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AsRock · Mar 15, 2015

Forgetting those who don't understand too.

64K · Mar 15, 2015

Frankly I'm surprised you could even blow the dust/ash off of that PC. When I smoked the tar that was in the cigarette smoke would stick to everything in the house and when dust landed on anything it would make a sticky goop if you let it build up. Hell, it's 2 screws and the side panel is off. How hard is that? I'm sure youtube even has a video that people can watch on how to do it.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Mar 15, 2015

More often than not, the most difficult part of hands-on routine maintainance is getting the side panel on/off.
Experience helps though some sidepanels can be a real nightmare.
Shuttle pcs in particular can be very tricky simply because of the number of slots that have to fit in perfectly. The Dell i showed earlier wasnt especially easy and took me 3 attempts to reseat it correctly so that it would snap shut.

Given peoples' ignorance and general fear of all things electrical I am not at all surprised that a typical domestic user will NEVER clean the inside of their pc. and in my experience it is rare to open a pc and find it clean inside.

Athlonite · Mar 15, 2015

If you really want to get that monitor clean take the back off it then blow it out

jsfitz54 · Mar 15, 2015

With regards to monitors, I have taken out the logic/power boards on ones that were not working (starting normally due to dust grease ect) and completely sprayed them off (both sides) with
http://www.walmart.com/ip/16817418?www=true&productRedirect=true
and afterwards they worked fine.

de.das.dude · Mar 17, 2015

can you guys upload images to techpowerup image host? i cant see hosted images at work but i can see TPU ones :cry:

thanks

Frick · Apr 6, 2015

de.das.dude said:
at work

Liar!

Athlonite · Apr 6, 2015

de.das.dude said:
can you guys upload images to techpowerup image host? i cant see hosted images at work but i can see TPU ones
thanks

Should you not be doing work instead browsing TPU :slap:

de.das.dude · Apr 25, 2015

Athlonite said:
Should you not be doing work instead browsing TPU

since i am living on campus and am not permitted to bring personal computers, i have to use the work pc on weekends and holidays as well

i do have a tablet but wifi is not available in the ac

JunkBear · Apr 29, 2015

t_ski said:
Common issue on some older chips. The thermal paste gets really thick when cool and the CPU comes out of the socket still attached to the heatsink.

This came out of an HP DC5000 computer. We had someone that complained their DC5000 was running really loud all the time. One of the guys pulled the heatsink off on this noisy PC to clean off the old compound and replace it with some Arctic Ceramique I have. However, he stopped there and left the office for a while.

I came into his office, saw what he was up to and thought I'd help him out. I cleaned it up and applied the new compound, then went about seating the heatsink. I put one of the clips on, but saw that the second clip had a loop broken off the plastic mounting bracket (it's a S478 Pentium 4 CPU). We had another DC5000 that that had it's own issues, so I planned on taking the bracket off that one to use on the noisy PC. I undid the clips on it and removed the heatsink, only to find the CPU stuck to the bottom of it (and of course, the nasty dust, dander, wtf mess underneath).

If this was one of my computers for home, I probably would have warmed the CPU up a little before I unmounted the heatsink.

Socket 478 all make that. Guess the system that hold cpu down was not that effective after all.

Athlonite · Apr 29, 2015

the three dust filters from a mates Silverstone RV02 I don't think he's ever cleaned them since I built the PC despite me telling him to do so every 2 months and showing him how to do it albeit he got a slap on the wrist when he came to pick it up

rtwjunkie · Apr 29, 2015

There is zero air getting through those things!

Athlonite · Apr 29, 2015

Yeah I know case temps went down 5 deg c after cleaning them and you could actually feel the hot air being forced out the top of the case where as before the only place with air flow out of it was the top 120mm fan now the hot air is leaving via the top fan and the vented pci cover plates, Much better now

xvi · May 15, 2015

Found this on Imgur.

micropage7 · May 15, 2015

xvi said:
Found this on Imgur.

its ruin from roman empire, look at that colosseum

xvi · May 15, 2015

micropage7 said:
its ruin from roman empire, look at that colosseum

..and the leaning tower of capacitance.

Jetster · May 15, 2015

I though it was the set from the new Star Wars

JunkBear · May 15, 2015

Starts the song .. Like a dussttt in the wiiiinndddd

rtwjunkie · May 15, 2015

micropage7 said:
its ruin from roman empire, look at that colosseum

LOL! My first thoughts exactly!! "Why are ancient Roman ruins in the desert in this thread?" Upon closer inspection however....wow!

Mussels · May 15, 2015

micropage7 said:
its ruin from roman empire, look at that colosseum

not kidding, i'm tired as all fuck and after seeing your comment that IS what my brain decided it was. took a good minute for my brain to kick in and correct it.

Random Murderer · May 15, 2015

micropage7 said:
its ruin from roman empire, look at that colosseum

rtwjunkie said:
LOL! My first thoughts exactly!! "Why are ancient Roman ruins in the desert in this thread?" Upon closer inspection however....wow!

Mussels said:
not kidding, i'm tired as all fuck and after seeing your comment that IS what my brain decided it was. took a good minute for my brain to kick in and correct it.

I saw it, too. It even looks like it's resting atop a mountain...

I wonder which board that is... was?

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · May 15, 2015

Ashrock?

Ferrum Master · May 15, 2015

It is a Soltek 75KV2 KT133, There were not that many AGP Pro boards for Socket A and using SDRAM. And that idiotic IDE placement.

JunkBear · May 16, 2015

Ferrum Master said:
It is a Soltek 75KV2 KT133, There were not that many AGP Pro boards for Socket A and using SDRAM. And that idiotic IDE placement.

Just by the colour it screams VIA chipset. Am I right?

xvi · May 16, 2015

JunkBear said:
Just by the colour it screams VIA chipset. Am I right?

That and the KT133 in the model. That was a pretty popular chipset by VIA, iirc.

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