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Posted: June 19, 2009 10:06 pm  | |||
      IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540    | Hi, So I used my laptop today to do some work. I then left it turned on with programs, microsoft word open etc and went off to watch TV. I came back an hour later aprox.... I came back on and saw that my computer clock was frozen at a time 45 minutes earlier and that my whole laptop was frozen.... I couldn't do anything, waited for a bit... then eventually held down the power button to switch my laptop off. I then tried to restart it and the power light came on... but that was it... I was faced with a black screen, none of the start-up lights came on, the caps lock light wouldn't come up when I tried, the laptop was on... but it wasn't booting up correctly.... the fan was working fine etc. I think perhaps that the laptop *may* have overheated.. never happened to me before, but apparently it happens a lot. I read somewhere that if the laptop does go over its core temperature, it will shut itself down to prevent damage to the motherboard.... Anyway I left it for 2 hours... it still won't come back on... is it still hot (not to the touch on the outside, but perhaps inside) WHAT DO I DO??? Is it due to overheating? HALP NO LAPTOP = NO WG  ~George (sadfase )  --------------------    | ||
Posted: June 20, 2009 01:09 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Group: Banned Posts: 2 Member No.: 1405 Joined: October 26, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | When that happened to me, it was because the fan had become blocked which caused the laptop to overheat and ultimately the processor to burn out. So you may want to check that your fan is in working order and your processor hasn't melted. Seek professional help. --------------------   | ||
Posted: June 20, 2009 07:10 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I sought professional help and they said the processor had died a horrible deatth So it would cost aprox. £230 pounds to fix everything. So I bought a new laptop... I'M TYPING ON IT NOW, OMG IT'S SO EPIC MUCH!! Cost me um.... £449 It's a: Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC, it runs on Vista AMD Turion Dual-Core RM-72 4GB Installed Memory The Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G So yah that's um like it um -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 20, 2009 11:09 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Sithofwookie Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2842 Member No.: 815 Joined: June 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 48 | So George, how does this make you feel? --------------------  | ||
Posted: June 21, 2009 12:12 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 |
/me vomit. --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||
Posted: June 21, 2009 02:43 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Yea, that isn't exactly a -great- laptop, but it will definitely do fine, especially for RS. The only two things I see are that you only have a dual-core CPU; These days, you want a quad-core. Graphics wise, its hard to get something great in a laptop, and well, it could be worse. Just don't plan to run Crysis at max detail on it. -Robbie -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: June 21, 2009 10:31 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I know it's not amazing.... but I don't need it to be amazing, i wasn't prepared to spend an extra £300-500 to get an amazing one. I don't need it. All I need it for is scape, internetz, storage of music + pics/films/vids + school work  -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 21, 2009 06:59 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Banned Posts: 2 Member No.: 1405 Joined: October 26, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap No huge fan of Compaq but seriously a duo core and a GeForce 8 series video card @ £449 is fucking sweet for that money  Actually it's average but hey, atleast I was right about the dead processor  -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 22, 2009 12:16 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
Quad core in a laptop Robbie? You'll burn your lap with the heat that comes off those things. You really don't need alot of power for average applications. I was considering getting one of those little netbooks just to have around and then maybe a desktop if I needed power. I've decided I only really benefit greatly from having huge amounts of processing power when I'm doing video conversion. My 2GHz core 2 duo laptop runs at full tilt for 24 hours to re-encode a 2 hour length of blu ray video. My buddy's i7 takes about 8 hours to do the same work with all 8 threads maxed out. --------------------   | ||
Posted: June 22, 2009 05:12 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | How do i check how long my battery will last for at my current power plan? I can't find it anywhere -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 22, 2009 11:05 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 | Should be a battery symbol down by the clock etc? hover your mouse over that if its there. -------------------- Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||
Posted: June 23, 2009 09:30 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I hover over the battery and it just tells me my current power plan and that it's charging on 100% I've clicked on it and looked through all the help topics on it. All I want is a rough estimation of aprox. how long this battery will last off charge -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 23, 2009 11:07 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 |
Having the power cord unplugged when you do that should help. It can't tell you how long it will last if you've got it plugged in, lol -------------------- Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||
Posted: June 24, 2009 06:18 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | Still no luck -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 25, 2009 12:24 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | unplug it and get out the stop watch? -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 25, 2009 05:52 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | *attacks Georgio* -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 25, 2009 08:19 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: ThisIsUnique Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1664 Member No.: 1417 Joined: October 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 141 | ok gorge, 3 simple steps to reparation 1) make sure ur pc's power is off and open it 2) Look for the thing that causes the problem 3) now carefully look if you can get it out and RIP IT OUT. Use a hammer to smash it and thell the pc store it was like that when when u got it. if you dont get a new one, go nd rob the place --------------------   | ||
Posted: June 25, 2009 09:47 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | ... -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 26, 2009 10:19 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: ThisIsUnique Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1664 Member No.: 1417 Joined: October 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 141 | sorry gorge if you cant fix it bring it in a pc store, easy before you break anything else -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 26, 2009 10:26 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE. Laptop battery monitor. Try dis. http://download.cnet.com/Laptop-Battery-Mo...4-10442542.html -------------------- | ||
Posted: June 26, 2009 10:48 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Banned Posts: 2 Member No.: 1405 Joined: October 26, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Lmao @ Ludo Gorge your battery life depends on what exactly you're doing. My old laptop lasted 3-4 hours roughly doing simple apps like Word, IE, etc. but playing something like Stronghold it lasted rougly 30-40 minutes on battery. Needless to say it was shite. -------------------- | ||
Posted: August 17, 2009 05:08 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: slayer_oli16 Group: Guest Posts: 75 Member No.: 2013 Joined: August 14, 2009 Total Events Attended: 2 | To check how much battery you have left you need to right click the battery icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and there should be an option i think.... Or try hovering your mouse over it WHILE IT IS UNPLUGGED That's how i check the battery on my laptop which runs Vista --------------------  If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? Proud owner of the fire cape | ||
Posted: August 17, 2009 11:25 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Bumping old topics isn't appreciated, Y'know... And two months old is definately old. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Laptop.... dead?