{"id":356,"date":"2019-09-29T01:40:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/?p=356"},"modified":"2020-10-20T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:41:45","slug":"dirty-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/dirty-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By far, the dirtiest computer I have ever cleaned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Before\u2026 the dirt is thick, it is everywhere. I is disgusting and make me cough as I tried to clean it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_101-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\" alt=\"DirtyDesktop_101-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the back fan. That\u2019s not just dirt. It was almost like it was wet and dirty\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_102-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\" alt=\"DirtyDesktop_102-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the motherboard up close. The CPU was the worst:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_103-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\" alt=\"DirtyDesktop_103-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>I pulled the CPU fan off of the motherboard. Look at the crud. There is no air getting to the CPU.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_104-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\" alt=\"DirtyDesktop_104-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>After some time cleaning\u2026 it looks pretty good. Not perfect, but definitely better than when it came in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_105-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\" alt=\"DirtyDesktop_105-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the PSU and some of the wiring\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_106-2019-09-28-21-40-e1569723580908.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the after photo\u2026 this computer ran 20 degrees cooler once it was fully cleaned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-content\/uploads\/DirtyDesktop_107-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\" alt=\"DirtyDesktop_107-2019-09-28-21-40.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen such filth? I\u2019m not sure, but after all of this cleaning, the customer had us replace the RAM, CPU, and motherboard\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far, the dirtiest computer I have ever cleaned&#8230; Before\u2026 the dirt is thick, it is everywhere. I is disgusting and make me cough as I tried to clean it. This is the back fan. That\u2019s not just dirt. It was almost like it was wet and dirty\u2026 This is the motherboard up close. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desktop-repair","category-frys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/techparadise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}