Dustbunnies?

[WoodButcher]

Among my friends and family I'm the geek, Broken or slow PC? call Bruce,,,
well I've come across some pretty nasty interiors but never anything quite as bad as these, at least not so bad as to require photo evidence. If you have pics post them up!

 

[zagood]

Wow...wow.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I'll have to dig up the pictures of one my girlfriend and I recently repaired. It was so caked with dust the intake and exhaust fans literally could not spin. It was a "generic" Dell Dimension case from roughly 2004-2006ish, too, which aren't the most prone to dust (they're starved for air if anything, and don't have much ventilation).

 

[ZimZum]

Dust I dont mind. When they give them to you and their filled with dead cockraches, yeah good times.

 

[Rubycon]

Disgusting especially the ones that eat in front of their PC. D:

 

[aigomorla]

WB are u taking pictures of my farm? :X

 

[WoodButcher]

WB are u taking pictures of my farm? :X

Naw, not me:\

I know you don't have a Dell,

HP, isn't it???

 

[Zap]

No pics, but a few weeks ago I helped troubleshoot a system (the generic PSU turned out dead). The CPU heatsink below the fan was COMPLETELY covered so that no air was going into the heatsink.

The system was only in use for TWO weeks.

The owner was a chain smoker.

 

[Gillbot]

No pics, but a few weeks ago I helped troubleshoot a system (the generic PSU turned out dead). The CPU heatsink below the fan was COMPLETELY covered so that no air was going into the heatsink.

The system was only in use for TWO weeks.

The owner was a chain smoker.

I stopped working on machines, primarily due to smokers.

 

[Rubycon]

The owner was a chain smoker.

No wonder it stopped working. It takes a lot of heat to make a chain smoke. :biggrin:

We talking air temperatures so high that wood panels just burst into flame upon exposure.

 

[shortylickens]

I've seen worse, but not on my home computer.

When I worked at Tektronix I serviced oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers and large multimeter's (among other things). Some of them had been built in the 70's, used constantly, and never opened up. We saw god awful things inside some of those units. Were I allowed to take pictures I would have.
Luckily We had a whole room set aside just for cleaning stuff. We had a couple of smoke hoods with air nozzles, and a deep sink with scrub brushes (for the cases). They were used quite frequently.

As for my computer: Fan filters do wonders. Even if I have to clean them every few months and they get destroyed after a year, they are worth it.

 

[GLeeM]

I bought my first computer at a Mom and Pop computer shop - PII 266 Mhz - no fan on the heatsink.

Both case fans were exhausting, turning the case into a proper vacuum cleaner or should I say air cleaner!
It quit nine months later. When I brought it in to get fixed there was a half inch thick blanket of dust in the bottom of the case - it looked like a felt pad. It actually peeled off in one piece.
The computer sat on the floor on the carpet - oops, I didn't know, it was my first computer!