GPU crash in game

zardaxx · April 25, 2020

Hello,

I bought the laptop second hand.

its a clevo 3xs

GPU 1080

cpu i7 6700k 4ghz

32 ram

I tried different combinations. The only time when it was partially working, as in not all the games crashed or crashed under different conditions, was when I installed the initial drivers. Runned an underclock on it and bench marks and it crashes. I could play world war z and mw battle royal with noo crash with a driver from this year, but was still crashing in other games. I updated the driver and everything went downhill. The windows was updated to the latest version.

WeeemRCB · April 26, 2020

Probably worth trying it with a fresh install of Windows + latest chipset and GPU drivers.

If there are still issues then it may not be coping with thermals or possibly a loose connection.

In which case you're potentially looking at doing a teardown and replace the GPU thermal paste with fresh paste.

While doing that you'll also be making sure all cables and ribbons are properly seated (and dust removed from fans and grills)

While it's open, may as well re-seat the RAM.

And if it's 3+yrs old then it's worth changing the Motherboard battery (the round battery - usually type: CR2032)

zardaxx · April 26, 2020

9 hours ago, WeeemRCB said:

Probably worth trying it with a fresh install of Windows + latest chipset and GPU drivers.

If there are still issues then it may not be coping with thermals or possibly a loose connection.

In which case you're potentially looking at doing a teardown and replace the GPU thermal paste with fresh paste.

While doing that you'll also be making sure all cables and ribbons are properly seated (and dust removed from fans and grills)

While it's open, may as well re-seat the RAM.

And if it's 3+yrs old then it's worth changing the Motherboard battery (the round battery - usually type: CR2032

thank you. we ve runned some test on it and now we came to the conclusion that the gpu is overheating as at 85 degrees and crashes with different benchmarks. so now we re going to follow your steps. thanks again and sorry for late reply