+ You never taught that simple, common everyday dust can cause serious damage? well think again! Dust can cause really serious damage mostly on electronic accessories(PC,TV,DVD player, etc).Why? Lets just take it from the basics: Dust is unavoidable , you can keep your windows closed all day but still dust will settle. Most of you probably just clean the screen and the box of the TV and electronic accessories, you never think about how many dust settles inside the TV or PC in our case. Dust on electronic components(such as microchips/transistors/condensators) can cause them to overheat and fry(mostly summer when the temperatures rise high above normal).

+ Probably most of you are wondering why am i telling you all this and encouraging you to clean your PC.

Well here’s the answer:

I work in a PC shop at the service department. In about 2weeks more than 25 PC’s we’re brought in( I live in a smaller city which has a population of 160.000 and there are plenty of PC shops in the city so just think totally in the city how many pc’s died). As the customers said: “My computer just won’t start” or “I can turn the Computer on but nothing happens, the screen goes black”.

+ The first thing i did was check if the pc starts, if it started than i opened up the pc and reseted the BIOS(you can do it with a jumper )(the BIOS can cause problems like this also). if everything was the same i closely checked the mainboard(in most cases it was very dusty). My verdict was: “You need to purchase a new mainboard and probably a new CPU also”. If you change your pc’s motherboard and cpu you will need to reinstall Windows also, because it simply won’t work.

+ IF the PC didn’t start i hooked it up with a new power supply box and everything went smooth. The customer payed for the power supply box and the service and he went home with a smile on his face.

+ Your PC is exposed daily to dust , and trust me dust loves your PC. The ventilator in your supply and the ventilator on your pc/graphics card keeps your components cool, but it attracts lots and lots of dust, so its recommended that you clean the inside of your PC every 3 months using a brush and your aspirator. Simple isn’t it? yes yes…i know its a job that takes about 1-2 hours of work but trust me it’s worth it!

Here’s how to effectively clean your pc:

+ Disconnect your pc from energy supply, remove the mouse/keyboard/sound system/printer, everything that is plugged into your Desktop PC.

+ Put your pc on the table or somewhere where you can work flexible with ti and you have enough space.

+ Using a screw driver remove the left side of your pc.

+ Mark the cables coming from the power supply box with different letters( ex: A, B, C) and write down on a paper which cable goes to which component(ex: A goes to hard drive).

+ Remove the power cables form the components and the mainboard(the power cable which is attached to the mainboard cannot be put in a wrong position so you can’t mess anything up)

+ Again using a screw driver unscrew the screws and remove the power supply box from the chase of your PC.

+ Remove the top part of the power supply box and using a brush brush out the dust from it and use the aspirator to suck up the dust, make sure you clean it out well.

+ After your done, put back the top of the power supply box and put it back in the case of your pc just as it was when your removed it.

+ Remove all removable parts from your mainboard(RAM, Graphics card, PCI cards, and the cooler from the cooling frame that is fixed on your CPU) (Make sure you remove ONLY the cooler and not the cooler with the cooling frame, because if you remove them and put them back just like that you may fry your CPU, because a thermo conducting paste is required between the CPU and the cooling frame!)

+ Remove the Hard drive(s), Optical unit(s), Floppy disk drive(s) from the case of your pc and clean them with the brush, after you cleaned them place them back just as they we’re and reconnect the cables that connect them to the mainboard( NOT THE POWER CABLES!).

+ Now using the brush and the aspirator start cleaning your mainboard, make sure you clean every bit of it, after you are done cleaning it just to make sure everything is cleaned blow on the mainboard and see if dust will rise, if it does clean it more)

+ Clean the cooler take off the cooling frame with the brush and after that clean it with cotton wool soaked in alcohol and screw it back to the cooling frame and connect it back to the mainboard.

+ Put all the removeable devices back on your mainboard (RAM, Graphics card, PCI cards) and connect the power cables to the mainboard and to the optical drives/FDD and hard drive.

+ Recheck 2 times that you connected everything right before you start your pc, if you are sure you did everything right then start your pc. If your pc starts BEEEEEEEEP-ing then turn it off and check if you placed the RAM’s right. IF it doesn’t want to boot from hard drive then recheck the connection, do the same if you encounter a problem with optical drives .

+ use your pc for about 1-2 hours and after that enter BIOS and check the temperature of your CPU/mainboard. I guarantee it will be smaller than as it was before you cleaned it.
This is just a method that helps you clean your PC, i don’t take any responsability if something goes wrong/you mess up something!