Dirty pictures

[thirdfey]

We purchased an air compressor to clean our customer's computers. Crank it all the way up and you won't have any worries.

tony

[Outcoded]

Unless you have asthma

[AnsUID]

I have the dust bunny that other dust bunnies send 15% of their income to under my raised tile.

[Ya_know]

Originally posted by thirdfey
We purchased an air compressor to clean our customer's computers. Crank it all the way up and you won't have any worries.

tony

That's funny, the place I am at now the last guy went out and bought a compressor and a reservoir tank, so he could clean PC's in quite. I never laughed so hard in my life; it was like $250+ worth of stuff. I could have had caned air for life. 6 months now, and I have never used it. I still have the same can of air from the day I started.

[GokuSS2]

[rgharper]

Wish I'd had a camera Wednesday ... a PC that bore a striking resemblance to the bottom picture GokuSS2 posted came into our shop. The user said sometimes it would boot but usually not. When we pulled it apart (horizontal desktop-style) the space between the motherboard and bottom of the case was filled with carmelized coffee (at least three creams and three sugars from the smell) that was shorting out the motherboard.

I'm still not sure how they got it in there, maybe knocked over a cup and it splashed in from the front air-vents, but they did get it in there with the expected catastrophic result.

Unfortunately corporate IS took it with them when they brought the replacement since they could salvage some of the components.

[Packrat]

The worst one I have ever seen was from a family who smoked constantly, the fan stopped working because the tar buildup on it gummed it up. I think I got cancer from just touching it.

[10of40]

Dust, I have seen. Lots of dust. You couldn't tell what the components were because there was so much dust. Thick, black dust.

And smoker's PCs are a pain to clean out.

[Platypus]

This one's not bad:

http://www.geocities.com/wtpodunck/dustypc.html

[Great White North]

Originally posted by Ya_know
That's funny, the place I am at now the last guy went out and bought a compressor and a reservoir tank, so he could clean PC's in quite. I never laughed so hard in my life; it was like $250+ worth of stuff. I could have had caned air for life. 6 months now, and I have never used it. I still have the same can of air from the day I started.

I guess you dont get very many cleaning jobs (1 can of air HA)

I can use a can cleaning out a computer without a problem and I dont waste it either.

I can post some of my bunnies if you want!!!

[Damned Angel]

when your case fan looks like this



and your cpu fan looks like this



your motherboard looks like this

[NooNoo]

K7SEM - no big loss

[Damned Angel]

Originally posted by NooNoo
K7SEM - no big loss

not for me or you, but when it costs the customer a motherboard, processor, cpu,cup hsf, memory (new board only takes ddr) and case fan + labour, it gets kinda expensive. about $400 type of expensive.

good thing they decided to buy a new computer rather than fix this one, they made a salesman very happy today.

[NooNoo]

Originally posted by Damned Angel
not for me or you, but when it costs the customer a motherboard, processor, cpu,cup hsf, memory (new board only takes ddr) and case fan + labour, it gets kinda expensive. about $400 type of expensive.

good thing they decided to buy a new computer rather than fix this one, they made a salesman very happy today.

Ouch

[Kineda]

i got the NASTIEST pc i have ever worked on in my life yesterday. i tried like hell to find a digital camera but no luck. Ok here it goes, i work in a hospital and i know what you are thinking, "how can a pc get dirty in a hospital, aren't they supposed to be super clean?" LOL THINK AGAIN!!!! Man this pc was a p100 back from 1995!!! i dont think this thing was ever opened up and has been sitting under this nasty desk all of its life. they started complaining saying it locked up and was slow so i checked it out and it had only 16mb of ram. so i went to upgrade it to 64mb but when i opened the case holy @#$$% there was at least 1 inch think super nasty dust covering the whole pc. and wouldnt you know it we had just run out of compressed air. After it was all said and done the pc was clean, i gagged a few times and almost lost it but the memory was upgraded and i inadvertedly transplated that dust from the pc to my clothes, every bit of it . i looked like a giant cotton ball! those clothes must be burnt now, but that pc flies