And don't get the jet of air get too close to the surface mount chippery or it might get blown off. Remember we are talking Mr Lamb here, I suspect he has a a 10+ cuft/min 100 bar compressed air supply not a febble little "can of air", mind you those at point blank range can be damaging.
Quite, PC dust is horribly fine. I tend to vacuum our machines, keeping the suction nozzle away and a 1/2" paint brush to lift the dust.
My main system is 8 years old now. I do blow out the dust from time to time. Data disks have been changed about every 2 years as capacity ran out, although the system disk is the original. Only fan which has failed is the GPU fan (several times). Eventually I had to change the graphics card as a result. It's also had 2 DIMMs die over its lifetime, although I did replace the PSU in trying to diagnose one of those.
I keep meaning to replace it, but not got around to it yet.
Running windows isn't fine especially when you know it, so I dont see the difference.
On 08/09/14 16:09, "Nightjar
En el artículo , Nightjar
I'm not a heavy graphics user, and I wanted my systems to be quiet. So they have passively cooled graphics cards (I too have had too many GPU fan failures, and being small, they ARE noisy).
The cases accept 140mm fans if I wanted to fit them.
fan went on my GFX card so have just ordered a passive too.
Too easy! It was quite obvious by the context that he meant GB. Mind you looking at the typos, TNP must have typed that missive like a man obsessed. The keyboard must have been smoking by the time he hit 'Send'. :-)
Going by your self admitted total lack of care of your PC, I'd say it wasn't amazing, and by a long way. At least you were honest about your cavalier attitude to basic computer care. :-)
No, that you should have noticed that they don?t all sound like 747s all the time.
If the tower case is of any quality, he could upgrade the MoBo, CPU and ram, fit a decent HDD (possibly with a modest sized SSD for the OS and VM images) and install Ubuntu or one of its many derivatives such as Linux Mint 17 and instal VirtualBox to run his existing windows XP in.
After 8 years, performance differential is likely to be so great that he'll probably see a noticable improvement of performance with his virtualised windows setup. Most of his apps may have acceptable Linux alternatives he can migrate to whilst stuff like Tripnuke may well be the only reason left to justify running a virtualised copy of winXP.
Apropo the suspicion that the HDD may be on its last legs. If it is, you may find the use of ordinary cloning tools rather frustrated by controller timeouts due to an ever growing list of bad sectors. If a diagnostic of the drive shows many bad sectors or worse in the SMART logs, I suggest the use of ddrescue to clone its partition(s) onto a new and larger drive. The recovered partion(s) can always be resized as deemed appropriate after the initial chkdsk /r has been run to clean up any FS inconsistencies inherited by the cloned copy.
I might manage 10 cuft/min of free air but the relief valve is set at
125. So only 8.5 bar?All seems fine at the moment although I have just had an annoying hour with Norton. The repair function found a glitch and suggested I downloaded a fresh copy. Duly cleared the old one and then was told I had exhausted my quota of downloads!
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Not that IDE was a wonderful acronym, standing for Integrated Drive Electronics (previous drives did data separation in an off-drive controller). After all, SATA drives are also IDE, as were (inter alia) the IBM MCA drives used in certain models.
In message , Johny B Good writes
Where might I find drive diagnostics and smart logs?
On linux, there are utilities you can install.
NO idea with windows..hang on, there are freeware progs from the disk manufacturers generally.
Replacing a hard drive is trivial in the extreme. IMHO I would take this opportunity for a clean install rather than a cloning (using a suitable method to ensure files are maintained), as a clean install rather than a cloning gets rid of all the 'rubbish'. However as the system is eight years old it is likely to have XP installed and as that is no longer supported maybe time to think of an O/S update and to do that will require an update of system [1].
Depending on use case would you be better of getting a tablet/notebook rather than another tower?
The system can be cleaned using an electric leaf blower [2]. The fans should cope with the overspeed as the voltages produced are trivial and if the bearings go they must have been 'toiling' anyway, however if you are concerned a wee piece of BBQ skewer/Qtip or similar stuffed through the fan blades will stop the fans revolving at all
[1] Although an XP system will probably still work with 7, a system that was designed to run XP will CRAWL running 7 [2][1] I'm starting to wonder if I'm showing the early stages of Alzheimer's with that mistake. :-(
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