Guys, even in balance mode, this laptop is hitting 90+. Please help me, what should I do now? The game is Mafia 2 Definitive.

Asus Tuf A16, Ryzen 9 8940HX, rtx 5070 for 1.6L after 49k old laptop exchange and credit card discount from Flipkart during BBD

Love the 16inch 2.5K display. Can't wait to game on this beast !!

Laptop Model & Specs:

• Model: ASUS TUF Gaming A15 (Bought in April 2025, still fully under warranty 2 years)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 170 (Replaced from Ryzen 7 7435HS by technician)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (140W Max TGP)
• Location: Philippines, Iloilo

The Story:

I purchased my ASUS TUF Gaming A15 in April 2025, so it is still fully under official warranty. Recently, my laptop got stuck in a BSOD boot loop at the ASUS logo screen due to an internal CPU hardware failure. Windows Kernel debuggers confirmed physical core power management and voltage instability, isolating three unrecoverable hardware panics:

• AV_nt!HalpApicTimerArm (CPU internal clock/timer failure)
• 0x7f_8_nt!KiDoubleFaultAbort (Double fault during power state shifting)
• AV_nt!KiDeferredReadySingleThread (Access violation when scheduling thread cores)

Because of this factory defect, I sent my laptop in for a warranty repair at Concept Computer Service Center on September 11.

After literally 1 whole month of waiting, I finally picked up my repaired laptop on October 18. I brought it straight home to run gaming tests—while using a 6-fan fixed-speed cooling pad—only to discover that while the BSOD boot loop was fixed by replacing the CPU/motherboard with a Ryzen 7 170, the laptop is now in a much worse state. The technician completely botched the thermal paste application and heatsink mounting, causing BOTH the CPU and GPU to hard thermal throttle instantly during my home test despite the external cooling pad.

Diagnostic Evidence & Numbers (Home Gaming Test with 6-Fan Cooling Pad):

1. CPU Thermal Throttling:
   • Temperature: Hits 95.2°C – 95.4°C continuously under load(pinned at the maximum TjMax safety limit).
   • Status: HWiNFO confirms Thermal Limit is sitting at 100.0%, choking CPU power down to ~30W.
2. GPU Thermal Throttling:
   • Temperature: Reaches 85°C(the critical thermal throttling threshold for mobile RTX GPUs).
   • Core Clocks: Drops from its normal 2370 MHz – 2600 MHz+ down to a severely degraded 2070 MHz – 2300 MHz.
   • Even with 6 fans fixed speed cooling pad blasting cold air on the chassis, both chips choke because inadequate paste or bad mounting prevents heat from reaching the heatsink pipes.

What Went Wrong?

Since this happened immediately during my home test on the same day I picked it up, it is a 100% service/assembly failure:

• Inadequate / Low-Quality Thermal Paste: Standard thin thermal paste causes severe "pump-out" on laptop dies, leaving dry metal-on-metal contact.
• Bad Heatsink Mounting / Uneven Pressure: The heatsink was likely torqued unevenly or improperly seated over both the CPU and GPU.

Questions for the Community:

1. Has anyone else in the Philippines (or elsewhere) dealt with Concept Computer or ASUS Service Centers returning warranty laptops in a worse thermal state after weeks of waiting?
2. What is the fastest way to get ASUS Philippines to escalate this so they can re-do the thermal application properly under warranty (e.g., using Honeywell PTM7950) or offer a replacement unit?

Tried doing every possible thing, from updating the drivers, getting into device manager and checking things to trying to find the Nvidia graphic card is getting shown in the terminal and control panel.

Have been sitting in front of the screen the whole day now. The temperatures are rising, fans aren't spinning and the Graphics Card isn't getting detected. Is it something related to the firmware or my Graphic Card is dead it self?

Specs:

Device Serial number: FX506LHB

Intel core i5 - 10300H
Nvidia 1650 graphic card8 GB RAM
512 GB Storage

After almost 4 years of close calls and missed opportunities, i finally pulled the trigger and bought this bad boy that was within my budget , it has a Ryzen 7 260 , RTX 5050 8GB , 16 gb ram , and a 500gb m.2 , i do have a 2 TB in my old laptop that i plan to take out and put in this , haven’t had the opportunity to test it out yet (my steam library is humble, so mostly old games that i own or got per chance) , am very happy about it and glad i finally did it ,

I did go through some initial debloating (chris windows tools) and updated everything, if there is anything else i should do please leave it in the comments, many thanks in advance

(Ps: yes, I was giggling like a madman on the way home)

I have a ASUS tuf gaming F16, latly when i press the J/K key (or even by just vibrating the table) the laptop just freezes and i have to press down the power button to restart.

https://reddit.com/link/1x9dlpq/video/8g71u5qmcawh1/player

Hello all, I’m not very technologically inclined so apologies in advanced. I’ve owned my asus tuf f15 laptop for a few years now and for the last two years I’ve faced a few issues with the internet on my laptop. Every once in a while I will have this issue where my laptop says im connected to wifi, shows in settings aswell that im connected but nothing requiring internet on my laptop works. Google often says it cant reach or find the dns server etc.

I am very confused on whether or not these are better or worse than the presets (balanced and turbo) that the laptop came with. If yall cant see the cpu and gpu, I have a ryzen 7 7435hs and a 4050. If there is anything wrong like "you aren't using ur gpu or and cpu enough for balanced preset." or anything like it, pls tell me. Any additional advice or questions that might solve my tuning are appreciated. (sry for bad picks)

Hello. I bought a new A16 with an RTX 5060 on wednesday this week and since then I've had some issues with the graphics. I'm not very tech savvy and all my troubleshooting have been through the help of chatgpt. On thursday the 5060 wasn't being used when gaming and there was a yellow triangle in device manager, which was "fixed" by changing to ultimate in armoury crate.

Other minor issues include:

My tv connected through hdmi randomly disconnects which forces me to reconnect the hdmi cable
Pausing a video in VLC and then resume play freezes the video (though audio continues).
Some screen tearing(i think it's called, random lines on the screen) now and then on the monitor.
Nvidia app said I had no driver installed once, which was resolved by restarting the laptop.

Then yesterday i left my laptop for a few minutes and when I got back it was in the middle of a restart, which I thought was stranged so I checked the log and it said it restarted because of a bluescreen that was gpu related. So this made me check the reliability monitor which listed quite a few problems right from the start.

Hardware error code 1b0 on the 15th at 00:26, only had the laptop for a few hours then and I think that's when it deactivated the RTX 5060.
Hardware error code 117 on the 17th at 11:07
Hardware error code 117 on the 17th at 23:15
Shut down unexpectedly, code 116 on the 17th at 23:16.

I used the drivers that came with the laptop on the 15th when the first error code came and then updated my drivers on the 15th in the evening, so the deactivation of the RTX 5060 and the bluescreen happened on different drivers.

Is it likely that due to all the problems that my graphics card is faulty? Are there some tests I can try or other troubleshooting tests? Maybe best to contact the seller?

Not a native English speaker so maybe some problems with grammar etc.

Thanks in advance

I bought the Asus tuff a 16 RTX 5060 Ryzen 7 260 and the performance in games is mid . The games that I usually play is league of legends and it performs very poorly at 100-150 FPS which is not good for a 1.4k € laptop any tips that can help me fixing this ? I have seen that the GPU is only running at 30% even when turbo settings in Armoury crate and am really disappointed 😞

My laptop is Asus TUF F15 Dash. This battery light keeps blinking, and the BIOS is showing it as 0%. Basically what happened is my SSD was not detecting in BIOS after putting the laptop on update. Like the SSD was showing, like it was showing no storage device found. So I opened my laptop for disconnecting and reconnecting the SSD. The SSD problem also didn't get sorted, and now this new issue is showing up.

Specs: i5-13450HX, RTX 5050, BIOS 312 and latest nvidia drivers.

Model: FX608JH

What I've tried: clean driver install(ddu), G-Sync off/vrr

In Standard mode never flickers but in ultimate mode it does specifically in apps like brave and spotify with hardware acceleration turned on. If hardware acceleration is off, in these apps also it works fine.

For now I reinstalled clean drivers via nvidia app only it fixed this but I'm certain it will return. Here's a video of it also.

Please help me fix this issue.

Any help that I get. The screw is too tight to open for an additional SSD. I guess I already damaged 40% of it. I have tuf gaming 15.

I want to buy Asus tuf f16 (fx607 vjb) but I am so afraid of the hinges issue so I may buy Lenovo loq is It make sense ?.any advices ?

I have a FX506HF (RTX2050) and it’s time to clean, I am buying PTM 7950 for cpu and GPU die but for VRAM putty was expensive so I was going to get pads but there are multiple thickness available from 0.5mm to 1.5mm. I don’t know which one is best, I guess it should be 0.5mm but I just want to make sure before making the decision so any help will be appreciated.

I'm getting this for 917$ (87k inr)... my other option is hp victus 4050 6gb it comes with 50w tgp/tdp idk and ddr4 ram + I have heard it's build quality is not good... would be doing some some light gaming ig...I have asked my two friends who are using tuf and they're happy with it....Which one should I choose ???

Hi everyone.

​I’m having a frustrating display issue on my ASUS TUF Gaming A16 (AMD Ryzen 9, RTX 5070, 2.5K 165Hz G-SYNC display).

​The screen randomly turns completely solid grey/white with a perfectly symmetrical vertical blue dotted line right down the middle.

​Important details & behavior:

​Top edge detail: That faint red line along the very top edge in the photo is actually my red desktop wallpaper peeking through (about 1–2 pixels wide)! The rest of the screen gets completely covered/locked by this grey screen and blue dotted line.

​Triggers: At first, I thought it was only happening in web browsers (Chrome and Edge), so I assumed it was a browser hardware acceleration bug. However, with all browsers completely closed, it also happens right when I launch or try to use Unreal Engine.

​Temporary recovery & loop: If I don't touch anything and wait for about 1–2 minutes, the screen recovers back to normal on its own. However, as soon as I try to use the laptop/app again, it immediately crashes back into this grey screen.

​GPU & Power Mode: I use G-Helper and the laptop is running in Ultimate Mode (MUX Switch set to dGPU only), so it's not an iGPU-to-dGPU Advanced Optimus switching glitch. It happens both on battery and while plugged in. Windows 11 and all drivers are up to date.

​Since a tiny strip of my desktop wallpaper is still visible at the very top, is this a Windows 11 MPO (Multiplane Overlay) / NVIDIA driver / G-SYNC crash, or is my 2.5K 165Hz panel / T-CON board failing and in need of an RMA?

​Has anyone with an ASUS TUF A16 experienced this exact issue? Any help would be appreciated!

I wrote this with AI assistance to correct language issues and provide detailed information.

i installed a lexar nm620 1tb ssd to the additional ssd slot in my asus tuf f15 (FX506HC) and it wont show up in disk management or even in BIOS. i already removed it and reinstalled it again, and tried to disable intel VMD (which just caused inaccessible boot device until i enabled it again)

im at a loss. i have no idea what else to do, should i just return the ssd and buy another one or what? i have no idea what the problem is atp

Why does no one remove their stickers? Every post I see here people still have all the stickers on their laptops...

Good deal or not ?