BSOD => Overheat => Screen Damage

Wow. Just... Wow. I'm so ridiculously pissed right now.

I just got done doing some homework online about an hour ago. I was done with my laptop for the night, so I closed the lid like I normally do. I left for about an hour to play some PS3 and came back to my room. I heard a loud drone and noticed my laptop, lid closed, was at max fan speed. I immediately opened the lid and saw the first BSOD this laptop has ever experienced.



I tried to jiggle the touchpad and immediately pulled my hand back from the heat. I have NEVER touched a laptop that was this hot. The touchpad area and bottom surface of the laptop were too hot to touch, and I took a look at the screen. And my heart dropped.

My beautiful 1080p RGBLED screen... on the right side there is now a white blotch from the heat. Major discoloration.



And now that I'm typing this, I'm noticing a very high-pitched whine coming from the laptop. It's not the normal graphics card whine, its about 3 times louder and just barely inside the audible frequency range.


1. What the HELL happened? Unless there's some sort of hard-wired cutoff, my laptop would have caught on fire if I hadn't returned to my room.

2. I still have a 3-year premium warranty. I bought this laptop in February. Just call up Dell? I took pictures and made a quick video of it all. Are they going to give me a refurbished screen? Or a non-1080p RGBLED screen?

I'm super anal about my gadgets... I know there are others like me that know what I'm talking about. When something like this goes wrong you go NUTS. *RAGE*

 

The snow (white dots everywhere) look like the same effect an overclocked GPU may cause.. did you have any interesting software running?

You should probably check on the power adapter- listen for noise coming from it when the laptop is off, and on. See if that is overheating.

The whole situation sucks, but in all likelihood a fire would not occur. The power cutoff point should be less than 130C, which is no where close to fire range for normal surfaces.

 

The white dots are just dust on my screen Nope, I haven't overclocked anything, never even used ThrottleStop. The power adapter isn't making any noise that I can tell, but that high-pitch whine is definitely coming from the lappy.

 

The white area on display seems like a bleeding to me. It s reason may not be heat. In time all of the LCD s got bleedings. My RGB led has large locations of bleed, you'll mostly see them on black. If you replace the screen it will probably happen again, you should get used to it. My display replaced 2 times, now i have third and as i said all of my displays were having bleedings.

And yes, they are sending refurbished i guess.

 

There was none of that before this happened... The picture didn't do it justice, it was BAM IN YOUR FACE WHITE when you were at a black screen.

I'm using past tense because... I just checked and, well, its gone. There's no more white spot. It disappeared... .