Asus Zenbook UX302LG Owners Lounge

Hi
I'm new to this forum!
About a 15 months ago I bought this laptop (8 gig RAM, win 8, 750 HDD). Since I live in Iran and only a few of these laptops were imported (less than 10 I think!) no one knows about it very much. even in ASUS support center, people didn't know that an ultra book with dedicated graphics exist in Iran.
To cut the story short, I should say that since I bought this laptop, even though I have enjoyed its performance as well as its beauty, I have a serious problem with it: Yesterday was the second time that may HDD failed in a year!!!
Both of the times ASUS changed it free of charge, but I lost many data on em and I'm like, Why?!?! Why a HDD should fail after just three month, and again, after a year?!?
I'm a student of engineering and also a bit of perfectionist, and as I save a whole lot of money to buy this laptop, I just take care of it as best as I could and its really frustrating to see this problem, twice! I should also mention that both of times the failure was very hard and sudden, and I couldn't recover any data (although I didn't try very hard).
Does any one have any problem like me? Do you have any idea why this is happening? isn't it because of overheating?
I tend to use it for rendering and also for intesitive tasks such as realtime image processing and etc so it gets hot a lot. sometimes I have to leave the work in a hurry so I just pack my (hot) laptop and get going. maybe it can mess it up or something?
P.S. Because of sanctions, It took two month for the first HDD replacement! Iran's ASUS support center didn't have

 

Hi, any luck on this? I've also bought a 4k Monitor and can only do 30Hz through the mini-Displayport connection... (XPS13 works fine at 60Hz with same mini-Displayport cable, same monitor)

Weedfin

 

Hi,
i bought a new SSD, Samsung 850Evo 250GB , made a clean WIN10 Install.
now when i try to put the zenbook to sleep, it shuts down instead!
even when closing the lid.

any ideas?
tnx.

 

Right click your battery symbol at the bottom right of the screen and open your power options, on the left you can modify behavior (it's profile specific so you have to change it for the power profiles you use like balanced and high performance).

 

this was the first thing i have checked.
"When i close the lid" option is set to Sleep, on battery and when paged in.
but it still shuts down instead

 

Have you made sure it's set for the right power profile.

 

its on "High Performance", i double checked the settings. its supposed to go to sleep when i close the lid.

i noticed that when i close the lid it looks like it goes to sleep, cause the power button led starts blinking.
but when i open up the lid fully, it boots from scratch instead of waking up.

maybe its a driver/bios issue?

 

If you can take a backup, try a restore of the original install and see if it happens.

 

Hi everyone from Russia!
I bought UX302LG ultrabook in November 2014. A mounth ago i'm decided to upgrade RAM from built-in 2Gb to 8Gb. Before ordering a memory i'm searching for information about compatible RAM stick and found this thread. In first message was a list of compatible sticks where also was Kingston KVR16LS11/8 stick. So, i'm bought this stick and replace it instead of onboard SK Hynix. Laptop turn on and load a Windows 10, buth then a problems started. When CPU load on more than 50% system crashes with a noise on display (look photos). I'm testing a Kingston stick with MemTest86 for about 40 minutes and everything was fine. No crashes, no noise on display. But when i'm boot Windows 10 the probles stared again. After 2 days i'm replaced a Kingston stick to Crucial CT102464BF160B stick. And everyting goes fine! Windows 10 works perfectly.
The question is why a Kingston stick works fine during the MemTest86 testing, and crashing the system, when i'm booted Windows 10.

 

hey guys,
Does anyone know if you can upgrade the graphics card on the UX302LG? I have already maxed out RAM with an 8GB stick, the min SATA and full SSD have been upgraded also. Still looking for more juice to render films with and the Nvidia 730M graphics card seems like the weak link. Any other options?

 

Hi, did you ever figure this problem out? I've been having the same problem on mine after a clean install of Win 10. I'm guessing it's a chipset driver problem, but Asus doesn't do a great job of keeping their driver page up to date. Now, the computer never wakes up and restores my windows from before, just starts from scratch.

Thanks!

 

No, it's soldered on.

 

First of all, it's great to find a thread about the UX302! Now that my warranty is off, it's my only help

Something I don't understand here, is the UX302 need those both hardrives to be installed? or can I use only the SSD in 2.5 bay for the laptop needs?

 

You can use either or both. You could even find a larger capacity half sized msata and use it as a bit drive, if you want.

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Those msata drives malfunction all the time :/ that's the second one i'm replacing now. So that's the cause for the q - can i use only the ordinary SSD drive without the msata

 

Yes, just replace it and install Windows as normal. Then you can just format the msata and use it as a regular drive or remove it completely.

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Just wanted to update from the last post... msata are s**t! Replaced it to one new Samsung EVO and it's all fine now!