vista is horribly slow today after cleaning my cpu fan.

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today i cleaned my cpu fan (wish i didn't) , after i put everything in its place, i run my machine and it started slowly
also the games that was running fine now it runs very slow and i can't play it
my base score is the same (4.3). i dont know what is wrong
any ideas
thank yo


i forgot to tell you that my processor is pentuim 4. and my VGA is nvidia 8800 GTS
and downloaded the latest drivers but nothing changed.


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Did you remove the heatsink to clean the fan? If so, you may check to make
sure it is seated against the CPU perfect, as well as put a new layer of
thermal grease on it, too. The P4's slow down when they get too hot, and
after cleaning the fan, it sounds like that may be the problem.

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Dustin said:
Did you remove the heatsink to clean the fan? If so, you may check to
make sure it is seated against the CPU perfect, as well as put a new
layer of thermal grease on it, too. The P4's slow down when they get too
hot, and after cleaning the fan, it sounds like that may be the problem.
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or the power to the fan is not connected......
 
Were that the case either the motherboard would detect the processor
overheating and shut down the system, or processor would fry rather quickly.

I'd recheck for any loose cabling or memory that was jarred during the
cleaning.

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The P4's have a thermal protection scheme. The slow down to prevent the
frying of the processors. They will run, but very slow. The heatsink may be
just enough to keep it from shutting down, but not enough to keep it cool.

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