Lemm said:
Update:
so I was just blowing / picking dust out of the box.. and then I went to walmart and bought some of that duster spray (compressed air).. i blew out everything again with that and I took apart my power supply and blew that out.. I put everything back together.. i have both sides of the case off right now.. (really only one would help because of the panel holding the motherboard)
while playing css now I don’t get the horizontal lines that pop up and the computer doesn’t crash, however.. it does freeze up on one image and then play the same second of sound over and over again and then it finally unfreezes and then does it again..
when i first start it up it doesn’t do this and later it will do it at least 3 times every frickin’ round and makes it unbearable
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i did download the latest driver and after i restarted my computer everything would work and then about the time that the nvidia control panel would load the computer would just crash and go to a black screen… so i restarted in safe mode and did a system restore to before i installed the new drivers and now the computer at least works
i haven’t tried getting a small fan and pointing it in the case… i’m getting desperate and i think that might be my next option… i can tell it helped a lot blowing all the *edited* out though it just still isn’t enough
EDIT:
also i had found out that the fan speed on my gpu was set to like 53%.. i changed it to 100% before i blew everything out and loaded that new driver; however i just realized when i did the system restore.. i lost that setting.. so i just changed taht and hopefully that will help some more now
Make sure when you install the latest drivers you have UNINSTALLED the old drivers totally and rebooted.