[colug-432] Spring Cleaning/Maintainance

[davelist at mac.com]

On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:39 AM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> Computers fail unnecessarily. 
> The weather is good for taking computers outside for cleaning, 
> so now's a good time for some annual maintainance. 
> 
> 1. Remove dust. 
> 2. Lubricate fans. 
> 3. Check for bad caps. 
> 
> Search the archives for details about the following. 
> 
> Overheating due to dust and stuck fans
> 
>   Dust 
> 
>      Much dust is benign, but dust that blocks air causes 
>      things to overheat and die prematurely. 
> 
>         Once a year, remove the dust from one's computer. 
>         First use a vacuum cleaner to remove as much as one can, 
>         then use compressed air outside to blast away what 
>         vacuuming could not. 
> 
>         Hard drives are vulnerable to both vacuuming and 
>         blasting with compressed air. Remove them from the 
>         computer before vacuuming and blasting with compressed 
>         air the computer. It's OK to vacuum or blast with 
>         compressed air hard drives only if you can find the 
>         hard drive's vent hole and seal it during (and only 
>         during) vacuuming or blasting with compressed air. 

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I've always heard vacuuming is bad (because of static electricity). Is that not true?

Here's one link:

http://www.computerhope.com/cleaning.htm

Dave