what we usually finds in compaqs

[Technoid]

Dust!

More dust!

Cruddy dust!

[az]

What has this to do with compaqs? It happens to all computers eventually, if they aren't cleaned.

[Dr Mordrid]

Less so if you actually install filters & maintain the thing

[az]

Of course, but maintenance is work, and all my computers survived for years without filters and almost without cleaning. Maybe I'm just lucky (also only having had one virus ever, and that was in 1999. Oh, and Sasser once.).

[Nappe1]

Of course, but maintenance is work, and all my computers survived for years without filters and almost without cleaning. Maybe I'm just lucky (also only having had one virus ever, and that was in 1999. Oh, and Sasser once.).

...or then you keep your computer enviroment quite dust free.
In my "case" (notice double meaning ), some fan dies before too much dust gathers inside, and when I am opening it anyways, I usually use Dust Free to clean it up.

[Technoid]

What has this to do with compaqs? It happens to all computers eventually, if they aren't cleaned.

Because its much more frequent in compaqs compared to the rest.....

[VJ]

Because its much more frequent in compaqs compared to the rest.....

Bad airflow design....?
Or rather "no airflow design"....


Jörg

[az]

...or then you keep your computer enviroment quite dust free.

Hahaha, no!

Maybe that is the key...

[agallag]

You'd be amazed what a computer can survive. I worked in a factory back in the mid 90's, and the computers out on the shop floor would run on average for 1-2 years. By the end of their life, every internal component was completely covered in a 1cm thick layer of wet sludge, made up of duse, dirt, and coolant oid from the CNC machines. Seriously, 1cm thick sludge on everything inside the case, in the fans, in the power supply, in the (unused) floppy drives, everywhere. I was always surprised that they lasted more than a week.

[Admiral]

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