- Mar 14, 2014
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Hi!
A little backstory first - I have the aforementioned machine for 3 years as of now, it has never been a gamekiller and it used to heat up a little more than my friends' notebooks. However, it was not a big issue, just a bit uncomfortable while resting my hand on a pretty warm surface.
About half a year ago, it started to turn off randomly while playing, no specific pattern here - I could use it for 7 hours and then play for 2 hours until it crashed or I could just turn it on, play for 2 minutes and BLAM. I decided to take it to an official post-warranty support company and they performed a "cooling system optimization". It worked great, temps dropped about 20 degrees, however, it still kept turning off. I reinstalled all the drivers, finally tried reinstalling whole system from scratch - nothing helped.
I thought maybe it's the fan, just stopping randomly and then the temp suddenly spikes up to the unbearable levels and the notebook just shuts itself, but no! I ran Speedfan for whole day, logged all the temperatures, checked the last one logged, 5 secs before the shutdown - none of them exceeded 60C. So it's not a temperature/fan problem AND it's a new system.
However, it's not Vaio-branded Windows, so there's a chance some drivers may not work correctly, can it cause a shutdown? It never happened outside of the game (I primarily play World of Warcraft and Hearthstone). Windows 7 I had until today was installed through Dreamspark Academy and I installed all the drivers through Sony Support. Windows 8.1 is from Dreamspark as well, but installed all of the drivers (except Ricoh MemoryStick) automatically. I also use original Nvidia Driver for GT 425M card as well, instead of outdated Sony ones.
Summarising - what can be the cause of these shutdowns? Is not having a branded system a potential culprit? Some sort of driver conflict and only during games? It kind of points to graphics card, should I use the Vaio drivers instead of clean Nvidia ones? I recall using clean ones without shutdowns, but maybe something isn't ok since a certain release.
What would you do?
A little backstory first - I have the aforementioned machine for 3 years as of now, it has never been a gamekiller and it used to heat up a little more than my friends' notebooks. However, it was not a big issue, just a bit uncomfortable while resting my hand on a pretty warm surface.
About half a year ago, it started to turn off randomly while playing, no specific pattern here - I could use it for 7 hours and then play for 2 hours until it crashed or I could just turn it on, play for 2 minutes and BLAM. I decided to take it to an official post-warranty support company and they performed a "cooling system optimization". It worked great, temps dropped about 20 degrees, however, it still kept turning off. I reinstalled all the drivers, finally tried reinstalling whole system from scratch - nothing helped.
I thought maybe it's the fan, just stopping randomly and then the temp suddenly spikes up to the unbearable levels and the notebook just shuts itself, but no! I ran Speedfan for whole day, logged all the temperatures, checked the last one logged, 5 secs before the shutdown - none of them exceeded 60C. So it's not a temperature/fan problem AND it's a new system.
However, it's not Vaio-branded Windows, so there's a chance some drivers may not work correctly, can it cause a shutdown? It never happened outside of the game (I primarily play World of Warcraft and Hearthstone). Windows 7 I had until today was installed through Dreamspark Academy and I installed all the drivers through Sony Support. Windows 8.1 is from Dreamspark as well, but installed all of the drivers (except Ricoh MemoryStick) automatically. I also use original Nvidia Driver for GT 425M card as well, instead of outdated Sony ones.
Summarising - what can be the cause of these shutdowns? Is not having a branded system a potential culprit? Some sort of driver conflict and only during games? It kind of points to graphics card, should I use the Vaio drivers instead of clean Nvidia ones? I recall using clean ones without shutdowns, but maybe something isn't ok since a certain release.
What would you do?
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