Hi, I get a vacuum cleaner to suck out the power supply fan. To clean out the case and the fans I take it down to my shop and remove the side panel on the case then blow it out with the air compressor. I do lower the air pressure before starting. Also you need to have a moisture filter in the line so as not to introduce any water in to the motherboard etc. Max.
on 13:40 16/04/2009, Max Robinson said: >Today I cleaned the dust out of my computer. What a difference. Here are >the details. The fans in my computer are temperature controlled. When I >turn on the computer they run at full speed and quickly slow down to a slow >speed as the temperature sensor becomes active. I've had this computer for >almost 5 years and as the air flow path became stopped with dust the fan >started running faster. This happened so gradually I wasn't aware of it. >What started happening was that as the processor worked harder the fan would >run faster. So when I was recording sound or video the fan would run quite >fast and when the recording was stopped the fan would slow down. This had >been going on for a long time but in the past couple of months had become >more pronounced. It finally penetrated my thick head that this didn't >happen when the computer was new. So today I disconnected everything from >the back, set it on my bench and took off the side. There were two fans I >could get at. There is a third one in the power supply but that case is pop >riveted shut. Of the two I could get at one is in the back blowing air out. >The other is mounted to a finned heat radiator mounted on the processor. I >took that one off and found that the fins of the heat radiator were almost >completely clogged with dust. An old toothbrush was the perfect thing for >cleaning out the fins. There was a lot of dust in both fans so I cleaned >that out too. So it's all back together now. When I record something I >can't detect any speedup of the fans. Also the air coming out of the back >is a lot cooler than it was before the cleaning. It's so nice to work here >and not have to listen to those fans. I didn't realize how bad it was until >I got it fixed. I would recommend cleanings more frequently than 5 >years. Do as I say, not as I do. Grin. > >Regards. > >Max. K 4 O D S. > >Email: [email protected] > >Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net >Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net >Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com > >To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, >[email protected] > > > >------------------------------------ > >Send any questions regarding list management to: >[email protected] >To listen to the show archives go to link >http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 >Or >ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > >Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From >Various List Members At The Following address: >http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > >Visit the archives page at the following address >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the >following address for more information: >http://www.jaws-users.com/ >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy >Man list just send a blank message to: >[email protected]! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
