This is true incident.

I fried the motherboard of my new Windows 10 Home ASUS UX303UA laptop having 8 fucking gigs of RAM and 1TB HDD with dedicated Nvidia Graphics Card and video memory by just trying to repeat what I love to do which is :

Install and play Crysis on EA Origin paid channel

And
Install and program on Linux VM using Virtualbox

And
Listen to music

I am so fucking scared now that I am not going to repeat it again.

I fuck the fear of using such machines.

If you did that all at once then it's no surprise it crashed...

Nope should run slow but should work

@FitzSuperUser depending on the setting used it might not :p

@FitzSuperUser yet it crashed just switched off instantly like my LG G3 handset which switched off just like that during a 40 mins Skype call....

@ScribeOfGoD settings can screw the heating flow which could fry the chips but I was in an air conditioner and chilling. BTW by settings do you mean fast frame rates and high details putting load on CPU then WTF GPU is sitting for.

It's high time now and laptops should come with a black box similar to aircrafts.

@eatPrayCode if you have everything running high for long enough without a break then it probably overwhelmed the system imo

@ScribeOfGoD I am totally in agreement with this logic and still somehow wanted the service team to factually confirm of what might had happened but the mystery is unsolved and I am preventing to try to run many simpler things fearing the same catastrophe once again

My desktop had a failsafe, which crashed the computer if it got too hot. It won't start unless it cools down. I just leave it be for the night, and it is back up in the morning. And the machine had a 9 yo core2duo. I'm pretty sure modern computers would have it too, and overheating didn't kill your PC.

I kind of want to try this just to see if you had a faulty motherboard or if it will fry any motherboard. But on the other hand...

@ScribeOfGoD @eatPrayCode you get the vast majority of people's devices slow down when it's to hot... even if it to a near grinding halt so unless your countries room temp is in the 40s-50s degrees c

It's shouldn't be an issue unless you overclocked it badly or messed with other bios setttibgs you shouldn't

I generally prefer limitting fps when I play games to avoid overheating as that causes lag. I will prefer less but constant fps than sudden drop to very low fps.

@FitzSuperUser temp was below 30 Deg C , no overclocking and no fidgeting bios settings. 🙁

@eatPrayCode then you have a bad cpu. Return it

@BugsBuggy everything was setup with default settings and that technically should imply the most optimum for my hardware when setup. Still it preferred to RIP than to run freely 🙁

@eatPrayCode default settings is not always the best dude! I generally prefer performance over graphics, but limit my fps to 100. Where as some players play at 30fps with better graphics. But maxing out either the CPU or the GPU is never the best choice.

Trust me I have had days where even the keyboard felt hot to touch!

@FitzSuperUser a bad CPU 🤔 A bad CPU is pretty impossible to detect but will definitely crash someday when it rains in the sun meaning some weird combination of 0's and 1's

@BugsBuggy this is epic HoHoHo 👍

@eatPrayCode true it's hard to detect

But its not likely much else the alternative is that the power supply can't take the load and cuts off but it's not likely that since it's a laptop and they are standardised parts

The cpu on the other hand is a complex part of it was the motherboard then it wouldn't likely break due to load

So either the cpu or power supply my bet would be cpu though power supplies break more often in my experience

Cheap power supplies(I don't me the charger) over heat and can cut out ... so it's possible they are cheap to replace so maybe you'd want to try that ...

Ram doesn't really overheat and rarely acts different with load

Same with hard drives

So I'd bet on the cpu being the issue

@FitzSuperUser So recalling the original scenario, everything works great for weeks even with this combo of the 3 freak apps running together, but fine day , boom. And practically CPU has no wear and tear but what about heated CPU. Heat plays hell on electronics and I am no electronics geek but one thing is dead sure that heat is a critical part of the crash equation. Faulty power supply yes definitely short circuits but in a well built laptop it's low probability.

And could be other chips on the motherboard which fried first creating erratic power supply and the motherboard switched off as fail safe. But which chip fried if it's not cpu ?

@wolt yes, I have experienced throttled laptops, I have a Lenovo G560 which just switched off in a blink of its TOP hot. But that shit broken fuck laptop still works and it's motherboard never crashed.

Hey wait, did I experience the Samsung S7 battery demon in my Asus laptop ? Oh Gosh