Hi, up until recently, my 8104 very rarely crashed. It did once or twice in high settings on battlefield 2, but rarely.
Now it crashes after just a few minutes in games. In counter strike, if I don't use a lower res with a capped framerate, to give the laptop less work, it will instantly just turn off while I'm playing after a few minutes. No warning, no noise, just power off. Not even a normal windows shut down. The power light just goes out and the screen goes blank. I've tested with other games and they do the same. However, it never does it in windows and such, say if it's doing scan disk and things, even when the computer's on for hours.
I reckon it's probably an automatic shutdown due to over-heating, would you agree? Is there any way I can see my temperature and at what temperature it shuts down? There's no area in the bios that I can see that's relevant.
I can't not play games after I've spent so much money on this thing, what should I do? I've completely formatted and restored to factory defaults and it hasn't helped!
Many thanks,
Cougem
Now it crashes after just a few minutes in games. In counter strike, if I don't use a lower res with a capped framerate, to give the laptop less work, it will instantly just turn off while I'm playing after a few minutes. No warning, no noise, just power off. Not even a normal windows shut down. The power light just goes out and the screen goes blank. I've tested with other games and they do the same. However, it never does it in windows and such, say if it's doing scan disk and things, even when the computer's on for hours.
I reckon it's probably an automatic shutdown due to over-heating, would you agree? Is there any way I can see my temperature and at what temperature it shuts down? There's no area in the bios that I can see that's relevant.
I can't not play games after I've spent so much money on this thing, what should I do? I've completely formatted and restored to factory defaults and it hasn't helped!
Many thanks,
Cougem
