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I have an HP Pavilion dv7 17-inch that's been in service since mid 2010. Late last year I opened the laptop twice to deal with overheating issues, the first time to clean the fan, and the second time to replace thermal paste on the CPU and graphics cards. I may have damaged something in the process. The fan doesn't speed up at all, and the laptop is on a cooler bed constantly.
Not too long after that, the laptop was hit with a storm of BSODs that I couldn't identify using google. I turned the processor power down, which helped, but now I get crashes quite often, mostly whenever I play any game created post-2004, and even while watching Youtube videos.
A typical crash involves either a BSOD (less common), or the screen suddenly goes black, and a violent crackling comes from the sound system (either laptop or plugged in external speakers). Laptop is unresponsive, and has to be shutdown by holding the power button.
I'm close to replacing it, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something, and could potentially keep using this laptop a while longer.
I've attached a dxdiag if anyone feels like going through it.
TL;DR: Laptop crashes to a black screen and sound glitch when playing 3D games or watching Youtube. Memtest returns clean, have updated graphics card 4 times in the last 3 months. Probably overheating.
Any help is much appreciated!
I have an HP Pavilion dv7 17-inch that's been in service since mid 2010. Late last year I opened the laptop twice to deal with overheating issues, the first time to clean the fan, and the second time to replace thermal paste on the CPU and graphics cards. I may have damaged something in the process. The fan doesn't speed up at all, and the laptop is on a cooler bed constantly.
Not too long after that, the laptop was hit with a storm of BSODs that I couldn't identify using google. I turned the processor power down, which helped, but now I get crashes quite often, mostly whenever I play any game created post-2004, and even while watching Youtube videos.
A typical crash involves either a BSOD (less common), or the screen suddenly goes black, and a violent crackling comes from the sound system (either laptop or plugged in external speakers). Laptop is unresponsive, and has to be shutdown by holding the power button.
I'm close to replacing it, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something, and could potentially keep using this laptop a while longer.
I've attached a dxdiag if anyone feels like going through it.
TL;DR: Laptop crashes to a black screen and sound glitch when playing 3D games or watching Youtube. Memtest returns clean, have updated graphics card 4 times in the last 3 months. Probably overheating.
Any help is much appreciated!