Ok. So I know this laptop is notorious for sucking. But I have it. Bought it 4 years ago and it was actually a pretty bad ass laptop.
It's actually still a pretty good unit for how much I actually use it (do some music recording, general messing around, some skyrim and guild wars 2 since my desktop is down pending a motherboard swap....yeah. Didn't unplug it during a video card swap and arced out the mobi during a video card swap due to a poorly located cooling reservoir...feel free to laugh at the rookie mistake :P)
Anyways. Recently I'm getting what I believe is the GPU overheating. After an hour of more intense games or 2-3 hours of video (like YouTube) screen goes black and the sound goes garbled. With the only solution being a hard reset. Then it happens quicker the second time .etc.
I've got it on a cooling mat and that doesn't help at all. So I'm looking for any solutions to that issue and also any suggestions on how to upgrade this thing (I've got little to no experience digging in a laptop but ill try it out. Hell. I'm not sure I CAN do anything)
It's actually still a pretty good unit for how much I actually use it (do some music recording, general messing around, some skyrim and guild wars 2 since my desktop is down pending a motherboard swap....yeah. Didn't unplug it during a video card swap and arced out the mobi during a video card swap due to a poorly located cooling reservoir...feel free to laugh at the rookie mistake :P)
Anyways. Recently I'm getting what I believe is the GPU overheating. After an hour of more intense games or 2-3 hours of video (like YouTube) screen goes black and the sound goes garbled. With the only solution being a hard reset. Then it happens quicker the second time .etc.
I've got it on a cooling mat and that doesn't help at all. So I'm looking for any solutions to that issue and also any suggestions on how to upgrade this thing (I've got little to no experience digging in a laptop but ill try it out. Hell. I'm not sure I CAN do anything)
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