I’m done with lenovo. I need you guys to convince me, otherwise I’m out almost $1200 for a sleek black paper weight.
I bought the Lenovo y70 laptop about three weeks ago. My goal was to play World of Tanks with my friends for hours and hours of great joy. We would drink Bawls energy drink and blow up each other’s tanks. Fun right? No. Read on.
After spending about 4 hours downloading Windows updates I was finally to the point of getting to install WOT. Game installed fine. Everything was running smooth up till this point. My laptop was running the game at max settings and it was AWESOME.
That is until the computer bluescreened. Seriously. My new gaming laptop just stopped working after about 11 hours of playing non-stop game action.
Now I’m pretty savvy with computers so I decided to take things into my own hands after not having any luck from support.
I read online that taking the ram out and re plugging it in can get rid of the bluescreen of death. I tried that and the laptop still crashed after less than an hour of gaming. My thoughts are maybe my laptop was overheating. Made sense because I was playing it on the couch for most of that night.
Now the danged thing just boots to a black screen. Do you guys have any ideas? I just really want to play my game
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lonelyphoenix7 Notebook Consultant
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No, blue screens have different error codes which can tell you what make it happen. For the black screen, is the screen lit up, or is then screen not turned on?
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Just return laptop for refund.
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I went ahead and took the laptop apart. Going with my thoughts on it overheating... I purchased some super glue and thermal compound to put on those heatsink things. I will report back -
Black screen ay? Maybe you weren't computer savvy enough to insert rams back correctly.
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Superglue? heatsink is attached by screws... it's meant to be taken off and replaced at some point. Just be carefulJaneL and katalin_2003 like this. -
True about the text mattering. Better to have read it first than to start tearing the system apart with no idea of what's wrong.
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When you play on the couch, are any of your laptop's vents or fans being blocked by your lap or anything? I recommend getting a board or lapdesk type thing so it can breathe.
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superglue is the worst possible thing, ever, to put on the surface of cpu / gpu chip dies.
Not only is it a terrible heat conductor, it is also very acidic (who knows what that will do to the exposed die material) but if you ever try to remove the heatsink you have virtually no chance of doing so without permanently damaging the chips, and or the heatpipes.
Whoever told you, or wherever you read that superglue is a suitable thermal interface material is very, very wrong. this isn't the old days of 1995-2005 where GPU chips were surrounded by plastic with a metal heat spreader in the centre. Now, the only thing on the chip is the die itself under a very small and delicate epoxy resin square. you don't want to go super gluing it2.0 likes this. -
Sounds like you made the paper weight not Lenovo. An easy return would have given you a new laptop. It sucks your new laptop died and every once in a while a bad egg gets through but to say they are all bad?
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Im guessing the lack of the poster commenting again means the superglue adventure did not go well.....
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Who has blue screen of death, just change original hdd+8gb ssd to regular hdd or ssd disk. In my case I used to have a lot of blue screen problems. I set very old 200gb hdd (5400rpm), installed fresh win 8.1 After all no more problems. Just waiting to price drop on 500gb ssd.
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Good luck to you, hope you get it figured out. I'm just here for the humor.
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Oh god..
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lol
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This is probably one of the more amusing threads I've read in awhile. Some people say superglue fixes everything, but maybe not in this case.
RIP @vEdwards Y50...
Why I will NEVER buy a lenovo gaming laptop again
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vEdwards, Dec 20, 2014.