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There is no such option in my BIOS settings, I attach photos of the Advanced/Graphics options that I have. How can I check the GPU temperature while gaming to verify that's the issue? I can't find anything related in GeForce settings. I know Linus has proven that laptop fan stations don't improve performance but I'm wondering if it could help with the overheating issue (I do have one on my desk, it's just that I don't usually use it because it's a bit loud).

I'll try to make it brief and structured, for better follow-up of the problem. - My PC - Asus X550JX-DM320T (Laptop). Windows 10 Pro 64 bit OS (ver. 16299). American Megatrends Inc. X550JX.209 BIOS version. Intel Core i7-4750HQ 2.00GHz. Samsung 8GB RAM 1600MHz. Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD. Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 iGPU (driver ver. 20.19.15.4549). Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M GPU (driver ver. 388.31). Everything (Nvidia & Intel GPUs drivers, W10 and BIOS version) is up to date. - The problem - Sometimes when I'm gaming and I switch tabs (e.g. to check for notifications) the game crashes and shows an error message stating "No valid DirectX video card found" and/or similar messages depending on the game. After this happens, I'm unable to run any other game; being the only solution that I've found so far to restart my computer. So far (after I made a W10 clean install) this has happened only twice while playing League of Legends and once while playing Battlefield 3. - The Details / Symptoms - When this error kicks in, these are the effects I note on my system: Nvidia GeForce can't seem to connect to the internet. Nvidia Control Panel doesn't launch, error: "There is no device of this type attached to this screen". Nvidia GPU doesn't appear in Device Manager. DXDIAG shows Direct3D Acceleration as "Not available" on the render (nvidia gpu) tab. I can't launch any game after the error kicks in for the first time in that session. Only fix I've found so far is restarting the computer. After the clean install, this has only happened with Battlefield 3 and League of Legends (prompting the error I mean, afterwards it happens with every game). - What have I tried - After doing some diagnosis myself and having searched on the web I tried some things but none of them have worked so far: Running the games as administrator. Forcing the games to be run with Nvidia GPU. Forcing the games to be run with Intel iGPU. Restore Nvidia Control Panel settings to default. Re-checking firewall permissions. Running Windows 10 Hardware and Devices and Video Playback troubleshoot tools. Uninstalling Nvidia GeForce and Nvidia drivers and reinstalling+updating them. Windows 10 clean install on the SSD (I previously had an HDD in which I was getting these errors too). - Hypothesis / Conclusions - Since I've reinstalled almost every piece of software involved in the issue, made a clean install of my operating system and even changed my drive, I can only assume the causes are reduced to two: either it's a hardware failure (Nvidia GPU not being detected correctly) or a setting failure (maybe I've set up things in a way that I'm the one causing the error). Any ideas or thoughts? I welcome any advice, and I can only thank you in advance. P.S.: I attach both CPU-Z and DXDIAG log files for utility. DESKTOP-T89HI8A.txt DxDiag.txt

I always thought the new Intel Core series would be named i10. Sounds cooler, is more rounded and is marketing-friendly. No +2 bs, i3 (three) had to start somewhere, and I see no i1.

LOL no, who on earth could have that amount of storage and computing power while making an exam? HDD's be cachin' fire lulz xDDDD It was all paperwork, theoretical.

First CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 (1MiB L3 caché, 2.00GHz) First (dedicated) GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M (4GB GDDR3, 1.00GHz) ...obviously they were bought with many years of difference

Hi there Just wanted to share a funny anecdote that happened to me a few weeks ago. So I was preparing for an exam at the University, and the day finally came. The exam was about disk management and its inner functioning + file systems (blocks, nodes, header movements and optimization algorithms). The thing is, I completely forgot to bring my calculator, so I had in front of me the hard task of facing lots of 'Gibis' and 'Mebis' calculations with bit precision, with only a couple of hours of sleep at my back. I realized this was a lost cause when, after two hours of exam, I found myself working with a massive 3,3 trillion GiB file, and spent the rest of the time navigating through various pages of disorganized eight and nine digit counts trying to found the error.

I disagree, there ARE differences, however, it is quite unlikely that they'll make any big difference while gaming, unless you're trying a very ram-demanding game (e.g. any relatively new total war with 8000+ soldiers).

You could also try one of those fuzzy mics or simply buy a cover for the one you have.

I dream with building a 2-cpu Xeon computer that controls my whole house with small cheap tablet devices scattered all over the place. You know, one in the entrance, another on every door... Instead of keys & locks -> passwords.

Sadly I don't own photoshop Idk, everyone seems to use Blender to create 3D models for games

I've always been fascinated about how a single person could make cool games. I myself have many ideas for a videogame but find some areas harder to fulfill. I'm a computer science student with already some practice so programming isn't a problem on any game engine. I don't have problems designing the videogames either. The main problem I find is the art. Animations, 2D/3D designs, backgrounds... I'm pretty useless at drawing and I don't own or know how to use a drawing/designing program. I'm currently trying to learn Blender by myself, but it feels so massive to start with that I'm getting a little desperate. So I was wondering if you guys knew about some free program for desiging/drawing sprites or animations for videogames because there aren't either any artists round my area so I have to do everything on my own. As always, thanks in advance

Dafuq the class was about making computers not working or not working properly, not about breaking them, so no nail-polish, no cutting cables and ofc no melting anything Forgot to say that the BIOS battery was dead, so no point in setting the jumpers to clear (tho I thought about that) or messing with the OC or booting options. My bad The challenge was about restoring the pc to its original state, not just making it boot, thus the non-critical changes that I made (IDE cables, ram slots...). Anyhow, glad to see so much participation, lots of things I didn't think of in the first place

Maybe the game has anditivurs/firewall issues, or maybe even permission issues. It could also be possible that you've run out of RAM and the os decides that it's not important enough, thus dropping it from memory. Another, but more radical option, is that the program is trying to make an ilegal action, maybe refering to a wrong memory position. Does this happen with other programs/games or just with Titanfall?

I didn't particurarly like Steve Jobs, but I'll always remember one his most sincere phrases that I believe has become the moto of the company: "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Although I know it works, it makes me sick, because it just creates more fandom and more smoke and mirrors around Apple. It's good just because it reads Apple! (sarcasm)

Let's see if I get it right. So if I root it I can modify the "standard" version of the Zenfone 3 (android 6.0 with Zenui), and if I install a custom rom, what I do is basically import an already modified version of android 6.0 I suppose; right?