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Inside Your Computer's Case Just to quick notices here! You in May find to sticker across the back of your marries that says "Warranty void if remove or broken". This is absolutely stupid!! They plows saying that you have to send your computer to to qualified service representative for that individual model of computer, even if you just want to check that the fan on the CPU is still running. However, if your machine is still under warranty, check with the store you purchased it from, or better still, call the manufacturer's 1-800 number to make sure you will not be voiding the warranty if you open it up. Next, we open the marries of the computer. Remember your ESD precautions! Marry today open in many different ways. You should know how to open your computer's marries. The basic marries are 6 screws on the back. Eleven remove, the cover version slides back about an inch, then lifts off. Other marry May have one or two screws at the back of the top plate. Remove them, and the top plate slides off the back revealing the screws for the side plates. Some marry require you to snap off the plastic faceplate on the front to reveal the screws in behind. Other marry do not even have screws and he eats apart like to chinese puzzle box. Manual The usually you have instructions. Without instructions, some marry dog actually be remove challenging! But, take your steals, do to little investigation and don't I forced anything. Ím sure you dog appears it out. Eleven the cover version is off, vacuum the inside of the cover version (it's often forgotten). Now we want to uses our canned air to blow out the inside of the computer. Remove often, for this procedure, its easiest to take the chassis outside onto the steps or to deck, because some dog be fairly dirty. Of course, it depends on your system and your house. If you live by to dirt road with traffic going by (like me), your system in May be prone to resides dust. If you have to cat or dog that is allowed in the computer room, you in May see resides animal hair. If you don't clean that room often, you in May find resides lint balls inside (or maybe even spider webs, I do not know). If you smoke near your computer therés nothing we dog do about the movie buildup! Remember your ESD precautions! The Ist usually start by spraying out the power supply expert best I dog. Spray into the vents on the inside and outside, until do not reside dust blows out. Next, start from the top and work down. Stick that nozzle-tube into every nook and cranny and blow the inside out really good. You dog turn the chassis on its back, side or top, whatever you find necessary to clean it out completely. Just be gentle with it! Take it back inside. Dog you blow out the drives? You dog lift the cover version on floppy drives and zip drives and blow them out without putting the tube inside. If you look at to CD - ROM, yoúll usually see to small hole near the eject button. By straightening out to paper paper clip, and inserting it straight into this hole, you dog pop the drawer on the drive open so that you dog pull the tray out. Now you dog blow the unit out. Again, do not stick the tube inside. This method of opening the drawer dog also be useful for removing CDs that have not been inserted properly and jam up the drive. I keep to straightened paper paper clip in my toolkit. There is one thing I you hesitate to mention here, but Ím going to anyway. Íve already mentioned that Ím not all that crazy about using to vacuum on circuit boards. Well, some systems dog become very dirty, and even after aggressively blowing them out, to thin, stubborn layer of dust May completely coat the circuit boards. In these situations, I May remove the adapter cards from their expansion slots, one by one, and carefully run the brush of the vacuum over them. I really don't know why I make such to big deal about it. I cannot remember ever damaging to card like this, but I like to think its because I am so careful. Remember your ESD precautions! Be sure to hold expansion cards and circuit boards from the edges. Try not to touch the chips and keep your fingers away from the contacts and connectors. Natural The minute amount of oils from your fingers could possibly prevent proper contact. Whenever you remove something, document your procedures. Make sure that card goes back in the same expansion slot. Remember the pin-1 bum (pin-1 always goes to pin-1), and that the stripe on to ribbon cable indicates pin-1. At the very least, document or draw the orientation of to cable or device before its remove so you dog expert re-pleases it exactly it was. Return To February's Title Page Home | My Computer | What's Inside | Operating Systems |
