u/Lifestartingover

So about 6 months ago my crashed and I noticed the cpu fan\cooler was only being held on by 1 of the 4 pins. Its a Microspec with an i5 12400 lga1700 mount using those push pins. For the last 6 months its been working fine, I jammed a pen, yes a pen, between the corner of the is of the case and the side none moving fins of the cpu fan.

I just had a new cooler, same stock cooler come in the mail using the push pins. I have bad anxiety and have been too nervous to install it even though 15+ years ago I used to build computers. My anxiety is kinda crazy now lol.

I know from what I've watched it seems like I just need to use counter clockwise pull the 1 pin actually still in the motherboard to remove it, use a paper towel and iso alcohol to remove the paste and the new cooler has thermal paste already on it. Seems like I just need to set it down and push the pins in 1 at a time diagonally until they click. Is it really that simple?

I want to do it but I'm afraid of messing it up but probably not fixing it will do more damage over time. As using my bootleg fix for the past 6 months has the cpu running hot. Regular I5 1400, 16bg ram and a amd 6600. Right now with 2 browser tabs, discord, hwmonitor and 2 monitors running its bouncing between 64-85C and whenever I have a game running, ANY game its always between 98-102c even at the title screens.

I got infected, most likely by ren'py last week. Tthey were able to log into ALL sites, posted mr best on my discord, twitter.. then stole around $1500 from my pay pal credit. Pay pal credit is fighting with me because it looks like I actually sent the money..

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I've been changing the passwords to every site I can still get into and added 2fa using my phones text messaging as extra protection. Before doing this I made a windows 11 USB stick and its been a few days and it seems like nothing else has been hacked. I only found out my twitter had been hacked today because I never use it. The only stuff I saved from before the format was a bunch of photos on my external usb drive, no programs. I have the free trials of Malwarebytes and Bitdefender installed. They aren't finding anything on my pc and I might just be being paranoid because they didn't even find it before the format but it was obvious I had it.

Is there anything else I can do to make sure I'm safe now? I cancelled all my credit and debit cards as stolen and will be getting new ones in the mail.

Why can't this program detect session stealers still? It costs so much money if you buy it from them... I get it off Amazon $20 for a year but still. it doesn't detect the most popular session stealers going around the internet ruining lives more than anything Bitdefender actually catches.

Hi everyone, last night when I went to go to bed I noticed that my bedrooms light switch had a high pitch hum coming from it. It didn't matter if it was on or off, its a simple flip up\down switch. It also felt like at times that there was a slight breeze coming out of it randomly.

My house is a small 900 sq foot ranch. Google told me its dangerous and probably arcing. Is this true? I found the breaker for it and shut it off which is extra annoying cause that breaker for some reason controls the kitchen and just that light in my bedroom but not the rest of the bedroom so I can't food at the moment.

Since turning the breaker off the hum is gone, I can't have an electrician come out any time soon. My house is destroyed and gross from 10 years of alcoholism and my dogs. I've been awake all night working on cleaning but it won't be good enough for anyone to come in any time soon. I'm hoping when I can have it fixed that it isn't expensive since I'm rather broke.

Is it really most likely arcing like google says, if so or if not is it a fire hazard and do I need to keep the breaker turned off until I can have someone out? I ordered a 4 dollar long usb lighter off Amazon that comes tomorrow so I'll at least be able to cook on my gas stove. Thank god the one thing the breaker didn't control in the kitchen was the fridge and I can just get a small lamp for in the bedroom since the outlets work.