comp prob????

hoaxie · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject:

BTW, compressed air comes in a lil aeresol type can. Usually it has a thin, red straw looking thingie attached to the side of it.

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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject:

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:46 pm Post subject:

BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 8:54 pm Post subject:

Oh... uh... if you're in Belgium, I guess the American chain stores aren't very good advice...

If you go to a car dealer, be careful with the how much air pressure you blow into stuff... spinning fans too fast can actually ruin them... especially if you spin them backwards. Also, high pressure air hitting chips might force them loose... this used to be more a problem with old hardware that had chips that you could replace on the motherboard...

If you used 150psi air, I'm betting you could actually snap a ram chip or an add in card with a direct hit.

If you can't find any compressed air, a drinking straw can work too... it won't clean out a power supply very well, but it will get most of the dust out of your system. (just try not to spit too much when you blow through it, that'd be bad)

Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject:

My air compressor spits air out at 130 psi. I haven't had any issues with it. Of course I don't put it right on the boards either. I cleaned out Frag's machine when he first got here and it took my around 10 minutes with the compressor to get it clean. Under, over, around, behind, I made sure I didn't miss a thing.

BTW, WD-40 is non conductive. However I too would not recommend using the stuff. It may look clean and shiny for a week or two but it actually attracts dust. Then you'd have a hell of a time getting it clean

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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject:

really? non conductive? I didn't know that...

I wonder if you could do a WD-40 cooled system... get rid of all the fans, and submerge it all in WD-40... then run a couple cables up for floppy/optical drives out of the liquid... hmmmm.....

Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:42 pm Post subject:

It's true, nonconductive. If your distributor cap ever gets wet, remove it and spray it with WD-40. I use it all the time in electrical applications. If it were conductive I'd be dead by now, tee hee hee.
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cobra · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:47 am Post subject:

thx guys. i will go to my comp store tommorow. it's closed today and yesterday.

yesterday a guy told me another way to clean it out:

fill the bathtub with water and trow yout tower in it.

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cobra · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:38 am Post subject:

ok it is still happening sometimes

(like 1 time a week) i think i'm gonna open the powersuplly too look at the ventilator.

ANY THINGS I SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR WHEN I OPEN IT????????
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Blown · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:16 am Post subject:

cobra · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 3:14 pm Post subject: