[Alpha red6f]

How difficult is it to replace thermal compound?

Can I do it or should I leave it to a pro?

Reason being, my PC doesnt like hot weather, last summer i had my PC off for ages as it was overheating doing the simplest of things and the recent warmer weather has started it off again.

I was converting a video file for my PS3 and within two minutes my PC had overheated and stopped. I live in an attic room which is prone to getting hot, its 25C at the moment and will get hotter as it gets nearer to Aug.

[marynot]

Originally posted by Paul Bacon:
Whats the bets way to clean dust from the inside of your pc. Compressed air?

yes i have a massive can in my room, although i wipe the bottom of the case with a damp cloth to get most the dust

[retired_Rynny]

check your cpu and power supply fan, check for excess dust etc that may be blocking airflow. its probably unlikely you will need to replace the thermal compound on the cpu sink.

[retired_ecmoore]

People like Los R/Kris/LFCFan and others with PC knowledge are very welcome to answer queries too.

the harshness of me not being on there

[marynot]

Originally posted by GloryHornet:
How difficult is it to replace thermal compound?

Can I do it or should I leave it to a pro?

Reason being, my PC doesnt like hot weather, last summer i had my PC off for ages as it was overheating doing the simplest of things and the recent warmer weather has started it off again.

I was converting a video file for my PS3 and within two minutes my PC had overheated and stopped. I live in an attic room which is prone to getting hot, its 25C at the moment and will get hotter as it gets nearer to Aug.

might be worth investing in some better quality fans for the pc

[retired_helkenn]

well kolin as your here hopefully you (or anyone can help)

Kept all my music in a file on my external HD but it someone become corrupt and i can only see files A-C, although all will play through itunes.

managed to find the consolidate library tool in itunes so ive got all my music back but now i cannot delete the file they were in.
Ive deleted the ones i could see but obviously it wont delete the ones i cant.

now get an error message saying:

Cannot Delete Music: The directory is not empty.

ive googled this but i cant seem to find a solution although others have seemed to do it.

any help greatly appreciated.

[retired_snsflip]

I was looking to set up another PC in the other room that has a phone point in my house. That room just happens to be at the other side of the house so, for ease, would I be able to connect both PCs to the internet through seperate phone points at the same time?

[retired_shellmac13]

I've never once defragmented a computer, is that bad? Upon reading this thread it seems as though it's a good thing to do. Are there any negative effects of defragging? Spoke to one of my geeky friends earlier and he said something about how it deletes obsolete folder locations which sounded scary but I didn't really understand. So yeah, essentially what I'm asking is this: if I defrag will I find all my stuff in different places or anything horrific like that? Or will it just magically make my computer all speedy and delicious?

Thanks in advance boffins!

[retired_jshendel]

It doesnt delete anything. It just moves the files around on the HD so all the data is together, thus easier to access

You PC will seem abit faster for a short period, but its best to do it every now and again

[retired_jshendel]

"easier to access" should be "quicker to access"