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[RESOLVED] Hello again, thank you all so much for all the help you have given, you literally saved us a bunch of money for not having to leave the computer at a repair shop. So we ran the aida stress tests. And we noticed that the CPU throttle was at 100% during the test and we got that overheating warning. We went down to the store and got new thermal paste and cleaning alcohol and reapplied the heatsink to the CPU. And now it works. Theese are the results. We couldnt take a screenshot of the CPU throttle since computer kept powering down. Just want to thank you guys so much! Awesome forum you have.

Thank you guys for the quick responses. First of all, we made sure we didnt became static, but yes that might been an issue. Is there anyway to check if this is true. Beacuse the computer starts up and runs normally. Just slower. The vaccuming was really necessary, is there a better way to clean really dusty computers? All the fans seems to be working. But yes we did loose the CPU heatsing, but we coudlnt get it off completly. What i really wonder is if there any anyway we can test to see witch part of the computer that is acting up. I assume if we "fried" the GPU it would produce other results than not applying thermal paste to the CPU.

Hi Linus Tech Tips. My girlfriend ran into a rather strange error after cleaing out some dust from her PC. First of all, we tried to fix one of her headphone jacks on the front ot the PC so we had to open it up, and realized it needed some cleaning. We used a vaccum to get out the large amount of dust collected and a dry whipe of the interiors to get out the really heavy dusted areas. This included wiping the circuit board of the GPU very gently with a cloth towel (dry). We cleaned all the fans in a simmilar mannor. After this, we put everthing back together and the PC started like normal. However, the preformance had a significant drop, for example, her framerate in League of Legends dropped from a constant 60 to about 15-30 at the same settings as before. We have tried to find out where the error might have occured so we tried running a video file, and it seems rather slow. There has also been random shutdowns of her system, either while playing games or just using the computer as normal, they seem random. We have also tried various benchmarks to try and find where the error might be located with no success yet since every is reporting normal figures. We dont know what to do, and what we did wrong. The drivers are all up to date. Her system specs are as follows: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. MotherBoard: MSI H55M-ED55 Socket 1156 CPU: Intel i5 760 2.8GHZ GPU: Geeforce GTS 450 Memory: 8GB Kingston ValueR 1333mhz DDR3 PSU:Silver Power Sp-SS400 (400w)