Hopefully I can get an answer in the next 24 hours (I'm technically past my return policy, but might get a 5 day extension)
I've had this since May 5th, I've had a myriad of problems ranging from BSOD's to Sound/Video problems so I figured maybe I could make a nice long post and get some help from the board.
1) 4 BSOD's since purchase.
3 of my BSOD's were Video driver related (sadly I cannot remember the exact error, but I believe I fixed them by using a modified inf to force the latest unified driver in... gg nvidia there)
The latest one was a KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR that I'm not 100% sure if it has been fixed by a simple CHKDSK upon reboot or not.
2) Static from sound, more noticeable from voices.
This is just annoying. Listening to youtube videos, TED talks, or anything with a semi-sharp voice (including in-game sounds in DotA 2 from characters), there is a rather extreme static that accompanies it. I have tried with headphones, the static is there too. For the longest time I thought it was the speakers or Subwoofer, but now I'm leaning towards an audio driver/hardware problem. I've updated VIA HD Audio Dock to the "best" version (the one that fixes the input detection, subwoofer not getting quiet when lowering volume problems), but the problem persists.
3) Significant stuttering while playing Diablo 3 and occasionally DotA 2 and Deus Ex.
This is just annoying. Completely randomly the games will freeze, and 3 times have lead to a Blue Screen. The KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR listed above occurred while playing Diablo 3. The game would freeze up (playing in fullscreen windowed mode), I could alt+tab, talk on skype of my sadness that my computer is causing problems again, Alt+tab back into the game, click, and get the BSOD. The previous 3 also occurred while playing games, twice with D3, once with WoW. I don't know what is causing this problem either, but hopefully someone can shed some light on this too.
I've been an avid ASUS supporter for years. The desktop next to me has ASUS video cards and motherboard in it, and I am rather upset that a nearly $1300 purchase has been causing insane amounts of trouble for me. I expected this from the lower brands, and non-gaming specific computers, but not from what was labeled as one of the best laptops out there.
I will appreciate any advice/recommendations/general support for the problems, I will even list below (since I doubt many will actually read this far if they weren't willing to help) everything I have going on right now:
Rainmeter
Rocketdock
AVAST Internet Security
Zimbra Desktop
Skype
Steam
All other ASUS programs (except Live Update)
Chrome (using to type this)
Spotify
VIA HD Audio Deck
Again, thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to help me out with this
theevilisback