I'm something of an expert myself
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Remember to have power
remember to flip the breaker from last house fire
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Load bearing dust
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Is it connected?
Happened to me once, my wife won't let me forget it
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it reminds me of that Macbook vs thinkpad meme.
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Remember to hold your fans in place and prevent them from being spun by compressed air. If they spin fast enough they can generate enough current to cause damage.
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remember to flip the breaker from last house fire
remember to have a house
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Check if maybe any dust got into the connectors. Prone to thus is the PCIE connector on the motherboard, when removing the GPU. Just blow into it to make sure its dust free. Happened to me more than once.
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I spent 20 years as an IT admin. We used cans of compressed air to clean dust out of computers. Light, gentle sprays, preferably cleaned outside so the dust doesn't just fill the room.
If you hold down the spray button for a few seconds, the can turns ice cold really fast, so be sparing with it. Also, don't tip it upside-down while spraying or it'll spray liquid that can damage computer components.
In all the years blowing dust out of computers, the only time I actually damaged a computer was when I tried to use a vacuum hose blowing air in reverse. It was too rough and broke some motherboard components.
I believe that vacuums also generate a ton of static charge as the air flows over the plastic hoses and such. They make special vacuums for electronic that are static free but expensive.
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Remember to hold your fans in place and prevent them from being spun by compressed air. If they spin fast enough they can generate enough current to cause damage.
and if at any point you had to disconnect your fans for cleaning do not forget to connect them back in. the fans are not optional components. modern PCs and laptops will straight up refuse to turn on if they can't detect the fans
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My fear every time
Never actually happened, but still
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"Oh, I forgot to turn the PSU back on"
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remember to have a house
remember
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Yours isn’t dishwasher safe?
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Never touch a running system
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This is very good advice, I like to spin mine with the compressor going "VROOM VROOM" but I guess it would make sense that they will back feed some voltage to the pins that way.
Never had a problem tho
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I believe that vacuums also generate a ton of static charge as the air flows over the plastic hoses and such. They make special vacuums for electronic that are static free but expensive.
https://metrovac.com/collections/electronics-it/products/datavac-electric-dusterThose things are amazing though, I've had one for over a decade now and it's the best 100 dollars I ever spent.
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This is very good advice, I like to spin mine with the compressor going "VROOM VROOM" but I guess it would make sense that they will back feed some voltage to the pins that way.
Never had a problem tho
It will only happen if the fan has permanent magnets. Still, just stop the blades. No reason to put wear on the bearings
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Yea 409 isn’t the best for the longevity of a PC.
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There's so many mobo connectors that clearly were not designed with cycle count in mind.
USB 3 connectors, for starters. Unplugged mine for the third time to change motherboards and a couple pins just ripped out so now only one front USB works
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I spent 20 years as an IT admin. We used cans of compressed air to clean dust out of computers. Light, gentle sprays, preferably cleaned outside so the dust doesn't just fill the room.
If you hold down the spray button for a few seconds, the can turns ice cold really fast, so be sparing with it. Also, don't tip it upside-down while spraying or it'll spray liquid that can damage computer components.
In all the years blowing dust out of computers, the only time I actually damaged a computer was when I tried to use a vacuum hose blowing air in reverse. It was too rough and broke some motherboard components.
I work in a shop with compressed air for air guns and I use it on the insides of computers all the time to clean out the dust and haven't ever broken anything.
