Hey guys.

So my son has an original LCD model, which has been fantastic for coming up on 2 years.

He has dropped it and now it runs super slowly and the fan seems to spin up to the max even at idle.

I have had a look over ot, and inside the back panel as I was expecting maybe a heatsink to have detached (this would explain the fan going nuts, yet the performance showing sogns of heavy thermal throttling) but everything looks present and correct; the fan is secure, there is no wiggle on the steam pipe and the screws holding the plate down are secure.

There are no loose components, I've shook the thing upside down with the back cover off, not even so much as a snapped plastic clip.

I have also explored the possibility of the sudden shock causing data corruption on the SSD, and have run the "storage tasks" thing in settings.

I've yet to google what the fstrim command is to run in desktop, and I'm skeptical that this will have any impact.

Has anyone dropped one of these and then had this issue before? If so, did you resolve it?

I'm holding off on factory resetting and recovery type things, as again I'm skeptical that these will fix it, it feels like a hardware problem, but I can't find it.