Recent content by nCoherent1

WOW it took me a month to figure this out... It started with the computer randomly freezing resulting in a required hard reboot...this brought me to forum after forum after forum....yada yada i have a dv7 3165dx hp laptop...for most hp dv series you can fix your overheating laptop (usually...

seems like the only solution for overheating a laptop GPU chip is to custom cool it....period.

It's one of three resulting lockups, but they all have the same characteristic (computer has to be physically restarted) BSOD (with no error code, just a blue screen) Blank black screen Black screen with vertical lines

Is it possible the GPU (not CPU) is simply overheating while playing graphics heavy games? ...causing sometimes BSOD or total system lockup in the form of a blank black screen or dark screen with vertical lines, forcing me to have to hold power button down to turn off then back on. GPU...