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Laptop GPU dead.

Mojo-Jojo

This topic is about the system in my signature.

 

The story

I was ready to play some Newly installed War Thunder today, as per a friend's recommendation.

I let it render via dx11 and started the game. It threw an error pretty much straight away.

 

"No problem, just an Optimus Quirk. More games incorrectly handle dx11 with Optimus." I thought.

So I switch to dx9 and the lappy crashes entirely. No BSOD, just a stuck screen. 

 

I power it off, wait for a bit, power it on, and the BIOS comes up.
And the BIOS comes up.

And the BIOS comes up.

And the BIOS comes up.

 

That's no good.

 

I power it off and let it sit for a while.

Then I power it up. Windows boots up.

Then the screen is stuck, and fades from the windows 7 logon to really dark blue to black.

 

I power it off, reboot into safe mode, works perfectly.

Alright, event viewer shows nothing interesting at all.

 

Back to normal boot then.

Slows down then crashes after logon.

 

By this time I figure it must be the GPU, so I boot into safe mode, completely cleanly remove the nvidia drivers, reboot into normal mode, and it works perfectly.

I then reinstall the latest WHQL ones, and reboot. Crash.

 

So I try linux. I have a Zorin OS 9 distro on my secondary HDD.

I boot into it, and as soon as the GPU is used for the logon effect, kernel panic.

 

The Question

So for me it's pretty clear the GPU is dead. I've disabled it in safe mode in windows so it uses the Intel HD3000 iGPU, which works great for desktop usage but no gaming sadly.

But I'm really bummed out. What may have caused my GPU to break?

A severe driver bug? Coincidental random death?

 

Does anyone know what my options are? The lappy is over two years old so no waranty, but is insured very well since it's my main system and I need it for college.

I'll try if there's a spare GPU on ebay or so, but I'd much rather just replace the entire system at once. It's been having quirks lately anyhow.

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Hope you guys don't mind me bumping this. I'm interested in any ideas.

I won't keep bumping. Just this once. It's had a couple views with no replies so I think there just aren't any ideas which is cool too.

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well there is a lot reasons might explain this (bad thermal paste application,running too hot for too long , faulty gpu die...) but since gpu is external you might find better replacement solutions on ebay.

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You could do do the gpu oven trick which remelts the solder joints. You should do this but if it doesn't work then you should get a new gpu. 

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Hey guys, thanks for your ideas!

 

A good friend from college suggested I take the GPU out and let it sit without power for a while to reset probable firmware glitches.

This seems to have worked. I re-enabled the GPU in windows, rebooted without crash, ran a stresstest in furmark, and everything seems to be stable.

 

I don't expect it'll last long, but I'm hoping it does.

 

EDIT: nope. After a while of idling, GPU-Z suddenly showed that the GPU was powered down. When I tried to use it in furmark, furmark crashed and shortly after so did the OS. It's back to being dead now.

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