Originally posted by: Anonemous
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
NEVER clean the layer of dust off the electronic components. You may clean it from metal and plastic portions, but it must remain in fans and on electronics. You may clean fans and heatsinks with your fingers - never use a vacuum or brush or anything like that. I don't know why. it makes no sense to me either. But that's the way it is.
never heard of that... but I do remember the phrase: "if it ain't broke don't fix it". I was just tidying up the cables now I might need to replace the mobo/cpu.
well im currently on a short vacation and i wanted to take my computer apart and clean everything out (which i haven't done throughly since i built it)
so i took out everything, even the mobo, and dust everything off. i see a big dust ball around the CPU socket area. so i put everything back together and hope i messed nothing up... i did hold the mofo by the heatsink and sprayed some of the compressed air liquid on some circuit boards...
well it booted up and worked, except i have to rub the sound card's connectors and it worked again
to my surprise, the temperatures stay generally the same, but THE COMPUTER IS NOW NOISIER!!!
one major major improvement i got was the computer doesn't restart anymore when i use BT *knocks on wood*. but yeah i know how it feels, i've violated the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" rule before...
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