Computer will not start correctly.

When power on it will display the pentium inside the emblem and the name of the gateway, then goes to just a dash or underscore in the top left corner of a black screen. We cannot go further than that. Can you help me?

I think we can have fried the Processior? I opened to check the conections and found that all fans have pluged with excessive increase of wet dust. the processior had got so hot that it melted the seal between the cooling plate and the processior. If someone has a sugestion to make sure what is wrong and how test it would be verry much apreciated.

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