Is your CPU fan clean? - Page 3

PsYkHoTiK · 16th Sep 2005, 05:02 AM

You need a bigger fan...

zy · 16th Sep 2005, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Trinity

Woah!!!!

Mine was not quite the bad...

That looks like cat fur.

Does your freind have a cat?

nopez

Stephenishere · 16th Sep 2005, 12:17 PM

that looks disgusting... Those look like worms of dust..!
reminds me of this

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Subject: Computer Tech Support
Email example contributed by Lee C., 1 May 2003:

FW: You are never going to believe this one but it is TRUE

This is a true story. This woman went out to a local computer store to buy a computer that her family wanted her to get so she can e-mail them. The sales person told her that they would deliver the computer, set it up and give her some pointers on using it, if she had any problems later all she had to do was call their "Technical Support" they would talk her through it over the phone or come back to her house to find the problem. The sales person asked her if she wanted to purchase 2 years in house warranty, the woman said yes.

A few months went by, she was getting good sending and receiving mail and checking the other web sites with only one call to tech support until one day. She called tech support.

SUPPORT: Hello, technical support how can I help you

LADY: Last night my computer started making a lot of hissing noise at me so I shut it down, this morning when I turned it on the computer started hissing and cracking, then started smoking and a bad smell, then nothing.

SUPPORT: I will have a technician come over first thing this morning, just leave the computer just like it is so they can find the problem and fix it or change it with another computer. Give me your address and phone number and the technician will be there just as soon as they can, in the morning.

When the technician got there, the lady showed the technician where the computer was, said what happen to it, this is what the technician found wrong.

Take a look at the pictures... you won't believe your eyes!!!

Source: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-snake-pc.htm

Papercut · 16th Sep 2005, 12:24 PM

Oh I saw that on Ebaum's world. Don't know if it's true or not

Trinity · 16th Sep 2005, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Take a look at how dirty my cooler got!

Looks like you got to yours just in time!

vccy118 · 16th Sep 2005, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Take a look at how dirty my cooler got!

Nothng to say but EWWWWW... How long you din clean it?

Giraffe }{unter · 19th Sep 2005, 04:22 AM

Here are a few shots of my Media Center PC that runs 24 hours a day. 1 Month or so of dust, it's only the fine stuff because I have a filter on the case

jamotto · 19th Sep 2005, 04:38 PM

A friend of mine used to have a AMD K6-2. The reason he had me work on it was b/c the computer suddenly "lost" 32MB of memory. I figured one of the memory sticks had come loose. Opened it up and the whole motherboard was grey, almost all the surface mounted chips where not visible, they were all covered completely by dust. After cleaning it the 32 MB reappeared. Other than the memory loss, it never crashed or had any other problems due to the dust.

Adrian Wong · 19th Sep 2005, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Papercut

Oh I saw that on Ebaum's world. Don't know if it's true or not

Actually, talking about snakes, my mother's air conditioner choked a few months back.

It was a wall unit.. and it ran fine until one day, when I switched it on, there was a loud thump! and while the compressor ran, there was no air output.

When we called a repair team in, they took down the entire unit and found a dead grass snake inside.

Adrian Wong · 19th Sep 2005, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Trinity

Looks like you got to yours just in time!

Hahah!! Yup!!

That's the problem when you leave the case open!

16th Sep 2005, 05:02 AM	#21 (permalink)
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19th Sep 2005, 04:38 PM	#28 (permalink)
jamotto I'm a regular Join Date: 3 Mar 2005 Posts: 466 Reputation: 142 Rep Power: 5	A friend of mine used to have a AMD K6-2. The reason he had me work on it was b/c the computer suddenly "lost" 32MB of memory. I figured one of the memory sticks had come loose. Opened it up and the whole motherboard was grey, almost all the surface mounted chips where not visible, they were all covered completely by dust. After cleaning it the 32 MB reappeared. Other than the memory loss, it never crashed or had any other problems due to the dust.