overheating

  1. Nvidia recalls Shield Tablet - Fire Hazard

    Nvidia has announced today that the 8" Shield Tablet sold between July 2014 and July 2015 are being recalled: If you have a Shield Device read the announcement and details on what to do Link Removed
  2. Windows 8 Whirling noise from hp laptop?

    For some reason my computer is making this whirrling noise and I don't know why. It only started this time when turning my computer on. I have hp coolsense on but don't want to turn it off as my computer might begin overheating. It comes from the top left hand corner of the second half of the...
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    Windows 7 BSOD Randomly Every Day Please Help

    Please if anyone can help with this random BSOD as I have no clue what is causing it. This laptop is getting on a bit but has always run problem free. I did a fresh install of Windows 7 this year due to too much crap installed over the years but have not changed any hardware. The only issue I...
  4. Windows 7 WinDbg ignore missing pages!

    Hey, last couple days my PC's been shutting down/restarting without warning. (I uh, can't tell. It hasn't shutdown/restarted *properly* since I put it together a few years ago) Figured it might be memory/PSU failure, so I scheduled a mem-test and cleaned out the guts for good measure, (I dunno...
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    Windows 8 Help Me Please.

    So I got a laptop a year ago for my birthday with Windows 8 installed on it. [you might recognize this post. I'm ExecutedNebula. I made a new account because I forgot my password.] It was a beautiful HP Pavillion and very good price. I had the "usual" files: Google Chrome, Steam games, and...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Laptop Turns off after failed Microsoft Update

    Greetings, I have an old Asus K52J that overheated and shut down some weeks back. After replacing the worn out fan and eventually the heat sink unit and copper tubing, I finally had it back up and running perfectly for several hours after being down for a few weeks. It was running perfectly...
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    Windows 8 random bsod while playing attila totalwar

    so i was playing tw atilla when my pc freeze and a buzz noise started then it went over to a bluescreen. i checked temps,tried furmark,auda64 stresstest and prime95 with no crashes.
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    Windows 7 Computer crashes into blue screen after playing CS GO.. wtf?!

    It freezes and then crashes. First i thought it might been the temp on the GPU cuz it was up at 80 C but did a stress test with both aida64 extreme and FurMark and had it on for 20min. The temp went up to 90C but it didnt crash. I went into safe mode and uninstalled the drivers and then...
  9. Windows 8 New GPU Causing constant reboots

    First of all, Hi and secondly I have an issue, well. My PC has an issue... After getting my brand new shiny R9 290 from XFX my PC has decided it wont stay on for more than an hour (this is the longest time and I was just idling), this occurs sooner (anywhere from seconds to minutes) when I'm...
  10. Windows 8 My PC shuts down when I try and run H1Z1

    Hey guys, I've been pointed in this direction as you may be able to help me with a problem I am having When I start up H1Z1 I can usually get into a queue and even some times into the game itself but then my PC will shut down and I don't know why. My specs are: AMD FX 8150 eight core 2.81 16gb...
  11. Windows 7 Troubleshooting BSOD 0x00000124: High CPU Temps and Unexpected Crashes During Gaming

    My computer has bluescreened while playing games and once when I was loading videos into windows movie maker. I ran memtest86, let it pass the 4 times it required and it found no errors. I watched my cpu temps while playing bf4 and it was an average of about 80C before it bluescreened again. Can...
  12. Windows 7 Computer shuts down, won't turn back on for ~2days.

    Hey, I have a fairly old gaming computer, and it has been pretty good so far aside from a few minor hiccups. Recently, it crashed while I was playing a game of Dota 2, and it was unable to turn back on. I thought my power supply died, so I left it for a bit until I could repair it. A couple of...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Laptop randomly waking up

    I have recently (about 4 weeks ago) purchased an Asus R510J, a laptop with pre-installed Windows 8.1. It was running rather smoothly apart from some painful differences I notice coming from Windows 7. The one issue I started to notice however, was that when waking it up in the morning it would...
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    Windows 8 Blocking GPU fan intentionally

    I'm having issues with one of my GPU's fans (it features a dual-fan cooling) and will have to fix it soon. The problem is, it's making an annoying noise and I was thinking if I could just block it for the time being, however brutally that sounds. So, the question is - provided the GPU doesn't...
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    Windows 7 Computer turns itself off after about 15-20 minutes of usage

    OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Service Pack 1 "Whitebox" custom case Intel Quad Core Q8200 @ 2.33 Ghz 4 GB RAM @ 800 MHz Sapphire ATI Radeon 4850 320 GB WDC Harddrive Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard Initially I had problems with the video output not working. The computer would boot up before the...
  16. Windows 8 HP recalls 6 million computer cords for fire risk

    HP is warning customers: Check your laptop charging cord to see if it's at risk of overheating. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, Tech30) and federal regulators on Tuesday recalled 6 million power cords sold between September 2010 and June 2012 with some HP and Compaq notebook computers, as well as certain...
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    Windows 7 critical administrative event 41 windows 7 computer random shutdown during gaming

    I have been having an issue with my system just simply shutting down without any warning almost as if a power outage occurred. No blue screen no notifications nothing. It has happened 4 times now while playing a game in particular. When the power goes out I cant turn the computer back on for...
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    Windows 8 Problems I think caused by updates, help needed!

    Hi all, I've been having some problems with my laptop recently. I have Windows 8 installed on an Acer V3-571g and about a week ago I started to get BSOD with two errors KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR and CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED. After playing around with sfc/scannow etc, I decided to completed reset...
  19. Windows 7 Windows uses the fan so much.

    Windows almost abuses the fan on my laptop. Toshiba Satellite C875-S7303. Whenever I try to run Borderlands 2, while loading the game the laptop overheated. Windows 8 (which came with the laptop) did the same thing, then I wiped it and put Ubuntu 13.04 on it and it never overheated. Is there a...
  20. Windows 7 Gaming related BSODs, probably direct X

    Diagnostics are attached. The BSODs seem to be mainly when gaming although not only. The games in specific are smite, it also crashes when I play Civ V but, only when I'm streaming Netflix on my second monitor but, not if I'm watching something via VLC. I recently upgraded my GPU from a 7790...