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My Video Card Croaked
#279703 - 03/20/12 06:16 AM
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Sleep is overrated
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Re: My Video Card Croaked
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#279710 - 03/20/12 07:03 AM
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Re: My Video Card Croaked
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#279803 - 03/21/12 04:07 AM
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Ew... The worst I ever dealt with was in a somewhat grubby office in a ~150 year old building. The dust wasn't nearly as thick as any of those, but it had a greasy quality to it that was rather disturbing. I scrubbed to the elbows when that job was done.
On my old computer downstairs I placed some filters on the insides of the case's vents. A year later when I had to upgrade the hard drive and video card they were black from the smoke from the fireplace. But the innards were clean, though. :-)
So yes! Do get a small vac to clean out the 'puter. You can even find USB-powered ones cheap. But please don't use them while the computer is running with the case open. Unless you're into that sort of kinky thing. ;-)
--Bekki
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Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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Re: My Video Card Croaked
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#279814 - 03/21/12 05:35 AM
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> Ew... The worst I ever dealt with was in a somewhat grubby office in a ~150 year old
> building. The dust wasn't nearly as thick as any of those, but it had a greasy
> quality to it that was rather disturbing. I scrubbed to the elbows when that job was
> done.
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> On my old computer downstairs I placed some filters on the insides of the case's
> vents. A year later when I had to upgrade the hard drive and video card they were
> black from the smoke from the fireplace. But the innards were clean, though. :-)
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> So yes! Do get a small vac to clean out the 'puter. You can even find USB-powered
> ones cheap. But please don't use them while the computer is running with the case
> open. Unless you're into that sort of kinky thing. ;-)
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> --Bekki
Don't use a vac powered by the computer to clean the inside of the computer while the computer is powered on and has its inside accessible? Hmm....
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Re: My Video Card Croaked
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#279834 - 03/21/12 08:36 AM
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> Ew... The worst I ever dealt with was in a somewhat grubby office in a ~150 year old
> building. The dust wasn't nearly as thick as any of those, but it had a greasy
> quality to it that was rather disturbing. I scrubbed to the elbows when that job was
> done.
Probably old-ass smogger resin.
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