Computer freezing and making noise

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 opalm -
Hello,

My laptop (an Acer Aspire 7741) experienced a problem that I find quite worrying, and I hope some of you can give me some leads.

Suddenly, the screen froze (ctrl+alt+delete didn't work) and the computer was making a strange humming noise. Forced to manually turn off the laptop, I restarted it in safe mode and ran scans (no viruses or suspicious stuff)... The problem hasn't (yet) reappeared, and when I returned to "normal mode", an error message appeared saying: "Your graphics driver has stopped functioning properly."

Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thank you very much!

1 answer

  1. Haekos Posted messages 794 Status Member 209
     
    small overheating

    the "purring" was surely the ventilation running at full speed

    in my opinion, it urgently needs a good dusting
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    1. opalm
       
      Dusting done... and I can already see the difference! Thank you!
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