(March 3, 2014 at 1:04 am)Stimbo Wrote:(March 2, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I'm not sure how to get it blown out. Would a hair dryer help?
I'm no expert, I'm basing all this on research I did when I first had to clean out my computer, but apparently that could cause more harm than just leaving it dusty. There's a potential for the air currents acting on the dust to generate static, which is not what you want inside a computer. The same goes for using a vacuum cleaner. Much safer to buy a can of compressed air, an "air duster", for next to nothing and use that. It's important to secure your fans with something like a pencil, otherwise the action of the blades spinning in reverse could conceivably generate a current.
Now I sit back and await others better versed in this subject to fall on me like the proverbial ton of bricks.
That is my understanding as well, more or less.
FWIW, I used to do computer field service a few decades ago and we used portable vacuums to clean the dust and shit out of everything. Then again, equipment back then didn't have the semiconductor density that we have today.
I'm in the compressed air camp these days.
