Last night I was in the middle of playing Counter-strike on my pc and I blue screened. I haven't dusted out my pc in a while so I figured dust may have caused my gfx card to overheat. I opened up my computer and grounded myself, removed my gfx card and dusted it out. After that I noticed my cpu's fan was pretty dusty so I also removed that. I tried getting my fan back in but I was having some issues and disconnected everything from my motherboard and put it back on outside of the case. After I put the cpu fan back on my motherboard I put all of my hardware back in my case, connected everything that I have previously disconnected, and put the cover back on. When I started up my computer I didn't have any display at all or no beeps. I was almost certain I had fried my motherboard but I removed my stick of ram and booted and got a couple beeps. Im not too sure but I think if I get beeps after I remove my ram, my motherboard isn't fried?

I don't know if this will help but these are my components;

Coolermaster 500W PSU
Biostar T41 HD MB
1GB Nvidia Geforce GTS 250
2.55 GHz Core2Quad Q8200 (stock 2.33 but i oc'd to 2.55)
1 2GB PNY 800Mhz DDR2

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you.Quote from: badbrad611 on July 13, 2011, 11:01:55 AM

I haven't dusted out my pc in a while so I figured dust may have caused my gfx card to overheat. I opened up my computer and grounded myself, removed my gfx card and dusted it out. After that I noticed my cpu's fan was pretty dusty so I also removed that. I tried getting my fan back in but I was having some issues and disconnected everything from my motherboard and put it back on outside of the case.

I noticed my cpu's fan was pretty dusty so I also removed that.