Tips

Computer Cleaning

It is very worthwhile to invest in cleaning your computer periodically, especially the fans and heat sinks. Accumulated dust can clog the fans and heat sinks (computer processors get very hot) causing overheating problems that can result in decreased reliability, computer failure and loss of valuable data.

 

For example: We've worked on several desktop and laptop PC whose heat sinks & fans had become very clogged with dust. The fans would frequently switch to high speed mode to provide additional cooling resulting in greatly increased noise levels. We took the computers apart, carefully cleaned the fans and heat sinks and now the computers are running much more quietly and the fans very rarely need to switch to high speed to provide extra cooling. In most cases, such a cleaning takes about 30 minutes. At the same time we would clean out dust in the case, power supply, motherboard, expansion cards, hard disk drive, CD & DVD drives, floppy disk drive, etc.