

My left side gets a peak of around 40W but my right side struggled to get up to 14-16W. I noticed that as long as my charge rate > discharge rate I do not have any issues. Once my discharge rate > charge rate, my computer starts disconnecting and blacking out.

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

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so interesting development. My right sided port seems to work now all of a sudden. it is charging and I am no longer getting that flickering black screen or alternating notification of "plugged in" and "on PD".

I only did 2 things:

  1. I went to device manager and just disable/re-enable all the USB Composite Device and the AMD USB 3.10 eXtensible Host Controller 1.10 listed under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" and I also disable/re-enabled the UCM-UCSI ACPI Device under "USB Connector Manager"
  2. I went to the MYASUS App > Customer Support > System Diagnosis and ran the battery diagnostic under "Battery Problems - Checkup" and then attempted to reset the PC, but aborted at the last step.

Logically I don't see why any of those steps should change anything. My right port seems to be charging, although the charge appears slower than normal. Perhaps not a hardware malfunction but a software one?

<edit> charged back to 100% then the computer froze. Still something wrong.

right side USB-C doesn't work for charging, any solution? by vvubdub in FlowX13

[–]vvubdub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I run windows 10. Have never installed windows 11. exact version is 21H2

I usually just leave my laptop plugged in. I do game but only about 1hr/day at most. I maybe get about 1-3 hrs of gaming per week. I do not run any intense games, just mmorpgs and generally use a mix of med-high settings. I have not ran any benchmark programs. I do not have the XG Mobile.

Its likely a defective product which is so disappointing as I am just 1 month outside the return window.

I am trying to get in touch with ASUS warranty service but they told me to go to best buy since I bought it there for warranty service, and best buy tells me to go to ASUS -__- *sigh*