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[Tordin]

Not sure if its much help but try cleaning it for dust. I got help with that and ohoy my laptop runs MWO like a charm again!

[Tarl Cabot]

Tordin, on 29 April 2017 - 03:21 PM, said:

Not sure if its much help but try cleaning it for dust. I got help with that and ohoy my laptop runs MWO like a charm again!

Yeap, his description made it sound as if a desert was created from the dust from his laptop

[Tier5 Kerensky]

A GPU doesn't overheat in instant.

So Im guessing the GPU is permanently broken. It's typical a GPU can work either with default drivers or even it's own drivers on desktop, and fail when used on 3D graphics mode.

Sure you can try cleaning up dust but I would not expect anything to make a difference.

Weak PSU should just give up so that the computer "shuts down".

[Napoleon_Blownapart]

you can try a hardware monitoring program like HWINFO64 and see cpu heat and fan speed and gpu heat.

[Dragoon20005]

Marauder3D, on 28 April 2017 - 09:59 AM, said:

And as a dad of two young kids, no budget for a new rig. I think the problem is the Dell power supply. It's a 450, and the computer works until I load any game, and then fans start going crazy and the screen goes to black.

System is a dell XPS 7100 1055T I got back in 2011 (IIRC)

Should I get a new power supply on amazon like a corsair 650, or should I not throw good money after bad?

Halp! Must get mech fix!

did you manage to find the problem?

is the PC able to boot up?

[Marauder3D]

Update! My pic was diagnosed with a dead motherboard and fritzing out power supply. So the good news is, getting a new computer. Looking at a Digital Storm Vanquish 6. I found out I qualified for 0% interest, so 120 a month sounds damn reasonable to me!!!

[Dragoon20005]

Marauder3D, on 09 May 2017 - 11:40 AM, said:

Update! My pic was diagnosed with a dead motherboard and fritzing out power supply. So the good news is, getting a new computer. Looking at a Digital Storm Vanquish 6. I found out I qualified for 0% interest, so 120 a month sounds damn reasonable to me!!!

as much i will suggest getting a pre built PC

Digital Storm PC are way overpriced when comparing other system builders

CyberPowerPC are more value oriented and the parts are from off the shelf parts and bang for the buck

they come with warranty for the whole tower in case of any issues