VoltSh0ck Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) Hello everyone, today I woke up to my daily routine of going on my laptop to game when it suddenly started doing a beeping sound and blinking numlock/cap lock lights and shortly afterwards it shutdown by itself. I booted up a few times and it would do the same thing, beeping/blinking lights and then shutdown. I've already opened it up and reseated the ram, cleaned the fans, and reinserted the battery and HDD. Is this a faulty GPU or CPU?? What do I do? Heres my full specs: i7-3630qm CPU Nvidia GTX 670mx GPU 16GB DDR3 Ram 750 GB HDD Windows 10 Pro ***UPDATE*** I turned on my laptop today for some other unrelated part testing when it started working again!! GPU and the CPU are intact. What's going on here? Why is it working all of sudden now? Was it a false alarm? Edited January 18, 2017 by VoltSh0ck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Your GPU died. It's beeping and shutting down because it cannot detect it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoltSh0ck Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 I see, looks like I'll have to look for a new GPU on eBay. Thanks for clarifying what the error was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoltSh0ck Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 21 hours ago, Khenglish said: Your GPU died. It's beeping and shutting down because it cannot detect it. ***UPDATE*** I turned on my laptop today for some other unrelated part testing when it started working again!! GPU and the CPU are intact. What's going on here? Why is it working all of sudden now? Was it a false alarm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Unless you reseated the card I do not expect this to last. The only thing besides a dying gpu that can cause the beeping and shutdown is a dead or unplugged fan. The laptop won't start beeping until it tries to turn the fan on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoltSh0ck Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 7 hours ago, Khenglish said: Unless you reseated the card I do not expect this to last. The only thing besides a dying gpu that can cause the beeping and shutdown is a dead or unplugged fan. The laptop won't start beeping until it tries to turn the fan on. I did heavy tests on the GPU, there's no signs of it dying or anything besides. No artifacts, slowdowns, nothing. I even gamed 4 hours on it and oc'd without problems. Temps are low too. I did however before (when it was still beeping) take out both CPU and GPU fans and cleaned them inside and out. It's most likely the second option that the fan just wasn't responding/unplugged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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