Hello, i need help . I have an 8 years old Packard Bell that I am still using. I mostly play games between 1998-2013 releases. I used to play much more demanding games when my laptop was young, but now even in CoD 1 it keeps shutting down. In fact, I have this problem for so long I started to gather some data about this issue of mine.
First of all, it won’t shut down if I just left it on desktop or when I work with PowerPoint and CorelDraw. It won’t shut down when I play most RTS games, at least when I began a new game. Some of those games ranges between Anno 1404 and Pharaoh. It usually shuts down while I play FPS games and it happens between 5-10 minutes in-game. I used to play Mass effect 3 on this laptop without problem but now I can’t even play CoD 1.
Ps: once I was watching a movie from my USB drive, and it shut down in like 30 minutes after I began.
I had a pretty long time for researching why this happens and obliviously I had a overheating problem. So I sent it to a service, got it back, used it 2 months without problem then it started to happen again. So I sent it back. That kept going for like 2 years. Now I learned how to disassembly my laptop, how and how much to apply thermal paste, how to clean almost every part of it. I was using it for like 1 month without a problem again. Yesterday I played some games for couple hours as usual but today it happened again. It suddenly started to shutting down every time a launched and started to play Jedi Academy. I don’t even have an internet connection for my computer and I really like to continue to use this old piece of beauty if possible.
Some of my searches led me to this forum. I don’t trust my local PC services because 2 of them fooled me already. So I decided to look into it my own. But now I need some expertise. So help me if possible
Ps: I might made some mistakes while typing, since English is not my main language, so please bear with me
First of all, it won’t shut down if I just left it on desktop or when I work with PowerPoint and CorelDraw. It won’t shut down when I play most RTS games, at least when I began a new game. Some of those games ranges between Anno 1404 and Pharaoh. It usually shuts down while I play FPS games and it happens between 5-10 minutes in-game. I used to play Mass effect 3 on this laptop without problem but now I can’t even play CoD 1.
Ps: once I was watching a movie from my USB drive, and it shut down in like 30 minutes after I began.
I had a pretty long time for researching why this happens and obliviously I had a overheating problem. So I sent it to a service, got it back, used it 2 months without problem then it started to happen again. So I sent it back. That kept going for like 2 years. Now I learned how to disassembly my laptop, how and how much to apply thermal paste, how to clean almost every part of it. I was using it for like 1 month without a problem again. Yesterday I played some games for couple hours as usual but today it happened again. It suddenly started to shutting down every time a launched and started to play Jedi Academy. I don’t even have an internet connection for my computer and I really like to continue to use this old piece of beauty if possible.
Some of my searches led me to this forum. I don’t trust my local PC services because 2 of them fooled me already. So I decided to look into it my own. But now I need some expertise. So help me if possible
Ps: I might made some mistakes while typing, since English is not my main language, so please bear with me