PC very slow and unresponsive after slight clean. PLEASE HELP!
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Guys, I just wiped the top of my pc with a dry towel, just to clean of the accumulated dust. Nothing forceful was done, I do it every day to ease my family's dust mite allergy. However, since then my PC has been very unresponsive and I am not able to do anything. I dont know what happened. Games run with huge lag, everything opens for 2 minutes, and I even got a blue screen of death on the way. Please help. I think my PSU is somehow loose, but I dont know what could go wrong. I tried to reconnect the cables, scanned my PC with NOD32, and nothing was found. Please help!
While I was cleaning, I was running Fifa11. It worked fine before the clean, but after- It started lagging. After restart, everything was lagging. Even making rectangles on the main screen. Please help.
Open up task manager and check if anything is using a fuckton of your CPU.
Nope, nothing is using my CPU. Only my broswer, but thats nothing.
If it helps, i got 2 bsod's while trying to open counter strike source just 2 mins ago.
[url]http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/08/07/bluescreenview-view-blue-screen-crash-information/[/url] Scroll to the bottom of the page where it says BlueScreen View V1.00 and download it, run it. It should says the program that caused this is "" and then it should have an error in capital letters on the next line post back with those 2 things.
Maybe somehow you made a stick of RAM not make contact, loosened your IDE/SATA to your HDD, lost a bit of contact between the HSF and CPU, or unplugged power to something. Open it up again and check if everything's plugged in correctly and open Speccy and post temps.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;27343161]Maybe somehow you made a stick of RAM not make contact, loosened your IDE/SATA to your HDD, lost a bit of contact between the HSF and CPU, or unplugged power to something. Open it up again and check if everything's plugged in correctly and open Speccy and post temps.[/QUOTE]
If any of those things happened, the computer wouldn't boot, not have a couple of BSODs.
Update drivers and run memtest is all I can say.
Maybe you messed something up with static because you used a towel.
Just throwing that out there as a guess.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;27343725]Maybe you messed something up with static because you used a towel.
Just throwing that out there as a guess.[/QUOTE]
In my 18+ years of building computers and repairing electronic equipment, I've never lost a single component to ESD. ESD is overrated and people only care about it so they can't be held liable if some idiot comes into their shop and claims it's their fault their machine is broken from improper procedure, when it was broken beforehand.
It would still boot if the HSF lost a little bit of contact, and it could easily be having all the problems in the OP because of it.
And I lost a PC to ESD when I was 12, I was sliding it around on the carpet, but still.
OP should still post temps.
Unplug absolutely everything and plug it back in (including RAM + GPU).
[QUOTE=Shadaez;27344647]And I lost a PC to ESD when I was 12, I was sliding it around on the carpet, but still.[/QUOTE]
You probably rammed it into something and dislodged something. Sliding a case around on the floor isn't going to do crap to it.
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