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Right, recently my computer just seemed to break for no reason, but after opening it up this is what I think is up with it:

both my power supply fan and the processor cooling fan were caked in fluff/dust/scum. It was so bad that I couldnt see through it.

Is it possible that because they were not cooling the processor it has overheated and broke?

This is a pic of my processor and the black you can see seems to have been a covering that was over it. What i want to know is whether this is normal or likely to have crashed my PC.



Also, when I turn my computer on all the fans start up, the motherboard lights up but that is all, no image on the screen and no beeps like it used to.

Cheers for any help, Kyle

Edit: I forgot to mention that when trying to put the processor back in its slot i bent 3 of the pins so its useless anyway, im just posting this because if its overheated is the motherboard likely to be bust?

The stuff that is on your processor is called thermal interface material. It's job is to smooth out microscopic (and larger) bumps in the surface of the heatsink and CPU. This allows heat to transfer efficiently/properly between the two. So it is meant to be there.

It's quite possible that dust might have killed your system.

Its impossible to say for sure, but I would have thought that your motherboard wouldn't have been affected by the heat from the CPU.

It's also kind of a good job that your CPU isn't in the system as replacing the CPU/Heatsink back in the mobo without some more thermal paste would mean that your CPU would likely overheat again.

If you have some small enough tweezers and are careful enough, you can actually bend the pins back into position, you might be lucky and it could still work.

Dan

bent pins are far from deadly

have you ruled out any other parts as the culprit? like the video card or maybe RAM or RAM slots?

try to check your videocards
un plug your ram and the hear what sound beeping?if u unplug videocard and ram nothing hapen's your main board maybe broke.
intel 478socket can run without fan for the minutes so your proc far from death cwiiw