Help my PC is dying of heat exhaustion

Skybuck Flying wrote:
What do you do if you need to try again ?

Remove everything and a new dot ?

Or just add a little bit more ?

In last case that kinda defeat the whole purpose eh ?

Bye,
Skybuck.


1) One objective, is to remove any air bubbles.
That requires cleaning off the stuff on there already.
Wipe off enough, until a white haze is all that's left.
You don't have to clean it until it is shiny again. Just
wipe off the excess.

2) Apply your calibrated dot of paste, then squash
the cooler onto the dot, and fasten the clip.
You're done. Inspect from the side (with a mirror),
and check that the joint between CPU and cooler,
shows a bit of paste. That proves the installation worked.
If you can't see paste on the joint between CPU and cooler,
you need more paste (bigger dot of paste).

If the CPU is cool enough now that the machine is not
shutting down, you don't have to do anything.

But if you feel the computer is running hotter than other
people using the same processor, then fixing the paste
might help.

Your processor is probably good to at least 65C.
Just a guess. That's 65C Tcase.

Also, have you checked thar BIOS setting yet ?
When the cursor is placed on the shutdown item,
do the "+" or "-" keys do anything ? If you can
adjust the BIOS-controlled shutdown, again, maybe
you don't need to do anything except disable the
shutdown.

You see, that BIOS shutdown, is not the only shutdown
feature. There is still THERMTRIP (hardware protection).
So you are always protected against a damaging level of heat.
The BIOS feature, would be in addition to THERMTRIP.

Paul