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JollyJoker
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posted February 12, 2010 07:37 AM |
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A laptop of mine recently died of overheating. Not only dies the graphics adapter due to heat, the damage was so extensive that the slot in the main board was charred (separate card).
In this case it seemed to have been something of a general constructional error with the hole machine, not cooling things enough, but, yes, definitely. The graphics adapter can die from the heat of running graphics intensive software.
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posted February 12, 2010 09:30 AM |
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Well, I know that overheating can damage a card. I guess what I'm asking is: all other things being equal, is simply running a piece of software sufficient to overheat a card to the point where it can be damaged?
The reason is: I recently installed Dragon Age on my laptop. I was playing it for a few days and then my video card died. I just had the video card replaced today (under warranty, thankfully). The paranoid part of me is wondering whether running Dragon Age was what killed it, or if that was just a coincidence. The computer ran the game OK at medium settings.
It is possible, yes, but it's not supposed to be possible. There should be several securities (easily removed ) that auto shut down when the card reaches to high temperature. Then either the GPU shuts down, or the whole computer. Thing is that laptops are so compact that some of the temperature measuring is faulty, because the heat spreads from the different parts of the computer to quickly.
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posted February 12, 2010 11:29 AM |
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Laptops in general these days are faulty buildt............
Lets see:
*Bad parts(can not withstand enough wear and tear)
*Low battery life
*Hack style BIOS && faults
*Special OS hack drivers for proper power management
*Not properly balanced fans, which is the most importent component
*The general build of the cooling system
*And more
For good quality we got Macbooks, Studio XPS or what its called, and maybe some unknown brands......
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posted February 12, 2010 11:35 AM |
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Exactly my point, and often this bad quality "overrides" the security system that shut down the computer.
But in theory, there shouln't be any damages due to overheating.
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posted February 12, 2010 11:45 AM |
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When the base system itself is not good, theory does never equal practice.
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posted February 12, 2010 01:14 PM |
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but I shall wait for official release of speccy rather than a beta
There really isn't anything there to "mess up". All it does is label your parts and give temperatures for some of them. I can't see the real release being any different.
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posted February 12, 2010 02:35 PM |
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You live on the wild side, don't cha Phoenix 
come to think of it, I wonder if anyone has ever had any issues with betas...being unable to uninstall properly comes to mind...maybe
[btw I installed MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (based on some other recommendations in earlier pages) on top of my AVG & made AVG resident shield ignore certain MBAM files as per some technical notes I read, so I hope that's extra protection for me without any particular additional problems ]
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posted February 12, 2010 03:29 PM |
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Well basically I want to know if I can reinstall the software and run it. I don't want to kill the replacement card. 
My old laptop had some overheating problems late in its life. When it overheated, it just shut off with no warning. I determined it was because the fans had too much dust in them and they weren't running properly. Vacuuming out everthing solved the problem.
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posted February 12, 2010 03:38 PM |
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You should be able to, but it may keep shutting down. You'll just have to let it cool down before playing again(had the same problem with Mass Effect).
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posted February 23, 2010 07:06 PM |
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Well, a little piece of advice for overheating problems: You can put some book in order to lift the laptop a little up. Ofc it doesn't mean it hasn't to be repaired or something ... it just helps a lot but the effect won't last for ages.
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posted April 01, 2010 06:13 PM |
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Win 7: I did a system restore that I didn't need to do. It said it couldn't fix anything or change. Afterward I fixed the issue by another method. Did I mess anything up?
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posted April 01, 2010 09:15 PM |
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No. If it said it was unable to restore the computer to an earlier time it did not make changes. If you have fixed the problem now you may want to create a restore point so you'll have a good one to restore to in case you need it in the future.
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posted April 01, 2010 09:33 PM |
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posted April 02, 2010 01:48 AM |
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What?
I thought if the system restore gave me an error something might be wrong with the computer.
Seems ok, thanks elodin.
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posted April 24, 2010 11:08 PM |
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I want to delete everything on my hard drive (no not porn ).
My reason being is that i plan to upgrade my computers to windows 7 and to be honest... The last time i the computer i am typing this message on right now was last summer. It was only 33% full. now it is 75% full and we haven't installed anything new. just clutter cluttering up. I believe that installing drivers would be easier on a blank harddrive and i need the clutter gone.
any idea on if this will work as intended?
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posted April 26, 2010 02:09 AM |
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I am not entirely sure what you are asking.
Before you wipe yout hard drive make sure you copy whatever data you want to keep onto DVDs or an external drive or whatever.
Most computers have a partition that will restore them to factory specs. You can find a reference to it under "all programs" if it exists on yours. Or your computer may have come with discs or may have prompted you to make discs when you first got your computer.
Rather than buying an upgrade from VISTA to Windows 7 I would recommend buying a full copy of windows 7. There are usually fewer problems with a full version than an upgrade version.
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posted April 26, 2010 09:45 AM |
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Cleaning up the partition table and formating the HD fresh would may or may not do anything useful.
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posted April 26, 2010 11:38 PM |
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Well its not vista I'd be upgrading from... its actually XP sp2 (modified slightly to work on the motherboard which had compatibility issues)
And its terrible. i cannot defragment the HD, Windows stopped automatically updating, downloads sometimes terminate themselves, using the add/remove program feature doesn't work. plus there are numerous antispyware stuff lying around from failed attempts to remove a fake antivirus.
Plus i plan on getting a new sound card and video card.
I was simply assuming that I'd get better performance off of a PC with a cleaner Hard drive. i simply want it to be in a state where it requires an OS.
would i be better off taking it to a professional?
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posted April 27, 2010 05:13 AM |
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I think you should be able to handle the format/reinstall yourself. Did you look and see if you have an option to restore the computer to factory specs? Also, what is the Manufacturer and model numbe of your computer? If you use Google you can search for the manufacturer and model number of your computer and probably find a support website that walks you through doing what you want to do.
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posted April 27, 2010 01:51 PM |
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And its terrible. i cannot defragment the HD, Windows stopped automatically updating, downloads sometimes terminate themselves, using the add/remove program feature doesn't work. plus there are numerous antispyware stuff lying around from failed attempts to remove a fake antivirus.
Which you where not suppose to let happen, but then again its Windows so its not your fault. So anyhow you got a infested nest of doom lieing there.
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I was simply assuming that I'd get better performance off of a PC with a cleaner Hard drive. i simply want it to be in a state where it requires an OS.
Wipe the partition table(from a live OS of some sort), do a install from the new clean HD, let 7 write a new partition table(make one).
Good as new? It won't be, but killing of a fragmented driver will partially do wonders depending on your view.
Mentally it shold work better than you think, fooling yourself is always nice.
Well, i would suggest to get down a more secure OS so the same crap won't happen again. Latest ubuntu 10.04 is coming around the corner, might be something to check out since there is nothing to lose on it.
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would i be better off taking it to a professional?
This is the most stupid thing you can do, if you first are going to do that you are suppose to be snowed regardless.
Proffesionals don't do what is needed, if they do it takes ages, or its the exception that confirms the rule of useless professional consumer support.
PS: upgrade hardware BEFORE installing new Windows, windows got a crappy driver system and some nice errors which are done on purpose when regarding swapping it.
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