Feral Heart
Off topic => Discussion Board => Topic started by: wolfgirl56 on November 16, 2012, 11:04:11 pm
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My computer recently has giving me extra problems, which are annoying the heck out of me. It freezes a lot and gives me a lot of blue screens. I've asked my dad for a laptop, but I haven't really gotten an "answer" yet. Is there anyway to fix these problems? I downloaded a few things that have fixed them a little, but they still occurred.
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Hm... You could try buying SpeedyPCPro...
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If CPU failure is the case, it might cost as much as an entirely new laptop to replace an entire processing unit. 400-500$ about.
If you have experience with computers, you can take your laptop apart and check how much dust is in the heat sink and see if thermal compound needs to be replaced. Reseating your hard drive could also work, oddly, it fixes a number of problems.
To do either of this, look up guides for how to open your laptop model. [Usually the name is on the bottom of the laptop]. It's really only reccommended if you have some experience, because if not, things could end up breaking [which i had done with my old laptop once, haha, not so swell..]
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if your going to get a new laptop i suggest get a acer they are very fast and have lots of space and does not over heat fast so if this helped im glad :-[
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if your going to get a new laptop i suggest get a acer they are very fast and have lots of space and does not over heat fast so if this helped im glad :-[
That's usually not a good way to determine what makes a computer good lol. The manufacturer would barely contribute in my opinion.
The specs are what you want to look at. Doesn't matter if it's Dell, Acer, Lenovo, whatever other ones there are..? However, Dell has a reputation when it comes to heating problems, some of their models have really poor cooling, so I don't reccommend dell.
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However, Dell has a reputation when it comes to heating problems, some of their models have really poor cooling, so I don't reccommend dell.
Oh god yes some models have terrible cooling systems. It's usually because they only have a tiny little fan opening for the air to come out and circulate on one side of the laptop, so the other side that has the parts that actually need the cooling system don't cool down well enough/at all. It practically cooks your legs if you have one of them in your lap and some models get so hot that you can barely touch the top of the system or even keys on the keyboard. ._____.
A couple other random brands out there are Toshiba and HP computers.
When it comes to blue screens it can really be a lot of things. It can be memory, it can be age, and it can even be viruses. If you can give more detail on when some/most of these blue screens occur [if they're not absolutely random] then it might be easier to fix.
Just getting programs that say/somewhat help doesn't really do anything because you don't know what you're trying to fix, and sometimes the issues that are causing all the problems are really small and sometimes even inexpensive to get rid of.
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Sometimes on a really old netbook I had years ago, I'd bluescreen from trying to enter Fluorite Plains, haha. Other times i'd get them too, but never randomly out of nowhere
There was always a pattern. if i went to certain websites, played certain games, it'd bluescreen or overheat.
If it bluescreens and restarts on startup your hard drive could be having issues. Also, check what type of bluescreen it is. Usually it says something about a crash dump.
Does it turn on quickly, then just turn off?
Are the fans really loud and such on startup despite running almost nothing?
Does it freeze after being on only for a few minutes?
Try and download a program called Priroform Speccy. Check the temperatures of your cores, motherboard, and processor. If they're above 60-70 average without you running anything system intensive, it could be a number of other problems including a bad processor, which happens because it could be caked with dust inside therefor preventing your computer from cooling properly.
I really reccommend taking it to a repair shop. Sometimes the littlest, most unexpected things cause the worst problems for computers. Especially laptops, as everything is integrated. If it were a PC, you could just rip out whatever is dieing, buy a new one, stick it in there. Done.
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Net books write this down *they grab a pen and paper* listen closely you over heat you need better cooling fans
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Sometimes on a really old netbook I had years ago, I'd bluescreen from trying to enter Fluorite Plains, haha. Other times i'd get them too, but never randomly out of nowhere
There was always a pattern. if i went to certain websites, played certain games, it'd bluescreen or overheat.
If it bluescreens and restarts on startup your hard drive could be having issues. Also, check what type of bluescreen it is. Usually it says something about a crash dump.
Does it turn on quickly, then just turn off?
Are the fans really loud and such on startup despite running almost nothing?
Does it freeze after being on only for a few minutes?
Try and download a program called Priroform Speccy. Check the temperatures of your cores, motherboard, and processor. If they're above 60-70 average without you running anything system intensive, it could be a number of other problems including a bad processor, which happens because it could be caked with dust inside therefor preventing your computer from cooling properly.
I really reccommend taking it to a repair shop. Sometimes the littlest, most unexpected things cause the worst problems for computers. Especially laptops, as everything is integrated. If it were a PC, you could just rip out whatever is dieing, buy a new one, stick it in there. Done.
Yes, it says something about a crash dump.
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If you ever want to buy a new computer (if the one you have dies) I think toshiba would be a very good brand.
My toshiba satellite L305D has lasted me almost 5 years and it still works today. :) only cleaned it out once or twice.
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Depends on what you do with a computer though.
Regardless of the model it's very easy to wear it down if you aren't careful, either by not maintaining it or by treating it like anything but what it actually is.
My family's little Acer lasted several years, but we always moved the cord around and stuff and it eventually wore out so that we had to get a new cord. A while after that, the Acer got the Black Screen of Death. My sister tried to compress files in attempt to free up space and it wound up compressing a vital startup file.
Right now we have an old Dell Inspiron 1501 that dies when it overheats. That usually happens when I play games that are prettier looking than a Nintendo 64 for a long time or have numerous demanding programs running. The processor isn't the best but it's the cooling system that kills it most of the time, and that cooling system will wear out my computer faster than just keeping an eye on it and shutting it down when it starts to get warm.
There's also the fact that I go out to restaurants that have free internet every other day for lunch when I go out on my walks [at least on days when I'm not in class, days I'm in class I go in the evening for dinner], and there's the chance that bending the cord around will wear it out from constantly wrapping/unwrapping it, and the computer to get dirtier often by being put into a makeshift bag and carted around anywhere.
So when it comes to getting a new comp, it doesn't really matter what you want to do with it or what kind of brand you want, but you want a brand that will be durable enough for your own schedule as well. At least that's how I see it.
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If you're big into gaming, I recommend PC. Barely any heating issues in my opinion, and, you can buy parts with decent specs for the price of usually 200-300$. Though putting together your own PC is quite tough, especially when it's something new, so I actually have yet to do so myself.
Not ALL laptops are bad, however. Average specs would usually be 400-600$. They can run almost any PC game fine, but, like I said before, never buy a Dell! Dell computers have terrible cooling systems. Heck, my Acer netbook lasted longer than my Dell laptop x)
Next time you ever get a laptop, be sure to blow the fans and vents out every now and then with compressed air or something of the sort, it contributes a little. You can also buy a cooling pad, they have 1 large fan, or 3 small fans in them and you put your laptop on it.
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I get those blue screen errors a lot on my Toshiba satellite and it's not a year old yet. Have you brought it to a computer shop yet? Maybe they can check it out for you.
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Toshibas are generally pretty reliable, I second that. My old Toshiba netbook put up with everything I threw at it. Towards the end of it's life, there was no plastic on the screen, it was just the metal mount. Wires were hanging out at the hinge, and the keyboard was bent and busting out of the case.
And the thing worked like a charm.