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02-Aug-2005, 04:43 PM #1
Dust
Is bad. And noisy. Remember to spring clean ^_^
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03-Aug-2005, 01:50 AM #2
Hey Alex,you're right.Changed a modem in a box yesterday & the dust on the fan
intake was amazing,brushed eveything with a soft paintbrush and the vacuum-c on
blow did the rest.Should run cooler & heat is the culprit of many malfunctions.
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06-Aug-2005, 04:38 PM #3
i use a can of air on my pc to keep it clean............about every 2 months.........
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06-Aug-2005, 06:23 PM #4
Dust is bad for you mmm-kay ....
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06-Aug-2005, 07:06 PM #5
I take um to the garage and blow then out with an air hose. Of course I live in the desert where there is nothing but dust...
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06-Aug-2005, 07:22 PM #6
By air hose do you mean the supply comes from an air compressor? If so be careful ... I destroyed a motherboard once because of water in the line. There is also the chance you can break some of the solder joints with the pressure. I just stick to the little cans of air now.
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GOOD-GRIEF ................sounds like you were going CRAZY.......
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06-Aug-2005, 09:38 PM #8
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By air hose do you mean the supply comes from an air compressor? If so be careful ... I destroyed a motherboard once because of water in the line. There is also the chance you can break some of the solder joints with the pressure. I just stick to the little cans of air now.
lol...what amazes me is the years I spent in an ESD controlled environment as a Production Manager and in the manufacturing area "everything" was grounded to prevent discharge from static electricity. Employees wore tested footstraps and wriststraps, work stations were grounded, even the floor wax had special ESD additives so the floor, when measured with a meter, fell within non-ESD emitting range.

But, I'm well aware that these ESD practices are required within the industry to prevent in-plant damage as well as field failures. But, once these boards get into the field (that's you) there is very little user cognizance regarding electrostatic discharge and how ESD, if not cotrolled, can be a major factor in determining the life of a system (you know, like wearing a ground-strap when handling any of the boards, installing memory, drives, etc. inside the CPU).

Now, here we have a guy who takes the (he wasn't specific...was it the MB? or the entire CPU?) out to the garage, in the desert, where the humidity is for sure extremely dry, blows it out with non-ionized air and everything functions ok?

go figger....

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lol...what amazes me is the years I spent in an ESD controlled environment as a Production Manager and in the manufacturing area "everything" was grounded to prevent discharge from static electricity. Employees wore tested footstraps and wriststraps, work stations were grounded, even the floor wax had special ESD additives so the floor, when measured with a meter, fell within non-ESD emitting range.

But, I'm well aware that these ESD practices are required within the industry to prevent in-plant damage as well as field failures. But, once these boards get into the field (that's you) there is very little user cognizance regarding electrostatic discharge and how ESD, if not cotrolled, can be a major factor in determining the life of a system (you know, like wearing a ground-strap when handling any of the boards, installing memory, drives, etc. inside the CPU).

Now, here we have a guy who takes the (he wasn't specific...was it the MB? or the entire CPU?) out to the garage, in the desert, where the humidity is for sure extremely dry, blows it out with non-ionized air and everything functions ok?

go figger....

Been doin it for years too - no problamo!
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10-Aug-2005, 07:18 PM #10
I find that the things i never thought of using or never even thought about peroid....people are using with no problems...........
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21-Aug-2005, 10:21 AM #11
I used to blow my machine out with dry nitrogen. 1200 PSI. I dropped it down with the regulator and stood back.

I posted that here and somebody accused me of fibbing. I had to post pics for proof. If I hadn't dropped the pressure I am sure I could have blown the board out of the machine in pieces. I don't work HVAC anymore so I don't have a tank around. Talk about a "CLEAN" machine.
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I used to blow my machine out with dry nitrogen. 1200 PSI. I dropped it down with the regulator and stood back.

I posted that here and somebody accused me of fibbing. I had to post pics for proof. If I hadn't dropped the pressure I am sure I could have blown the board out of the machine in pieces. I don't work HVAC anymore so I don't have a tank around. Talk about a "CLEAN" machine.
I also do not blast my computer with 120psi compressed air - but turning the compressor down to 15/20psi (air brush pressure) works great for me...
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21-Aug-2005, 12:27 PM #13
I'm not sure I'd recommend blasting your system with 1200 PSI nitrogen even it it were available.
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21-Aug-2005, 05:35 PM #14
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A can of Fellows Air Duster works just great, short little blast, the can last a long time. Have a friend that used his compressure, thought he was going to blow the fan off the CPU.
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29-Aug-2005, 11:36 PM #15
I just did mine today with a can of air
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