#“Simple Fix for Major Asus N53SN Laptop Sleep Recovery Problem”
The Asus N53SN is proving to be a great purchase. Wodges of CPU power and yet it strangely lasts a decent amount of time on battery. Unlike certain other makes, you can pop the battery out and bring a spare so it's no problem doing lots of hard-core work on the Cork-Dublin train run.
However it has had one infuriating problem since I bought it. When you wake it up after a sleep (e.g. if you close the lid) it behaves fine for 5 mins and then freezes solid. The mouse pointer still moves but nothing else works. A hard reboot is required. I updated all the drivers and even did a full Windows re-install but to no avail. I was convinced it was a video driver issue due to the mouse thing but could not get to the bottom of it. I then started to suspect it was a hardware problem.
For giggles the other day, I went googling for the problem again and ended up on the same massive owners thread as before over on notebookreview.com. But this time someone else was reporting the issue and someone had a suggestion. It was to update the Intel RST Storage Drivers. It seemed an unlikely fix and there were no updated drivers on the Asus site. But there were on the Intel site. And blummin eck, it flippin worked! The laptop has been perfect ever since. So if you have the same problem, I hope you find this post! Oh and don't bother with that stupid Intel hardware auto-detection Java tool garbage. It didn't do a thing for me.