Topic: I think I fried my laptop while mining - page 2. (Read 1483 times)

the fan ca still be damage because before the system take everything off and shutdown the laptop, the fan would spin at above the right speed thus ruining it, even if it is for a short amount of timing


bears in mind that you need to clean your laptop from the dust from time to time, otherwise the fan might nor work well

I'm not sure whether it's due to mining with your laptop coz it worked good for 4 days. You told it's a one year old laptop. Modern laptops are capable to turn itself off if the heat is about to damage the physical components. You don't have to worry about content loss if you've to do a system restore or even if you're about to install fresh OS, you can possibly retain the contents in the hard drive including the contents of C drive.

Note: I said "retain" (You can install new OS without deleting any files), not "recover" (recovering deleted files).

Hey all. First of all, I'm a newbie to mining and like most newbies I jumped head first and started mining from my laptop without reading about the possible consequences. I have a Lenovo y510p, one year old. Four days ago I left it mining for 6 hours straight while I was away and when I got back everything was fine. I noticed it was generating a lot of heat and got a little worried but as soon as I stopped the mining everything was fine. The next few days the laptop worked normally. I thought it was a bit slower at times but I thought I'm just being paranoid. Either way I decided not to mine anymore. Today, 4days after mining I woke up and turned on the laptop and after a few minutes of running a video in vlc player, everything froze. Video was playing but I couldn't open google chrome or anything else. I restarted and it wouldn't start up. Windows kept diagnosing the problem and it finally said that I need to do a system restore. I haven't done it yet because I wanted to hear some opinions before losing stuff on my hard drive. If it is indeed because of mining, what exacy my got fried? Which part will I need to replace? And wouldn't it have been fried right away? Is it possible that its not that bad? I can take it back to the store as its still in warranty but its in a different city so I need to make sure I tried everything beforehand. Thanks and sorry for typos, writing from my phone.