Hi All,
So I recently purchased a GX703HS KF075T
From what I can gather I think there's still some issues surrounding the sleep mode
although I'm optimistic that this will be sorted out / fixed in a future driver update
It looks as if the GX703HS Device Kit is currently getting a fair few updates at the moment
I'm using Windows 10 Pro 21H1
With all the latest drivers installed via Armoury Crate / Windows Updates
1. The first thing is my mouse seems to be causing the machine to wake up for no reason
It's a Kone AIMO RGB Remastered PC Gaming Mouse (tried this with and without the Kone drivers installed)
I suspect it might be related to the way the sleep mode is being handled
It sounds like based on this
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?126728-Sleep-mode-not-working-properly-on-S17-GX703HS-2021That Asus are using some sort of Software based sleep instead of the traditional S3 modes
since powercfg -lastwake doesn't show anything so you have to look at the App / System event logs to see what's going on.
I think some of the updates recently have stopped other random causes from waking up the machine
also setting the maintenance window to 10:00 in the morning and disabling windows updates in the local policy settings
Seems to have avoided other triggers of wake up (there is a tick box in the windows setup which states if this should be allowed but I'm guessing this is being ignored)
2. Next thing on the list which I think is a driver bug which will hopefully be sorted out is
the event log message showing up during sleep of
USB device draining system power when system is idle.
USB Device: VID: 0x13D3 PID: 0x3563 REV: 0x100
Removal action failed: SkippedAsRecentIoObservered
Under the device manager its listed as a USB Composite Device
I think this is one of the USB Host Controllers
3. One thing which is a bit of an inconvenience
When selecting Sleep from the power start menu, it doesn't always follow through
It seems to sign out the machine, try to go to sleep, fail then just show the sign in screen.
If I try triggering sleep a couple of times from the sign in screen then eventually it will actually go to sleep
If I want it to sleep all night then currently unplugging my mouse is a thing I need to do as well (see above).
4. For the Audio I've noticed when in sleep mode some very low volume noise on the speakers
(I think some describe it as coil whine) random noise (clicks / whistles) coming through the speaker on the left.
Fortunately it's fairly quiet (you have to put you're ear up to it to hear it)
So far I've tried disabling the speaker / AI inputs and outputs under the Control Panel -> Sound
That didn't seem to make much difference.
One thing I haven't tried is disabling the sound card in the device manager.
I suspect one of the logic pins feeding the audio dac is in a floating logic state so might be picking up noise from the rest of the machine.
I also tried disabling the keyboard lights while the machine was in sleep mode.
Probably a driver patch will eventually fix it I guess.
5. Another one that I did have although I've not re-tested it since the recent updates
Was with the USB3-A port on the left hand side, if I used a low power device such as a mouse it's fine
If I use an old USB3 Hard disk it seems to disconnect / reconnect randomly
Not a big issue since the workaround is to just use the USB on the right side of the machine
It's possible this one might be fixed now I'm not sure
6. This one isn't really a Asus issue although I think it does impact Asus laptops
due to they're use of Optimus as a go-between on the video
With the latest nvidia drivers 497.09 these seem to cause issues
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/r6grqj/comment/ho8tq70/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&c...Seems to be a nvidia bug affecting those with multi monitor
although I think it's also affecting laptops with optimus due to the way the display filters through similar to a multi monitor setup
so for now I'm using 472.12 which seems a lot more stable