uhh, i think i damaged my processor

Lost_Clay

so my cooling fan had been running high the last lil' while, not always but when accessing youtube or running a few progs at the same time, so i decided to clean up the dust this afternoon,

maybe i went a lil' overboard, i completly detached it from the mobo/chip (glue and all) & dusted it off, now the fan is running allllllll the time, i just had it shut off on me and it detected something wrong w/ the hardware at start-up, argh.

does this sound like a simple fix or should i back up my files and invest in a new tower.

thanks for any input

ps : it's a compaq presario S5200NX 2.7Ghz 1gb ram (maxed out)

lukin2006

invest in a mac

DarkStar

Lost_Clay wrote:

so my cooling fan had been running high the last lil' while, not always but when accessing youtube or running a few progs at the same time, so i decided to clean up the dust this afternoon,

maybe i went a lil' overboard, i completly detached it from the mobo/chip (glue and all) & dusted it off, now the fan is running allllllll the time, i just had it shut off on me and it detected something wrong w/ the hardware at start-up, argh.

does this sound like a simple fix or should i back up my files and invest in a new tower.

thanks for any input

ps : it's a compaq presario S5200NX 2.7Ghz 1gb ram (maxed out)

well...there is thermal grease between the heatsink/fan and the processor. the thermal grease assists with heat transfer between the processor and heat sink. when you removed the heatsink/fan to clean up the dust, did you clean off the old grease and apply new grease before putting it back together?

ds

Jamal

DarkStar wrote:

well...there is thermal grease between the heatsink/fan and the processor. the thermal grease assists with heat transfer between the processor and heat sink. when you removed the heatsink/fan to clean up the dust, did you clean off the old grease and apply new grease before putting it back together?

ds

that's the first thing that popped into my head as well, especially when you referred to it as 'glue'

i'd try putting some new 'glue' between your chip body and the heatsink before trying anything else. The stuff is pretty easy to find and pretty cheap too... Mind it's poisonous, though .