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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 19:23
After playing for long amounts of time, I guess, my screen turns completely white. I can still here everything right, as in I'm usually in skype chats, so I can still talk to friends, and I can hear myself opening my inventory etc.
Only new thing I've downloaded that's worthy of mention is the Madoka Magica: Grief Syndrome.
Also, sometimes my screen turns back to normal, but sometimes it doesn't and I have to restart. Last night, when I rebooted via power button, it wasn't turning to normal, so I just went to sleep. Today launched normally.
WHAT DO?
Now... all I have to do is wait for Yoorah to post! lmao.
Thanks for all the help in advance guys
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TA wrote on 2011-08-18 20:15
Video card overheating, sounds like. What people will generally tell you is "try opening up your case and if you can, point a fan in it."
If that is the case, that may help. Then again, the card could be damaged by now and it could keep happening regardless. Well, at least you're building a new computer soon anyways...
That's the best I've got.
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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 20:16
Quote from TA;557037:
Video card overheating, sounds like. What people will generally tell you is "try opening up your case and if you can, point a fan in it."
If that is the case, that may help. Then again, the card could be damaged by now and it could keep happening regardless. Well, at least you're building a new computer soon anyways...
That's the best I've got.
That's a little depressing. I won't be getting it until a couple of months TT-TT
Anyways I can keep it from happening?
Usually, I have it on for long period of time so... I don't know why it's starting to overheat NOW.
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-08-18 20:48
lol D: Sadly I can't give you any 100% conclusive info. But my best guess would be what TA said; it could be due to a dying/overheating graphics card. But.. it'd be the first time I've heard of that to cause the screen to just go white. O_o Usually, you get weird graphics corruption first and it slowly gets worse, instead.
Is it a desktop? See if you can open it and clean any dust that may be clogging fans or whatnot. You can also update the graphics card driver. If it's an AMD card, the GPU's control panel should let you underclock the GPU to reduce heat (at the cost of reduced performance), as well as manually increase fan speed.
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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 20:56
Quote from Yoorah;557059:
lol D: Sadly I can't give you any 100% conclusive info. But my best guess would be what TA said; it could be due to a dying/overheating graphics card. But.. it'd be the first time I've heard of that to cause the screen to just go white. O_o Usually, you get weird graphics corruption first and it slowly gets worse, instead.
Is it a desktop? See if you can open it and clean any dust that may be clogging fans or whatnot. You can also update the graphics card driver. If it's an AMD card, the GPU's control panel should let you underclock the GPU to reduce heat (at the cost of reduced performance), as well as manually increase fan speed.
It's a laptop. A really dumb laptop. How can I tell what graphics card I have?
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-08-18 21:08
start > run/search > dxdiag > display tab
Should be under name and/or chip type.
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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 21:10
[Image: http://gyazo.com/03c57ff50dc171faae87a3beb8aef2b9]
Right click the image> open in a new tab. (If it's broken that is)
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-08-18 21:19
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
Dunno what your exact OS is but you can just select it yourself. xd
You should uninstall the old drivers from your control panel before you install the new ones.
[S]Oh yeah, be sure to pick the
Integrated Motherboard Graphics drivers category.[/S]
EDIT: Actually.. maybe pick the notebook one to be on the safe side. >_>;; I wonder if the auto-detect works reliably. xD
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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 21:24
Quote from Yoorah;557098:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
Dunno what your exact OS is but you can just select it yourself. xd
You should uninstall the old drivers from your control panel before you install the new ones.
Okay gotcha. Hasn't happened since I launched computer today, so I'll just see what happens.
Or do you suggest I do it ASAP?
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-08-18 21:28
No need to do it ASAP, but it won't hurt. I was just wondering if you had the Catalyst Control Center installed atm, 'cause it would let you control fan speed and clock rate as mentioned. Installing the new package would probably install the CCC if you don't have it.
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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 21:30
Quote from Yoorah;557107:
No need to do it ASAP, but it won't hurt. I was just wondering if you had the Catalyst Control Center installed atm, 'cause it would let you control fan speed and clock rate as mentioned. Installing the new package would probably install the CCC if you don't have it.
Did a search. Doesn't seem I have it. D:
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-08-18 22:07
I see. Well, the desktop version gives you access to this:
[Video: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6681/captureugp.jpg]
I'm guessing the laptop one would be similar, although I doubt it would let you overclock much, if at all. Hopefully it'll let you underclock. xd
You should also look into cleaning the heatsink/fans on the laptop. Most people do it using compressed air. Some people open their laptops for a better cleaning, but there's the risk that you'll break something, depending on how hard it is to open your model. You should search for instructions specific to your model.
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Akemii wrote on 2011-08-18 22:15
Thanks for all this help Yoorah. Wish I repped people more, but I hate giving them out to people who don't erally need them HNNG.
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Eyrion wrote on 2011-08-18 23:51
This has actually happened to me, the computer screen would go completely white and occasionally it would go back to normal, usually using without having it plugged (It was a laptop) in would stop from doing so, but that changed shortly, then I had a completely new idea, I turned down the lighting on the screen, and sure enough, it worked.
But then a few days passed and even that began to fail, so I tried unplugging it and turning the lighting down, it worked, but then a couple days later it stopped. After that I pretty much gave up, and the keyboard started messing up as well, half the keys wouldn't work.
Oh and is the computer that's doing this a Samsung by chance? because mine is.
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-08-19 00:00
Ah.. that sounds like a more major type of failure than a glitchy GPU. x(
Have you tried connecting an external monitor when it does this?