As I write this, I am knocking on wood. My computer has been completely reliable for 7 years, and I do think it's because I am a diligent cleaner. Betsy At 01:29 AM 4/16/2009, you wrote:
>I have yet to have a computer last 5 years except for one old 386 >running DOS which is just hardly limping along since 1993. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Max Robinson >To: Blind Handyman >Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:40 PM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Cleaning my computer. > >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: <mailto:max%40maxsmusicplace.com>[email protected] > >Transistor site ><http://www.funwithtransistors.net>http://www.funwithtransistors.net >Vacuum tube site: <http://www.funwithtubes.net>http://www.funwithtubes.net >Music site: <http://www.maxsmusicplace.com>http://www.maxsmusicplace.com > >To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, ><mailto:funwithtubes-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
