Author Topic: i think my computer is dying  (Read 431 times)

well stuff

yesterday i think i left my computer on for nearly two days because i was trying to install a game one night then played blockland for a while during the other, if that matters at all. while playing blockland, my computer froze up, then after a couple of minutes went to the usual windows 8.1 error screen. but instead, it was just scattered white dots and black lines at the bottom as if the words and face blew up onto the screen.

i let it restart itself, and it took a while to start (but this usually happens when my computer does mess up) and it acted pretty odd when i did get onto the desktop mode. everything was pretty slow, the taskbar bugged out too, but when i did a proper shut-down and turned it back on, it acted better. i started up blockland and did the usual thing, and it ran fine while i did. suddenly i got that java update notification, and my computer froze on a greyed-out version of my desktop (since it does that for the notification window) and it just froze there. i let it sit for a while, and the notification came up, then i closed it out and everything ran fine again.

today everything was fine, but it did the same thing when the java update came up. after that, google chrome started to freeze up and not respond, and my taskbar lagged a lot.

is this my computer dying, or is something just forgeted up where i should wait it out?

Try clearing space for processing, that might be the issue.
Then again, I am a Mac user, so my suggestion will probably be stuff on by everyone.
But seriously, if that doesn't work, rip in kill your computer

It is possible that your GPU or some other part overheated while your computer was on for so long and got damaged.

It is possible that your GPU or some other part overheated while your computer was on for so long and got damaged.
I was thinking something like this may have happened.

is it possible dust build-up could've caused this? because i'm ashamed to admit i haven't dusted my comp in a long time

yeah dust out your computer and see if that cools everything

try running speccy and see what temperatures it gives you