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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/27 19:06:45
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I feel better about mine when I cleaned it last!
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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/28 05:30:57
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hehe, but these are like PROPER filthly machines, in the case of the one I fixed.. it should have caught fire, thats how bad the airflow or lack of it was.
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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/28 06:55:30
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I've got a Gateway desktop that I'm working on now. I've blown it out 3 times and I still keep finding dust inside. It also had a bad CD/DVD burner drive and I'm going to have to change the power supply as it has "odors" coming from it and it's hot to the touch. Fortunately, Gateway uses standard ATX power supplies. The optical drive may just be dusty and dirty inside, but the way the drive is made it would have to be "destroyed" to open it up. A new drive from www.newegg.com (where I buy most of my PC parts) is only $20 and the client has authorized this.
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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/28 15:11:44
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I did a service call last year to a hospital. The complaint was the security system server was crashing all the time. When I arrived, they had shut the servers off. So I started them up and everything worked properly. Realizing I was billing them quite a large dollar amount hourly, and my tests revealed nothing out of the ordinary, I placed a call to the factory tech team. The tech on the other end had me run a few tests...all were OK. then he asked me if I could see any dust in the air intake...I could.... he asked me to totally disassemble the server while telling me that some models did in fact suffer from overheating due to dust build up in the cooling fins.... the server was built into the monitor case. He asked me to get my canned air and blow out the fins. I have the good canned air, not the stuff people buy at the office supply store. When I blew through the CPU cooling fins, it looked like a snow storm at that nurses station from all the dust in there. When the hospital maintenance guy finally came back, I had the system up and running and back together. He asked what I had done. I pointed to a huge dust bunny that had settled on the desk and I told him what I had done. He started cussing and yelling that he wasn't going to pay for a service call to blow out dust, he wanted a new &$%#ing server installed TODAY! and stormed off. He didn't get the new server, I paged him to have him sign my work sheet... he never returned.... so I left, and called the factory to tell them this tale. They sent him the bill anyway. The moral of the story..... dust in the cooling fins WILL cause problems with overheating that results in crashes.
post edited by Guitarhacker - 2010/11/28 15:14:55
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gustabo
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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/28 15:24:58
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Why is it that the two worst dust pages (3 & 7 from the above link) are from hospitals? What makes hospitals a much more dust prone area than anywhere else? Or is it coincidental?
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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/29 06:19:29
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I'm a retired computer techie and I used to work in a "controlled environment" computer room. We had dust in our equipment just like anyone else.
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Re:Dust Bunny's revisited
2010/11/29 14:57:16
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The worst I've seen was in my son's college dorm room. The computer was right in front of the window where it was exposed to the ocean air. The MB was nicely insulated in mud and could not be revived.
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