I don’t think your hairdryer will blow hard enough!
When I had my old desktop computer, I was forever opening it up and vacuuming out cat’s hairs as they played havoc. In fact, when I took it to be repaired once, the bloke asked if I had cats because he was allergic and couldn’t stop sneezing after he had opened it up.
Bloody cats.
One question one might ask is, How important is it to keep a computer dust free?
I found out the other day. Boy did I just
Now I religiously keep my computer case fans and vents free. it has 2 fans at the front and one at the back to create a straight through air flow.
However A few days ago I started to have my monitor screen cut out and reboot. On top of this the screen started to have star like dots all over it.
My thought process was it must be one of two things, A, the monitor packing up or B, the graphics card in the computer packing up.
That would have been at least a £200/£300 replacement for a new card
I could have connected another monitor and see if the other monitor was the problem but decided to take a short cut and check out the graphics card first instead.
Ok every"seemed " dust free, but to be on the safe side I removed the graphics card which has twin cooling fans. I had forgotton to check these in 5 years
So got out my rocket blower I use for camera gear and puffed away at the graphics card. The dust storm that erupted was unbelievable , even made me cough. So I not only did the fans but also the cooling fins behind them.
Since then after replacing the graphics card no more problems.
So I would strongly recommend just giving ALL cooling fans a bit of a dusting with a blower to make a computer run better at least once a year
part I missed as they were facing downwards
https://i.imgur.com/jCHHXVu.jpg
Can you please let me know what a rocket blower is, and how to use it.
Noddy language would be appreciated.
Thank you!
this is a rocket blower. Cost somewhere around £10/15 on Amazon depending on manufacture. Mine is by Gotto and had it for years
Just squeeze it.The nozzle really gets into those small spaces
such as computer fans and cooling fins
Link
Thanks RS - can it be used effectively without taking a computer to bits?
If you have a desk computer then yes just remove one side panel after unplugging from mains. That give access to the whole of the inside to blow out . No need to touch anything inside just blow the dust out
Mine inside .
I had to remove the MSI graphics card already mentioned, but i did build it all anyway. Should really tidy up some cables inside but can’t be bothered
https://i.imgur.com/Hq0nIWY.jpg
yes it does have a total of 6 cooling fans and a 750w power unit and 16 gig of RAM for the techies here
My previous lower powered power unit failed so added one poweful enough for what i might throw at it
Sorry, I should have said I have a laptop!
Ah then this won’t apply apart from may be of use for others who might be interested, so no harm done