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check if the fan is still spinning. if it is, take off the heatsink, dust it out, and reapply thermal paste. the paste is probably cooked on (happens alot)

could just as easily be a bad ram stick. might as well start with the ram dance before you order a new psu (even though it'd be a great investment)

NO NO NO! a REAL gamer cares about playing games. if all you care about is maxing the GRAPHICS in games, then you are called a real POSER its like people who have a lifted truck, and all these motorsports stickers... but they dont go out and have fun in the desert/mud/ go to motocross...

but it gets past bios? run memtest, you can download it and burn it to a disc, then boot from it

replacing the fan isnt that much work. your laptop is pretty easy to work with. just realize that the entire heatsink and fan is one piece, and you'd have to replace the whole thing. if you are up to it, order it and let us know when you get it

the discussion at hand is about DRIVERS and CRACKLING SOUNDS, not viruses. dont give advice if you have no idea what you are talking about... thanks :) anyways, to the op, dont do windows default drivers. download the one for your laptop from the website. if its an executable folder, extract...

blinking curser is always pleasant. download a pendrive linux live version, put it on a flash drive, and boot to that. then see if windows detects your harddrive. with the driver issue, you have the correct drivers downloaded for it, right? you can always point device manager to them. its a...

you'd have to remove the bottom shell on that laptop to get to the processor. its not that much work, and if you want a different processor and can afford the change, id say go for it. if one runs cooler/faster/takes less power, its worth it

low virtual memory would make sense with it locking up, but not with the issue powering it when you get it into windows, go to the system window with hardware, general, automatic updates tabs n whatnot go to advanced, and click the performance button. in the new window, click the advanced...

do you see anything on the screen, such as bios from startup? if not, could be the inverter, screen, or cable. best hope its the cable, thats the cheapest fix you can always order a new cable and replace it. its not that much work, fairly easy. if that doesnt do it, its probably the...

sorry buddy, even though p2p isnt illegal, the majority of its uses are. and if you need to cover up what you are doing with a ip mask, chances are you aren't into the limited legal uses ;) cant help you out.

i dont know about you, but i solder indoors all day long at work and it doesnt stink up the place unless you are giving excessive heat

i just got home from work, tired, didnt feel like reading everything at first. but i did... any my bad i still highly doubt it will allow a 50 percent overclock, unless its got a constant flow of liquid nitrogen over it im in the market for a new graphics card soon, and if nvidia doesnt...

do you feel smart? changing your voltage does NOTHING to your speed. only allows you to run higher speeds if its stable you can never gain 50 percent performance from a voltage tweak. its always done by the increase of the clock, voltage tweak is just to make it stable

wrong. there are different revisions of hdmi cables that can operate higher bandwidths. you cant really use a cheap hdmi cable to be running 2560x1600 ;) also, if you are in 1080p, good luck getting your tv to go higher than 60hz with a cheap hdmi cable. the more expensive ones can hit 120hz or...

ah man i havent worked on any of those at work yet (guess thats a good sign) so im not really sure how changeable those cards are but man, we got a refurbished shipment of those, with the 230, and they are some quick laptops. cool stuff we tested the one we put on display with 3dmark06, it...

i wish the one i worked on yesterday was that easy. it was a very nicely styled sony, must have been a newer one. but the whole bottom shell had to come off, and a usb daughterboard had to be taken out just to remove the harddrive you know what i really like, is replacing the dc jacks on...

ive never gotten to the extent of removing that piece. however, im pretty sure behind that is alot of circuitry going to the screen, and i really do not think its replaceable so, where you have to apply pressure to get it to show correctly, that spot is NOT where the ribbon cable is connecting...

the damn things are a pain in the arse to work on. you need to replace a harddrive? the older macbooks require you to literally rip the whole thing apart to get to the hd. today i had to do that on one, total pain in the anus HOWEVER, need a os reinstall? i had a external harddrive at work...

well, if you arent getting any signal from external, arent getting anything on your laptop screen... its something else. did you spill anything on your laptop? i'd start with taking one ram stick out, then swapping one at a time. sometimes there is a ram stick under the keyboard, so if they...