Hello there to all.
Hope everyone is safe and sound.
I would appreciate if one with experience could help me out with properly setting up my new gaming laptop. I am new to the pc world and gaming and I have recently I bought an HP Omen 17. I know that as a new guy I bought a monster I can barely handle but I was like " well it will last for a long time, if I don't make it explode".
To begin with, I used DDU to clean up the GPU drivers and install them again in Safe-mode manually since the GPU wasn't showing up in the Display monitors in the Device Manager.
After some minutes of gaming I had a black screen while the laptop was still running and had to hard reboot. Tried again to play while reducing a bit of undervolt and same story (black screen) happened again.
Furthermore, I bought the laptop online through a known chain of second hand electronics and the product's condition was pretty good, had only a small scratch on the power supply cable. I do not know if it got any damage along the way to me cause it got shipped to my address and I also do not know what kind of thermal paste/liquid metal paste it has or if it has any at all. I was thinking of opening the laptop to check or change paste myself but I guess that would void my 2 year warranty so I wouldn't want to mess with that.
Generally, I am currently trying to learn through online how to do videos or forums. I have a lot of questions regarding undervolting or what benchmarks or stress tests to do cause I dont want to burn up the laptop by randomly trying stuff on it.
If anyone has some time available to shed some light in my situation, it would be trully appreciated. Thank you for reading my post.
Hope everyone is safe and sound.
I would appreciate if one with experience could help me out with properly setting up my new gaming laptop. I am new to the pc world and gaming and I have recently I bought an HP Omen 17. I know that as a new guy I bought a monster I can barely handle but I was like " well it will last for a long time, if I don't make it explode".
To begin with, I used DDU to clean up the GPU drivers and install them again in Safe-mode manually since the GPU wasn't showing up in the Display monitors in the Device Manager.
After some minutes of gaming I had a black screen while the laptop was still running and had to hard reboot. Tried again to play while reducing a bit of undervolt and same story (black screen) happened again.
Furthermore, I bought the laptop online through a known chain of second hand electronics and the product's condition was pretty good, had only a small scratch on the power supply cable. I do not know if it got any damage along the way to me cause it got shipped to my address and I also do not know what kind of thermal paste/liquid metal paste it has or if it has any at all. I was thinking of opening the laptop to check or change paste myself but I guess that would void my 2 year warranty so I wouldn't want to mess with that.
Generally, I am currently trying to learn through online how to do videos or forums. I have a lot of questions regarding undervolting or what benchmarks or stress tests to do cause I dont want to burn up the laptop by randomly trying stuff on it.
If anyone has some time available to shed some light in my situation, it would be trully appreciated. Thank you for reading my post.
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