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Recently my Dell B120 over heated and acually melted the cpu cover above the heat sink.(I thought cpu's were thermal protected). I found lint packed so the fan couldn't blow air across the sink. Now I plug it in and don't get lights sound or anything. The P/S is putting out 19V Is it shot. Please Help Thanks

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by tintoman

I dont know what the operating voltage of this computer is but 19V seems ok to me.
You are right the CPU has thermal paste between itself and the heatsink (or should have)
However if there has been an obstruction to the airflow that would cause the CPU to overheat, in fact the system should have shut itself down before it melted anything but I doubt you will get any sympathy from Dell about that.
I think you would have to be really lucky to get away with just a new processor now, I think this will be at least a new motherboard and RAM as well

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