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In your 2nd pic - is that a Quantum Bigfoot drive?
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Ludicrous gibs!
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That last 5 picture is so what?
I routinely see that when I used to help out with a defunct pc store which is good one and owner ran that business for 18 years!
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That last 5 picture is so what? I routinely see that when I used to help out with a defunct pc store which is good one and owner ran that business for 18 years!
Reason I said this bit off-handily is it takes MUCH to shock us and only three made the mentionable status.
At my TV shop there is MUCH dust floating around that the P-233mmx with JTS 1GB HD kept going filled with dust. I repaired PSU (recap) and blew dust out few times over the years. Still working 7 years later and due for one.
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the dust thread!!! haha kool, since i now know how to post pics i thought id collaborate...
i kinda liked how this pic came out
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Dust that was collected around the exhaust fan made my brothers Thermaltake Mambo case rust! *sighs*
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Dust+humdity does to any cases that is not properly plated with platings to prevent against this.
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Yeah, we laughed hard at that too... The poor drive already had quite a few dead sectors, but hey, they sure got years of use out of it.Originally posted by doodComment
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No pics here but I clean out my PC's monthly. I have six dogs and six cats in the house with me. There just may be a few extra hairs floating around. Being that I'm a heavy smoker I too I always add as many fans as I can blowing into the rear of my PC cases. What I'm trying to do is blow so much air in from the rear so the PC isn't sucking cigarette smoke into the front of the case and the DVD drives. The PC is also up on the desk so its away from the few extra animal hairs.... My wife's PC is on the floor! It's that Free Hp Compaq that I just set up for her a week or so ago. I'm going to have to revisit it and make sure it isn't designed to be an animal hair tunnel fan."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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This one came from an acer. The motherboard and PSU both had bulging cheapo teapo caps.Attached Filesif you find these attachements useful please consider making a small donation to the site
I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
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Is the PSU in the last two images a Newton Power or Delta with Passive PFC? Almost looks like it.
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^ Lol, that Intel heat sink in the first picture is well packed.Comment
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I had to work on a computer once that was packed full of dust. The bottom three-fourths of the case was completely full of dust with no room for air to flow. Somehow, that computer still worked. The problem it had was that Windows would freeze when accessing the floppy drive. It was an old Intel-branded Pentium Pro system running Windows 2000.Comment
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That was a long time ago but I remember it being a Delta 30,000 powered on hours at the time and all the Ltec caps were fine. Haha yeah that Intel heat sink was on a C2D E6300 1.86GHz
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Just did this on my 2021 13" MBP M1. Dust-Gate design flaw still present. Depending on cleanliness of the operation environment (often eating while using MB is probably the worst). Periodic cleaning is probably warranted.
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.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook...leaning/17792010-09-2024, 10:10 AM
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