Originally Posted by theking

I won't be much help...but recently my computer began overheating...the mother board specifically...and was causing shutdowns and lockups. I still have not identified why...as according to the software...everything is fine other than the overheating of the motherboard. What I did is buy a small desk fan and placed it behind my computer and this brought the temperature down but not enough to satisfy me...so I removed the case and this caused the temperature to go way down and I have been good to go ever since.