Heat, your PC’s worst Nightmare
11 January 2009
Heat is the enemy of any computer system or any other electronic device for too much can burn out specific parts rendering them useless and possibly catastrophically to fail and give you a puff of smoke that smells. There may be too much dust that has accumulated within your computer’s casing that it is causing excessive heating wreaking havoc to an otherwise healthy computer system. Get your vacuum and open the casing, removing most of the ones you can to allow reach into all nooks and crannies. Use a special metallic brush that dissipates static electricity or use a wrist strap to prevent damage from static. Use the steel brush to remove stubborn dirt while keeping the vacuum at a safe distance from the motherboard (you may just suck some small part like a vital jumper or worse).
If your vacuum has a reverse function where you can use it to blow instead of suck, blow onto the hidden areas to send the dust bunnies into oblivion, and did we mention that you do this outside? Use proprietary contact cleaner for all connectors and cables to ensure all corrosion and grime is removes. Never use abrasives on the gold contacts for they are so sensitive and you may remove the gold which will haunt you with further problems. Assemble and boot-up, You should have that temperature error gone and smooth operations should resume.
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