Think your PC is dirty?

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2Tired2Tango

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Garooooose....

Worst one I've ever seen?

A boat of turkey gravy dumped on a keyboard, which for mysterious reasons was on the dining room table at the time.

A possible tie with that was an older flatbed scanner so full of cockroaches they actually jammed the mechanism.
 
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2Tired2Tango

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Rob Williams said:
Ugh, LOL. Thinking of that almost made me want to vomit :-|
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LOL... and you didn't have to clean it up!

I just put the thing is a double garbage bag and walked it down to the bin.
The woman who owned it had her place fumigated and I put Boric Acid powder in all her electronics.

She says her new multifunction printer is very nice.
 
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2Tired2Tango

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Psi* said:
At least they didn't accuse you of planting a bug
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:D Good one!

Although it's not really germaine to dirty computers, that is a constant risk techs face in this day and age... "You did something to my machine so you can _______" One paranoid user can really wreck havoc in a word of mouth business. And thank goodness that hasn't happened yet.
 
Psi*

Psi*

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Yes. It is not unusual that the last tech (for radios or computers) that visits a location by default owns all of the problems.:mad: Certainly the last install of a something.
 
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2Tired2Tango

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Rob Williams said:
That's something I've often thought about, and I'm sure there's reason for real concern. Some people just love to make other people miserable.
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It's a risk every tech runs on every call. There's an old adage that a happy customer will tell one or maybe two people but an uhappy one will tell everyone they know... and it's pretty much true.

But on the other hand you can't be completely pliant... especially when you find yourself sitting in front of a machine loaded with kiddie porn as I have on two separate occasions. It's a tough call... but no question about the right thing to do.
 
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2Tired2Tango

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Psi* said:
Yes. It is not unusual that the last tech (for radios or computers) that visits a location by default owns all of the problems.:mad: Certainly the last install of a something.
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LOL... The original concept of heirarchal inherritance... it doesn't matter what kind of mess you find, it's all your fault... been there for sure. I don't even want to guess how often I've put in long hours, at no charge, fixing the messes made by other techs. But in the end it's better than the alternative of being blamed for stuff you didn't do.
 
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2Tired2Tango said:
But on the other hand you can't be completely pliant... especially when you find yourself sitting in front of a machine loaded with kiddie porn as I have on two separate occasions. It's a tough call... but no question about the right thing to do.
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Aside from the obvious, people who keep and view child porn are idiots. If I had a closet full of narcotics (I don't), am I going to let someone go in there to retrieve my jacket? It doesn't make sense. As far as child porn goes, I'm glad they're oblivious... they need to get caught somehow.
 
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2Tired2Tango

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Rob Williams said:
Aside from the obvious, people who keep and view child porn are idiots. If I had a closet full of narcotics (I don't), am I going to let someone go in there to retrieve my jacket? It doesn't make sense. As far as child porn goes, I'm glad they're oblivious... they need to get caught somehow.
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first off... Sorry if this is a thread hijack... that wasn't the plan.

To put a button on this... There are few things in this world I hate more than Kiddie Porn. The last machine I came across that was loaded with it --40 gigs worth-- I sent the owner on an errand across town to get me some contact cleaner, without any hint that I'd spotted anything. When he got back there were 3 police officers waiting to talk to him....

Please everyone... If you see it... Report it!

Ok back to topic... I cleaned my computer today, after seeing that article... It's surprising how much crap gets into little corners and especially the power supply... Now I gotta vaccum everything else, cause you know where all the dust landed.... Oh Well.
 
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2Tired2Tango said:
I sent the owner on an errand across town to get me some contact cleaner, without any hint that I'd spotted anything. When he got back there were 3 police officers waiting to talk to him....
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Good on you man, seriously. It brings me joy to just picture how that played out. Hopefully he got what he deserved. 40GB sure isn't an accident... that's an unbelievable amount. Stories like this just turn my stomach. It's hard to believe that there's demand out there for five-year-old girls. It's truly disgusting. That little girl is so adorable, and her mom the worst kind of evil. I'm not a man who cries about anything, but stories like this sure bring me close.

Sorry, I kind of hi-jacked the thread also.

2Tired2Tango said:
It's surprising how much crap gets into little corners and especially the power supply...
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I agree... the PSU is by far the worst in my own machine as well. The problem is that the dirt gets wedged in there good, so even compressed air won't help (at least in my "case"). The only option I have is to tear the PSU apart and clean it hands-on.
 
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I agree. I thought I saw it all when it came to dirty chassis', but I was wrong when I looked at this list.
 
Doomsday

Doomsday

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I cleaned me PC today. Man the dust was, well not very much but still a lot! My idle CPU came down to 43C from 49C and gpu idle came down to 59C from 64C and it used to max at 105C but now its 85C, daamn!!
 
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