I recently purchased this laptop but the boot times are extremely slow (around 7-10 mins). Is this normal experience for this laptop or time to return?
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Hello, you should contact asus support center because it is not normal for a brand new computer to take this time to boot up. Mine takes about 5 seconds to boot up. I hope I was able to help!
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For my laptop, it took less than one minute from pressing the power button, log in, and bring up Chrome.
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This laptop has a 24 GB SSD built in to give you a very quick boot..mine takes 5 - 7 seconds to boot.. 7-10 mins is really a long time..
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not at all. i have the same laptop and its been very good. had it for 6 months..may want to check settings.
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I'e checked it can be formatted to be bootable. Ubuntu boots in less a minute. I think it was reformatted by me about 100 times for testing speed with different fs, I don't see any lost space.
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MO There is nothing wrong with computer works great! the one thing I don't like is it was a dirty machine they could clean it up a bit. make sure you ask for a power cord and I think I world get a refurbished one. think about it ?
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Recieved mine today in the Mail from Amazon, my u31jg-xa1 is already doing this to me. I really want them to work! :[ please, i want to enjoy this beautiful laptop in it's entirety.
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Thanks for the info, just out of interest how fast does your laptop boot windows 7 with the ssd going at SATA II?
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Th laptop is fast runs fairly cool under full load considering its a laptop, never got concerned about the temp. Screen quality was fine too. All this considered i sent it back because the overall build quality felt very poor and it was just a lot bigger then i was willing to put up with.
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I have had mine for several months and I believe it is a fine laptop. No complaints so far.
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That's right. I bought mine from Amazon in february and so far I haven't had any problems with it. I was worried since I live in Venezuela and the laptop might break down. I'm writing this review with my Asus. It's refurbished but runs and looks like new.Thank God.
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I purchased mine around the same time, and had no problems. It's difficult to advise you here though (because of so little info about your problem and no back and forth). I suggest checking Asus' support site. While it's hard to navigate, it does have lots of info, including (I believe) teardown docs for replacing the hard drive and memory.
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Yes, The laptop is like new, brand new. It was only opened the box and turned on and off. All software is the same like a brand new Asus. The item is also on Warranty in Asus if in the future is any software/hardware problem.Do you want images of it? outside or the laptop turned on?
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Common problem...you have to press the key repeatedly and rapidly to catch the small time window where the bios comes up. The bios key window is very short by default (you can change that in the bios too, when you get in). I assume this is to keep the boot times to a minumum.
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They run a little hot,and after switching tabs a few times the screen would start to flicker i was putting it on a test run(you only have 15 days to return electronics and wanted to see if it could handle the work load and that's what i came up with so i returned it,and got another brand) on gateways behave it may have just be a bad laptop that got through but i wasn't going to try another one.I also believe gateway was recently purchased by "Acer" and is not a bad brand I have a "e-machines" laptop that is also made by "Acer" and haven't had any problems with it (it's about 4 years old now)So it may just be the manufacturer when i tried the gateway it was still under gateway maybe Acer will do a better job. They run a little hot,and after switching tabs a few times the screen would start to flicker i was putting it on a test run(you only have 15 days to return electronics and wanted to see if it could handle the work load and that's what i came up with so i returned it,and got another brand) on gateways behave it may have just be a bad laptop that got through but i wasn't going to try another one.I also believe gateway was recently purchased by "Acer" and is not a bad brand I have a "e-machines" laptop that is also made by "Acer" and haven't had any problems with... » Read More They run a little hot,and after switching tabs a few times the screen would start to flicker i was putting it on a test run(you only have 15 days to return electronics and wanted to see if it could handle the work load and that's what i came up with so i returned it,and got another brand) on gateways behave it may have just be a bad laptop that got through but i wasn't going to try another one.I also believe gateway was recently purchased by "Acer" and is not a bad brand I have a "e-machines" laptop that is also made by "Acer" and haven't had any problems with it (it's about 4 years old now)So it may just be the manufacturer when i tried the gateway it was still under gateway maybe Acer will do a better job. « Show Less
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Pretty damn fast. It has a ssd cache drive, not sure if that helps at all, but it boots up quick regularly. Less than 30 seconds from power off.
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This laptop is very slow and the touch pad sticks all the time, so think twice before you purchase... I regret my purchase.. U wish i could be refunded.
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Ron ... I did not attempt to downgrade. I am still getting used to Windows 8, which for how I use this machine is overkill. But I am banging my head on the counter less these days. The PC itself is great. I had a Terabyte of SSD installed and 9 months later I am still experiencing 7-9 second boot up time.
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I'm not sure what a good boot time or a bad boot time is as I live in the country and do not have a very high internet speed. For me though, I think it works great. Its small but gets the job done. Hope this helps.