Computer acting up, what could it be

**Whacker** · 06-02-2009, 09:06

DOH!

I just realized this is a laptop!

OK, the cleaning bit still applies, but let's try some new angles. First off, have you noticed any usually hot areas of your laptop while gaming? Is the heat coming out of the exhaust almost too hot to keep your hand there? Are there areas of the laptop top or bottom that eventually get too hot to touch, or are uncomfortably hot when you touch them?

**Husar** · 06-02-2009, 10:10

Does it feel awkward to touch your laptop in certain areas? Does the air seemingly fill with electricity when you do that? do you feel violated afterwards?

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**Hooahguy** · 06-03-2009, 04:47

Originally Posted by Whacker

DOH!

I just realized this is a laptop!

OK, the cleaning bit still applies, but let's try some new angles. First off, have you noticed any usually hot areas of your laptop while gaming? Is the heat coming out of the exhaust almost too hot to keep your hand there? Are there areas of the laptop top or bottom that eventually get too hot to touch, or are uncomfortably hot when you touch them?

if this is the case, buy a cooling pad. theyre not too expensive and do wonders.

**FactionHeir** · 06-03-2009, 09:00

Got a cooling fan (2 fans) below it already with about 1cm space or so in between. Regularly dust that one.

Ever since I got the laptop, the back of it usually gets very hot very quickly (well, I can keep my hand there, but its uncomfy of course), so that hasn't changed.
Top part of keyboard sometimes heats up too, I imagine its a knock on effect from that part being next to the back anyway. Not uncomfy hot (outside of making my fingers sweat), but quite warm.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 06-03-2009, 22:51

Well as long as you register it as "hot but not too bad to hold" (which I gather is at ~40 degrees Celsius or in English: a good hot bath temperature) your PC should not suffer from that too badly.

However that funny thing with your power supply is rather more worrisome.

If you can't get to POST screens something is seriously not good with your PC (disconnected, burnt out, crucial pieces of hardware not coming online properly, or otherwise not OK); if you have intermittent powerfailures it suggest the culprit is either in the power regulating circuits of some component (very bad) or the battery (bad but replace-able).

**FactionHeir** · 06-04-2009, 10:03

Screenshot of how desktop usually looks like after the mini black screens:

Haven't managed to get the welcome screen stuck screenshot just yet.

**Hooahguy** · 06-08-2009, 03:25

pity you erased system restore because i was having the EXACT problem you were and system restore fixed it and now it all good.

**Hooahguy** · 06-08-2009, 03:31

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

Well as long as you register it as "hot but not too bad to hold" (which I gather is at ~40 degrees Celsius or in English: a good hot bath temperature) your PC should not suffer from that too badly

if you use Realtemp you can easily monitor the heat. i average around 35-55 degrees celcius. sometimes when im playing crysis it will get to 60. but the max is around 30 degrees more than that, so its fine, but still, a cooling fan is good to have. remind me to buy one soon.

**FactionHeir** · 06-12-2009, 22:15

Didn't have any high hopes on that, but I created a restore point yesterday and restored today. Issue still happens.
In fact, while it got to the welcome screen while restoring, it flashed to black for a while, so it does suggest that it has little to do with software being loaded and more to do with something going on within 20 seconds of getting into windows (variable 5-20).