well, i started up FB bout 2 hours ago.

"Ati Catalyst control has crashed and has now recovered."
-WoM closes...
try to restart
"permission exception, press any key to continue"
*presses y*
-cmd closes
start WoM
"permission exception, press any key to continue"
*presses something*
-cmd closes
starts up Firefox.
BSOD (yay!)
i sit there looking at it.
i think it mentioned the BIOS
started and completed memory dump

my mouse was visible but frozen with a blue spinning circly thingy...
fans were going crazy so i held the power button till shutoff (i read somewhere I shouldnt have done this, why? how are you supposed to shutdown from a BSOD?)

i proceeded to reboot.
...
...
keyboard lights slowly flashing.
crackling harddrive for a sec or two...
no display :/
laptop wont POST

knowing the BSOD said something about the BIOS, i took out the HD cover and reset the CMOS by taking out the RTC battery...
no luck.
tried booting with battery
no luck
tried booting w/o HD
no luck

D:!!!!

i think I fried my motherboard by cutting the power after a memdump v_v

im now on my backup laptop
Pentium M @1.73
DDR2 1gig at < 667
integrated Intel GMA 915...

no OpenGL = no Minecraft

v_v
bi guys. wont be around for a while
proceed to "WOOHOO!", provide tech support, or explain why "you're glad that bitch is gone"

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I don't think you could have fried the motherboard just by turning off the computer - you're right in that there's basically no other way of recovering from a BSoD... Also, the damage was most likely done by then. If the fans were going crazy it might have meant that something inside was overheating - I don't know where you place the laptop while gaming - I recall that for a laptop I owned it was pretty much necessary to put in pencils under the far end under full load so the heat dissipated better. ;-)

It's a pity you didn't read what kind of error it was that caused the BSoD - the BIOS is sometimes mentioned in driver failures (which might stem from hardware failures! ;-) too but it's a safe bet that something went pear-shaped with your hardware rather than software.

BIOS resets rarely do anything unless you were running a highly customized or overclocked configuration but it's still nice to see that you were savvy enough to do it.

Fixing laptop hardware is a bitch, so yeah, you might be out for a while...

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Yeah, ive had bsods before but ive always just ignored them and rebooted :/

lesson learned.

I think i was really pushing my poor hd 3200. thing wasnt meant to run COD on high textures :/
Im looking to build a new computer anyway with my christmas money so maybe ill be able to run minecraft better and hopefully get on tf2 and cod with you boys and girls.

*checks to see if this little laptop can play tf2 w/o opengl*

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R.I.P HP tx2 1025-dx
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