09-18-2014, 09:07 PM
I spilled liquid on my keyboard. Story goes, I dumped a drink on my laptop the other night, lol (knocked it over onto it). Its an older HP Pavilion dv6. Think it has a Radeon HD 6520?! I suck with computer stuff, but I think that is it. Anyhow, its usually always been fine for running cs 1.6 (which is the only game I have/play...shocking I know).
Anyways, when I initially spilled it, I didn't think to flip the thing on its side as I seen people say since. Right away my A, Z, Q, etc keys on the left side stopped working. I turned it off and let it sit overnight by a register on the floor. Next morning I turned it on and it did a few weird things but started. That afternoon I turned it back on again after more drying and upon startup the screen was black and it was beeping repeatedly like morse code'ish almost lol.
At that point, I figured it was TOAST, so I went and bought another HP. I realize they arent super gaming machines, but this one has lasted me 4-5yrs+ basically problem free. One I bought was an 17-f004dx. So I get home, and try to turn this one on again see if I can at least get some stuff off it, and low and behold its seemingly back to normal...oddly.
Alas, to the problem. It seems like last 3 days in the 24/7 server, I get crazy ms jumps and also my fps keeps dropping like a rock over and over. Like, from 100 when im running around or dead....to 40-50 when I see anyone or stuff gets busy around me. The ms stuff has happened before, probably due to my crappy internet provider. But, could there be residual/damage to the GPU that could be causing this? I ask, because if this one is good to go...I am going to return that new one. This has been a pretty good comp...I'll keep my money if this one will be ok.
Lastly, I did check for newer drivers, doesn't appear there is anything newer for it.
Thanks
Anyways, when I initially spilled it, I didn't think to flip the thing on its side as I seen people say since. Right away my A, Z, Q, etc keys on the left side stopped working. I turned it off and let it sit overnight by a register on the floor. Next morning I turned it on and it did a few weird things but started. That afternoon I turned it back on again after more drying and upon startup the screen was black and it was beeping repeatedly like morse code'ish almost lol.
At that point, I figured it was TOAST, so I went and bought another HP. I realize they arent super gaming machines, but this one has lasted me 4-5yrs+ basically problem free. One I bought was an 17-f004dx. So I get home, and try to turn this one on again see if I can at least get some stuff off it, and low and behold its seemingly back to normal...oddly.
Alas, to the problem. It seems like last 3 days in the 24/7 server, I get crazy ms jumps and also my fps keeps dropping like a rock over and over. Like, from 100 when im running around or dead....to 40-50 when I see anyone or stuff gets busy around me. The ms stuff has happened before, probably due to my crappy internet provider. But, could there be residual/damage to the GPU that could be causing this? I ask, because if this one is good to go...I am going to return that new one. This has been a pretty good comp...I'll keep my money if this one will be ok.
Lastly, I did check for newer drivers, doesn't appear there is anything newer for it.
Thanks