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| Thread ID: 96948 | 2009-01-29 23:48:00 | Gee Wonder why ? | wainuitech (129) | PC World Chat |
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| 743145 | 2009-01-30 02:39:00 | The Strange smell was the board frying RIP Gone to the great PC heaven in the sky :crying Really? I've had them like that and they haven't booted but a good clean revives them.......... It died?!! |
pctek (84) | ||
| 743146 | 2009-01-30 02:43:00 | I done one at an engineering workshop (well in the office) that was covered in the blackest finest dust I had ever seen. I mentioned to the office lady that her lungs were sucking in the same crap but she was a bit thick and though i was making a joke.:rolleyes: And she wasn't even hot. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 743147 | 2009-01-30 02:51:00 | And she wasn't even hot. That would be a damn special engineering firm to have a hot secretary. :p |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 743148 | 2009-01-30 02:53:00 | well, we have their old one, and shes damn fine. But dumb as a bag of hammers. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 743149 | 2009-01-30 02:55:00 | Really? I've had them like that and they haven't booted but a good clean revives them.......... It died?!! Yeah its dead - I stripped everything out from the Box , gave every thing a good clean, but nothing, tried different CPU/RAM/PSU/CMOS Battery - nothing dead as, tried their components in a old board of the same socket (754) - and it fired up fine - well into the BIOS any Way. The boards got a definite burnt smell to it. Trying to see if the HDD / Data is Ok at the moment - the workshop PC is struggling to fire it up as a slave. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 743150 | 2009-01-30 04:05:00 | I cleaned out a case belonging to a friends niece that was a tad dusty (no where as bad as yours!) and unbeknown to me there were flea eggs in the dust. Soo ... a few days later the scratching started and I had to flea bomb the house twice in the end to get rid of them. :stare: Moral of the story: do your cleaning outside. Thanks for the tip. Would definitely appreciate it when I take out the HDD from the home computer and make it a portable backup drive. :D |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 743151 | 2009-01-30 04:49:00 | I once had to look after a few PCs in a furniture factory. They made all their stuff from Rimu, lots of sanding & sawing going on as you can imagine. The PCs inside were pretty much all one colour - Rimu. The dust was so thick and covered everything you couldn't tell the colour of the mainboard, ports, IDE cables etc! best solution for a PC in such a dusty place is to setup the fans to give positive case presure, so you have more air forced in then sucked out. then any small cracks in the case will have air going out and not dust going in. now you have good control over where the air goes in, add an air filter to the air intake, best air filter is to use two layers of the girlfriends stockings. clean the filter every few months or as needed. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 743152 | 2009-01-30 05:37:00 | The Fonterra PCs were interesting. I wonder how switching to Dell worked out for them? | Greven (91) | ||
| 743153 | 2009-01-30 06:16:00 | The Fonterra PCs were interesting. I wonder how switching to Dell worked out for them? Milk solids? Cash them in! |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
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