from my experience which happens all the time. check back your connection especially those small2 stuff and also your connection for display(to the monitor) sometimes it's just that. If you can't trouble shoot disassemble and re-assemble back . Should do fine. Proc isn't easy to fry no worries. Except if you spill thermal paste or applied too many thermal paste and it leaks to the pins on the proc . other than that you should be fine just some minor problem. well thats what i hope good luck.

Probably just tighten back the connection, any lights up? power cable maybe? the one connecting from ur power button to the mobo?

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i came here just for that..

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download hwinfo and check what is ur CPU temp.. just curious.. how long have u been using this laptop?

what problem does it have now?

i'm suspecting that it might need thermal repasting but do check ur CPU temp first with hwinfo it's a free software download. Just run the software and see your temp til when ur laptop will automatically shut down.

If the temp is the cause of it, it's normal because rather than burning the laptop it has cutoff which automatically switches off the laptop at certain temp (CPU max temp i think usually is around 105C - 108C)

hope it helps

This post has been edited by holloway: Jul 15 2013, 12:51 AM

just wondering ur laptop comes with the i7 variant or i5

and is the gpu is NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M with 1GB/2GB DDR3 VRAM

but above all is ur ram.

Some games are GPU stressing, some games stresses the CPU more and mostly needed more ram.

I'm guessing ur ram? as i am also playing dota 2. and a friend of mine is using an old asus laptop which has i think GT 3XX GC of course most settings are at lowest. Laggy as hell when it was only 2GB ram, helped him upgrade to 6GB ram and dota 2 seems to be decent on his laptop now.

Also check the temperature of the GPU and CPU.

Yeah was just eliminating any possible cause for that lag. GT555 should be more than enough to run dota 2 at high.

Maybe you could try to clean uninstall the driver then reinstall back?

Also maybe make sure that not the steam that opens with nvidia but dota 2.

One way to know either it's on integrated GPU and not discrete is to check the GPU temp itself. Probably it while launching dota 2 it didn't kick in the GT555?

If it does, probably the temp itself? maybe too high?

are u in a aircond room?

If it really uses the GT555 it's a good news coz the temp is really low. But might be the optimus ? it didn't from integrate to discrete gpu. even if u start dota 2 via nvidia

most likely it is not using the GT 555M? it's impossible that even at low setting the game is laggy.

i'm not so good either with optimus since i've never really had one before. Only helped couple of friends. But this might be able for u to find out

Download EVGA precision X -> Run dota 2 - > See the speedometer on EVGA precision X. If it seems like it's idle, then it's on integrated gpu.

hope that helps tho

Sure why not HDD are swappable. ergo u can swap to any SSD or HDD enjoy