- Mar 3, 2014
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Acer Nitro 7 (GTX 1660Ti, i5 9300H, Linux is on SSD, Windows on HDD, 2x 8GB RAM sticks)
I cleaned my laptop today; opened the back, blew air into the fan ducts, lightly wiped with a cloth.
After that, booting into Windows 10 and running ANY game (Saboteur, Far Cry, Valorant), it completely freezes - mouse pointer moves once in 5 seconds, and after a while the system is completely stuck. This also happened when I tried to open a website in the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows.
I also have Arch Linux on my machine in dual-boot, in that I ran memtest to check RAM (allocated and checked 9 GB) - all tests were ok
My HDD is accessible, I played some videos off of it in Linux
I also ran glxgears and offloaded it using Prime to my GTX 1660, then ran nvidia-smi to check if it was actually running on it, and it was (used 2 MB).
Then I tried to run Dying Light using Prime offload from Steam, it was running on my GTX but output was only black and white screens (this seems to be an issue with the game, not GPU) - GPU was using 600 MB out of 6 GB which is reasonable
I am clueless as to what is happening, though I still suspect either GPU or HDD giving up (HDD is 100% in Windows, but Windows at least takes me to desktop and starts applications so I don't think it is the culprit)
Please note the first boot right after I reassembled after cleaning - Windows crashed with no app open - it was not a BSOD but a complete system reset
Please help me make Windows work, I am leaving for college soon, this is very worrysome 🙁
UPDATE: I ran Unigine Benchmark on my GTX and it worked at 60 FPS (offloaded works at 60, launching directly without offloading - integrated GPU works at not so much maybe 5-6 FPS), so the GPU must be perfectly fine. I suspect the HDD to be the trouble, is there a way to confirm?
I cleaned my laptop today; opened the back, blew air into the fan ducts, lightly wiped with a cloth.
After that, booting into Windows 10 and running ANY game (Saboteur, Far Cry, Valorant), it completely freezes - mouse pointer moves once in 5 seconds, and after a while the system is completely stuck. This also happened when I tried to open a website in the Microsoft Edge browser in Windows.
I also have Arch Linux on my machine in dual-boot, in that I ran memtest to check RAM (allocated and checked 9 GB) - all tests were ok
My HDD is accessible, I played some videos off of it in Linux
I also ran glxgears and offloaded it using Prime to my GTX 1660, then ran nvidia-smi to check if it was actually running on it, and it was (used 2 MB).
Then I tried to run Dying Light using Prime offload from Steam, it was running on my GTX but output was only black and white screens (this seems to be an issue with the game, not GPU) - GPU was using 600 MB out of 6 GB which is reasonable
I am clueless as to what is happening, though I still suspect either GPU or HDD giving up (HDD is 100% in Windows, but Windows at least takes me to desktop and starts applications so I don't think it is the culprit)
Please note the first boot right after I reassembled after cleaning - Windows crashed with no app open - it was not a BSOD but a complete system reset
Please help me make Windows work, I am leaving for college soon, this is very worrysome 🙁
UPDATE: I ran Unigine Benchmark on my GTX and it worked at 60 FPS (offloaded works at 60, launching directly without offloading - integrated GPU works at not so much maybe 5-6 FPS), so the GPU must be perfectly fine. I suspect the HDD to be the trouble, is there a way to confirm?
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