Laptop GPU Problems

Question

So i have an Acer Nitro 5 AN 515-57 Laptop with RTX 3060 6GB, one day i got a power outage and i forgot to turn off my laptop, so it ran out of batteries (it shows critical power) then i charged it as usual and played a game. Suddenly the laptop fan spins like crazy and the fps suddenly drops from 60 to like 7, i quit the game and then restarted the laptop, and i tried to run the game again and its still ran like in 7 fps. I tried other games and it ran the same, in the Nvidia overlay however it shows 99% GPU usage, and sometimes it shows 0% GPU Usage

After tinkering a bit i found out that disabling and enabling the RTX 3060 (the discrete GPU) in the driver management kinda fixes the problem, but its not a permanent fix, because if i turn off the laptop the problem is still there, so i need to disable and enable the discrete GPU again to fix my game's FPS.

Anyone know whats going on with my laptop? I asked around they only give a workaround not fixes.

Answer 1

Have you tried installing a couple of different versions of the Nvidia drivers, it does sound like they are the root cause of the problem.

Answer 2

The fan spin fast at that one point only, after i restarted the fans spins normally again.

After that restart, the GPU problem starts, which i have to disable and enable the GPU to fix the fps when i play games.

Other than that the laptop runs fine.

Answer 3

When your fans are spinning up very fast and your FPS drop, open Task Manager, select the Processes tab, please provide a screenshot of that window.

Answer 4

I tried that already, the problem still persist

Answer 5

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

The best option is to completely remove the current Nvidia device driver using the widely available free DDU utility, then restart your PC and go to the Nvidia website to download and install a slightly older version of the Nvidia device driver.

A slightly older version of that driver is more stable than the latest version.