Can Someone Reassure Me?

[SneakyStuff]

Hey guys, I was doing some work on my mom's Dell Dimension 4500 the other day, and I left everything seated, and air blasted the case out, til it was squeaky clean again. I then decided to apply some Ceramique to the CPU in leu of the thermal pad. Well, When I took the cpu out, and then blew into the enclosed area where it was. Suprise suprise, dust was in there, and it blew around. Do you think any of it got into the motherboards CPU socket? The lever was raised, and the mechanism that locks the CPU in was not aligned. I mean, I thouroughly blew it out, but would that have made it deeper!? Things like this just drive me nuts.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I'd just blow it out as best you can with compressed air and leave it at that. As long as it boots up, then it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[SneakyStuff]

Yea, everything booted up, and it seems to be running fine. Is dust really that big a deal even if it DID somehow get into one of those 478 holes?

 

[cirthix]

no, the dust will not affect the contacts in the socket. i'd be more afraid of dust buildup in the powersupply causing an overheat or dust getting in to the ceramique and causign bad contact. clean out the psu. by the way, you just voided your mom's dell's warranty. they dont like u even opening th ecase, and replacing the crappy pad they have jsut did the final blow. oh well, dell sucks anyways. shoulda built your mom an amd box with a biostar m7ncg. great board, everything is built in, good bios options. ony problems iwht it is no mounting holes, but this IS you mom's machine and she could use an undervolted mobile wiht a clip based heatsink... such as a cnps3100 from zalman. awesome combo for a cheap comp

 

[SneakyStuff]

Originally posted by: cirthix
no, the dust will not affect the contacts in the socket. i'd be more afraid of dust buildup in the powersupply causing an overheat or dust getting in to the ceramique and causign bad contact. clean out the psu. by the way, you just voided your mom's dell's warranty. they dont like u even opening th ecase, and replacing the crappy pad they have jsut did the final blow. oh well, dell sucks anyways. shoulda built your mom an amd box with a biostar m7ncg. great board, everything is built in, good bios options. ony problems iwht it is no mounting holes, but this IS you mom's machine and she could use an undervolted mobile wiht a clip based heatsink... such as a cnps3100 from zalman. awesome combo for a cheap comp

lol that Dell used to be mine, the warranty is long expired, and I have done SO much stuff to that it's not even funny. I just kinda stopped for a second though when I realized dust could have gotten in there. You know, that sudden pause, followed by an "uhhhhhhh"