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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Rod wrote:
Assuming still not sorted, have you cleaned the heatsink?

No. It looked quite ok.

Some designs accumulate much better than a Dyson/Henry/Miele/write in
your own favourite. A surprisingly small amount of dust/dirt in the
wrong place can reduce effective cooling in that area. You did clean it
thoroughly when you took it out, didn't you?

No again.

(I saw you had clreaned off the thermal paste - maybe you meant to say
that you had cleaned the whole thing? Apologies if you have already
completed your housekeeping badge.)

I will do just that now.

The sparkling clean heatsink works just the same as the dirty one.
Looking again at the power management page in the BIOS the temperature
rapidly climbs from ambient to 75C or so and it shuts down. But the
heatsink is cool to the touch - certainly nothing like 75C. Just ambient
temp at a guess.

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