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Title: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Andy B on 19 July 2011, 21:15:50
stick with it to the end, page 9 onwards are the best  ;D ;D ;D
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/ventblockers_2/
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Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Plomien on 19 July 2011, 21:32:56
I have seen some muck in PCs, worst is definitely from a smokers house where the tar builds up on the components.
Not found any creepy crawleys so far
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: TheBoy on 19 July 2011, 22:09:06
Found some stuff in them over the years.

Hoovered out one about 3hrs ago ::)
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Andy B on 19 July 2011, 22:10:53
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Found some stuff in them over the years.

Hoovered out one about 3hrs ago ::)

you know what I mean. Not everyone has a compressor in their garage.  :y
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: TheBoy on 19 July 2011, 22:11:50
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Found some stuff in them over the years.

Hoovered out one about 3hrs ago ::)

you know what I mean. Not everyone has a compressor in their garage.  :y
When I say hoovered, I actually meant took it outside and used a compressor ::)
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: jonnycool on 19 July 2011, 22:13:32
Don't think I'll bother now  :(
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Elite Pete on 19 July 2011, 22:22:18
I Dyson mine ::)
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Andy B on 19 July 2011, 22:31:03
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I Dyson mine ::)

That's cos you're all posh in Cheshire.  ::) ::) ;)
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 19 July 2011, 22:39:23
those pc's can easily start fire in home..
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Varche on 20 July 2011, 00:03:42
Only last week. It was every bit as full if not more of dust. Even took the power supply to bits and was surprised to find a fan in there.  Spain really is the dustiest place in the world. :y (Not many bugs though)
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: CaptainZok on 20 July 2011, 00:06:56
When did you clean out your lappy's heat exchanger? It's amazing the amount of fluff that builds up on them, usually only noticed when it starts to overheat and shut down "for no reason".
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: albitz on 20 July 2011, 00:14:29
My lappy has been shutting down for no reason since I got it, usually after its been running for quite a while. Presumably overheating. Its a refurb jobby, so maybe someone forgot to hoover it out during the refurb. :-/
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: CaptainZok on 20 July 2011, 00:23:49
You'll probably find a carpet of fluff wrapped around the heat exchanger Albs.
I usually take the heatsink/fan assembly out and attack it with the compressor then renew the heat sink compound when I put it back.
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: albitz on 20 July 2011, 00:25:00
Nope, sorry - youve lost me. :-[ ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: CaptainZok on 20 July 2011, 00:31:34
Some like this acer are a piece of cake, take off the memory/cpu cover and unscrew the heat sink unit. Did a tosh the other month that needed virtually stripping to the motherboard to get the fan out. It depends how it's been designed. If you want to try it have a google around for a service manual for your lappy, that should give you a clue how it comes to bits.
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: albitz on 20 July 2011, 00:40:40
Mines an Acer, but I havent got a clue what your talking about.
I do work with some very clever people though - in the realm of electrickery, so I will see if one of them will have a look at it for me. :y
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: aaronjb on 20 July 2011, 07:36:39
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those pc's can easily start fire in home..

Back when I used to repair PCs for a living we had a few customers where precisely that happened..

The best was probably the local Rover dealer (where all our company cars came from, and who tried to kill me with a dodgy Metro, but that's another story) - the PC in question was rammed up against a perspex window between the office and the service bays.. the exploding PSU burnt a nice hole clean through the perspex  ;D

Mind we also had a newspaper depot as our customer - their PCs weren't so much the problem as the (dot matrix) printers. The place was covered in thick paper dust and we had to go out every month and hoover the printers out, otherwise the heads would end up getting stuck.. The only thing I can compare the paper dust to is a thick layer of dry cement, horrible stuff.
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: Jimbob on 20 July 2011, 07:57:57
lovely!  :o
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: duggs on 20 July 2011, 12:09:37
Don't think Hoovers work 100%.

My air compressor sure does though....amazing how quick those fans fly round with compressor air aimed at them....PC looks like new afterwards though !
Title: Re: when did you last hoover out your PC tower?
Post by: dbug on 20 July 2011, 19:28:05
Can't get my vacuum cleaner in my tower  :-? ;)