r/ZephyrusG15

After using the laptop for around 1-2 hours , top left corner starts turning purple then it spreads to all the corners and edges what might be the issue

Just finished repasting my laptop to cool it down, and no matter what I do, I just can't get the battery cable plugged in. I dont know exactly how much pressure to put, but it will not snap in and the metal piece is much lower than the cable. The wires on the connector spark when I try to plug it in, but supposedly thats normal from what I've looked up. Somebody tell me what to do, Im lost.

My 2022 Zephyrus with the Ryzen 9 6900HS, RTX3070Ti was getting slightly warm when gaming... On games that I regularly I play like BF6, HD2 or Halo Infinite, my CPU would get up to 95-97C and the GPU would get up to 85C... So finally after building up some courage to deal with LM for the first time, I decided to get ptm7950 to give some life back to my old laptop. After removing the heatsink I realized that most of the LM at the center of the CPU had dried out, which I'm sure was the main source of the warm temps I was getting. After installing PTM7950, for both CPU and GPU, and adding new VRM thermal putty, I powered it on my laptop and tried the same games again... and GAWDAMN!!! I noticed that the temps for the CPU were at steady 80-83C and the GPU at 75C when playing the same games at High settings, and at idle it dropped from 55-60C while using the fans at max speeds to 45C with the fans set in quiet mode... I feel like I should've done this from the beginning but I was scared of the LM... overall I'm very happy with the results!!

Was literally just playing a game thats not even gpu intensive and it suddenly fades to black. I can still restart it but it dies after startup

And for some reason it only turns on when I plug the charger. I didn't even pressed the power button.

If you have any idea why this is happening Im happy to hear it in the comments!

Hello! I have a G15, about 5ish years old, that I bought new. It's my first gaming laptop and the first Windows computer that I have personally owned.

When I first got it, I knew far less about maintenance or things to avoid, so I definitely could have taken better care of it for the first couple of years. This mostly amounted to not using it on a hard surface and playing on surfaces like lap pillows or cushions. I did use Armoury Crate to monitor CPU/GPU temperatures and kind of knew what thresholds I should be monitoring.

Within the first year, I noticed how hot the laptop would get (no surprise in hindsight!) and sent it in to exercise the warranty before it was too late. I've had it elevated and on top of a cooling fan for the last 2.5-3 years, and have learned more about PCs over that time.

It has always run hot, but only had a pattern of crashing for games like Cyberpunk. Recently, I reinstalled Cyberpunk, and I’m having a hard time getting consistent performance with pretty moderate settings (definitely no ray/path tracing, utilizing DLSS/frame gen, low crowd density, and everything else at medium or lower).

I cleaned the fans yesterday and have done so periodically over the years, but I've never removed the heat sink, replaced thermal paste, or anything else. I've never built a computer or taken one apart more than removing this laptop’s chassis and cleaning the fans.

I also stress-tested it yesterday after cleaning the fans in Prime95, Furmark, and OCCT. It was my first time using OCCT, so I apologize if I didn’t capture all the relevant info (results & pics included).

Prime95 (HWiNFO64 temps): CPU maxed at 95.2 C (forgot to grab avg, probably 2-4 below)

Furmark (HWiNFO64 temps): GPU maxed at 89.2 C, averaged at 86.5 C.

**Hot Spot**: Maxed at 97.6 C, averaged at 94.4 C.

OCCT (HWiNFO64 temps): See included images for details, please.

**Memory**: Maxed at 93.9 C, averaged at 86.3 C.

**CPU + RAM**: Maxed at 94.9 C, averaged at 94.4 C.

3D Adaptive: GPU maxed at 87.1 C, averaged at 86.2 C. CPU maxed at 93.6 C, averaged at 83.4 C.

**Linpack**: Maxed at 94.9 C, averaged at 94.3 C.

**CPU**: Maxed at 94.8 C, averaged at 94.0 C.

Laptop specs: 

• Model: ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503QR_GA503QR
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics, 3301 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
• RAM: 16 GB
• VRAM: 8 GB

TLDR: I have a 5-year-old G15 that’s running hot, and I’m curious what I can do to potentially cool it down more than what I’ve already done (external cooling fan, cleaning the fans, lowering game settings, etc.)