Wow, no help from anyone. :( Well, I did "re-discover" the sleep mode. The notebook springs to life mighty quickly from that. Using that is a nice patch solution until I figure out the problem. Right now, I'm thinking that because sleep mode works, it must be a failing motherboard battery ...

daroca, you put 16 gb of ram into a system that takes a maximum of 8? All 16 show up in Windows? Are you positive the system uses all of it? I have the UH572 which lists a max ram of 8 yet the processor (64 bit Intel® Core™ i5-3317U) lists 32 gb as its maximum and the 64 bit operating system can als...

This computer suddenly started freezing on startup and taking 5 minutes to boot to Windows. I have updated the bios (1.1.1.0), restored default settings, made sure the hdd had 1st boot priority, updated all drivers, virus scans, and registry cleanup. The Fujitsu diagnostic utility in the boot menu r...