Have you dusted inside your PC lately?

[Einion]

These people hadn't!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/ventblockers_2/

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[10 ball]

Just jam tissue in all the vents to stop the dust getting in, Sorted!

 

[Wyrmypops]

That's a timely reminder to attend to my PC. Our last one, when taken to the shop, amazed the technician - he'd not seen one killed by a smoking related illness before. Like the middle pages of the link's series, it was just dusty, albeit with a sickly brown tint.

 

[Einion]

That's a timely reminder to attend to my PC.

:good:

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[In Chigh P.I.]

Smoking really is the worst for it. I had a PC for 3 & a half years, i opened it up and could have scraped a couple of bong's worth off the insides. Yuk!

Keeping animals too, bad dust prob there...

Can you imagine how bad it would be if you had smoking animals??!!?? I shudder to think....

 

[uberdark]

mine just got hacked by charlie sheen. at least thats what it said.

"duh winning" on my backscreen. when i cracked open the computer the dust had caught on fire and burnt out my board.

 

[Torn blue sky]

 

[Chrome]

Now, the ants and cockroaches made me slightly queasy, though that was quite quickly remedied as I burst out laughing at the solid frog. XD

 

[supervike]

Surprised there aren't more fires caused by PCs. I better crack open mine, it's not seen the light of day since I changed a sound card ages ago.

 

[Chrome]

Dunno what's worse, the fact that I'm cleaning my computer more regularly than I clean the apartment or... well, yeah...

 

[freakinacage]

:good:

Einion

aye x2, i keep meaning to do it...

 

[finn17]

Coal fires are another culprit. Fine ash from my fire killed my last PC by completely clogging-up the CPU fan.

 

[Einion]

My favourite quote from it:

There are no ants inside Jim McNelis's machine, because the cockroaches ate them:

:laugh:

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[cassar]

Have you dusted inside your PC lately?

no but i am in casualty at the moment......apparently the new dyson ball cleaner is'nt what i expected.

 

[uglybug]

Heck if a computer can keep running up to the stage of some of those pics I can put off cleaning mine for a couple of years. It's not like I am cutting brick in the house. Although I did find a frog in my basement but I think he was after the spiders.

 

[RuneBrush]

Worst PC I've looked inside when I was an IT tech for a company was one that lived in the office part of a foundry. Opened it up and every surface was coated in thick black greasy dust... Another machine blew a capacitor in the PSU - whisp of smoke appears from the back, open it up to find it all covered in electrolytic fluid

 

[BarstoolProphet]

I spilled a box of iron filings into mine a little while back and used a magnet to clean them out.
3 weeks later, the computer repair guy stopped laughing at me and fixed it.
Good thing I own more than one computer.

 

[Dedwrekka]

My area has regular dust storms, so a fine later of sandy dust covers the inside of every computer, car, and open air building.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Have you dusted inside your PC lately? [/url]

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More regularly than I do a backup of my data.

Even in a closed, Air filtered Server room environment the small amount of human interaction still creating large amounts of dust is scary.
We have scheduled maintenance on our servers and forked out on those mini vacuums just for cleaning the insides after a FORMER colleague used a full size vac and removed a jumper switch.
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The blue bits are jumper switches roughly 2mm in size.