My laptop just burned when I flying Apache

[FrostLaufeyson]

The power adapter was broken before. Maybe I bought a low-quality power adapter later, which caused the accident.

I was teaching others the skills that Apache's CPG should master. Suddenly, the screen flashed a few times, and then the position near the laptop power began to smoke. 

Sad

[Kang]

On the plus side: hugely realistic damage model there

[Mars Exulte]

Hmmm. I'm not a doctor, but that sucking chest wound looks serious.

I fried a GPU in a laptop once due to poor airflow. It was at that time I learned

A. Do not game on a blanket

B. Laptop GPUs are 2x the price of desktop

[okopanja]

Power adapter is usually large brick for gaming laptops. E.g. mine is 240W. If you need to replace it, you should get the same original adapter and be careful to avoid those that are rated for less than that, even if they come from same manufacturer and have same connector. Still it is curious that the original was broken before. These adapters can overheat themselves: do not cover them. I made once such mistake long time ago, when I placed the adapter into wooden enclosed space with no ventilation.

If you are lucky, your laptop is still undamaged and you should be able either to power it on via battery, or connected another adapter from friend or in a service to see if something got burned inside.

Off topic part of comment

The thing to note about gaming on a laptop: this is not the smartest thing to do, despite what it looks to be a money saving.

After 2 years of usage of Dell G7 7700 (gaming laptop 1 year spent for normal stuff, 1 year for DCS), I decided inspect and reapply thermal paste on GPU and CPU. Warning were hints were random shutdowns of DCS/OS. First thing I noticed is that heat sink did not want to part the motherboard. After carefully applying steady continuous lifting force, while holding the motherboard in place not to bend, I finally managed to remove it (moments of pure fear). I was shocked by the fact that the thermal paste Dell used, turned into stone. Cleaning this stone from CPU/GPU was easy. However heating sink was another story: it took 5-10 minutes to get rid of the stone. Afterwards GPU temperatures went good 10 degree lower. Note: this is dangerous operation you can damage GPU/CPU/motherboard. Better leave it to someone who knows what he is doing.

 

 

[Mars Exulte]

22 hours ago, okopanja said:

The thing to note about gaming on a laptop: this is not the smartest thing to do, despite what it looks to be a money saving.

 You can absolutely game on a laptop, but it is essential you keep thermals in mind, and a dedicated cooler is damn near required.

22 hours ago, okopanja said:

After 2 years of usage of Dell G7 7700 (gaming laptop 1 year spent for normal stuff, 1 year for DCS), I decided inspect and reapply thermal paste on GPU and CPU.

 Yeah, a good laptop can be disassembled like this. Avoid the ones where everything is soldered. Also avoid the really skinny ones, they overheat. You want a portable PC not a ''notebook''. And as this person indicates, remember you still need to perform routine maintenance for dust, paste, etc.

Sounds like Dell used a particularly crap paste there. Tbh, I have a real low opinion of them since I saw one of their Alienware flagship models up close once. What an overpriced piece of crap with wonky plastic bits all over it lol

[FrostLaufeyson]

2022/11/26 PM3点57分，okopanja说：

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2022/11/27 PM2点36分，Mars Exulte说：

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I bought a power adapter with the same parameters, but the voltage may be unstable due to the relatively poor quality. At last, it burned my laptop motherboard.

Now I plan to buy a new desktop host. The current configuration is i5-13600KF, RTX 3070 8G, and 32GB RAM. And I plan to buy QUEST 2. I have never experienced VR so far. I hope VR can give me some shocking experience.

[Kang]

11 hours ago, FrostLaufeyson said:

I hope VR can give me some shocking experience.

Seeing how your last computer was one fiery hot machine I hope it doesn't...