The no dust thing sounds odd. You may have cleaning faeries. They are the faeries that collect dust which is then used to create pixie dust. In any case it can't bode well for the health of your machine, all those faeries tramping over your delicate hardware.
I've tracked down a possible symptom of my machine at home but have yet to find a fix. The mouse is still stuttering occasionally and I've noticed in the device manager that it refreshes the list every five seconds or so. It does it a number of times and then stops for a while, then continues to refresh. I have recently bought a new mouse (Razer Mambo) and I'm thinking that is the most likely cause. I'll switch mice tonight and see if it changes. I've found other people with a similar problem but other than "unplug all your usb devices and plug them back in" (which i tried) I've seen no fixes. Do you think the lack of dust on your machine may be due to your fans not sucking in air? (Hence no dust and no cooling) On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:03 PM, David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com>wrote: > Well, I think David was right when he suggested that it sounded like a > hardware/heat thing. I came home from work today and turned the computer on > and it all just worked. So, I turned it off and opened it up and it was > ridiculously dust free. Every other computer I've ever opened up has had > dust but not this one (except for a tiny bit in the CPU heat sink and on the > graphics card fan blades). The fans are all working normally too. None of > the drives had any dust on them either. > > So, I think it was heat (just for lack of a better explanation), but I just > can't work out why it would overheat. Rebooting didn't seem to bother the > bios, which has heat sensors and alarms. Drive overheating? Gamma ray burst? > > Anyway it's all working now, so all is good...for now. > > Thanks to everyone for your helpful suggestions. I really appreciate it. > > Cheers > Dave >
