Posts by saugen48

The crinkly paper description of the screen makes it sound like the LCD itself..you just might be able to find a non working machine with good lcd on Ebay for cheap

Once you get it going, if you have hibernate or sleep activated...turn them off...cause nothing but grief..if you want to shut the laptop down..dont do it by closing the lid..take an extra second and power down(shut down) via the Start...

Once you make sure it is cleaned really well as mentioned above...unplug it...remove the battery...hold the power button down for a min...replace battery, replace a/c power and try booting it up again...

Maybe the screen resolution is out of whack

As you mentioned it certainly is cheaper buy a replacement backlight and inverter than a whole LCD...and you are not out that much if thats not it,,,

I too have the G74SX and I get a notice for ASUS update that there is an update to install and it is the BIOS update..however when clicking on it , there is a warning that the BIOS file version does not match the BIOS ROM version. Click...

How old is the battery...that's how the batteries go, one minute they are good, next, toast.....

In your google searches, did you see this: ((http://smokeys.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/windows-vista-usb-device-detection-problems-how-to-fix/))

If the Dolby Advanced V2 Audio is part of the original package, then, if you were to restore by using your restore disks that you made, you would have it back as the laptop would be in the same condition as when you bought it...Or, if...

No. formatting will completely erase your HDD