The Filthy, Rotten, Nasty, Helpdesk-Nightmare picture clubhouse

Athlonite · Apr 19, 2018

phill said:
Having not long started in IT at the bottom on the service desk, it's been amazing to see the state of systems and data centers etc and just what passes for PC's in this neck of the woods!! My word is it a whole new ball game!!

7 months in and I'm not looking back

Welcome to the wonderful world of IT where you'll go from marveling at wonders to wanting to puke from the sight of shit boxes covered in god knows what

lexluthermiester · Apr 19, 2018

silkstone said:
It is good to see that the dust filters on that work. The inside looks pretty clean.

Agreed! That could be so much worse.

silkstone said:
That's what my radiator looks like 2 weeks after cleaning it, only browner

Quit smoking man! You'll thank yourself and your technology with thank you too!

phill · Apr 19, 2018

Athlonite said:
Welcome to the wonderful world of IT where you'll go from marveling at wonders to wanting to puke from the sight of shit boxes covered in god knows what

Yeah this corporate world is a new beast altogether and a giggle on so many levels!! I'm still amazed at how we buy tech and such.. amazing!! Not in a good way!! lol

silkstone · Apr 19, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
Agreed! That could be so much worse.

Quit smoking man! You'll thank yourself and your technology with thank you too!

It's the city smog and pollution.

lexluthermiester · Apr 19, 2018

silkstone said:
It's the city smog and pollution.

Oh, I do beg your pardon. That's what I get for making an assumption.

Toothless · May 31, 2018

Taking apart an old 775 socket rig, thought the fan was a bit nasty until I popped it off the heatsink.

I just tossed it.

phill · May 31, 2018

Toothless said:
Taking apart an old 775 socket rig, thought the fan was a bit nasty until I popped it off the heatsink.

I just tossed it.

What?? How come you never cleaned that up with some air and a paint brush!! :laugh:

Athlonite · May 31, 2018

Intel's stock carpet maker deluxe

Toothless · May 31, 2018

phill said:
What?? How come you never cleaned that up with some air and a paint brush!!

Roommate's old rig. I'd never let mine get this way.

Sasqui · May 31, 2018

Toothless said:
I just tossed it.

Hey, that's a perfectly functioning self-replicating dust filter!

jboydgolfer · May 31, 2018

It looks like an indoor smokers PC

Toothless · May 31, 2018

jboydgolfer said:
It looks like an indoor smokers PC

From what I understand, a previous roommate of who had this desktop smoked indoors from the other room. The case is so bad that I'm just pulling and cleaning what I can and tossing the case itself.

EDIT: But wait, there's more!

Phone card.

Front panel

Actual spider web under the HDD

Motherboard

Sasqui · May 31, 2018

Toothless said:
But wait, there's more!

Nice! I bet it would be worse if the fans hadn't clogged a few years ago... no? lol

Toothless · May 31, 2018

Sasqui said:
Nice! I bet it would be worse if the fans hadn't clogged a few years ago... no? lol

The one fan?

biffzinker · May 31, 2018

Toothless said:
Phone card.

56K Modem?

jboydgolfer · May 31, 2018

Toothless said:
From what I understand, a previous roommate of who had this desktop smoked indoors from the other room. The case is so bad that I'm just pulling and cleaning what I can and tossing the case itself.

I used to smoke indoors when I was younger, I can recognize the look of dust mixed with tar from a mile away

getting it off the fan blades and other porous, or semiporous plastic is a nightmare. You can get 90% of it off but that last 10% seems to never come off

Nice dial up adapter btw

Toothless · May 31, 2018

biffzinker said:
56K Modem?

jboydgolfer said:
Nice dial up adapter btw

Tossed that too. :roll:

Space Lynx · May 31, 2018

Every time I see this thread pop up I get tempted to just have a quick glance. Makes me shiver inside my soul every time.

Norton · Jun 1, 2018

Ok let's stay on topic everyone

Bones · Jun 1, 2018

jboydgolfer said:
I used to smoke indoors when I was younger, I can recognize the look of dust mixed with tar from a mile away getting it off the fan blades and other porous, or semiporous plastic is a nightmare. You can get 90% of it off but that last 10% seems to never come off

Nice dial up adapter btw

Earlier in this thread I posted up about a cleaner I found that will get rid of it period - At least 99% of it and even cleaned out a GPU that was gummed up with it. I'll have to do a vid showing the stuff in action from start to finish so you guys can see it doing it's thing in real time.

Biggest challenge will be finding something nice-n-nasty to use as an example with it.... But I think I know where something is that fills the bill for that.

purecain · Jun 1, 2018

I should of taken pictures of some of the homes ive visited to repair filthy pc's... i'll never forget that urge to gip as you cross the thresh hold into the bad air inside some home... too posh to wash IS A THING! and then you get led to the smallest room in the house with no window, which has to be the computer room. still doesnt stop that little voice in the back of your head begging it not to be so. looking at these pics takes me back there lol...

Sasqui · Jun 1, 2018

Norton said:
Ok let's stay on topic everyone

Yes we need more grunge!

ruff0r · Jun 28, 2018

Its a bug

Source 9gag

Mussels · Jun 28, 2018

ruff0r said:
Its a bug

Source 9gag

hey, found the source code for fallout 4!

robot zombie · Jul 13, 2018

Every now and then I flip through this thread at work and it always makes me dust out my computer when I get home. Some of the dust you guys rack up is insane to me! I clean everything once a month and you can't really even see the dust until you look up close! Sure the meshes get icky but everything else pretty much stays clean on its own! And my place is pretty dusty! This computer sits in a 10x12 room with laminate floors and a ton of stuff packed in. I have to dust the room twice a week to keep it from getting crazy. But it never gets inside my computer...

I'll have to let it go a bit so you guys can see what vape dust looks like. I vape a lot in here and the fun thing about e-liquid is that never really dries. If you let a surface get dusty, the vapor actually condenses and gets pulled into the dust to form these dark brown, slimy, gooey globs of dust. You should see the crap that the ceiling fan starts flinging around the room when I don't dust it. E-liquid residue is a nightmare inside of a computer... ...or anywhere I guess. Doesn't seem to hurt anything, but it sure makes a sticky, gooey mess... ...it especially likes to get all up in the space between the fan housings and blades...

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