100C Without overclocking,fan stuck to motherboard.

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Zvone135

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Alright guys,my first time posting here,don't know where else to go.
Yesterday I took my 2GB of RAM from my old PC and put it in this "new" one.
While doing that I also cleaned it. I got the CPU fan out and cleaned it. Now me being the anti-hardware idiot I am I had troubles with putting it back in. I got 2 of parts in and pushed the third one by force(moron),it could stand so I thought it's good enough. Well when I turned my PC on. I noticed a major slowdown compared to what I had night before,considering I had 1.5GB more RAM. I shrugged it off like it's nothing and kept doing stuff on PC. I got into a couple of games and ones that I had around 60 fps on high were now about 20 fps on low.
So this morning I woke up and decided to try and fix it. Well when I opened it I noticed that I can not get one part of fan out(as seen in picture)
I turned it on,downloaded Core Temp to check my temperature and around 90-100C with only Mozilla opened. Min is 71C and max is 103C with PC being open and an electric fan pointed towards it. Earlier I got 110C before shut down.
So I was wondering how to cool down my CPU and get out my fan.
I just noticed too about thermal paste and this PC is around 5 years old and I never had any problems with it. I don't know my temperature before doing all this.
Here's my fan:
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I'm scared to open any program or game because my PC already shut down once.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my English,hope you can understand what I am saying.
Also I probably shouldn't use it anymore till I fix it,right? Sorry for a long post!
 
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did you try taking the fan back off yet? i mean that (and the lack of thermal paste) is clearly the problem.

take the heatsink off. if it comes down to it, break the pin on the heatsink, dont risk breaking the motherboard. a new heatsink and fan costs way less than a new motherboard.
if you get it off without breaking it, reapply thermal paste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNgFNH7zhQ) that video is a good reference for a few ways to do it (and not to do it).

once you get it all back together come back and let us know how it went
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Did you apply the new thermal paste before putting the heatsink back on the cpu?
 
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first, are you sure its the same speed and type of ram that came in the new pc?

second did you clean the cpu and add new thermal paste or did you just stick the heatsink back on with the thermal paste that was there?
 
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Currently your cpu is throtteling itself down in speed due to heat - which will degrade its performance severely.

Intel stock coolers (like the one pictured) are far from good to begin with, with the thermal paste removed and only 2-3 "lock-pins" used you might as well turn on the machine without cooling at all.

I would:
1. Clean the Intel heatsink/cooler again, buy and apply some aftermarket thermal paste and reseat it or

2. Buy a good aftermarket cooler (like the Cooler Master Hyper 212EVO which is good and quite cheap) and install that.

At this moment you risk frying your cpu, so don't use the computer until you've done either step 1 or 2.
 
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To mount the Intel stock cooler properly, place the motherboard on top of the foam or cardboard backing that was packed with it.
The stock cooler will come with paste pre applied, it looks like three grey strips.
The 4 push pins should come in the proper position for installation, that is with the pins rotated in the direction of the arrow,(counter clockwise) as far as they can go.
If you want, play with the pushpin mechanism until you know how they work.
Place the cooler so that all 4 pins are oriented over the holes in the motherboard.

Push down on the entire cooler so that all 4 pins are through the motherboard.
When you push down on the top black pins, it expands the white plastic pins to fix the cooler in place.

The trick to getting it on is to push down on a diagonal pair of pins at the same time. Then the other pair.
If you do them one at a time, you will not get the cooler on straight.
Lastly, look at the back of the motherboard to verify that all 4 pins are equally through the motherboard, and that the cooler is on firmly.
This last step must be done, which is why the motherboard must be out of the case to do the job.
It is possible to mount the cooler with the motherboard mounted in the case, but you can then never be certain that the push pins are inserted properly.

If you should need to remove the cooler, turn the pins clockwise to unlock them.
You will need to clean off the old paste and reapply new if you ever take the cooler off.
 
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Zvone135

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The problem is that it's stuck,I forcefully inserted the third pin and I can not get it out as I can others. I would do what you guys said but I must remove the fan first.
Also I never applied thermal paste so that's probably a big reason. I cleaned it multiple times and now I messed up with putting the fan back on. About the RAM,yes I am sure. It's the one that came with this computer,same one like I have now.
It's also probably not in the right place since I can't even put the 4th one in.
 
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did you try taking the fan back off yet? i mean that (and the lack of thermal paste) is clearly the problem.

take the heatsink off. if it comes down to it, break the pin on the heatsink, dont risk breaking the motherboard. a new heatsink and fan costs way less than a new motherboard.
if you get it off without breaking it, reapply thermal paste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNgFNH7zhQ) that video is a good reference for a few ways to do it (and not to do it).

once you get it all back together come back and let us know how it went
 
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