Mar
14th
2018
Outage · 3:17am Mar 14th, 2018
My computer has frozen up to the point I've had to hard reset six times today. It's also hot to the touch. I'm hoping it's just overheated, and by leaving it shut off for the rest of the night until tomorrow morning it will run smoothly tomorrow without this issue. If there's something worse wrong with it...then I may be in deep trouble, since I can't afford to get it repaired or replaced if it is.
Here's hoping I'll see you all tomorrow...
I can only offer so much, but from the sound of it, I would suggest trying to clean it out with a lint free cloth and compressed air, as it sounds like your fans aren't working right at this point, and an excessive amount of dust can be a common problem with that.
Holy shit. Are the fans running at all? Clean it out and check the power cable to the fans.
We're dealing with a desktop I hope, yes?
another option if it keeps running hot is aiming a small fan right at the intakes and turning it on
Going off what you put and my own experience with extremely hot tech-mainly my old 360's power brick- if it's extremely hot, it might be the cooling fans blocked by a lot of dust.
Is it a desktop or a laptop? Either way it sounds like either the fans are not working or there is dust blocking the heat sinks.
Sounds like dust has build up in the vents.
That happened to my old laptop at two points initially it just needed some compressed air in its fan so the cooling would actually do its job, eventually its age showed though and I had to run minimal programs to keep my computer on for any given time. So yeah either the compressed air cleaning of the dust, or if its an older computer might want to prepare for the worst case, and fight a delaying action via using fewer programs at once.
Gotta agree with everyone else saying it's probably an issue with the fans and dust. If you're running a desktop that's easy enough to fix with some compressed air and a soft lint free cloth taken to all the fans and heat sinks. This includes the ones over your CPU and GPU, but whatever you do, do NOT remove either of those, as seperating them from the processors would create gaps in the thermal compound that would only cause further over heating issues in the future. If you use a laptop, then it's a bit more tricky to clean out, but still doable.
If overheating persists after cleaning, then check your active processes to make sure you don't have anything running in the background eating up resources. I have a friend who has heating issues sometimes when playing graphicly intense games and his anti-virus decides to try slipping an update in in the background on the sly, but it can happen with just about anything.
If it's not an air circulation or processor resource issue, then check your BIOS on restarting your PC and make sure nothing somehow got set to overclock without you noticing. To figure out what you need to do if you don't already know, look at your motherboard and find the sticker with the model number and Google BIOS guides using that number with the brand of your motherboard to figure out what steps to take to check and potentially adjust CPU clocking without accidentally vegitating your PC.
If none of the above options work, then you're probay SOL, unless someone else here knows of something I forgot to mention...
Open it up clean with air and possibly repair or even replace fans one dude I met swapped his with hydro stacks and I thought it was insane but it worked and I'm hoping to see him again later in the week. If I can I'll send some images
I'd recommend blasting the thing with compressed air. If it's a desktop, maybe consider adding and/or replacing fans. If it's a laptop, you might wanna grab yourself one of those cooling platforms. If it's a freakin' smartphone like the one my friends are spamtexting at the moment, let it sit for hours on end and watch your friends spam memes.
If possible, try underclocking the CPU and GPU to reduce temps as well.
Overheated? In the middle of winter? Er, well, the third quarter of winter I guess... But my point stands!
If you're computer is overheating at this time of the year, that means it's being overclocked somehow, the fans aren't working, the fans aren't receiving and/or expelling air... or the system's gummed up with programs taking up most of you Memory and RAM.
Or, you know, the obvious answer of viruses and/or malware. I know there's been a nasty one going around that forces your computer to dedicate processing power to other computers.
I'd suggest offloading important bits from the computer, and doing a factory reset. if that doesn't work, send it in to have the fan and electronics looked at.
If that fails... I don't know what the problem is. It may just be quitting after a long run, and its time to get a new one.
Is it blue-screening? if so, then it's definitely gotta be dust buildup. I've had that happen a couple of times, and it ran ok after taking some a can of air to it.
That does sound like overheating. Get a can of compressed air to dust out the system, and if it still continues, check the CPU fan and consider a new intake fan.
It's sounds to me like dust build up. You should clean you computer out once ever couple of months. To prevent this. Hope this helps out.
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What this guy said. You'd be amazed how much a simple cleaning can do.
That said, don't use a vacuum. You could create a static spark and fry something. Air compressor (with a water trap) or a Can of Air. You can have a vacuum operating "nearby" to catch the clouds as they're blasted out, if you want. I'd just do it outside if the weather was nice.
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If you are not sure on how to clean it. Ask a friend or watch a few vids on cleaning you pc. It will save you the hassle and no need for trial and error type stuff.
I dont donate to nobody, but if its a computer problem ill happily throw a hundred or two at you to fix things if shit goes south.
Just PM me and ill buy you whatever you need.
computer troubles are something i can sympathise with.
if its too hot to touch maybe unplug it so it can cool off. We can understand if the schedule has to be screwed up for a while.