Major Computer malfunction - Please Help

CoasterMatt · 07-25-2006, 07:42 AM

My first thing to do would be to use a canned air duster and clean out the inside of the computer - dust bunnies love to multiply in the heatsinks and fans of processors - cpus and gpus. If anything hardware fried here, I'd be more apt to believe it's the gpu - especially given that you said you were playing Sims 2 for a while (a pretty gpu intense app).

Even a very clean looking system can be hiding damaging dust in the heatsink fins, which prevents the heatsink from efficiently moving heat away from the cpu/gpu.

07-25-2006, 07:42 AM	#23
CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	My first thing to do would be to use a canned air duster and clean out the inside of the computer - dust bunnies love to multiply in the heatsinks and fans of processors - cpus and gpus. If anything hardware fried here, I'd be more apt to believe it's the gpu - especially given that you said you were playing Sims 2 for a while (a pretty gpu intense app). Even a very clean looking system can be hiding damaging dust in the heatsink fins, which prevents the heatsink from efficiently moving heat away from the cpu/gpu. __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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