HI all
A friend asked me for help with an Emachines (BestBuy gives me the creeps for selling such thing). The thing crashes and turns off by itself all the time. Ah, the oldest problem of Emachines history.
It's a p4. Intel motherboard. WD harddrive with the funniest noises ever. Every 10 seconds it does "tsk tsk".
I checked the cpu temp with speedfan (coretemp doesn`t go with p4). 50C idle. I took the heatsink out, the dust on it was unimaginable. Cleaned and used some AS5, just as Arctic Silver teaches (grain-of-rice ammount in the middle, no spreading). The heatsink is pretty crappy, locked on the motherboard by screws, and I have a feeling that fan is spinning in the wrong direction.:laugh:
Well, although the cpu fan is calmer and more silent now, the temps are exactly the same after that. Maybe 1 degree lower. Prime95 fails due to rounding problems within 8 minutes.
My next step: formatting and reinstalling windows, as his cpu usage is totally erratic and he has so many viruses that they are probably joining and forming a union by now.
Am I missing something? Is that anything else I should do? I removed the heatsink but not the fan from it. Could it be more of that wonderful dust jamming the fan?
Many thanks in advance!
A friend asked me for help with an Emachines (BestBuy gives me the creeps for selling such thing). The thing crashes and turns off by itself all the time. Ah, the oldest problem of Emachines history.
It's a p4. Intel motherboard. WD harddrive with the funniest noises ever. Every 10 seconds it does "tsk tsk".
I checked the cpu temp with speedfan (coretemp doesn`t go with p4). 50C idle. I took the heatsink out, the dust on it was unimaginable. Cleaned and used some AS5, just as Arctic Silver teaches (grain-of-rice ammount in the middle, no spreading). The heatsink is pretty crappy, locked on the motherboard by screws, and I have a feeling that fan is spinning in the wrong direction.:laugh:
Well, although the cpu fan is calmer and more silent now, the temps are exactly the same after that. Maybe 1 degree lower. Prime95 fails due to rounding problems within 8 minutes.
My next step: formatting and reinstalling windows, as his cpu usage is totally erratic and he has so many viruses that they are probably joining and forming a union by now.
Am I missing something? Is that anything else I should do? I removed the heatsink but not the fan from it. Could it be more of that wonderful dust jamming the fan?
Many thanks in advance!