⟐ Answered Nisan 17, 2024 at 2:03 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Temmuz 07, 2026 at 6:48 GMT-7

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The laptop suddenly shuts down

When opening games, the laptop always shuts down

⟐ Commented Haziran 30, 2026 at 4:38 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Haziran 04, 2026 at 7:51 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Haziran 03, 2026 at 14:49 GMT-7

I know this laptop is older at this point, but for a long time it went unused, and it has not been used heavily enough to be causing these issues IMO. Roblox is the main thing that runs. It was getting very very hot, someone opened it up and cleaned out the dust and reapplied thermal paste. Back when it was getting very hot, I'd notice that at its hottest is when the graphics would go weird. (it would just start losing details in the characters and room behind them... the CPU and GPU were getting up to 80-90*C, GPU was always lower but both high numbers like that and they would fluctuate a little bit as soon as I opened Roblox) Anyways that's no longer an issue, I use cooler boost through dragon center, and the numbers stay pretty "normal". But the graphics are doing the same thing. It's not the settings in the game, and it's not the wifi. When it happens, I will close the game and go back in and they will be normal again. But eventually it will happen again. I have updated my drivers, I don't understand why it's doing this out of nowhere.

It also overheats and shuts the Wi-Fi off, which won't be a problem soon as the new place I'm moving to has every room wired.

Please advise. Thank you!

I want to change the Thermal paste, i have my laptop over a year and been using it almost every day. I dont have 2 left hands, but i have never done it. Can someone explain me the steps?

Thanks

⟐ Answer accepted Nisan 30, 2026 at 0:24 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Mart 22, 2026 at 21:47 GMT-7

It's a really old model that has been sitting on a shelf for ages. 2 years ago I briefly tested it and it booted, but had some graphics freezing issue which is why it went back on the shelf.

Today, pressing the power button results in the following behavior:

• Fan spins up
• Standby (moon symbol) status LED glows
• Disk (cylinder symbil) status LED glows continuously
• I can toggle the wireless LAN status LED (antenna symbol) by pressing a button with the same symbol that sits in a group of buttons next to the power button.
• Screen stays off, no backlight.

I have performed a bunch of troubleshooting:

• Replaced CMOS battery
• Hard reset: Remove battery and charger and hold power button for 60 seconds, repeated a bunch of times
• unplugged various components such as hard drive, disk reader, RAM, fans, and CPU to see what happens
• Use an external monitor (no signal)

None of these resulted in any change of behavior, save for unplugging the fan resulting in the fan no longer spinning up (duh).

Now the obvious answer is probably that i'm cooked. The graphics chip is probably fried; or it's some other equally awful unfixable thing ruining my day.

But I am filled with hubris, and I'd really like to get this board to work again. If the graphics chip really is irreparably fried, how come the machine booted fine 2 years ago? It couldn't have overheated while sitting unplugged on a shelf!

Do you have any other reasonable or unreasonable guesses as to what's wrong and what else i could try? Is there maybe a way I could at least salvage this motherboard for headless use?

I wanna figure this out, like, at this point it's personal!

⟐ Commented Mart 17, 2026 at 6:16 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Mart 16, 2026 at 21:53 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Mart 16, 2026 at 6:04 GMT-7

⟐ Marked as duplicate Mart 16, 2026 at 1:31 GMT-7

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Need help, ssd does not start After an unsuccessful windows update! laptop does not see SSD drive

⟐ Commented Mart 14, 2026 at 16:12 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Mart 06, 2026 at 2:23 GMT-7