The dust thread
You've probably guessed from the title what this thread is for. Posting dust. Let's start with some case fans I removed from a customers PC a few days ago
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I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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Most of the freebee computers I get are usually well packed with dust.
Worst one I got was a HP Pavilion 8756C. Grill on back was just a wall of dust, most likely because the intake fan on that was a 0.3A Delta screamer. There was also coffee drops on the dust, so it was sticky too. To top it off, there was some food chunks as well.
After clean up, though, it made a nice secondary computer. Came with hard drive and everything loaded on it, so I shouldn't really complain.
My computers, on the other hand, barely get any dust. Of course that's partly due to the fact that I also regularly vaccum the house and clean the AC/furnace air filter.Comment
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The PC that the two fans in my pic came out of was pretty bad, although not quite as bad as the one in ratdude's youtube video. The CPU heatsink was completely sealed (ie. you couldn't see the fins at all from the top) and because the CPU was a P4 Prescott the heatsink would get too hot to touch when it was running. It looks much better now with the dust gone.
My computer doesn't get very dusty internals as the Antec 1200 case has filters on all of the intake fans.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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I've seen that same dust before. I wonder where it comes from. A newer gateway I worked on was caked with it. The front fan was completely filled with it, as was the HSF and the power supply. We just vacuumed it out. Bug bits are worse though.Comment
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i remember finding a bunch of dead ants in my compaq once after i opened it to change cards. normally id have the side panel off more often, but i didnt and nasty surprise.
fyi the youtube vid aint mine... i just remember seeing it and thinking it was a perfect fit for the thread.
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Whenever I see that, it's air compressor time. Gotta hold the blades so they don't spin way up and destroy the bearings though. Done that to a cheap fan, got it screaming with 185psi, fan blades eventually flew off.
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Had that happen to a Skt. A stock cooler once. Tried to clean dust out and lost a bladeOriginally posted by 370forlife
OK then, "The youtube video suggested by ratdude". And you're right about it being perfect for this thread.Originally posted by ratdude747
Oh, and I just remembered, I have come across one that would have to be as bad as if not worse that that one in the vid. The dust in the CPU cooler wasn't just a layer on top, it had gotten stuck in between all the fins (It was so bad I didn't even try to clean it, I just replaced it). The small space in between the bezel and front of the chasis was totally filled.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
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i need to find the pics of a computer from a mangotech truss saw i service for a local truss plant.it was full of sawdust and the caps were burning the dust they were so hot.if it hadnt popped and bsod'd it would have been left on overnight and started a nasty fire.their mitek cybersaw often looks the same.i could shovel it out if i wanted to!couldnt even see the plc rack or motor drives the last time i was there.and they wonder why it would run 5 minutes and die with a motor overheat alarm!Comment
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almost forgot the ford/rotunda analyser from a local ford dealer.
i bet there was 100 lbs of brake dust and other shit in this thing.even the flight recorder was full!
you know its bad when you roll it out on the shop loading dock and the harrison twp fire dept shows up while you are blowing it out!they saw the black cloud on their lunch run and stopped to check it out.Comment
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I see crap like this every day, so I don't bother taking pictures anymore.Ludicrous gibs!
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My wife PC always looks like that and worse. Its on the floor with the 5 dogs and four cats. She's not real prone to running the vac ether. Mine on the other hand is up on my desk, and get opened and blown out monthly. Now I did trash out a Gateway lappy and it turned out to be full of beach sand. Nothing like a well salted, and sanded Laptop!"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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I've got a small collections of filthy 'puter pics. heh.Attached FilesComment
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it takes a really nasty one to get me to reach for the camera anymore too.Originally posted by doodComment
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I had a question on EE where the guy asked how to clean mouse pee off of motherboards.
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Getting major deja vu with that dell.Comment
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Just cleaned out an Acer where the RAM slots were full of dust and it wasn't posting as a result. Works fine with the dust goneI love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the jumper wires backwards
Main PC: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600, 240GB Intel 335 Series SSD, 750GB WD HDD, Sony Optiarc DVD RW, Palit nVidia GTX660 Ti, CoolerMaster N200 Case, Delta DPS-600MB 600W PSU, Hauppauge TV Tuner, Windows 7 Home Premium
Office PC: HP ProLiant ML150 G3, 2x Xeon E5335 2GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Intel 530 SSD, 2x 250GB HDD, 2x 450GB 15K SAS HDD in RAID 1, 1x 2TB HDD, nVidia 8400GS, Delta DPS-650BB 650W PSU, Windows 7 ProComment
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i had to clean some old macs today. powerpc units from 94 or 95, filled with tons of dust
since it was in shop class, i had the luxury of shopvac'ing it out. still nasty.sigpic
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A shop vac is better than a compressor for these things. Once you vac it out THEN you spray it.Comment
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Note this is quite challenging effort. One misstep will damage the LCD flex and render it useless. So take it to someone more experienced if uncertain.
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Hope this is the right place, someone can help me.
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Xiaomi Notebook Pro X 15 OLED (A30)
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