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28.25 mb laptop play 64 mb game? Toshiba, MMO, motherboard CRASH

Is the motherboard crashing a normal occurance?

  • Yes - Happens all the time on crappy laptops!

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  • No - never heard of this before!

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  • Sometimes - iv heard something like this .... maybe

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Vharacourteney

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Feb 13, 2014
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10,510
Toshiba with i3, windows 8, no graphics card.
I am trying to play my MMO (dragon oath) and when I open the game, a window pops up stating "lapop is 28.25 MB and the game is 64.00 MB. do you wish to play? we recomend low resulution for faster *and so on*". I can open the game, and everything runs smootly other then poor visuals and laptop getting a little warm......

My question is, will playing this game harm my laptop?

PLEASE TAKE IN CONSIDERATION: Everytime I have used this game, the laptops motherboad crashes between 2-3 days later (this has happened twice nice). Each crashing, the laptop is send to depot and a new motherboard is put in.
I just got the laptop back, would love to play my game
 
It will not hurt the laptop, they are designed to turn off before they reach damaging temperatures. It is most likely crashing from overheating if it only does it when your playing this game.

If you buy a laptop cooling pad it should prevent it from overheating.

Also reinstalling windows may fix it if heat is not the issue.