barlew
Godlike
The large connecter with multiple coloured wires coming out of it on the top right of the picture is your battery.
Any 3D game crashes my entire pc.
- Thread starter Iraklis Pazios
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The large connecter with multiple coloured wires coming out of it on the top right of the picture is your battery.
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
Okay I did. Now to test it.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
If the wires don't have connectors then it would seem that you can't sadly.
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
It seems I could just slide the connectors off. So it definitely works now (it stopped working again about an hour ago so I decided to go through with the battery removal). I took the entire thing off. But now the pc is performing horribly. Which I don't understand. Since when does the battery improve performance?
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
In what way is it behaving horribly?
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
Performance wise. A game it could handle on highest settings at 90fps now works on 25
SpyderTracks
We love you Ukraine
Sound like it's using integrated graphics.
Make sure it's set to the nvidia card rather than internal.
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
Don't worry about that. I have it definitely on nVidia. Both global and program settings and Microsoft settings.
SpyderTracks
We love you Ukraine
Got to be a dud GPU then it sounds like.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
Are games crashing it now?
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
But if plug in the battery, then sometimes it works at perfect performance, sometimes crashes my pc. That doesn't make sense.
Also something completely new is that it shows gpu usage at 100%, which never happened before, but temperature at 35C
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
No
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
I'm susprised it's not behaving normally on the power brick alone. That makes me wonder whether it's the GPU?
The GPU usage worries me too.
Have you checked whether it crashes when on battery alone?
I'm inclined to think there is some sort of hardware issue there and since it's only games that cause crashes that would point to the GPU as well I think.
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
It doesn't crash on battery alone. Plugging in the PSU while playing games would crash the pc sometimes.
Basically
Only Battery= Low Performance, low GPU usage.
Only PSU= Low Performance, High GPU usage.
Battery+PSU= Sometimes it would work perfectly, sometimes crash.
I don't even know...
SpyderTracks
We love you Ukraine
There's something very strange going on there, I have no idea what but it's definitely a hardware issue.
I would arrange an RMA (you can do it through your online account) and point PCS to this thread so they can see the steps you've taken which will help them when they're troubleshooting.
It's just plain odd!
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
Damnit, i really didn't want another RMA....I don't want to wait another 2 months....
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
I think it's hardware too. BUT, since it doesn't crash on battery, can you unplug the power brick and set the Windows power setting to High Performance so that it should run at max performance. See how it performs then.
Iraklis Pazios
Bronze Level Poster
What is the power brick?
FerrariVie
Super Star
You mean RMA it again, right? According to him, PCS has already changed his motherboard, so how come he has another bad GPU??
I think it could be a PSU issue? When on battery it should work well for a while because it might be using the battery to provide full power to the system, since the PSU has some issue?
If you're going to RMA it again, make sure that they use your own PSU this time.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
The charger!