Recent content by Vincent Sammel

Hi I just tore my laptop apart because it kept shutting down suddenly when applying graphical strain. So I'm guessing overheating. First I took apart the fan and it looked pretty decent - a few plastic ribs broken from the case vents might have been jamming it a bit but had very little dust and...

air flow seems fine from the side vent. while trying to listen to the sound my laptop makes i think that while it runs smoothly the component is making like a quiet whistling morse sound which shifts to an agressive grind once i start running different applications.

took this like a minute before crashing, while the buzzing sound began, also dusted the fans a bit before. the laptop is a 3 year old acer aspire 4820tg

i ran hwmonitor (just downloading it caused laptop to crash again)

the blackout - if the laptop's been running for a while and i've been trying run some applications or browsed the web, the gentle grinding noise begins to emit and then the laptop goes dead and immediatly tries to reboot itself but doesn't get beyond a blank black screen. if i press the power...

hi my laptop started dying yesterday and i'm not sure which component is the cause. basically i hear some grinding noise before it blacks out and attempts a restart (but usually fails). often some flickering on the screen accompanies the grinding. i seem to be able to run the laptop longer if...