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    Reason why the P7811-FX Goes blackscreen//crashes while gaming

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by jas0ndotc0m, Aug 9, 2010.

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    jas0ndotc0m Notebook Enthusiast

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    After months of crashing and no solution for it, I realized what the problem was. I too had the same issues people had, after a year of owning it, every games starts to overheat my notebook (I play aion/Assassin's Creed/WoW/CoD4/SC2/HoN/BFBC2) and it just auto blackscreens w/ the sound looping (very annoying). I tried lowering every settings and it would just delay the same process. I even have the Zulman2000 and the issue still occurs. I put ice under the cooler hoping the cool air would help (which is funny cause it actually helped, but it only stalled the crash by about 2-5min). After massive amount of reading, I found a post on here, with the OP sayin' "i got over the fear of breaking my laptop and i fixed it" or something along those lines.

    There are two issues (assuming you had your 7811 for a year plus)
    1. There's a huge dust clot//bunny between your CPU fan and heatsink
    2. There's another huge dust clot between your GPU fan and GPU heatsink

    In my laptop, they were both about 3/4 cm thick of just normal dust, stacked up like a carpet (pretty disgusting when you see it, lemme know how thick yours is). To get to the CPU clot will take you about 30-45min your first time if you follow that guide I'm linking on the bottom. To get to the GPU clot will take you about 2-4 hours your first time. If you're going to disassemble and clean out your 7811, I recommend you also applying some type of thermal paste (I'd recommend the ICD7) since it takes hours to take it apart and put it together.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/gat...embly-guide-covers-all-17in-fx-notebooks.html

    Hope this helps!