Topic: Beware laptop miners! (Read 1765 times)
Not a good idea to mine with laptop.Circumstances you have seen.
I feel like this thread is along the same lines as "Guys! Don't do what I did and run your car for 6 years without a single oil change! I did it, and my engine stopped working!"
You ask anyone on here whether CPU mining on a laptop is a good idea, and 95% of people will tell you it's a bad idea. The other 5% don't care about throwing away a $500+ piece of equipment for a few pennies of alt-coins.
Actually my laptop is $2000. You ask anyone on here whether CPU mining on a laptop is a good idea, and 95% of people will tell you it's a bad idea. The other 5% don't care about throwing away a $500+ piece of equipment for a few pennies of alt-coins.
I feel like this thread is along the same lines as "Guys! Don't do what I did and run your car for 6 years without a single oil change! I did it, and my engine stopped working!"
You ask anyone on here whether CPU mining on a laptop is a good idea, and 95% of people will tell you it's a bad idea. The other 5% don't care about throwing away a $500+ piece of equipment for a few pennies of alt-coins.
You ask anyone on here whether CPU mining on a laptop is a good idea, and 95% of people will tell you it's a bad idea. The other 5% don't care about throwing away a $500+ piece of equipment for a few pennies of alt-coins.
Actually my laptop is $2000.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss... most laptops are not built to sustain long periods of heavy use. The ventilation system simply does not allow the heat to flow out fast enough. For short-term gaming, 4-12 hours on the built-for-gaming alienware/sager notebooks, its probably alright, but mining is a completely different beast. :-(
I also tried cpu mining on laptop for one day. But my friend warned me. so i dropped the idea.
I feel like this thread is along the same lines as "Guys! Don't do what I did and run your car for 6 years without a single oil change! I did it, and my engine stopped working!"
You ask anyone on here whether CPU mining on a laptop is a good idea, and 95% of people will tell you it's a bad idea. The other 5% don't care about throwing away a $500+ piece of equipment for a few pennies of alt-coins.
You ask anyone on here whether CPU mining on a laptop is a good idea, and 95% of people will tell you it's a bad idea. The other 5% don't care about throwing away a $500+ piece of equipment for a few pennies of alt-coins.
It's a dell 4 months out of warranty 
That is too bad. I always buy from Amazon. Because they always refund me if the electronic goods is broken.
If you got another dell with the same power supply, maybe you can swap it and see. Maybe like the other member said it is just the power supply.
Or get the power supply from Amazon or Ebay, test it, if it works keep it. If not return it within 30 days and get your refund back.
Come and think of it, most of the laptop I have seen damaged are the screen cracked or power supply or battery related. It is rare that a board can burn.
Even if you did manage to properly cool your laptop and let it mine for a few months it would still probably cost more in electricity than you earn.
It's a dell 4 months out of warranty
I had a lenovo laptop that I used to search for ET. Lenovo replaced the motherboard under warranty 3 times when the fan wore out before my extended warranty expired. They balked but looking for ET is a legitimate use for the hardware so they had to honor the warranty.
FWIW, video chips rarely let out the magical smoke. It is likely the power supply. If you are lucky it is the external power supply. If not, there are no field replaceable parts on the motherboard. it is a complete gut swap.
FWIW, video chips rarely let out the magical smoke. It is likely the power supply. If you are lucky it is the external power supply. If not, there are no field replaceable parts on the motherboard. it is a complete gut swap.
You had a Dell laptop? Is it still under warranty?
It has a separate ATI graphics chip, HD7730M, definitely not on chip
All I know is that the GPU is onboard, not seperate like some higher spec laptops, whatever it is that is gone, it prevents the laptop from starting, no post, no fan, nothing
What CPU are you using? Maybe it is integrated in the CPU. Also some laptop CPU is quite cheap to replace.
Keep your laptop cooler, and out of dust, that's it.
I did this for a short period of time but stopped after less than 3 hours because I knew it was a hardware risk and had a ASIC coming in the mail 
as laptops are build so compact with all parts so close together they are nearly impossible to keep at good temps. sorry for your loss but never ever use laptops for direct mining (meaning using there cpu or gpu).
All I know is that the GPU is onboard, not seperate like some higher spec laptops, whatever it is that is gone, it prevents the laptop from starting, no post, no fan, nothing
Yeah, unfortunately I really was not aware of how much of a load this can put on it
Maybe if I ever raise the cash I will do it properly next time with ATI cards in a desktop
Maybe if I ever raise the cash I will do it properly next time with ATI cards in a desktop
Do you know if it is your GPU which is fried or the CPU or motherboard?
To get a replacement GPU for a laptop is actually really cheap.
Yeah, unfortunately I really was not aware of how much of a load this can put on it
Maybe if I ever raise the cash I will do it properly next time with ATI cards in a desktop
Maybe if I ever raise the cash I will do it properly next time with ATI cards in a desktop
You should have cooling fan blowing into your laptop. I use my laptop to mine CPU coins, and it is working perfectly, it has been hashing non stop 24/7 for almost 2 years.
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