[MCTG] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- Computers and Smoke

[Stewart Dickson]

Thanks, Derek!

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From: Derek <helios at saber.net>
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:31 PM
Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Computers and Smoke
To: MCN Announce <announce at lists.mcn.org>


Just a heads up listers, all the smoke in the air is combining with the
"normal" dust inside your computer and can cause thermal problems.

You may notice your computer slowing down, or in the worst case it will
shut down because of too much heat.

Last night due to the ambient heat, my old laptop would barely work, it
was as slow as my old 386 PC from 28 years ago.

It got slower over the last few months and I did notice, but recently it
slowed down much more to the point it was nearly unusable.

I finally took it completely apart and removed the motherboard to
discover the "regular" dust that computers attract, but there was a LOT
of it and it was all stained reddish brown from the smoke, it coated the
cooling fan and the whole inside of the computer making it impossible to
stay cool.

Also, the thermal heat sink compound on the CPU was dried out, which
makes for a much hotter and slower running computer as well.

I throughly cleaned the all the insides and installed new heat sink
compound on the CPU.

Just got it all back together and it's Much Faster now, and running Much
Cooler, huzzah!

If you can look inside the cooling exhaust duct/grille on your computer
and see any dust, you will have this issue as well.

Heat is the enemy of computers, a hot running computer will run slower,
and fail sooner than a cool one.

Derek -




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