Random Dirty Ass PC

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Hahaha, I feel so much better about not cleaning the inside of mine in four years. It wasn't even half as bad as this:

http://mynutsandi.blogspot.com/2007/05/ ... dirty.html

[Kulaf]

Sad to say.....but I have seen worse.

[Freecare Spiritwise]

That's the beauty of using a big air compressor. You don't touch anything. Just take it out to the garage (open the door first if it's that bad) and fucking blast it. Depends on where you live (some areas are dustier), but here in Spokane, blasting our desktops out once at the beginning of every summer is plenty, though YMMV.

[Falundir X`Viento]

Sad to say.....but I have seen worse.

I think the worst I've seen is a dead mouse in one.

[Kulaf]

That's the beauty of using a big air compressor. You don't touch anything. Just take it out to the garage (open the door first if it's that bad) and fucking blast it. Depends on where you live (some areas are dustier), but here in Spokane, blasting our desktops out once at the beginning of every summer is plenty, though YMMV.

Ummm.....no. Air compressors blow, you guessed it, compressed air. Which has water vapor in it. Now if you have a tank of CO2 then knock yourself out. Otherwise go by some cans of compressed CO2.

[Kulaf]

Sad to say.....but I have seen worse.

I think the worst I've seen is a dead mouse in one.

I worked on some PC's in industrial settings that were bad. Never found a dead mouse but plenty of dead insects.....metal shavings......etc. etc.

[Ddrak]

Sad to say.....but I have seen worse.

I think the worst I've seen is a dead mouse in one.

See, in that situation, I'd tell the owner "Ah, I see the problem! Your mouse needs replacing. Then I'd advise her to go to a pet store and pick one up for me to install."

Dd

[Falundir X`Viento]

Actually I need to take that back, for some odd reason completely forgot about the case where we assisted police in executing a search and seizure warrant on an individual's house. Ended up this 3.4 million dollar house should of been featured on the show Hoarders. The place was disgusting, walls rotting, moldy food on the floor, and a toddler running around through it... It ended up that the guy and his family had MRSA, which is a staph parasite that lives in dust and is very resistant to treatment and causes open skin sores.... go figure the #1 thing inside of a computer outside of the actual components is dust... We had to take it to a technology restoration firm and have the 122 pieces of ESI removed thoroughly cleaned before we could work on them...

[Alarik Zekaiden]

I used to see all kinds of bad shit while I worked at PC Club. The worst one was a guy who heavily smoked that brought his PC in to get checked up. The entire thing was a nasty sickly brown color (the floor model was silver), and there were "nicotine moisture stalactites" growing in it (I shit you not, you'd have to see it to believe it). I even found half of a moldy snickers bar in it. All of the components were a sort of brownish-black color, and were hardly identifiable as components. You couldn't see any of the internal LEDs because they were caked over with greasy brown soot. The motherboard, and just about everything else were stained a deep brown. The whole thing just smelled foul.

That comp was probably one of the nastiest things I've seen. And the guy had the gall to ask if his warranty was still good.


The funniest one was a PC a group of younger guys brought in to have checked out before some big LAN fest. We checked it in, opened it up, and a fairly large bag of weed popped out from inside the case. The look on their faces was priceless.


When I was in the Marines in Hawaii, we had our big-ass expensive NALCOMIS server completely shutdown one day, and it wouldn't power on at all. Everyone was freaking out, as lost maintenance manhours were ticking by pretty quick. I opened it up and noticed a lot of slimy gunk dripping from the power supply. We cracked it open and found that one of those lizard-gecko things (pretty common on Oahu, along with all the roaches) had crawled inside and touched the wrong thing, because it had exploded in half. One half of him had fried on one side of the case, and the other half had fried to the other. His boiling guts had leaked out the middle all over the inside of it. It was pretty foul, but kind of awesome. I think I have pics somewhere.