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de.das.dude · Apr 3, 2012

Black Panther said:
Not filthy, but nasty. And a bit unexplainable...
http://img.techpowerup.org/120402/1.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/120402/2.jpg

Fan still works, but the whole tower now vibrates like a cellphone

like a cellphone

something else came to my mind

but how is it even possible!! the whole part of the grill thing is to make sure this doesnt happen!

Radical_Edward · Apr 3, 2012

Fan grills don't block screws, or screwdrivers for that matter.

Could also be the case of a cheap fan.

de.das.dude · Apr 3, 2012

i dont think BP is that noob to poke the blade with a screw driver ?

DRDNA · Apr 3, 2012

Black Panther said:
Not filthy, but nasty. And a bit unexplainable...
http://img.techpowerup.org/120402/1.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/120402/2.jpg

Fan still works, but the whole tower now vibrates like a cellphone

I have seen this happen when someone uses canned air to clean and allow the compressed air to blow directly on the fan. At the very least when using canned air is to keep the fan from spinning during the cleaning process. I am not sure if that is what happened but in my exposure that's the only time I have seen that.

t_ski · Apr 3, 2012

I was using compressed air to clean a fan once and the blades were spinning wildly before I accidentally brushed my finger against one of them, causing that blade to snap off and go flying...

Bambooz · Apr 3, 2012

WhiteLotus said:
Go buy some cheap womans tights, and wrap them around your fans. Amount of dust being sucked into the computer drastically reduced, and you only have to clean/vacuum/wash the tights.

I've been doing that since the Pentium 3 days.. Crude but effective :toast:

Black Panther · Apr 3, 2012

t_ski said:
I was using compressed air to clean a fan once and the blades were spinning wildly before I accidentally brushed my finger against one of them, causing that blade to snap off and go flying...

I had cleaned his pc with compressed air last week in fact. But it's not the first time I did it, both on my brother's pc, the work computers and my own pc.
I always hold the fans with my fingers before blowing compressed air on them.

Today I spoke to my brother. He told me the pc had been working perfectly. Then last Thursday or Friday he heard a big crackling sound from the tower... but he didn't bother because the sound stopped within a second (sure the fan got jammed) and his pc didn't crash or anything.... so he just continued playing... :laugh:

He gave me the pc last Sunday because somehow he managed to corrupt the boot.ini :twitch:

Anyway, I just ran recovery console, bootfix, and all was fine. It was some hours later while defragmenting his 1TB drive that I noticed the top of the tower quite abnormally warm. And then I noticed that the PSU fan was jammed :eek:

To see how I solved this (ghetto style!) click here

Swamp Monster · Apr 3, 2012

I bough't a new HF for my CPU recently and decided to clean 3 years old PSU from inside , because I was taking apart whole PC anyway. Found a few dead insects inside aswell as spider's web.

brandonwh64 · Apr 3, 2012

Black Panther said:
I had cleaned his pc with compressed air last week in fact. But it's not the first time I did it, both on my brother's pc, the work computers and my own pc.
I always hold the fans with my fingers before blowing compressed air on them.

Today I spoke to my brother. He told me the pc had been working perfectly. Then last Thursday or Friday he heard a big crackling sound from the tower... but he didn't bother because the sound stopped within a second (sure the fan got jammed) and his pc didn't crash or anything.... so he just continued playing...

He gave me the pc last Sunday because somehow he managed to corrupt the boot.ini
Anyway, I just ran recovery console, bootfix, and all was fine. It was some hours later while defragmenting his 1TB drive that I noticed the top of the tower quite abnormally warm. And then I noticed that the PSU fan was jammed

To see how I solved this (ghetto style!) click here

ChaoticAtmosphere · Apr 8, 2012

I was gonna clean my computer today after reading this thread....I opened the side of my case and said "Geez...I guess it can wait until June!" :laugh:

Yo_Wattup · Apr 8, 2012

WhiteLotus said:
Go buy some cheap womans tights, and wrap them around your fans. Amount of dust being sucked into the computer drastically reduced, and you only have to clean/vacuum/wash the tights.

but that wont look cool...

entropy13 · Apr 8, 2012

Yo_Wattup said:
but that wont look cool...

Buy fan filters from Silverstone or Deepcool. Either 120 or 80mm sizes only though.

assaulter_99 · Apr 8, 2012

You don't necessarily have to put them outside. I just put them inside the casing, just make sure you secure the borders well or they might get tangled in the fan.

theubersmurf · Apr 8, 2012

Great thread, I haven't had to deal with something really disgusting in a while, the last time was my mother's old Dell. I was invited over to help her with whatever was wrong with her PC. (She usually offers to make me dinner in exchange for helping her with the comp) but anyway, I open up her case, and there's a sheet of dust covering her hsf, dust and dead spiders on the bottom of the case, and sheets of dust all over the add-in cards. I wanted to puke. I told her if I had to do it again to get me a medical mask first and have it waiting for when I arrive. Absolutely foul.

Athlonite · Apr 8, 2012

what her or the comp lol

but I know what you mean I've seen some pretty disgusting sights over the last 20+ years

de.das.dude · Apr 8, 2012

Yo_Wattup said:
but that wont look cool...

entropy13 said:
Buy fan filters from Silverstone or Deepcool. Either 120 or 80mm sizes only though.

you know the black paper thingy that comes with a laptop between the screen and the keyboard?? that seems to work wonders :O
good airflow!

Athlonite · Apr 9, 2012

yup and sometimes the foam that comes with motherboards is also good if it's the thiner stuff

de.das.dude · Apr 9, 2012

Athlonite said:
yup and sometimes the foam that comes with motherboards is also good if it's the thiner stuff

yes! its the paper like stuff!

t_ski · Apr 9, 2012

Athlonite said:
yup and sometimes the foam that comes with motherboards is also good if it's the thiner stuff

Only if it's "open-cell" foam: "closed-cell" foam won't let any air through.

Athlonite · Apr 9, 2012

that's the stuff open-cell I've got some here gun metal gray and see through

although the closed cell stuff has it's uses too good for quieting down a noisy case a couple or so db

Athlonite · Apr 9, 2012

de.das.dude said:
yes! its the paper like stuff!

no it's the foam like stuff not the Dacron sheet that come in-between screen and KB on a laptop but that stuff does work quite well though

de.das.dude · Apr 9, 2012

then its different i guess.

and i use the polythene foam leafs for daming stuff too.

XNine · Apr 9, 2012

Oh, dear god....

I've seen some dirty cases (cat piss, gunk buildup, etc.) but some of these pics actually make me feel queezy. Spiders? Ants? Inch thick dirt? I mean, this is absolutely disgusting. It really makes me not want to ever do PC repair ever again.... Hell, I bought a case off a guy from Craigslist a couple years ago, the fans were clogged and there was obvious cat piss in and on it... but this is just....

:cry:

Norton · Apr 9, 2012

XNine said:
Oh, dear god....

I've seen some dirty cases (cat piss, gunk buildup, etc.) but some of these pics actually make me feel queezy. Spiders? Ants? Inch thick dirt? I mean, this is absolutely disgusting. It really makes me not want to ever do PC repair ever again.... Hell, I bought a case off a guy from Craigslist a couple years ago, the fans were clogged and there was obvious cat piss in and on it... but this is just....

You were warned by the title

You didn't think it would be pictures of cute kittens and puppies did you :laugh:

Now you can use this thread as a reference to get NZXT to update the Source 210's with intake filters and include free ones for previous buyers (like me :rolleyes:

)

t_ski · May 1, 2012

Fun with laptops...

Trying to diagnose video issues after the user spilled water on it :banghead:

Here's what I had to go through to get the motherboard out:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/late6410/en/sm/TD_Palm_Rest.htm

System Name	Monke \| Work Thinkpad\| J1nnx took Old Monke
Processor	Ryzen 5600X \| Ryzen 5500U \| FX8320
Motherboard	ASRock B550 Extreme4 \| ? \| Asrock 990FX Extreme 4
Cooling	240mm Rad \| Not needed \| hyper 212 EVO
Memory	2x16GB DDR4 3600 Corsair RGB \| 16 GB DDR4 3600 \| 16GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Pulse RX6700XT 12GB \| Vega 8 \| Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB
Storage	Samsung 980 nvme (Primary) \| some samsung SSD
Display(s)	Dell 2723DS \| Some 14" 1080p 98%sRGB IPS \| Dell 2240L
Case	Ant Esports Tempered case \| Thinkpad \| Antec
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 \| Jabra corpo stuff
Power Supply	Corsair RM750e \| not needed \| Corsair GS 600
Mouse	Logitech G400 \| nipple
Keyboard	Logitech G213 \| stock kb is awesome \| Logitech K230
VR HMD	;_;
Software	Windows 10 Professional x3
Benchmark Scores	There are no marks on my bench

System Name	GLaDOS
Processor	AMD FX-9590 X8 4.7GHz
Motherboard	ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
Cooling	Corsair H80i v2
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 24GB (2x8GB, 2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Video Card(s)	ASUS ROG-STRIX-RX580-O8G-GAMINGOC
Storage	WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB Internal PC SSD
Display(s)	2 Acer S231HL 23" LED backlit LCD's on a Dual LCD stand
Case	Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow
Audio Device(s)	Onboard - Corsair Void Pro Wireless
Power Supply	Corsair 850HXi 850W
Mouse	Corsair Sabre RGB
Keyboard	Corsair K70 LUX RGB
Software	Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit

System Name	Monke \| Work Thinkpad\| J1nnx took Old Monke
Processor	Ryzen 5600X \| Ryzen 5500U \| FX8320
Motherboard	ASRock B550 Extreme4 \| ? \| Asrock 990FX Extreme 4
Cooling	240mm Rad \| Not needed \| hyper 212 EVO
Memory	2x16GB DDR4 3600 Corsair RGB \| 16 GB DDR4 3600 \| 16GB DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Pulse RX6700XT 12GB \| Vega 8 \| Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB
Storage	Samsung 980 nvme (Primary) \| some samsung SSD
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Power Supply	Corsair RM750e \| not needed \| Corsair GS 600
Mouse	Logitech G400 \| nipple
Keyboard	Logitech G213 \| stock kb is awesome \| Logitech K230
VR HMD	;_;
Software	Windows 10 Professional x3
Benchmark Scores	There are no marks on my bench

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Display(s)	50" Sharp Roku TV 8ms responce time and Philips 75Hz 328E9QJAB 32" curved
Case	BLACK LIAN LI O11 DYNAMIC XL FULL-TOWER GAMING CASE,
Power Supply	1600 Watt
Software	Windows 10

System Name	My i7 Beast
Processor	Intel Core i7 6800K
Motherboard	Asus X99-A II
Cooling	Nickel-plated EK Supremacy EVO, D5 with XSPC Bayres & BIX Quad Radiator
Memory	4 x 8GB EVGA SuperSC DDR4-3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 SuperClocked
Storage	Samsung 950 Pro 256GB m.2 SSD + 480GB Sandisk storage SSD
Display(s)	Three Asus 24" VW246H LCD's
Case	Silverstone TJ07
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Keyboard	Corsair K95
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

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Mouse	Logitech MX518 Refresh
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Software	Win7 Ultimate

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Case	NZXT H440 EnvyUS
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Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 650w
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	ElE Game1
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Mouse	Corsair RGB
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Software	Windows 11 Pro x64

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Motherboard	GA P35 DS3L
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Memory	4gb Kingston DDR2 @ 900mhz
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Storage	SAMSUNG 320gb
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Case	HAF 922
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Motherboard	Asus Strix X670E - E Gaming WIFI
Cooling	Deep Cool LT720 + CM MasterGel Pro TP + Lian Li Uni Fan V2
Memory	32GB GSkill Trident Z5 Neo 6000
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Case	Lian Li O11D XL ROG edition
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Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Core Wired
Keyboard	Logitech G915 Wireless
Software	Windows 11 X64 PRO (build 23H2)
Benchmark Scores	it sucks even more less now ;)

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Cooling	MIPS Waterblock
Memory	16GB
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Case	CaseLabs Mercury S3
Power Supply	Silverstone 700w Sleeved with MDPCX
Mouse	Mionix Castor
Keyboard	Code with Cherry Clears
Software	Windows 10

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