Clean Out Your System

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barryg

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Hi all. If you haven't already, don't forget to clean out your system. If your not confident or familiar enough with the innards of your computer system, please get someone else who is. As ambient temperatures rise, so do your system components. Built-up dust overheats the system and slow things down, even increasing the likely-hood of component failure.

If you use a vacuum cleaner please stop any fans from free-spinning, and watch those little motherboard connection jumpers from disappearing up the pipe. :o

Remember - a cool system is a happy system :wave:

Regards Barryg
 
cascaderailroad said:
Speaking of PC maintenance ... I defraged my sons laptop ... and "Operating System" is not found .... AHHHHHHHH ! ! !
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Well, that's unusual! Clean out your PC more by using CCleaner, a free download and a great tool! Good to see you back Cascade!
 
I have to buy Arctic Silver (Radio Shack) metalic thermal paste, and cement down my desktop CPU heat sink ... inferior thermal paste (sold at Best Buy) such as ceramic, begin to boil, and burn up, and require semi annual re-application.

A piece of window screening, or fine rabbit cage screening, duct taped to your desktop, which has side panels removed to allow heat to disipate (to keep bugz out) ... a window fan will provide all the air ventelation you need, as will a air conditioned room (or Antarctica weather).
 
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cascaderailroad said:
A piece of window screening, or fine rabbit cage screening, duct taped to your desktop, which has side panels removed to allow heat to disipate (to keep bugz out) ... a window fan will provide all the air ventelation you need, as will a air conditioned room (or Antarctica weather).
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Well, I'm still using a Tsunami Dream case, which has a filter installed, but otherwise I would agree with your advice...
 
cascaderailroad said:
Speaking of PC maintenance ... I defraged my sons laptop ... and "Operating System" is not found .... AHHHHHHHH ! ! !
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Bit late to tell you this, as the problem already happend, but anyway (to possibly avoid it in the future):
If you do a scandisk before a defrag, the scandisk will mark bad clusters and these will then not be used by defrag.
I had your problem myself; did not loose the OS but lost important files, but in theory it is the result of the same problem: Defrag moving (part of) a file to a bad cluster which then ruines the file. And before people jump in: Yes, I know, normally the system can do some recovering, but signals like these usually just mean 1 thing: The beginning of the end of the harddisk. Time to make back-ups if you still can (and didnt yet) and start considering replacing it.
 
Got a custom built system with filters custom built to suit & a full 'Copper Conduit' cooling system, so I feel
this thread has nothing to offer. (as will a lot of others) ;)
 
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