i moved to a new place and sit up my computer and it works fine. after a few days i reformat like i do from time to time, to keep it working like new, but then i realized something is wrong. maybe i should have realized when aim and my gmail app wasn't working but i just breezed them off since the computer was working like it should. after the reformat i do the windows activation thing and it cant connect then i think no big deal just bypass it when the 30 days are up, be batter then a password because no one i living with can do that. then i go to sync google chrome web browser but it keeps SAYING error. so i think maybe they are linked so i go throw a hole lot of check ups and find my chip set drivers are not working properly so i re install and try windows activation and google again but same thing. so then i open the computer and notice the heat sink is off and one of the clips is off so i push it in a bit, its a loose fit and reattach the heat sink and try again. but nothing so i open it again and look some more cant find any thing wrong but the heat sink. i even try putting one on from a different computer still nothing. so after hours of looking cant find any answers so i asked for help. i can take pics of the inside of the computer if needed. i don't SEE why a heat sink alone would do any thing but make your computer shut off to much. sorry if in wrong spot but wasn't sure where put this was thinking since its a xp computer maybe this would be it not much of a forumer. I'm sorry but your post is unintelligible.

Please use punctuation and tell us what the problem is. Thank you.i don't know what the problem is to be correct. but i do know 1. i reformatted , 2. cant run windows activation 3. cant sync google chrome 4. some small issues like graphical glitches.

and the only thing i can see is not right on the inside is that one of the 2 clips is not attached to the motherboard holding the heat sink is off and the heat sink is off.

and both thous where off when i reformatted.Sounds like there may be a lot of problems. Heatsinks don't just "fall off", unless it was not attached properly, and if it was badly attached the processor could overheat and shut down the computer. Possibly the PC was badly assembled or has been dropped or otherwise damaged when you moved. In this case there may be other damaged items such as the hard drive or loose RAM. This is a desktop or a laptop?

desktop.
don't know if was dropped or not. i going try putting in a blank hard drive later today and installing windows. as soon as i can well i am at it i will check again for loose parts.
a computer should be able run with out a heat sink just get to hot and CUT off, or at lest i think it would?Quote from: heat sinker on July 24, 2011, 08:56:06 AM

a computer should be able run with out a heat sink just get to hot and cut off, or at lest i think it would?

i moved to a new place and sit up my computer and it works fine. after a few days i reformat like i do from time to time, to keep it working like new, but then i realized something is wrong.

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