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Fatelinha
By Fatelinha
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First, I didn't knew where to ask this so I asked here.

One day, I tried to play Call of Duty: Ghosts on my laptop (very dumb of me...). It is an HP G62-b10sp, with a Pentium p6100 processor and an Radeon Mobility HD 5450 graphics card. It says it is a switchable graphics thing. While playing the game, 10 fps-ish, the game crashed and to screen froze and I had to unplug the batterie from the laptop.

 

When I turned it back on, the windows log popped and then the screen turned off, windows was still running but no display. (I know because it made the welcome sound). I went in recovery mode and tried to recovery it, but nothing would fix it, so I did a clean install of windows but every time I have tried to update the GPU drivers the same problem happened, the screen turned black.

 

I also tried windows 8, and 8.1 but nothing to fix it. I am stuck with the Intel HD graphics.

 

Do you know what is the problem? Have I broken my card with the freakin awful game?? Is it windows and will ubuntu fix it? HELP MEEE PLEASEEE

 

I've posted this on many forums, including HP's but to no good so far. I really trust on this comunnity, hope it doesn't let me down...

 

(Sorry if there are any language problems, i'm portuguese. Any doubt, feel free to ask)

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If you ask me, it sounds like you killed your dGPU. I have a similar problem. Once the drivers activate the dGPU, the screen dies.

I hate you for being so honest :c thank you :D

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Lenovo Y520 - GTX1050Ti - i77700k - 250GB Samsung M.2 NVME SSD  :D 

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I hate you for being so honest :c thank you :D

Well, it might not be that, but I'm fairly certain it is. It sucks because laptops are much harder to fix.

What I tried on my laptop was to take out the battery and the charger and just let the laptop sit overnight.

That fixed it for a wile, then slowly it came back to life again where now I can game again. Possibly a GPU firmware glitch.

 

Can you see if ubuntu throws any errors? When my dGPU was off and I booted into Ubuntu I got kernel panics as soon as it initialized the hardware.

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Can you see if ubuntu throws any errors? When my dGPU was off and I booted into Ubuntu I got kernel panics as soon as it initialized the hardware.

I will try :D

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