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hafa

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A customer who is a smoker and cat fancier brought his machine into the shop yesterday, complaining of spontaneous reboots. The reason is shown below and it ain't pretty. Thought everyone would get a kick out of this.
 

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Heh...To add insult to injury, the HSF was attached to the Antec low-voltage connector and then the Thermaltake fan controller which was set to low. The fan RPM was aroun 1300. It's really a testimony to the durability of the AthlonXP 2200+, as he ran it like that for nearly 2 years and the CPU still functions!
 
Jesus christ...

People gotta take more care of their PCs.
That's gross dude. I woulda used a hazmat suit to handle that thing.

And I thought my PC was in bad shape...
 
Robbie said:
I need to pass these pix off to my Ex's mother. She sits and smokes all the time on the computer I built for her.

So do I, but I am smart enough to clean the system out once every week or so...
 
LOL I smoke and have pets... and I have a Gateway PIII-733 that I had been using for the last 4 years until I built this rig. Well, I keep it blown out for the most part, so the heatsink and mobo and such aren't that bad, however, last week I decided to take the power supply out and clean it out, since the only fan in the machine is on the power supply.

Well, I didn't get pictures, but when I got the PSU opened up the only way I can describe it is it looked like a rabbit had exploded inside the PSU! Took an air compressor to it and it looks like new again, but man, I couldn't believe how dirty that thing was!
 
what well be even grosser is when you blow that thing off and it all goes into your lungs
 
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