Thermal Paste faulty causing issues?

MrsJones1001

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Jan 5, 2015
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My monitor would say it was going to sleep and the mouse and keyboard would as well, but the computer did not. Could this be caused by possibly a bad connection between my heat sink and CPU?
 
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Most likely not. A bad heat sink connection, or faulty thermal paste will manifest as CPU overheating.

I would monitor CPU temps via software like HW Info and see objectively if this is the issue before taking the heat sink apart.

Monitor going to sleep, and not waking up is more likely a Windows setting issue.
Most likely not. A bad heat sink connection, or faulty thermal paste will manifest as CPU overheating.

I would monitor CPU temps via software like HW Info and see objectively if this is the issue before taking the heat sink apart.

Monitor going to sleep, and not waking up is more likely a Windows setting issue.
 
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