Sudden freezes with my ASUS ROG STRIX G16

[liliin]

Ok, so I have bought this laptop few days ago. It looks solid and original. However, it freezes and gets stuck for a split second out of nowhere sometimes. Additionally, when I turned off services of Armoury Crate to reach a better performance Fn + Fx keys stopped working, most of them, only mute combination seemed to work. When I would press customizable hotkeys the buttons were not doing what they were supposed to. Volume down customizable hotkey would mute microphone and mute microphone hotkey would volume down. It is just disappointing to see that I cannot even use the most important part of the laptop Fn + Fx keys when Armoury Crate services are disabled … As I said the bigger issue is the sudden freezes. I cannot believe such monster can do this. Someone please assist me with these issues. The specs:

16 GB Ram 1 TB NVMe RTX 4060 8gb i9 - 14th Gen

[superspartan]

1) Download the latest Armoury Crate Uninstall Tool, extract it, then run it. Click Expand All to see it listed below: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/armoury%20crate/helpdesk_download/

2) Restart your laptop after you have uninstalled it

3) Reinstall the latest Armoury Crate again from here = https://www.asus.com/supportonly/armoury%20crate/helpdesk_download/

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