Local PC repair guy had some laptops in the e-waste bin so i bought them for cheap, as i do.
He said all of them work but they all have issues, and it's true.
My focus in this thread is the Satellite L50-B-281, which was in the bundle.
The laptop originally had the hinge support broken off completely in the lower chassis/bottom cover.
I fixed the broken plastic with hot glue and it's all fine now, except for the GPU.
When i pulled the heatsink apart i found a huge load of lint and dust buildup so the laptop was most likely constantly overheating.
As it happens overheating GPU's often die.
I tried the good old bake in the oven trick, which fixed a few of my dead PC parts and laptops but not this one.
The symptoms for this dead GPU issue include:
Drivers don't initialize and throw an error message on start up.
Drivers do install fine, though.
No GPU usage monitor in task manager (win10).
Benchmarks report GPU as not responding and default to iGPU.
Speccy reports GPU temp as 511C.
As it happens i'm writing this thread with the laptop i question. It has a nice 1080p screen and a pretty good i5 CPU and i'd like to use it as my study/university laptop.
My current HP laptop is falling apart and there's only so much fiberglass i can epoxy on it before it's too far gone, also it has an AMD A4400 CPU which is mega slow.
Would be nice to get the GPU working (without killing the laptop of course) for Solidworks and other GPU accelerated worloads.
Any suggestions? Taking this laptop apart is quite simple so i don't mind probing around.
He said all of them work but they all have issues, and it's true.
My focus in this thread is the Satellite L50-B-281, which was in the bundle.
The laptop originally had the hinge support broken off completely in the lower chassis/bottom cover.
I fixed the broken plastic with hot glue and it's all fine now, except for the GPU.
When i pulled the heatsink apart i found a huge load of lint and dust buildup so the laptop was most likely constantly overheating.
As it happens overheating GPU's often die.
I tried the good old bake in the oven trick, which fixed a few of my dead PC parts and laptops but not this one.
The symptoms for this dead GPU issue include:
Drivers don't initialize and throw an error message on start up.
Drivers do install fine, though.
No GPU usage monitor in task manager (win10).
Benchmarks report GPU as not responding and default to iGPU.
Speccy reports GPU temp as 511C.
As it happens i'm writing this thread with the laptop i question. It has a nice 1080p screen and a pretty good i5 CPU and i'd like to use it as my study/university laptop.
My current HP laptop is falling apart and there's only so much fiberglass i can epoxy on it before it's too far gone, also it has an AMD A4400 CPU which is mega slow.
Would be nice to get the GPU working (without killing the laptop of course) for Solidworks and other GPU accelerated worloads.
Any suggestions? Taking this laptop apart is quite simple so i don't mind probing around.
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