Problems with my G73Jh. halp plox.

Greeting everyone!

A few months ago my computer has been randomly shutting down, not even from gaming. I called Asus and they suggested I reset my computer back to factory settings, that did solve the problem for a month till the same problem occurred again. My warranty has been due for while now. However, I've been reading that this might be due to my GPU overheating and I may need to repaste. But, after receiving the random shuts downs to black screens. I decided to restore my computer to factory settings, it has solved the problem for now. However, when I'm gaming such as LoL, I receive random fps drops. It is quite frustrating at points. I can even run skype and LoL at the same time other wise my fps drops to crap. So I defragged my hard drive that solve the problem for a while I could even run two programs at once, however, I'm still receiving random fps drops. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestion on why my computer is experiencing these random fps drops, is due to my GPU? I'd like to run more than just LoL when i'm playing, just like when I first bought it.

Thanks!

 

You may be experiencing throttling either on gpu or cpu.
The fastest thing you can do is to Download Throttlestop, launch it and leave it running. See if the same fps drops occour.
Also seems that various g73jh users report that on some configurations Visual Basic 2008/2010 component usually updated thru windows update may be the culprit of the instability. You may want to check if you have it installed, if so try to remove them.
Good luck
Ps: also check your CPU temperatures, search for CoreTemp and leave it running until in background.

 

do you mean those ones?

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9003/83421435.png

How do I know if they are faulty?

 

Someone adviced to remove all of them, actually.

 

Thanks a lot King, I'll try to uninstall those and see if they remove the problem. As for CPU, last night I actually downloaded the program and my CPU was around 100C, just from running malware bytes. I just turned on my computer and its running around 83C, with an 97C Max. My GPU is around 63C, last night it was around 75C. I'm quite sure my CPU temp is really high, would a re paste help solve this problem?

Thanks!

 

Firstly trying blow your vents out with compressed air to shift any dust blocking the cooling system. But that is quite high so a repaste might be required and is a worthy option using a good TIM can prolong the life of your laptop and at 100oC it will throttle down and you will lose performance which is bad very bad.

Halp Plox last time I heard this I was trying to heal 14 people after all 3 healers and the MT died in Naxxramas. Good times how I miss them Plated healers FTW.

 

Thanks Dallers!

So you would suggest a repaste and the would you say the cause of my random fps drops during gaming due to my CPU overheating?

Haha, I played mage when I use to play WoW, need to spam that when I was taking damage, squishyyy.

 

I have had some really bad WoW cravings this week but I swore never to return, somedays you just wanna go do dailies and grind some dungeons and forget how bad the world is, you get me but things would not be as good as they used to be so I refrain from doing it.

Yes mate most definetely the reason why throttling is evil, it may not be the cause of your bouncing frames but I would bet it is not helping. The CPU will be forced to throttle when it hits 100oC as a safety mechanism and it does not throttle lightly either you will lose a vast amount of performance to drop the temps down at TJ.

 

Haha Dallers, I feel you, I haven't played WoW for almost 2 years pretty big achievement, if you know what I mean, but you always get that random urge just to log on and see what's going on!

Thanks for the help, I ordered some IC 7 to repaste my gpu and cpu, I took a compressed can and sprayed into the vents a month ago, didn't seem to help. But I will try again. This might be a stupid, but I'm kind of suspicious, that the fan cooling down my cpu is broken? Usually the vent on the right side is a lot hotter and I can feel air coming out it, rather on the left side of the vent I barely feel any breeze of air coming out.

 

I agree with BLowing the vents out..
I do it 2 times a month now.

I am one 1 week without WOW now..

I need a Program to help with this

 

Simple way to check this just run HWINFO sensors only and check the fan sections to make sure that you have CPU+GPU fans running. That could be your problem it is not common but also not unheard of.

IC7 is the way to go have you repasted before? its a worthy experience and if its your first time make sure you do your research plenty of videos about of people who have done the same. I enjoy dissassembling mine and apart from saying be very careful with the audio cable and keyboard the biggest advice I can give you is take your time hours if needby dont rush it. A little ICD goes a long way as well less is more. Any questions just PM me.

Re: WoW I am around 2 years away from it too and 5 stone lighter and healthy now because of it and the pro's outway the con's but apart from Dragon Age and The Witcher I have struggled to find a game that can engross me as much as that did. The game is a drug, A fantastic but soul destroying one.

 

I downloaded that program, and checked off sensors only I can't seem to find the fan section I only see GPU fan running. I don't quite see CPU fan, possibly my fan is broken?

 

As you can see my temps, just from idle, I can't seem to find CPU Fan. When I first bought this labtop I always ran "twin turbo mode" or whatever, which overclocks my cpu, I didn't realize that till now and I left it running for almost straight one year. Could this be a possible reason my cpu fan is broken?

Thanks!

 

I actually just semi-disassembled it and air canned the crap out of this thing, I managed to get my fan working again, wewt, thank God it's not broken, it was probably really dusty I assume and something was getting in its way. However my idle temps are still pretty high, would a repaste solve the problem?

Thanks!

 

Yep that was your problem then always good to have HWINFO hanging around I swear by it that program can diagnose problems in seconds. Keep an eye on it though just to make sure could be a faulty fan.

Glad you got it sorted! game on!