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You DO NOT want to know what those stains at the bottom of the case are...

I haven't figured that out myself... The case was screwed tight so there's no way you could've opened it without a screwdriver...

OH GOD, I INFERRED IT!!! I SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT!!

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Yeah, looks like I won't be sleeping tonight. -shudder-

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>Be dusting family's desktop PC
>cobwebs because not dusted out in a few years 
>moves cobwebs and finds spider
>Spider jumps on hand 
>freaks out and throws the desktop across the room and proceeds panicking like little bitch

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yes i do

 

Rat shit...

Really...

Large...

Rotting...

Rat Shit...

and piss

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This is more shocking

 

well if there's no power and he leaves them to dry out for a few months in the sun they should be fine :P

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well if there's no power and he leaves them to dry out for a few months in the sun they should be fine :P

 

Looking closely, the CMOS battery is still attached while he's hosing it...

 

It'll be really bad news if the salinity conductivity of that water is high enough...

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I bought a Obsidian 450D , and she's a dust magnet , the filter itself blocks lots of dust and i have to clean it weekly.

Especially with a pair of SP120 , you can see the dust pattern on the filters

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When I was fixing my stepdad's computer that he got at a garage sale, behind the motherboard was DENSE dust and the CPU fan was turning at a whopping 300RPM.

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I love these threads.

 

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Not my picture, but similar thing happened to my computer.

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Nope...Nope

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>Be dusting family's desktop PC

>cobwebs because not dusted out in a few years 

>moves cobwebs and finds spider

>Spider jumps on hand 

>freaks out and throws the desktop across the room and proceeds panicking like little bitch

Completely justified. I'd have gotten the flame thrower after that.

 

I chain smoke around my pc. When the dust filer gets clogged up I just take it off.

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Don't worry, look...

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So clean, much fresh, very green...

and AGP+AMR

What is that in the middle and and the right top corner?Can't be the bios or ata controller.And is not the processor cuz that is on the am socket

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Socket A or 462 (not AM)

Do you mean the northbridge (Via KM400) and the Windbond controller (for temps, case open and those shizzles)?

Damn i be,I feel young....and sad not knowing what those chips are

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Nope...Nope

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HOLY SHIT I JUST REALIZED THAT'S A LIVING SNAKE! I THOUGHT IT WAS PART OF THE SYSTEM! DO NOT WANT. DO NOT WANT!!

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-snipe-

 

This is more shocking

HURDER.... I see what you did there. 

Btw, the Hurder was me having a stroke, not a retarded laugh.

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I went to my friends house for a LAN party. We then decided to show the innards of each of our PC's. My friend opened his case and we found an ant's nest in there. We had to unplug the PSU and everything involving it before taking a vacuum to the thing. This is why you don't eat chips by your computer without checking for crumbs...

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I went to my friends house for a LAN party. We then decided to show the innards of each of our PC's. My friend opened his case and we found an ant's nest in there. We had to unplug the PSU and everything involving it before taking a vacuum to the thing. This is why you don't eat chips by your computer without checking for crumbs...

we have a huge ant issue where i live...

i have a bottle of ant killer that has a pump and sprays like 15 metres.

i also have an alergy to red ants so that would have scred the crap out of me.

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I was digging through my albums and found this pic I took last year when my team was in the middle of restoring a supposedly non-functioning computer laboratory...

 

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That right there is one of the 3 units we marked as 'Biohazardous Material'...

 

Any stories of horrors with cleaning PCs you guys can share?

how do they classify biohaz ?!?

 
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how do they classify biohaz ?!?

 

Rotting rat excrement... My team refused to work on this without monetary compensation...

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this made me shit my pants laughing. <3

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Found a rat in a old antec case, it was dead with a few hollow maggots around it, no clue how it got inside. the customer said he thought something was rattling inside but he didnt know about computer so he didnt want to open it.

How dafuq did a fckng rat fckng got inside his PC? I can't even imagine what it looks like.

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man when you said cleaning horror i thought you meant dust, this is just gross and to whomever used it prior, theyre slobs.

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This one isnt too bad certainly fine compared to my customers' builds but im too lazy to take out the dust, i dont like turning my pc off. So it gathers dust, before you ask im not sure when but i lost the io shield. Its an old h61 board, ive got a new moterboard but not a processor which is annoying.

 

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This one isnt too bad certainly fine compared to my customers' builds but im too lazy to take out the dust, i dont like turning my pc off. So it gathers dust, before you ask im not sure when but i lost the io shield. Its an old h61 board, ive got a new moterboard but not a processor which is annoying.

 

-relatively clean system-

 

That's cleaner than my current system right now...

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