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Aug 08, 2006 09:43

It's dusty in Albuquerque. We have a lot of cleaning to do most weeks. But I hadn't realised we needed to clean inside our computer. Last few weeks, we've been getting some heat shutdowns of the computer. I finally relented, and opened the thing up this morning.

Before:




After cleaning:




That was a whole 3mm of dust over the heat sink, precisely where cold air should be drawn through it. No wonder the thing was overheating. Time to invest in a specialised cleaning kit, I think.

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