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Small spark and smell while cleaning PC with hair drier

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Unplugged power supply from PC and pressed the power button to clear capacitors, blew inside PC with hair drier(mistake i know) at normal temperature and even made the fans spin (mistake i know )  and while blowing over the general area around the  motherboard and processor cooler and ram I saw a little spark, and if I put my nose close it smelled a bit burned.

Waited 30min and turned on PC and everything seems to work fine, ran a PC benchmark, played a game for 10 min, doesn't smell burned anymore and it seems all is well

 

Have I maybe damaged my motherboard or ram or cpu and it now works 10% slower or is that just not how it works?

 

Any idea what caused the burned smell?
hopefully just some unimportant piece of plastic on fan.
 

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hair dryers do blow tons of static electricity out the blowey end of them. maybe something like that?
Otherwise perhapse somehow you burned a capacitor or something, were you holding it in one spot for multiple seconds? or just doing a rapid sweeping around the case?

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1 minute ago, OhYou_ said:

hair dryers do blow tons of static electricity out the blowey end of them. maybe something like that?
Otherwise perhapse somehow you burned a capacitor or something, were you holding it in one spot for multiple seconds? or just doing a rapid sweeping around the case?

Over the general area and in one spot for multiple seconds, specifically around the fan to make it spin so more dust comes off

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Hair dryers ionize the air usually, meaning they can burn components quite easily. Who, In the right mind, gave you the idea to use a hair dryer on your PC?!

 

It might just have been a hair that burned. -.-

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... but why?

Hair dryers don't even push air that strongly (I own a Dyson hair dyer).

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20 minutes ago, Tommy_homey said:

Unplugged power supply from PC and pressed the power button to clear capacitors, blew inside PC with hair drier(mistake i know) at normal temperature and even made the fans spin (mistake i know )  and while blowing over the general area around the  motherboard and processor cooler and ram I saw a little spark, and if I put my nose close it smelled a bit burned.

Waited 30min and turned on PC and everything seems to work fine, ran a PC benchmark, played a game for 10 min, doesn't smell burned anymore and it seems all is well

 

Have I maybe damaged my motherboard or ram or cpu and it now works 10% slower or is that just not how it works?

 

Any idea what caused the burned smell?
hopefully just some unimportant piece of plastic on fan.
 

Nyet, PC is fine.

 

Just don't do that again, please.

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