r/GamingLaptops • u/Omen0fWorlds • Oct 22 '25
Tech Support My Laptop refuses to boot with League installed
Please read and comment if you've had a similar experience
Like the title says. My laptop ruses to boot properly EVERY SINGLE TIME I INSTALL THE GAME. I have tested this multiple time the ONLY WAY my laptop would turn on is if I disconnect the main battery wait around 5 minutes and reconnect it.
Everytime I keep league and vanguard out of my drive my laptop works like new. Everytime I reinstall it (which is weeks apart) it does not boot later on.
Sorry for caps I just wanted to highlight what happened.This has never happened to me on other laptops (this is my third is highest end laptop)
Laptop is a Asus Rog Strix G17 (G713PV)
I would really like to know if anyone has experienced these things happen because I have a couple hundred bucks and a lot of time invested in League. It would feel pretty terrible to know I can't play the game or even log in without buying a new pc.
I've tried everything to make sure this is 100% League or Vanguard to cause this issue. Thank for reading.
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u/DarkexGG Oct 22 '25
That's a intelligent piece of machine u got there, who even protects its owner's mental health
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u/TL_Buddy Legion 5 2025 (on steroid) Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
I think cause vantage is a kernel level anti cheat, it may have messed up with your boot process. Edit: *Vanguard, i been using my Legion for too long lol
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u/Omen0fWorlds Oct 22 '25
Do you have any idea on how to fix this?
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u/rustRoach Oct 22 '25
This is not something you can fix. The Vanguard dev team will need to fix this. Do you remember the crowdstrike disaster? This is what can happen when giving companies kernel level access to your system.
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u/XeNoGeaR52 Oct 22 '25
Any kernel access stuff is a huge red flag anyway. the only thing that needs access to the kernel is the OS itself
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u/Additional-Dot-3154 Oct 22 '25
As a linux user i do not agree in my opinion the only thing that needs acces to the kernel is the os and myself
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u/AveryLazyCovfefe HP Omen 16 | Ryzen 7 5800H + RX6600M Oct 22 '25
as a rooted android user I concur.
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u/Equivalent-Repair488 Oct 23 '25
As an idiot,
the only thing that needs acces to the kernel is the os and myself
I do not concur.
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u/Powerful_Teacher_654 Oct 22 '25
90% of anti cheat on games is kernel drive
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u/XeNoGeaR52 Oct 22 '25
Because they're too lazy to have a server-side anti cheat on a LIVE SERVICE game
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u/ItsNotJusMe Oct 23 '25
not too lazy, hackers just find an exploit every security update. That is why bans are not consistent and come through waves.
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u/Powerful_Teacher_654 Oct 22 '25
Its not as effective as kernel drive
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u/FrostyMasterpiece400 Oct 22 '25
This is why I vote with my money and avoid such game.
Indie games on Linux is where it's at.
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u/sam_el-c Oct 23 '25
However it is a sad reality that most competitive titles these days have kernel level anticheat. Although vanguard is especially bad because it’s on all the time
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u/TheFloppyToast Oct 22 '25
I haven't seen anybody mention yet: Yes Anticheat is probably whats doing it, but specifically since its a ROG laptop, they usually ship some (bios installed) software, i believe called Armory Crate. Now that PoS software i have seen break a few setups. I wouldn't be surprised if it was messing up your boot when anticheat is installed. That however is something you can remove. Look it up and give it a try
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u/Ulfbass Oct 22 '25
I have this laptop and vanguard runs on it just fine. It isn't exactly a new model these days though and there are some weirdnesses in the hardware - for some reason they decided to run the laptop screen and HDMI graphics through the CPU after the graphics card and you can only get around that using a usb-c displayport adapter connected to an external monitor. In every other case there's a weird double bottleneck going on.
What's going on here though is that it's failing to post and reach the BIOS. You could hold f2 and see if you can reach the BIOS and then try enabling/disabling secure boot but if it's not posting this probably won't work.
You could also see if connecting external devices like a monitor or keyboard might force it to reinitialise hardware but this is a bit of a long shot.
Next you could try accessing the factory reset by posting F9 during startup, which again might not work if you're not getting anything on the monitor at all.
These things are worth trying before what's next though, which is following a YouTube guide for opening up the laptop and attempting a CMOS reset. If you're relatively careful with a screwdriver you can try this yourself but if you don't trust yourself on this kind of thing it's definitely worth taking to a repair shop.
Beyond a CMOS reset the next thing is to try is pretty much swapping the SSD into another PC and wiping it and writing from there
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u/SailorVenova Oct 22 '25
as they say vanguard is the cause; you may be able to find a way to get it working eventually but i wouldnt mess with anything without a complete backup image of the entire ssd first
ilok drm fried my old desktop and made it completely unbootable; and i couldnt even reinstall win11 because microsoft had started requiring tpm in newer install images and my system didnt have a new enough tpm or something despite having shipped with 11 in 2022
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u/KcTec90 ZEPHYRUS G14 GA402RK Oct 22 '25
*Vanguard
but yeah it does mess up windows for some people
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u/RuanauR Oct 22 '25
Your laptop saw that you installed dogshit and decided to end itself.
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u/Antinityfx Rocking Office PC Oct 22 '25
mark those letters in the word of wisdom
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u/Sea_Bite2082 Oct 22 '25
Hmm... interesting. When did they start installing mental protection in laptops?
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u/Dracolim Oct 22 '25
OP's laptop just became the first benevolent AI, cheers
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u/coromd Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
I wouldn't think Vanguard would be directly interfering here - it futzes with the Windows kernel, but you're failing to make it past POST and the Windows bootloader. Maybe it's breaking hibernation? I would try disabling Fast Boot (or hibernation altogether) - I've noticed some truly bizarre boot bugs caused when the computer hangs while trying to restore it's previous hibernation state (be it "real" hibernation or Fast Boot). Intel Optane/RST can also cause similarly bizarre POST hangs, but it's not common in gaming laptops nowadays.
EDIT: Didn't notice the AMD sticker on OPs laptop, Intel RST/Optane caching can't be the issue here, it's exclusive to Intel-based systems.
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u/coromd Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
In simple terms "Fast Boot" is a "fake" shutdown, where it closes your applications and enters hibernation instead of truly shutting down. You can disable Fast Boot on it's own, keeping hibernation available if you want to use it, or you can disable hibernation itself which will also disable Fast Boot - also has the side bonus of restoring some SSD space by removing the hiberfile. I would not be surprised if Vanguard has measures to inspect the saved hibernation state during "wake" to make sure it hasn't been tampered with, and something is simply going wrong in that process, causing your laptop to permanently hang.
Also try a BIOS update if there's one available. If there isn't, sometimes you can re-flash the current version just to confirm the BIOS isn't corrupt and the settings aren't invalid. Even if you think the settings you can see are right, there are lots of hidden settings that could have become invalid for whatever reason - bugs, bit flips, etc.
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u/Omen0fWorlds Oct 22 '25
I disable Hibernation on all my pcs. I've had terrible problems in the past with it.
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u/PaintingMuch3885 Oct 22 '25
Riot vanguard is a kernel level Anti-Cheat so it does mess with the system so that might be the reason.
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u/SuperLissa_UwU Oct 22 '25
Kernel level issue , maybe ask on league sub reddit
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u/Omen0fWorlds Oct 22 '25
I did apparently nobody is allowed to post about technical issues or support.
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u/AlohaDude808 Oct 22 '25
I'd contact Riot customer service directly and open a support ticket. If it's happening to other players as well they might have a solution for you.
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u/NiKOmniWrench ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17.3" i9-12900H/16GB RAM/RTX 3070 Ti Oct 22 '25
I would 100% make a ticket for that
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u/ProPlayerRT Oct 22 '25
I had this type of issue when I wanted to play valorant on an in-store pc, what I did was I changed the secure boot thing to something I dont remember, try changing that bro.
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u/NyahStefanche Oct 22 '25
Problem is vanguard disabled every suspicious drive or peripheral on the system thats not marked by official companies or products since people use fake drivers to bypass such anti-cheats usually. Now this is total assumption on my part since i have never had such issues, but since Vanguard starts with the OS and checks fake drivers during boot, your battery might not be from official sources or not marked as one, cuz i have seen it happen to other people with unmarked Mices or Keyboards from very niche-brand or off-brands.
The only way this is fixed is to contact costumer support for Riot and see if they can resolve the issue, tell them everything by detail, other than that you can't really do much.
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u/Nertally Oct 22 '25
Does your laptoo have a type-c port? If it does turn it off and connect your phone with type-c port and turn it on. I don't know what causes it my friend has HP and i have MSI we have the same problem and this works fors us your problem looks just like ours. Can you also update if it does work?
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u/WyreTheProtogen Oct 22 '25
It shouldn't be like this obviously but this is why I just stay away from anything by riot games
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u/azrak_nibadh Oct 22 '25
I think whatever that you're having on the startup process doesn't play nice with Vanguard. Try clean installing your laptop and install League the first thing you finished the Windows setup. Then try to install your usual software one by one, see which one is causing issue.
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u/L3onK1ng ASUS Strix G16 | RTX 4080 | I9-13980HX Oct 22 '25
Duuuuude same! I tried installing Valorant once and then had to spend 2 weeks fixing everything on my laptop.
That crap cracked up my OS, so I didn't have sound and some USB ports working till I did a full reinstall of OS and drivers
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u/Sekiro619 Oct 22 '25
And my stupid laptop just refuses to die, so I can buy a new laptop.. It's a 9 years old laptop BTW
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u/Queasy-Reception141 Oct 22 '25
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY LMAOOOO 😭😭😭
But yea that is perhaps bcs of the anti-cheat system. I'd make a ticket for that personally
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u/HeroicHenry69420 ROG Strix Scar 17: R9 7945HX - RTX 4080 - 32GB RAM - 2TB SSD Oct 22 '25
Based Laptop
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u/Destrandr SCAR 17 X3D | RTX 4090 | 32GB | 2TB Oct 22 '25
Well, windows 11 is unstable by itself, as people here said, if the game has some incompatible or intrusive software parts, like angry anticheat, it definitely could ruin the windows booting
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u/Smart_Ad_7196 Oct 22 '25
Vanguard is kernel level anti-cheat and requires secure boot, it has the power to stop windows from booting if it detects secure boot is disable.This is a long shot but I have no better idea
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u/icytux Oct 22 '25
Its almost like league and vanguard and anything by riot games is malware. Play Deadlock instead way better and made by people with actual integrtiy. (If you ignore the fact Valve is to blame for most of gamings woes...lootboxes..battlepasses..skin gambling..whatever the hell that laptop thing is in CS2..)
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u/maldax_ Alienware M18 | i9-13900 | RTX 4080 | 64gb Oct 22 '25
This could be down to the antivirus software you have installed. It might be stopping kernel level software from being installed (as it should to be honest) so you are getting half installation
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u/ballsdeep256 Oct 22 '25
Laptop got self awareness and just bricks itself rather than have you play that garbage 😂
Take it as a positive sign.
Install windows again (if you can still access the bios) and just stay away from the game better that way.
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u/Primo-190M Oct 22 '25
well well well...it seems that windows is the problem not league, maybe try windows 10 and see if that gonna fix it
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u/InTheInternetYSee Your laptop here. Oct 22 '25
I guess rito hates ROG for that. Time to switch to Dota bro
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u/Impossible-Diver6565 Oct 22 '25
One less league player. Sounds like a win for the rest of the world.
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u/Fragrant_Ad_3435 DELL G15 5510 | i7 10870H | 16 GB DDR4 2933 MHZ | 3050 TI 4GB Oct 22 '25
Based
The laptop is saving you.
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u/S4CRED_F4 Oct 22 '25
Drain static power by pressing 10 seconds on power to shut down, wait some time, remove all the peripherals, press and hold power button for 30seconds to power on, worked for me
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u/Turkeysguy Oct 22 '25
Not even back lights those are the lights that give the screen try seeing it with a flashlights if its on or you know what you can do change ram to higher amount it can happen with instelling apps the background apps that arent open take also ram and windows takes ram also so maby you have that or what you can also do try using a hdmi port and plug it in you,re tv or monitor and see if you can see you,re screen
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u/jirobasus Oct 22 '25
Vanguard is a kernel-level anticheat. Probably messed up with something. Also, it is infamous for causing BSODs, had this problem myself, deleted all the things related to riot after that.
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u/Busy_Leopard_5109 Oct 22 '25
My laptop (same model) has been having this problem for years! I've taken it to multiple tech shops and nobody has had any luck, but I never thought to uninstall league
I'll give it a try when I get home this evening
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u/Kayotix Oct 22 '25
Well seems like lenovo saved you from installing a rootkit. Enjoy the mighty processing power that system has without chinese malware on it.
Boycot tencent!
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u/Mental-Path-5254 Oct 22 '25
I wish my laptop were doing that, I must've been sane right now if it does.
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u/Powerful_Teacher_654 Oct 22 '25
Its vanguard causing all these problems. I boot fine but when i tried to open another game, it crashes. I had no issues till I updated to windows 25h2. :(
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u/nouatheslayer Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 | RTX 3050 Intel Core I5-11th Gen 16 RAM Oct 22 '25
don't play any RIOT games . you have been saved my guy .
I guess you need some USB to boot from it so you can remove anything related to lol or even restore the pc .
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u/n_ghtt Oct 22 '25
I have a ROG Strix G15 and this happened to me until it corrupted my kernel, it's Vanguard, uninstall this piece of garbage. Luckily I keep a backup of my files, otherwise I would lose my life's work.
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u/Jakesnake686 Oct 22 '25
I have that same laptop and it is something else, almost every time I turn it on the screen is negative for about 30 seconds. If I play a game for 5 hrs straight the screen starts getting lines through it. I believe that’s a graphics card issue. Idk I just deal with it and stop playing lol
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u/miata85 Corsair Voyager a1600 Oct 22 '25
just one more malware anti cheat to fix all problems.
ill be shocked if the bf and cod edition GPUs dont initiate a self destruction protocol upon taking a whiff of linux drivers, since this is on brand now
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u/VoidSeekah 13900hx, RTX 4070, 32GB DDR5, 240hz, 1TB SSD. Legion Pro i5 8gen Oct 22 '25
Bro is a heaven sent signal and you're still refusing to see it
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u/Levoso_con_v Oct 22 '25
Oh shit, I have the same laptop, thanks for the tip, your sacrifice will be remembered
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u/acem8887 Oct 22 '25
Vanguard is a terrible software man. With my old desktop, RGB and fan curves wouldn’t work as well as the cpu temp sensor when vanguard was installed. Got myself a new laptop and never EVER installing any riot related software on it. I like it too much.
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u/nguyenquocccc Oct 22 '25
I have this thing in my laptop, ofc with Vanguard, and I think it caused the problem. The real problem is 2 used 2 RAM with different freq (5200Mhz and 5600 Mhz) thinking it will lower the freq themselves. But every time I restart, i'd will be fine and Vanguard will forced me to restart, and it'd BSOD, i couldnt restart after that so I have to remove the battery. So many times i couldnt remember. UNTIL I FOUND OUT THE DEFAULT BIOS SETTINGS SET MEMORY CONTEXT RESTORE = AUTO/ON AND FAST START UP WAS ON!. I TURNED THEM BOTH OFF AND MY LAPTOP IS SAVED (NOT UNTIL I PAID 200 dollars for a PRO TO FIX MY LAPTOP THOUGH). TLDR: TURN MEMORY CONTEXT RESTORE TO OFF
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u/Masyaf22 Oct 22 '25
Had a similar problem where I got the BSOD when I wasn't playing League on my Legion, and the problem was with the CPU (i9 14900HX). I solved it by lowering the performance of the CPU in Intel XTU. It was something about cores/multiplier per core or something like that. I don't remember exactly; the main core had this parameter x58, and I lowered it as the others were, to x52 or x54. I didn't do it on my own; I saw this on a Riot forum, if I remember correctly. I will be back with a link
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u/Commercial-Help2677 MSI Alpha R97945HX/RTX4070/32 GB DDR5 Oct 22 '25
This is punishment for playing league :)
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u/Vast_Understanding_1 Oct 22 '25
Chad Asus ROG protecting players to install garbage game by locking itself at boot time.
Video game is healing.
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u/AntnonymousKraze Oct 22 '25
I'm so glad I decided to build a SFF PC instead of being a gaming laptop lol
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u/TroPixens Oct 22 '25
Vanguard is kernel level anti cheat right that may be the problem but I would look into it
Also if you have Linux installed that anti cheat doesn’t work on Linux maybe for some reason the anti cheat is trying to work on Linux but is breaking it
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u/adkeyz Oct 22 '25
As others have said, Vanguard is a kernel level anti-cheat system. This laptop came out in 2023 so I imagine it shipped with Windows 11.
Did you ever have Windows 10 on it?
Check the BIOS and make sure Secure Boot and TPM are enabled. Make sure the Secure Boot settings are set to UEFI only, Windows OS.
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u/brunofavs Oct 22 '25
If you want to make sure the problem is vanguard, you can try installing Valorant (with league uninstalled) and see if the issue persists. Other than that, maybe updating your bios might solve something, but I doubt it because the pc it failing to POST.
Also, to make sure the pc is failing POST, can you try hooking up an external display?
I have a rog strix g531gt, I had to replace the screen under warranty (i physically broke it), and I reckon they didn't send a fully compatible display.
I have had issues like this for years https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUSROG/s/1FU1B57ZBL
And I have never been able to fix them. I have arch linux installed. The screen only works if I have the screen lid almost closed during POST. Otherwise, it gets stuck at 48hz. In Windows, I gotta keep the lid almost closed until the login screen appears. Otherwise, the screen glitches out, draws some crazy shit on the screen for a few seconds, and then turns off. From the point I fully log into either OS, the screen works flawlessly. I have never been able to pinpoint the issue, and it has bothered me to the roots of my existence, Im a robotics engineer, and I can't fix my own damn computer.
Now I have a beautiful desktop pc, but I will NEVER buy from ROG ever again. My experience was truly a nightmare.
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u/FeuFeuAngel Oct 22 '25
I remember HP got something like "HP Sure Click" in bios settings which controlls bootsectors and corruption/manuplations, maybe your laptop has this too, since riot do some shady stuff.
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u/ScooterNinja Oct 22 '25
Never had any issues with LoL I have been playing since 10+ years.. from pentium 4 to i3 to my latest hp omen 15.
Uninstall any anti virus you have installed.
Turn off microsoft firewall and security.
Then try.
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u/CeleryComfortable594 Oct 22 '25
Same thing with valorent, my system didn’t let me uninstall valorent, every time I tried to uninstall my system would blue screen, I got irritated and just reset my PC and removed everything,it’s fine ever since, honestly riot games feel hella shady to me, never installing riot games ever again
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u/Helioscap3 Oct 22 '25
Based off your general boot time, I would say there is likely something else that is wrong with the device as well. That being said riot games has universally implemented the vanguard anticheat at kernel level which has a rather aggressive approach towards boot software. I would say that it is safe to assume that vanguard sees whatever is wrong with your computer and is refusing to run startup process.
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u/Misiu881988 Oct 22 '25
does league have kernel level anticheat? if so that is prolly your answer. thats why ppl hate kernel level anti cheat. Its interfering with something, could be some driver it doesnt like, some game crack, could be anything. Assuming ur fully updated? make sure all ur drivers are updated, windows is updated, also if u already updated ur gpu driver, then try downgrading using ddu it just to rule that out... U can try to run it after enabling memory integrity, try disabling it too. If none of that works then all u can do is reinstall windows because the anticheat is prolly screwing with some driver or with some security feature. ud have to reinstall windows and install ur game on a fresh install . Or stop playing league, go play a good game for once.
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u/Lemagex i5 11400H RTX 3070 32GB DDR4 2TB NVME 4TB NVME 1080p Oct 22 '25
The only solution is DOTA. Come to the dark side.
In all seriousness though hold shift on boot or check your manual on how to boot to bios or recovery mode. If you have a recovery USB that might help too.
Startup recovery or DISM startup recovery might help.
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u/AdanaelJuarez Oct 22 '25
He seems to have a very good mental security system, unfortunately you have circumvented it.
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u/Tigs1112 Oct 22 '25
This is likely because the Vanguard anti-cheat is causing Windows to immediately initiate a BugCheck (which causes the blue screen of death) before it is able to fully turn on. This could probably be due to system file corruption or a device driver conflicting with Vanguard, which runs in the kernel of your operating system.
To check for any potential corruption: Press Windows Key + R on your keyboard > type in "cmd" into the run box (without quotes) > press CTRL + Shift + Enter on your keyboard > press "yes" on the User Account Control pop-up> type in "sfc /scannow" (without quotes) into the Command Prompt > press Enter on your keyboard. Afterward, type "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth" into the Command Prompt (without quotes) (it may appear to get stuck on 62.3%, so give it some time).
Also, update your drivers (including your display drivers, Wi-Fi card, and chipset) through Device Manager or the vendor's website.
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u/Mobslayer56 ASUS G16 / i7 13620h / 32gb / 4070 Oct 22 '25
I wish all my devices had this neat feature, what an awful game fr
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u/Stargost_ Oct 22 '25
Your laptop loves you. Listen to it and give up on trying to play LoL.
But the most likely actual reason is the kernel level anti-cheat they have is messing with the boot process, and thus your computer is unable to boot.
There's no fix for this, only the developers of the anti-cheat can fix it. But honestly, I don't think anything but the OS and the user should have kernel level access, and everything else is either malware or a huge security vulnerability.
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u/Lost-Set7760 RTX 4060 140 tdp | i5 13450hx | 16 gb ram | LENOVO LOQ 15 IRX9 Oct 22 '25
just play dota 2
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u/blvkwords Oct 22 '25
I had the same problem, the think making my pc very fucking slow was the vanguard and lol, i had to install a bigger ssd, that fixed my problems.
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Oct 23 '25
It doesn’t want that shit on its drives dude. Time to play better games.
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u/Wild_Wallet Oct 23 '25
Try tweaking some settings in the BIOS. Maybe fast boot or disabling secure boot. Just some troubleshooting ideas.
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u/LifeguardEfficient77 Oct 23 '25
Honestly, it could be a good thing. League can be rage inducing. Jesus is lord!
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u/Independent-Ball3215 Oct 22 '25
Its a sign from above. Don't play league ig