So I tried cleaning my computer with a can of compressed 99% electronics grade rubbing alcohol.
Now after cleaning, the computer is having weird issues.
At first, the computer wouldn't turn on. Power is sent to the headphones noticeable by the headphone LED.
Then hours later it turned on, but it has constant crashing. When webcamming with a friend, or playing a video game, or watching youtube videos, or worse, nothing at all, the screen freezes.
The screen freezes, I turn the monitor off then on, and I see a green screen. A few seconds after the screen freezes, the computer freezes and I stop hearing music/audio etc. But not at the same time.
It has even crashed twice completely and rebooted itself, but the biggest issue is I can no longer rely on it during gaming due to this freeze issue.
All I did was spray 99% rubbing alcohol into the power supply, around the motherboard, and the graphics card to clean some dust off. I used a clean dish cloth to wick away excess rubbing alcohol.
I don't know if my graphics card is having an issue, because it once did give me an issue like this before. The graphics card has been known to give green screens sometimes, but I fixed that issue by taking the heatsink off the graphics card and cleaning it and re-applying thermal paste to the graphics card, the issue went away entirely.
But since the computer itself also freezes, I feel like it must be a power supply issue? Or I completely destroyed my motherboard?
Do you think it's just the graphics card issues coming back with vengeance? I will buy different rubbing alcohol, and take apart the graphics card and re-apply thermal paste again hoping that fixes the problem.
What do you guys think? Do you think my graphics card failing can be causing my whole system to fail? I tried turning on the system without the graphics card and it gave a beeping sound, I did this without uninstalling the graphics car d first so do you think when the graphics card fails, the system fails? And that's why it takes a few seconds before audio goes away?
Now after cleaning, the computer is having weird issues.
At first, the computer wouldn't turn on. Power is sent to the headphones noticeable by the headphone LED.
Then hours later it turned on, but it has constant crashing. When webcamming with a friend, or playing a video game, or watching youtube videos, or worse, nothing at all, the screen freezes.
The screen freezes, I turn the monitor off then on, and I see a green screen. A few seconds after the screen freezes, the computer freezes and I stop hearing music/audio etc. But not at the same time.
It has even crashed twice completely and rebooted itself, but the biggest issue is I can no longer rely on it during gaming due to this freeze issue.
All I did was spray 99% rubbing alcohol into the power supply, around the motherboard, and the graphics card to clean some dust off. I used a clean dish cloth to wick away excess rubbing alcohol.
I don't know if my graphics card is having an issue, because it once did give me an issue like this before. The graphics card has been known to give green screens sometimes, but I fixed that issue by taking the heatsink off the graphics card and cleaning it and re-applying thermal paste to the graphics card, the issue went away entirely.
But since the computer itself also freezes, I feel like it must be a power supply issue? Or I completely destroyed my motherboard?
Do you think it's just the graphics card issues coming back with vengeance? I will buy different rubbing alcohol, and take apart the graphics card and re-apply thermal paste again hoping that fixes the problem.
What do you guys think? Do you think my graphics card failing can be causing my whole system to fail? I tried turning on the system without the graphics card and it gave a beeping sound, I did this without uninstalling the graphics car d first so do you think when the graphics card fails, the system fails? And that's why it takes a few seconds before audio goes away?