keeping your computer in a dust free area

[mike-s]

This is what happens when you run your laptop (or pc for that matter) in a dusty environment, or if the person you bought it from (in my case) has done so.

Needless to say it's not doing a thermal shutdown as readily anymore, took me a good hour or so just to take it apart without breaking anything.
And yes i could have used compressed air to do it, but i had actually taken it apart to fix a known problem with the power socket (good on ya Toshiba!!) which has been the subject of a class action suit in the states.

For those wondering its a Toshiba Satellite A70.

[mick_dundee]

Short of wrapping it in glad wrap how do you keep things ina "dust free" environment, dunno about you Mike but I rent this house and it's an old farker, no air locks, vacuum sealed rooms or anythin... so yeah, dust free, nice utopian vision there but impossible in this place..

[mike-s]

well theres keeping it on a desk which is cleaned down once a week versus keeping it on the carpet.

Oh and yes, agreed about the old room being a dustmagnet, thats what my place is like too, no matter how much it's cleaned.

[aardvark]

Not the worst I've seen.

Back when I was a shit kicking PC tech, I opened a blokes PC once and it was FULL of baby spiders. Mum wasn't too happy that I'd infiltrated her nest.

[mike-s]

Oh well, this is the worst i've had on a pc i've owned.
The outright worst i've ever seen is a pic of a pc one of our field ops took back from a concrete company site. every surface inside the thing was caked with concrete dust, i have no idea how the damned thing was still working (the fans worked, barely kept it from overheating however)

[Felix]

we used to get 'em like that in the pig factory. Smoke house was worstest as there was always steam in the air. Anywhere the dust was just rotted away with the moisture and corrosion...