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help me break my laptop! and verify my gfx card
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 18, 2012, 01:11:24 PM ---I'm not 100% sure, but you can look up hardware-related IDs in your device manager. Right-click Computer (7) or My Computer (XP) -> properties -> hardware tab -> device manager. One of the tabs should have a drop-down list of several IDs you can write down.
As for killing the graphics card, dunno, man. I would just block the vents and wait for it to overheat and auto-shutoff, then unblock the vents and start it up again and see if it worked.
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Yep, any information available can be found in device manager - expand the display adapters section, double click on the grapics card listed there, and then go to the Details tab.
I'm not sure which, if any, of the details available are unique to a particular card, though. Possibly Hardware IDs, Physical Device Object Name, or Matching Device ID. There are also Install Date and First Install Date fields, but I'm not sure how reliable they are - the first install date of my card says 04/09/2011, when I know I first installed it in August 2010. The install date says 20/11/2011, which is when I last updated my drivers.
As for how best to make it malfunction, stress test sounds like the best option, yeah. 3DMark might do it, or there are probably other programs around if you Google. You could also consider overclocking it for a little while, but doing so voids the warranty, so if they find out you did so, then you're screwed.
AceHigh:
This is probably the worst kind of error we get in electronics industry. Not only are errors that come and go and appear only randomly hard to detect and thus risk shipping faulty products, but when the customers return such hardware and we can't recreate the error, it might bring some tension between us and the customers.
Turn on your laptop, shake it a bit, turn it upside down, run a benchmark to heat you graphic card, be rough with it and see if it comes back.
fohfoh:
For future reference, install speccy if you really have no idea how to look up the info of stuff installed in your computers.
kitamesume:
how about just ditching that thing entirely and sell it to someone before it totally breaks and buy a new one? less headaches right?
well anyway, to break your GPU use "MSI Kombustor" and tick the checkbox "Xtreme Burn-in" and let it sit for hours.
NaRu:
This is like a car. The mechanic can only fix a problem they can see. You have to stress it until it breaks completely.
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