The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation
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The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #7 of 25, reached on Oct 30, 10:19 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 10:19 UTC.
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This article contains a lot of knowledge. I managed to reverse engineer some of my laptop's features but I hit a wall when I reached this ACPI stuff. Managed to extract the tables and decompile code but there was nothing useful in there. The firmware situation is pretty embarrassing. These hardware manufacturers…
mjg (who has a long background in the area) dropped some helpful explanation in a comment on this article on the orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282069
Absolutely. I'm sure this will enlighten many and help put pressure where it needs. The best would be if laptop reviewers are now able to test for correctness (over gaming benchmarks for a change) – just look at smoking guns like LatencyMon. If not, competent customers like us will have to exercise our customer…
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#7 on Lobsters · Hottest, on Oct 30, 10:19 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.
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It was first seen on Oct 30, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (1 check) since.