burpleronnie
Member
Around a year ago i bought a slightly upgraded '11.6" Inferno' laptop from here. It has worked perfectly since then in a whole range of different games and applications and with reasonably heavy use.
Recently however two problems have arisen.
Firstly the internet keeps cutting out, mostly during videos online but occasionally during gaming sessions. turning the wireless card on and off usually fixes this and things go back to normal. The frequency with which i have been needing to do this however has increased.
I recently updated the drivers using the intel auto driver updater so i am not sure exactly what is causing this. It may be that i needed to update them with drivers from the pc specialist website, but i assume this isnt the case.
This problem is more a mild niggle and is secondary to the next one.
As i have said, the laptop has worked perfectly for computer games up until about a week or so ago. It has started switching off during games. This can happen as far as 5 mins in or 50 mins in to a session. It is doing this in games that had previously worked fine and isnt necessarily related to the complexity of the graphics or content being rendered.
So far Skyrim, Supreme Commander 2 and Planetary Annihilation have caused regular crashes. I will test Supreme commander one (a notoriously cpu heavy game) later.
I am assuming that it is a cpu based issue probably coming from the auto-overclocking feature that the i7 processor in my pc has. Graphics cards overheating usually ends in a game crashing or flicking to and from the desktop.
Another possible cause may come from the power lead i am using although i doubt this. When i was sold the laptop originally i was told i would need a more powerful power block, having found the smaller bock working fine i haven't used the bigger one since i got it.
Ultimately i have little clue at the moment and am hoping someone on here will be able to give some advice.
much thanks
Joe
Recently however two problems have arisen.
Firstly the internet keeps cutting out, mostly during videos online but occasionally during gaming sessions. turning the wireless card on and off usually fixes this and things go back to normal. The frequency with which i have been needing to do this however has increased.
I recently updated the drivers using the intel auto driver updater so i am not sure exactly what is causing this. It may be that i needed to update them with drivers from the pc specialist website, but i assume this isnt the case.
This problem is more a mild niggle and is secondary to the next one.
As i have said, the laptop has worked perfectly for computer games up until about a week or so ago. It has started switching off during games. This can happen as far as 5 mins in or 50 mins in to a session. It is doing this in games that had previously worked fine and isnt necessarily related to the complexity of the graphics or content being rendered.
So far Skyrim, Supreme Commander 2 and Planetary Annihilation have caused regular crashes. I will test Supreme commander one (a notoriously cpu heavy game) later.
I am assuming that it is a cpu based issue probably coming from the auto-overclocking feature that the i7 processor in my pc has. Graphics cards overheating usually ends in a game crashing or flicking to and from the desktop.
Another possible cause may come from the power lead i am using although i doubt this. When i was sold the laptop originally i was told i would need a more powerful power block, having found the smaller bock working fine i haven't used the bigger one since i got it.
Ultimately i have little clue at the moment and am hoping someone on here will be able to give some advice.
much thanks
Joe
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