Did you remove the heatsink to clean the fan? If so, you may check to make
sure it is seated against the CPU perfect, as well as put a new layer of
thermal grease on it, too. The P4's slow down when they get too hot, and
after cleaning the fan, it sounds like that may be the problem.

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"abudahim" wrote in message ...
hi
today i cleaned my cpu fan (wish i didn't) , after i put everything in its
place, i run my machine and it started slowly.
also the games that was running fine now it runs very slow and i can't
play it.
my base score is the same (4.3). i dont know what is wrong ?
any ideas ?
thank you



i forgot to tell you that my processor is pentuim 4. and my VGA is nvidia
8800 GTS.
and downloaded the latest drivers but nothing changed.


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