Or did you really not know about the big magnetic fields that vacuum cleaners produce?

You might have had another excuse for getting fragged.

BTW, :-p

I had the exact problem with cpu overheating, and stucking the pc. I did everything, but to clean that damn fan on the cpu, which looked clean. Thanks man! It downed my CPU temp from 80 to 45 degrees celsius !! Thanks again!

hi.
I did all of things you said, even I brought a new professional fan "cool master sphere" but was not enough.
my cpu temp is over 60 Celsius while is booting.
first I should say an important subject.
I have a P5-VMDH model of Asus and have no problem with temperature but was a bit slow, so I changed motherboard with ABIT IB-9 that is faster with more capacity for Ram.
in ASUS model the cpu voltage was 1.29 and temp was 38
in ABIT model the cpu voltage was 1.38 and temp was 60

I think the problem is motherboard but I'm not sure, because this motherboard is widely used.
unfortunately ABIT official site have no information about it.

so if u can please help and think about it.

may it my CPU is hurt?
My cpu is 3.06 intel with 533 bus speed.

Heya... I just wanna say thanks!!
My CPU was ticking at 100 degrees. Yes, I shit you not, a 100 degrees. To be honest till tonight I hadn't bothered checking BIOS or anything, but when it switched off the 2nd time I thought "Ok enough is enough, I gotta figure this out!"

I had the exact same procedure of things you had.
Pulled off the side shields. Double checked I hadn't misinstalled the fans 4 years ago, AND THEN... I decided to lift off the CPU fan to see what's going on after reading here.
The damn thing was clogged black! Previously I had just vacuumed the fan blades, but failed to see all the crap lodged inside the sink itself.
I tried touching the cpu with a finger and damn sure it was hot, got the blister to prove it ;P

I quickly cleaned the sink, replaced the (evaporated) thermal compound and put the thing back in.

At first the comp switched off after 5 secs, but 5 min later I was back in the game at a mere 45 degrees, and finally no latency when starting up programs.

Thanks for the tip, my computer is working again :)

- T

Moral of my story would for me be: Old is good... if this Intel Pentium 4 processor from 2003 can handle 100 degrees, why change it? :P

after being booted for 10 15 mins my computer starts roaring real loud! i downloaded speed fan and slowed the cpu fan down to 65%.its stops the roaring but my temperture still rises! currently sitting at 72C. i have cleaned all the fans apart from the heat sink one! i just cant figure out how to get the thing out! i pulll but nothing happens! tooo scared to pull to hard! ???????

have you considered replacing the thermal compound on the cpu between it and the fan? sometimes it can break down and that dramatically decreases the cooling capabilities of the heatsink.

have you considered replacing the thermal compound on the cpu between it and the fan? sometimes it can break down and that dramatically decreases the cooling capabilities of the heatsink.

my pc is pretty new, only months old, recently i noticed continuous lags and had speed fan check the cpu temp to be 88C, is that really bad?

Try? adding a higher memory to the SystemBUS!(aka YOURmotherboard)

Try? adding a higher memory to the SystemBUS!(aka YOURmotherboard)..... while Updating the drivers.

Same problem. I could hear the fan run even from my another room. Was almost convinced to get a new system and luckily read this.
Well the dust collected on my CPU's fan was almost 10gm !! Removed it and that did the trick. Thanks again.