Recent content by jeffreediamond

I posted a thread about it already but basically I’m getting a black screen when I turn the machine on. All the lights turn on and it seems to work but there is no picture, and I tried hooking it up to an external monitor and still nothing. I’ve thought that maybe it’s the HDD cause usually it...

So I’m 99% sure my GPU in my laptop (Asus k53e) died. I’ve spent hours on google and talking to tech-savy friends about this, but I keep getting different answers. Is the Intel HD 3000 graphics GPU an actual part of the CPU or is it on the motherboard? Would replacing the CPU fix my problem or...

So this issue started a few days ago. I put my laptop (ASUS K53E, a bit old) to sleep, nothing I haven’t done before. Later when I tried turning it on the screen stayed black, but the machine was obviously powered on. I can hear the fans, and the DVD player seems to spin a few times. The only...

So I'm looking for a new laptop and a certain one has caught my eye. It's an ASUS X750LN. And I was wondering if it would be any good in gaming (I mostly just play the sims (3,4) and I have all expansion and stuff packs so it gets pretty heavy (simmers will know what I'm talking about). So it...