labtop problem

from Demigod Forums

So i bought a Toshiba Qosmio labtop a little less than a year ago, and recently (past month or so), it's been crashing on me while playing demigod, league of legends, or any other new game i've tried. it works fine when i'm not playing a game or when i play an old game called empire earth 2, but when i play newer games it crashes.

it beeps once and then turns black and shuts down, i've looked online for solutions, asked over 10 people if they knew what was wrong, updated all my drivers, ran scans for viruses, done disk clean-ups and disk defragmentations, and ran a huge overall scan and diagnostic of my labtop and i found nothing.

so i'm just wondering if anyone knows what the issue is, i've been told a few different things so i'm not really sure what the real problem is. i've tried everything, so do i just need to get a new comp or new parts or what?

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It may be possible that an update is the cause of the problem.  Can you remember if right before the crashes starting happening if you updated video drivers or anything else?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What Model?

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

well..i don't think i updated anything BEFORE the crashes, but once the crashes started happening i updated my video driver to see if that would fix the issue and it didn't

@yrag, it's a QosmioX305-Q705 (intel centrino 2 and windows vista)

 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Flip it over, remove plates and clean it out with compressed air.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yeah...

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

ok thanks man i'll try it out tomorrow, are you suggesting it is an over heating problem?

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

are you suggesting it is an over heating problem?

yes......

Look at the fans and see what they look like.

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

what do you mean what do they look like?

there are 3 of them at the bottom and 2 on the top and they are covered by black circles and an outer layer of spirals

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Are the grills clean?

Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

the what?

i'm not sure what they are or if they're clean, i haven't touched the fans since i bought it (a year ago)

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

there are 3 of them at the bottom and 2 on the top and they are covered by black circles and an outer layer of spirals

I have no idea what your looking at. The grill (exhaust) is on the back of the lap between the DC and HDMI plugs.

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

oh that thing..sorry im not very high-tec with computers, but again i haven't touched that in a year so i would guess not

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

..sorry im not very high-tec with computers

I already figured that out.... most people aren't, so don't sweat it.

My best guess is it's a heat problem. My suggestion would be to take it to someone more computer savvy and have them clean it out.

....than knock yourself out playin' any games you want....

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Can I just point out that it's a LAPtop, and not a LABtop........ Thank you, I feel better now. B[]

Reply #17 from Demigod Forums Top

oh...ok, well thanks yrag, i'm just going to call the company have them deal with it

i don't really care box