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I've seen a few like this. But about a year ago, friends of mine (we're in the same Bluegrass/Southern Gospel group) asked me to take a look at their HP computer. The power supply was totally clogged up and the whole mobo was covered with stuff like Hugh's photo, only WAY worse. I dug the stuff out of the power supply, took some whisk broom bristles to clean out what I could get to, then a smaller stiff brush.
I finally got it going and gave it back to them. Not long after, they tried to upgrade from Win98SE to XP, then had more trouble with it. So they took it to a computer repair shop. He had it for about 6 months before he got it working. He told them the mobo was so dirty it was overheating.
Don't know how he cleaned it; maybe he removed the mobo and used brillo pads. ;-) I don't know if the thing was totally clogged up again when he got it, but I was glad he got it instead of me.
I've been in their house several times for band practice, so I DO know that both are heavy smokers and they have a cat, a dog and also a parrot (in a huge cage in the living room). I told them if it were me, I'd feed the bird to the cat, sic the dog on the cat and shoot the dog.....
(Please, no nasty emails. I'm an animal lover myself, but we keep our pets outside since my wife & I both have asthma. But I would definitely get rid of the bird......)
John. http://glorygospelgroup.homestead.com/Welcome.html
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:46:52 -0500 From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: PCWorks: How to remove cigarette residue
How about a cigarette smoker AND a less than industrious maintenance program? I was asked to work on this 6 year old Dell recently and suggested that it be replaced instead. Oddly enough, it booted right up and ran. Picture posted here: http://www.zoemargo.com/images/Mike.jpg **************************************************************************** ****************** I have a number of clients who are long time smokers and the insides of their pc's are marked with cigarette residue combined with dust particulate. Added to the heat inside the computers and brick is produced.
It's on the heat sink, video cards, and on the mobo itself. I've never been able to remove it safely.
Has anyone ever removed this stuff? Safely?
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