I was hopeful the RTC reset worked but I just experienced a crash again after two weeks without one. I think I'll just stick to my laptop until Asus fixes this issue. My patience is spent.

Ever since I reinstalled Windows and did the RTC reset, I haven't experienced a crash since but I only play ZZZ on it most of the time in hour intervals. I'd give the RTC reset a try for sure. 

Indeed, I can mash Y a million times for a few minutes and next thing I know a few minutes later I press it once and only once and it goes black. I believe I only had one instance where not pressing Y made it crash but most of the time pressing the Y...

I am so disappointed in how this has yet to be resolved since its release. I've tried everything under the sun to avoid the dreaded black screen: turned off virtualization, reset Windows, turned off graphical settings. It happens on both 25 and 30w s...