MY Laptop's video card is acting so weird!

JanTemplar

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OK. here we go. that's it, alright.
Yes, I've been playing a lot with my laptop, and it rocked! after a while (I'm talking about 2 years!)
Now its graphic card has some problems, which i consider weird!
First look at this while i am playing Hearthstone!

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
+ Voltages
VIN0 1.080 V (current) 1.080 V (MIN) 1.080 V (MAX)
+ Temperatures
TMPIN0 139 C (current) 136 C(MIN) 140 C (MAX)


This is from HWMonitor while I'm playing Hearthstone!!!!!! and temperatures are high if you see.
Laptop's fan is fast, i don't know how but there is not that much heat around that! but the keyboard is hot! fan goes faster and faster even after closing the game myself or been closed with this message: "Application has been blocked from accessing Graphics hardware".

I took my laptop out to where i bought it, the support blah blah part organization. They looked, opened, closed and said your laptop is now OK, "we reinsert your graphic card and other stuff and cleaned dust " they said.
I was happy in the way home, reached and tested it out again with some game, it was the same, and now here i am, writing this with some kind of anxious!

Where is the problem Ladies and Gentlemen? :bounce:

It is helping to see my laptop's spec:

Model: Asus N53sn
Graphic: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 550M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM
Memory: DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM,4 x SO-DIMM socket
Chipset: Intel® HM65 Express Chipset
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM


And knowing:

1- It used to shut down when i played games, but after repair, not anymore.
2- Every game does that, even when I'm in the game's menus.
3- They said the Graphic Card could cause this, but we're not sure after putting new fresh card, the problem will be gone! it's kind of cheap, I'm able to try if its your suggestion!
4- They took the graphic card out and in.
5- They cleaned dust.

Thanks for reading.
 
Solution
Thermal compound is a paste used to fill the imperfections between the processor (cpu or graphics) and the heatsink so that heat is removed more effectively. Laptops which are good enough to have dedicated graphics cards normally have separate heatsinks. Over time the thermal compound degrades (hardens) but normally does not need to be replaced unless it's disturbed.

If your card was removed the compound would have been disturbed and would have needed to be replaced.

JanTemplar

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Hi sir, how are you? :)
I wasn't there so I'm not sure and i don't know what is thermal compound. I'll searching about it right away!
 

pauls3743

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Thermal compound is a paste used to fill the imperfections between the processor (cpu or graphics) and the heatsink so that heat is removed more effectively. Laptops which are good enough to have dedicated graphics cards normally have separate heatsinks. Over time the thermal compound degrades (hardens) but normally does not need to be replaced unless it's disturbed.

If your card was removed the compound would have been disturbed and would have needed to be replaced.
 
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