See no reason what a black hard drive would have to do with it or why on earth you opened the hard-drive. Usually it's enough to open the PC case and leave the components pretty much alone.
Anyway, here's a temperature guide:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/221745-29-core-quad-temperature-guide
If it crashes already on 68,0C by just using Office equivalent software without being stressed out by either a 3d benchmark or hardware intensive game then I'd say the cooling unit might not be attached as it should be or that the cooling unit on the cpu is too weak.
> Is anyone an expert on this? I got a new computer in 2006
> and it's a black hard-drive. I keep it on the bottom of
> the desk, because it would take up too much room on the
> top. Anyway, it crashed in the summer once. I had no idea
> why until I opened the hard-drive and saw that it was
> filled with dust. Seriously, it was like one of those
> Disney movies, Disney's Old Crone in "Snow White and the
> Seven Dwarfs" in her lab in the dungeons. LMAO. Anyway,
> ever since, I've been told to watch my computer temp.
>
> Apparently, the highest number it can go (on mine) is
> 68.0C (or more) before the computer crashes. I'm on 51.8C
> and I have no idea why. I've vacuumed the floor twice,
> blown all the dust out of the hard-drive, taken the lids
> off, given it breathing space, checked my CPU and nothing
> seems to be overloading on the Task Manager. After the hot
> days, it just seems to be gradually rising over a period
> of time. The highest it got in summer was 46.0C and it's
> been rising ever since. Not fast, just gradual. Anyway,
> it's really annoying and I want it to stop.
>
> Ideally, I want the temperature to be at 29.0-32.0C. How
> would I do this?
>
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