There was a customer who brought his computer in for some type of service. Probably a dead hard drive.... and probably because the hard drive was so caked in fuzzy, insulating tobacco tar that it over heated and died prematurely.
Inside? Tobacco bunnies all over the bottom of the case. Between the drives? Tobacco. The heat sink? It was one fuzzy blob of tobacco tar. The fan? It spun, though a bit slowly. The machine was clearly thermal-throttling to oblivion, but the user's only concern was the hard drive. The
You're not the only one to notice how smoking and cooling fans are a bad mix. Back before the pandemic, my lifetime-smoker sister came to me thinking that her laptop had a virus on it. We fire it up, and the fan is sounding like a jet taking off. I went through it and found no trace of malware. At this point, I opened it up, and found it was just choked with tobacco fuzz. After cleaning that out, the laptop ran a lot better, for some reason.
I'm just glad she didn't run a heavy-duty gaming rig in a high-airflow case. *gaaaack*
Computer repair (Score:5, Interesting)
There was a customer who brought his computer in for some type of service. Probably a dead hard drive .... and probably because the hard drive was so caked in fuzzy, insulating tobacco tar that it over heated and died prematurely.
Inside? Tobacco bunnies all over the bottom of the case.
Between the drives? Tobacco.
The heat sink? It was one fuzzy blob of tobacco tar. The fan? It spun, though a bit slowly.
The machine was clearly thermal-throttling to oblivion, but the user's only concern was the hard drive. The
Re:Computer repair (Score:2)
You're not the only one to notice how smoking and cooling fans are a bad mix. Back before the pandemic, my lifetime-smoker sister came to me thinking that her laptop had a virus on it. We fire it up, and the fan is sounding like a jet taking off. I went through it and found no trace of malware. At this point, I opened it up, and found it was just choked with tobacco fuzz. After cleaning that out, the laptop ran a lot better, for some reason.
I'm just glad she didn't run a heavy-duty gaming rig in a high-airflow case. *gaaaack*