Laptop freezing. need help!

[Seemly]

Hello, please take your time to read all of this, i have a y50 uhd with following specifications:
8GB RAM
GTX 860M 4GB GDDR5
Intel core i7 4710 HQ quad core 2.5 GHz
OS: Windows 10

So about 2-3 weeks or more ago, my laptop froze while i was working on a model in Cinema 4D.
i couldn't move anything, even my mouse cursor, i had no choice but to shut it down from power button, then made advanced system care clean up. i continued using it until today, until it did same thing, this time i tried to open nvidia control panel, everything froze, and i could hear the fan doing hard. (What i was planning to do was to reset my nvidia control panel settings because i was lagging weirdly in a Attack on titan tribute game.)

What i might be thinking:

"About a month ago. i tried to overclock using nvidia inspector, and made the bar all the way in the settings, more details can be seen here in a thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2925271/overclock-happend.html
of course my laptop froze, i had to shut it down from the power button, but it shut down and made a pop sound, everything worked fine after that though for now"

But i don't know, my fears are hardware damage, what do you think, what is the problem? and how can i fix it?

Thanks for reading!

 

[thx1138v2]

Over clocking, by definition, is running the component outside the guaranteed specifications. That "pop sound" was probably something blowing. Could be in the graphics, the motherboard, or the power circuitry.

Take it to a shop. The longer you run it in the current state the more likely you are to damage something else.

 

[Seemly]

Over clocking, by definition, is running the component outside the guaranteed specifications. That "pop sound" was probably something blowing. Could be in the graphics, the motherboard, or the power circuitry.

Take it to a shop. The longer you run it in the current state the more likely you are to damage something else.

I don't really know, I mean is there anyway I could make sure? without taking it?. I mean everything was working fine after that, and I turned it off immediately after it froze in the overclocking which followed the pop sound.

 

[Lodhi12]

Popping noise is always bad. Was there any burning, or weird smells after that?

 

[Seemly]

Popping noise is always bad. Was there any burning, or weird smells after that?

I don't think so. Maybe it was the sound of the fan stopping suddenly assuming I force shut it down using the power button? The laptop is working fine.

 

[thx1138v2]

Popping noise is always bad. Was there any burning, or weird smells after that?

I don't think so. Maybe it was the sound of the fan stopping suddenly assuming I force shut it down using the power button? The laptop is working fine.

It may be working fine now but for how long? Take it to a shop and have them check it out before something else gets damaged.

Or you can just keep using it until something else goes pop again. It may or may not be recoverable next time.

 

[Seemly]

Popping noise is always bad. Was there any burning, or weird smells after that?

I don't think so. Maybe it was the sound of the fan stopping suddenly assuming I force shut it down using the power button? The laptop is working fine.

It may be working fine now but for how long? Take it to a shop and have them check it out before something else gets damaged.

Or you can just keep using it until something else goes pop again. It may or may not be recoverable next time.

I would see about that, but can't you suggest a program to check if everything is going fine or no?

 

[Lodhi12]

Push your CPU with Prime95... It'll torture your CPU. Use it for ATLEAST 4 hours...
Memtest86+ checks the RAM... Use it OverNight preferably.
Use FurMark to stress test your GPU...

These will catch any abnormalities in your rig...