xxkbxx Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) He we go,This is a computer that I had to fix at work (keep in mind this pic is after I STARTED CLEANING IT - it started off worse)Suprisingly enough, it was actually a fairly decent PC (PIII 1GHZ, 256 RAM, Windows 2000So I'm opening this up - What is the worst condition you've ever seen a computer in? Edited December 11, 2005 by xxkbxx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 I've worked on a few Dells that were like that. I asked the people if they had forced air heat and if so did they ever change the furnace filter or cleaned out the ducts. Many of them were shoved under desks near the heat ducts. One was worse than that. The lady owned several cats. There was more fur in the PC than on her cats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted December 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I worked on another one a while ago that was in a barnIf you're not familiar with North Carolina, instead of regular soil it has red clay - anyways, there was red clay caked up inside the case, God awful to clean Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappy Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yah...seen a few like that and possibly even worse.Funny tho, some computers will shut down at a fairly light dusting, and others will run for years with enough dirt to make a garden in em..never know.I've even found dead animals in computer cases before, one had a nest of mice in it, another had a dead bird. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted December 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 There was a picture on ebaumsworld.com along time ago with a snake in the power supply fan - gross Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I cleaned a computer for an old lady it had like 5 zillion roaches in it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pierce Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Nice, ive worked on a computer completly coroded by salt. That was fun, metal just melted away from my fingers.Everything wasnt just rusted, but was being held together by 1 or 2 molecules of rust.Pull the powersupply plug from the hdd, and the head goes with it.....Pierce Quote Link to post Share on other sites
heroesandvillains Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 He we go,This is a computer that I had to fix at work (keep in mind this pic is after I STARTED CLEANING IT - it started off worse)Suprisingly enough, it was actually a fairly decent PC (PIII 1GHZ, 256 RAM, Windows 2000So I'm opening this up - What is the worst condition you've ever seen a computer in?My friend gave me a system once and said that it doesn't work. He got it from someone else that had built it. I opened it up and there was dust caked to every thing inside. There was dust in the video card fan, in a motherboard fan, an exhaust fan and all inside the power supply. I found out why it wouldn't work. The power supply was fried. It kills me, people pay gobs of money for systems and not even keep them clean. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted December 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 My friend gave me a system once and said that it doesn't work. He got it from someone else that had built it. I opened it up and there was dust caked to every thing inside. There was dust in the video card fan, in a motherboard fan, an exhaust fan and all inside the power supply. I found out why it wouldn't work. The power supply was fried. It kills me, people pay gobs of money for systems and not even keep them clean.Benefits of a Windowed case - constant reminders when to clean! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DarkestDream Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 i seen worse on my parent computer, we have two dogs and they put their desktop on the floor, it a dell. they havent clean their desktop for 7 years and it amazing it still running fine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Naming is hard Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 haha omg XD thats bad lol, i wonder what could have been wrong with it >_> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian_Holiday Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 I for one have not seen anything that bad. The worst I have seen was in a garage for a new car dealer. Funny thing is, this kind of filth could be minimized by filtering the fans and have them all blowing into the case (except for the power supply). I did that to mine and it really helped. i really only have to worry about cleaning it once a year now. BH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrBill Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 My friend gave me a system once and said that it doesn't work. He got it from someone else that had built it. I opened it up and there was dust caked to every thing inside. There was dust in the video card fan, in a motherboard fan, an exhaust fan and all inside the power supply. I found out why it wouldn't work. The power supply was fried. It kills me, people pay gobs of money for systems and not even keep them clean.Benefits of a Windowed case - constant reminders when to clean!Sure is rough looking in that window with it on the floor shoved under a desk where most people keep them... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted December 13, 2005 Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 I clean my computers out every 6 months I also keep filters over the intakes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted December 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2005 Good news everyone!I just got done cleaning 2 more systems IDENTICAL to this one today - and by identical I mean totally (that includes the ammount of dust)Fortunetly I found out they were from a warehouse environment, which resurected my hopes in societyUntil... I cracked open an HP making a funny noise and - you guessed it - CAKED IN SOLID DUST AHH! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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