So to being with, I think my desktop computer is somewhere around 6-7 years old, it has been problem free until I decided to take it on a 90 minute drive to my college. Ever since then it has been shutting off/crashing when I play video games. This happened for around a week straight shutting off around 1-3 times a day. After a week I just stopped using it and reverted back to my laptop. I played on the desktop around a month later and it didn't crash for over two weeks, however, in the last few days it has started to crashing again.
I figure it all has something to do with them car ride causing vibrations and messing something up inside the computer. I've gone ahead and took out and replugged in my ram and graphics card right now, along with removing my heat sink. I've read that after you remove it that you need to reapply paste. Looking at the cpu, there wasn't that much paste left and it seemed rather dry and old given the computer's age off course. So regardless I'm going to be reapplying this paste now b/c I took off the heat sink, but do you guys think that could be the problem, that is the paste being old and warn out, or should I be looking for a different problem that is relate able to the bumpy vibrations from the car ride? Thanks for all the help, these crashes have really been bugging me.
I figure it all has something to do with them car ride causing vibrations and messing something up inside the computer. I've gone ahead and took out and replugged in my ram and graphics card right now, along with removing my heat sink. I've read that after you remove it that you need to reapply paste. Looking at the cpu, there wasn't that much paste left and it seemed rather dry and old given the computer's age off course. So regardless I'm going to be reapplying this paste now b/c I took off the heat sink, but do you guys think that could be the problem, that is the paste being old and warn out, or should I be looking for a different problem that is relate able to the bumpy vibrations from the car ride? Thanks for all the help, these crashes have really been bugging me.
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