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  • Counter Strike
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June 17, 2014 3:21:37 AM

Hi,

For the past week now the laptop has restarted itself twice. Once when I was playing counter-strike: global offensive and the other when I was playing league of legends.

Anyone know how to stop these restarts?

Runite.

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June 17, 2014 3:33:09 AM

Sounds like your PC doesn't have enough power or isn't stable, if i only happens when you PC is gaming then it may also be heating, try resitting your heatsink
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June 17, 2014 4:14:20 AM

I used to have lag spikes due to heating, but I solved that by dusting out my PC and applying thermal paste on my CPU / GPU. What does resitting the heatsink do?
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June 17, 2014 4:15:56 AM

It may not be on correctly, also when you applied new paste make sure you didn't put to much are it'll slow the conduction of heat away from the CPU/GPU and to the heatsink
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June 17, 2014 4:33:33 AM

It is likely due to insufficient power or Heating Issue. Try lowering the CPU frequency.
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June 17, 2014 5:20:07 AM

How do you lower the CPU frequency, what does this do?
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June 17, 2014 10:19:40 AM

What CPU do you have?
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June 17, 2014 10:46:47 AM

Intel Core i5-2450M
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June 17, 2014 11:28:57 AM

Try using this. Set the multiplier to a lower number. Not very much lower though. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/des...

I hope it shows an option to down clock your processor. One more thing, down clocking isn't harmful at all.
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June 17, 2014 11:30:56 AM

Could be your GPU is faulty. I had the same issue on my Laptop, I used to game on it occasionally when I was away from my desktop and after it overheated for the first few times it had issues ever since. First few times it was a number of hours into gaming it would turn off, now its about half an hour tops. Laptops, generally, are just not good for gaming.
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July 27, 2014 12:05:13 PM

My computer was fine for 2-3 weeks but restarted itself twice today, anyone else got any ideas?
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