Computer over heated?

[Mario71]

Last night, I was playing the campaign in AOE 3, then suddenly my computer froze. I restarted the computer, and instead of it going to the desktop as usual, it goes to a black screen with gray text asking me to boot from CD. When I restarted the computer, I also notice a clicking sound coming near the fan of the computer. Looking at the fan through my casing, I noticed it wasn't moving as fast as it should be. Along with the clicking sound, I heard a faint beeping sound. Anybody know what's causing this?

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[Chrono]

For some reason I couldn't start up my computer with AOE 3 in it.
I took it out and suddenly magic happened.

[General Nick]

Last night, I was playing the campaign in AOE 3, then suddenly my computer froze. I restarted the computer, and instead of it going to the desktop as usual, it goes to a black screen with gray text asking me to boot from CD. When I restarted the computer, I also notice a clicking sound coming near the fan of the computer. Looking at the fan through my casing, I noticed it wasn't moving as fast as it should be. Along with the clicking sound, I heard a faint beeping sound. Anybody know what's causing this?

I think you have a lot of dust in your computer along with a failed fan.

[Mario71]

I think you have a lot of dust in your computer along with a failed fan.

There has been dust on the fan, maybe other parts. I'm going to take the case off and look at it today.

[SeventhSandwich]

Your fan got forgeted because of foreign materials blocking it.

You better hope other stuff wasn't fried.

Also, was the clicking sort of like a scraping sound, or more of a tick?

By any chance did it come from your hard drive? Since that could be very bad.

[General Nick]

There has been dust on the fan, maybe other parts. I'm going to take the case off and look at it today.

I suggest unplugging it and using a hand-held vacuum, i.e. a dust devil or w/e, because regular plug-in vacuums create static and harm the components.

Your fan got forgeted because of foreign materials blocking it.

You better hope other stuff wasn't fried.

Also, was the clicking sort of like a scraping sound, or more of a tick?

By any chance did it come from your hard drive? Since that could be very bad.

Generally when something overheats its shut down along with the entire system to prevent that type of damage happening.
Thats why computers shut down when they overheat, to prevent damage. Otherwise they'd keep heating up and cause harm to the parts.
Unless the system is programmed to NOT shut down at a proper high temperature.

And nice ninja.

[Mario71]

Sounded like a scraping sound

[SeventhSandwich]

Sounded like a scraping sound

It's the fan.

Clean your fan and hope your components didn't get raped.

[Mario71]

It's the fan.

Clean your fan and hope your components didn't get raped.

Would it fix the CD boot thing?

[Mario71]

Bump

[cooldawson3]

how are you typing this with an overheated computer??

[Skip]

how are you typing this with an overheated computer??

Moron.

[tay104]

I suggest unplugging it and using a hand-held vacuum, i.e. a dust devil or w/e, because regular plug-in vacuums create static and harm the components.

Although, if you have a can of compressed air or better yet an air compressor, take your computer outside, open the case and blow the dust out with the proper attachment for blowing if using the compressor.

[Lunick]

If the fan fails, goodbye computer, that's what happened to my old one.

[HellHound]

Good thing it didn't explode. A new crankshaft is expensive.