Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Dust is a major problem if you leave the cover off a computer. If you allow a
blanket of dust to form, then heat buildup can definitely be worse than with
the cover on. Fans are cheap nowadays, I think you should get an extra one.
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What goes here? I sent this two days ago??
John Rye wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Dust is a major problem if you leave the cover off a computer. If you allow a
blanket of dust to form, then heat buildup can definitely be worse than with
the cover on. Fans are cheap nowadays, I
it was aging in the internet ether like a fine wine. What a wonderful
story!
I work in the tech department of a local computer repair shop. A few
weeks ago a very pleasant older woman brought her computer in for
servicing. She said that it was running very slow and crashes all the
time,
Dust is a major problem if you leave the cover off a computer. If you allow a
blanket of dust to form, then heat buildup can definitely be worse than with
the cover on. Fans are cheap nowadays, I think you should get an extra one.
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:34, Adrian Smith wrote:
downsides of
hmm well i have done many things with my system and i have lived just about
everywhere, i never had one over heat, but one thing i do is take the cover
off every 2 weeks or so im usually upgrading it anyway, and take a small
amount of air pressure usually a balloon with a small tube on the end
So very true.
You can also purchase cans of compressed air that are designed for such
things as blowing away dirt in tight places like the insides of a computer.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm well i have done many things with my system and i have lived just about
downsides of leaving it on all the time:
heat buildup (computer is enclosed no air conditioner live in the
south *haha*)
solution -- good fans, take the cover off (that's what i do)
Adam said:
Not to be nitpicky or anything, but this is not always the best thing to
do as good cases have been
