Intel Celeron PC hangs after a few minutes

[zanix1991]

hi folks,
my friends pc hangs/freezes after running for a few minutes, it was seriously dirty and you could almost knit a jumper from the amount of dog hair i removed from the fans and heat sinks, after some major house cleaning, reformatting to remove all the viruses, and installing Win Xp pro, the problem still persists!... i think it may be either the cpu or the psu thats at fault, unfortunatley i dont have spares to try a component swap, does anyone have any ideas as to which it may be?.
Thanks in advance

[ShuckyD]

My first suggestion would be to test the PSU, but if you dont have another one anywhere it makes it a bit harder to do. Maybe you could buy one from a local store, try it, if it doesnt work take it back... but then again what is your current PSU's specs?

[Rootstonian]

I would pull the vidoe card (if there), memory etc. and reseat. Take a can of air to the slots before reseating and you can even (BE CAREFUL) wipe the contacts with a little isoproply (sp?).

Unplug and replug every connector (USB headers, fan headers, hard drvie, power supply connections etc.) I know on clean-outs that all it takes is one little piece of dust to fall somewhere it shouldn't be to cause a problem!

[#43 fan]

My first suspicion is a bad power supply, but it wouldn't hurt to test the memory either.

[zanix1991]

thx for gettin back to me so quick guys
the psu is a standard 300w comes with all cheap pc's
and i will try reseatin the components again, but this time blow em out with compair

[movingmind]

if the cpu thermal paste got to hot it can boil and flake. NOT DOING ITS JOB...

You may want to try to clean and reset the cpu and heatsync.

Good luck

[zanix1991]

it wasn't the PSU...any other suggestions would be welcome plssssssssssss