Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Death of a Power Supply

I work as a part time computer tech for extra cash where I live and I occasionally like to do side-jobs for extra cash. Today, a client of mine stopped by and dropped off a Dell Dimension E521 stating that her computer wont boot up. I took a look at it and immediatley noticed the infamous blinking yellow light from dell computers stating that it was a burnt out power supply. No big deal. Just a simple remove and replace. But when I opened up the computer, i noticed something that brought tears of sadness to my eyes. I saw the dirtiest computer I have ever seen.
The computer is full of dust. This picture didnt come out too good but you can see balls of dust hiding in the corner from my compressor.
Here you can see the dust clogging up the intake of the power supply which probably caused it to overheat and burn out.
More dust hiding out within the crevices of the computer case.

The computer was much worse than the pictures show. I had to remove the CPU and clean the intake fan because the fan could no longer spin on its own due to the amount of dust wrapped around it.

The moral of the story is... PLEASE take care of your computers! Do not let them get like this because when computers take over, they will remember...

8 comments:

  1. family computer is probably worse. trust me.

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  2. you have clean it always ,because the fan should work good and don't let the processor be hot

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  3. That's terrible. I don't like it when people don't take care of their expensive technology.

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  4. I always clean my computer to keep it free of dust and crap, prevent overheating. Following!

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  5. So nice of you for reminding me. Cheers!

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  6. How do you clean the dust out of a laptop? I dont own a desktop

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  7. Just use a simple compressor. A can of compressed air into the vents or an air compressor will get the job done

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