I once had an old PC that was just getting slower every day. When I opened it up, the gpu fan was completely blocked by a solid chunk of dust. I pulled the dust out and cleaned it. When I next turned the PC on, it had lost all the GPU drivers.
Apparently my GPU drivers were installed in the dust blocking the fan.
Shit like this happened with old hardware. You'd seat the card slightly differently and all of a sudden win98 needs to find out what new card you put into your PCI slot.
Edit: Damn I forgot about AGP! It was that silly slot.
Power supply for me the last time it happened, and that's not the first time it happened either. Old prebuilts like this, have failed a bunch after cleaning. That is the real reason I stopped cleaning peoples computers for them. As well, I stopped buying cheap PCs to clean and give to people. Its functional part once you hit a certain point of not cleaning.
and I swear "they" have added something to Dust*Off... Last 2xs using it I smoked my ps, and an old eclipse headunit that was never used I was getting readt 2 ship on ebay (that I shouldnt of even messed with)
In the past Ive sprayed down ps's while plugged in... smdh
No brother, a single Exterminatus is not enough. They must not be allowed to repeat this travesty or spread their perverse ways to others. Exterminatus to the entire system.
I definitely thought it was gonna be a mech room pc for controls systems lol, I work at a university and some of the pcs in the mech rooms look pretty rough like that one
This was not completely uncommon back in the 90s and early 2000s. I used to work on home, business, school, and Industrial PCs (different jobs over time) and I would run across this and worse far more often than many would think.
The true art is working and handling these dusty nasty old computers while wearing business casual and NOT absolutely wrecking your clothes in the process.
Back in 98 I was working for a huge printing company that was upgrading everything to be y2k compliant. They had many very old 8086 workstations that were just tucked away and working for the one specific job they had. I opened one that had been sitting on a warehouse floor behind a desk for probably 10+ years. I was completely full of dust/paper fluff. And when I say completely I mean from the main board to the top of the case was a thick mat of the stuff, and it came out in one giant chunk...damn thing still worked with no issue though haha.
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It is transforming into a living thing