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If I leave the side off do you think it would be better or would it disrupt the airflow.
6 BSOD in a day Halmacpi.dll is blamed
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Okay I understand, I will clean it tomorrow, and report after a few hours of use to see what temperature it mediates around, if not I suppose if it defintley is a heat issue that is causing the BSOD I should buy some thermal paste.
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New #13
It's not enough the dust itself prohibits air flow between the heatsink fins
creating little pockets of air which in turn warms up by the component and only makes things worst.
Also you mentioned the PC is five years old and probably in need of a thermal paste renewal.
But it is up to you to decide.
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Edit: You came to the right conclusion.
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I haven't yet been able to get Isopropyl but until it comes I cleaned the main CPU fan, it seems to have cooled down the CPU by 30%, the graphics card is still hot, I tried to exert it by playing games, the computer has been running for about 3 hours, I think I will mark this as solved since if the BSOD persists it will most likely be the fault of the graphics card overheating, and I think that can be solved by cleaning the rest, if not it is an old machine so is probably old age and or overuse.
So I would like to thank you for your time and experience, YoYo155.
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