Kilamon
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 Posted: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:12:42 Post Subject: |
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| miketv wrote: | I finally got up the courage to remove the 1st layer of dust from the inside of my tower, using a virgin paintbrush. Looks like it's gonna be an all-day ordeal, requiring different sizes & stiffnesses of brushes, so it'll be a few days before it's CLEAN clean. I'm hoping this helps some. Couldn't hurt, I guess.
WHile dusting, I discovered that one of my fans has a variable switch--high. low, & median. I switched it from low to high. If it's a heat problem, I figure this mght help.
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Just use canned air. I read an article recently about using canned air just recently by some schmoe that wasn't too bad.  Use of the brushes can cause a static buildup if you're not using the proper kind of brush in any case. Static charges are bad because what doesn't look like anything to you, looks like Mars Valles Marineris when you compare it to the 65nm fabricated chips, and the motherboard traces can be pretty susceptible. Always be grounded with a grounded case or equalize the static between you and the case by touching (and holding contact throughout your time inside the computer) it before touching the innards.
| miketv wrote: | Lastly, about taking a pic of the boot screen...is that the very 1st screen (the one that leads to BIOS if I hit [delete]), or the one after that, right before the windows logo pops on?
Once I hit the [pause] key (or maybe the [print screen] key (I have one of those, too), do I just open a photo editor & paste it in, or what? |
Print screen won't work. It used to be that on DOS you could hit that to instantly print your screen to the printer (generally a dot matrix) and if you were really cool, you'd time the text on the screen to the printer and tape that sound to make it the beat of a mix tape.  However, enough nostalgia.
Push the pause key at all the screens you feel are relevant, bring the photos to your favorite editor, convert to a jpg smaller than 150k and host it somewhere and post a link to the image. You might be able to use the upload tool here for images but follow the rules for posting pics (I never read them). make sure the text on the screen is readable or otherwise transcribe the text. Those boot screens tell you everything about the computer including bios version, motherboard make, model and chipset as well as memory timings, CPU type and more information that you probably never wanted to know. The most important screen is the one that also has the press del prompt where it counts up the ram, tells you your detected hard drives and etc. |
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