Never cleaned the PC

May 4, 2008 - 666 views

I couldn’t imagine until now how a PC that has never been cleaned looks like. Fortunately, we can have a look. Just combine a lot of PC usage with no desire for cleaning and you’ll get the following result:

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70 Responses to “Never cleaned the PC”

  1. Mystech on May 4th, 2008 12:47 pm

    The horror, the horror….

  2. TechKnow Guy on May 4th, 2008 12:51 pm

    24 hour de_dust server?
    okay okay, too much counter strike.

    lol

  3. Sean on May 4th, 2008 12:51 pm

    Judging from the look of those parts some of those pics are from relatively modern machines - I imagine it’s not just a matter of cleaning but of location. My dog sheds like crazy and my machine is located on the floor - even after 9-12 months it’s hardly dusty at all.

    Methinks these machines were in a dusty basement corner next to a clothes dryer or something to have that much soot :-)

  4. Mantari Damacy on May 4th, 2008 12:54 pm

    I can tell which ones came from a smoker. I had to do a similar ‘thermal repair’ on a heavy smoker’s PC. It was so thick, I was pulling strands of tobacco out from the heat sinks and fans. Totally gross.

  5. Guy on May 4th, 2008 1:02 pm

    @Mantari Damacy - It’s not tobacco. It’s a mix of nicotine and dust. I don’t know any smokers that dump tobacco into their boxes.

  6. alrex on May 4th, 2008 1:36 pm

    spice :)

  7. the dude on May 4th, 2008 1:44 pm

    @mantari & Guy:The only thing in smoke that is sticky would be tar.

    And it’s not that. These are just in a place with a lot of dust, maybe on the floor. It could have an intake fan that sucks all the dust..

  8. Joe on May 4th, 2008 1:53 pm

    Thats fairly common to see when working on computers. Many peoples PCs have that much dust in them. Smokers are the worst, you can tell by the brown colored dust. It’s all sticky and hard to clean out.

  9. Anonymous on May 4th, 2008 1:53 pm

    Dust mite metropolis!

  10. Tom on May 4th, 2008 1:59 pm

    The poor thing :( It must have cancer by now

  11. me on May 4th, 2008 2:03 pm

    sooooooooo satisfying to hover that all up

  12. Jerry on May 4th, 2008 2:03 pm

    I found a dead frog inside my PC once.

  13. Ex-Pc Tech on May 4th, 2008 2:06 pm

    How did you get those pics of my computer??

  14. Taylor Blue on May 4th, 2008 2:20 pm

    My old computer looked like that too…you really need to clean them out? Damn…I thought mine was self cleaning!

  15. lingghezhi on May 4th, 2008 2:43 pm

    OMG. OMG. I wonder is this can happen to laptops. =/

  16. d legal on May 4th, 2008 2:44 pm

    My very first PC in 1993 looked like this after a few years. It ran so good that I never thought of ever cleaning it. It’s only when things started going wonky that I had to open the case and realized just how much dust had been sucked inside.

  17. James on May 4th, 2008 2:48 pm

    My eyes are bleeding

  18. gordon ramsey on May 4th, 2008 2:52 pm

    fucks sake that’s just lazy.

    what the bloody hell.

  19. Jo on May 4th, 2008 2:52 pm

    Screw the canned air … go straight for the vaccuum cleaner

  20. Paul on May 4th, 2008 3:06 pm

    These are really hard images of several PC, as well has a net out!

  21. Michael on May 4th, 2008 3:09 pm

    Looks like what we used to end up with in Kuwait.

  22. Webbster on May 4th, 2008 3:12 pm

    Ah just flush it out with water, It’ll be alright.

  23. Insobox on May 4th, 2008 3:49 pm

    Two of those pictures are mine from computers I’ve worked on…

  24. dan on May 4th, 2008 4:11 pm

    Why!!!!!!!!!!!

  25. nik on May 4th, 2008 4:14 pm

    I used to work in tech support and our company (paper distributor) had about 10 PCs in the warehouse. After a month sitting out there, a new one would look like the above pics.

  26. someone on May 4th, 2008 5:01 pm

    Weird. Coz I have a dirty apartment with lots of dust and a PC on the floor, but it doesn’t look anything like those pics… Those machines came out of the desert!

  27. CH on May 4th, 2008 5:04 pm

    I see computers like this all the time. Cleaning computers from smokers smells so bad, too.

    Lesson: Clean out your computer every few months at least.

  28. Jamesy on May 4th, 2008 5:17 pm

    Wow, nice. I always keep my PC clean so it will run efficiently. As mentioned already location is important. A friend of mine had a computer beside a floor vent above a clay basement. Needless to say the computer was routinely dirty.

  29. Guarl on May 4th, 2008 5:56 pm

    Some PCs crash on hot days because of dust impeding the cooling fans. I wonder why PC makers don’t mount a particle filter, like in vacuum cleaners and cars….

  30. Mark on May 4th, 2008 6:22 pm

    I opened an outdated server at work the other day and it looked like ZZ Top. It looked #7 but with curly dust.

  31. DOCTOR HAN SOLO on May 4th, 2008 6:34 pm

    I CAN HAS DIRTEE PUTER PLORX LooL361

  32. Thirunavukkarasan on May 4th, 2008 7:44 pm

    A good exhibition of how dust can accumulate in uncared PCs!

  33. dar7yl on May 4th, 2008 8:15 pm

    I taped scotchbright (r) pads over the vents on my machine to cut down on the crap. It went from having to clean it once a month, to relatively crud free for the last 6 months.

    btw - I’m a non smoker, but I have a wood stove that sometimes spews smoke into the room. (supposed to be air-tight, but you have to open the door to get wood in)

  34. Jared Lorz on May 4th, 2008 8:19 pm

    I’ve seen computers in worse co ndition after one year running in Nevada.

    This is not much of an accomplishment.

  35. Adam on May 4th, 2008 11:09 pm

    Hahaha, this is why i use filters on my fans. The filters are made with a really fine metal screen so they don’t restrict air movement much. I barely have any dust in my computer even after several years.

  36. Michael Kean on May 5th, 2008 5:35 am

    Laptops get like this too - but they’re easy to fix - just pick them up like a huge harmonica and blow into the air outlet. Be sure to wait a few seconds, or look away, before breathing in again!

  37. Ron on May 5th, 2008 7:35 am

    That reminds me of a computer I tried cleaning once. It was owned by a heavy smoker. I went at it with a can of air outdoors, in the dark, without realizing what I was up against. These are the pictures of it, _after_ the can of air:

    http://www.javaop.com/~ron/images/pictures/20061230-secondhand/small/hpim1377.jpg
    http://www.javaop.com/~ron/images/pictures/20061230-secondhand/small/hpim1379.jpg

  38. Quitter on May 5th, 2008 12:04 pm

    Eww that brings back memories. You can tell which are the smokers’ computers because of the brown color. I used to be a smoker until one day I was doing computer repair on a mobo completely layered with that brown funk. It made me feel so ill that I quit smoking tobacco!

  39. Merc on May 5th, 2008 12:04 pm

    Bad but not the worst I’ve seen. Went to check out a PC at local City Hall. Was an old IBM Z50 I think. Popped the cover off it, jaw came unhinged. The dust and lint was so impacted, I could literally pull it off, akin to cleaning a dryers lint filter after about 3 weeks of heavy use, it was easily an inch thick, and no parts of the computer could be seen. Been in warehouses and chicken houses that had cleaner PC’s. Amazed it was even working, not to mention the possibility of burning the place down. 25 years in the business and not seen another like it. City Hall.. it figures…

  40. reza on May 6th, 2008 12:33 am

    okey,how can i clean my pc?

  41. hamidreza on May 6th, 2008 11:44 am

    Nice ! very nice !
    I have one of them in my home !
    visit my website : http://www.hpc.ir

  42. Daanv an Beek on May 6th, 2008 3:22 pm

    I think…
    too much played WoW.. Bad Game:D

  43. Antonio Valerio on May 8th, 2008 5:57 am

    orrore

  44. Katie on May 8th, 2008 6:24 pm

    Ugh, must be a smoker’s machine. Definitely not the worst I’ve seen but not one of the best.
    Every time I go to a house call and I walk into the clients home and smell the tobacco and smoke I shudder because I know that’s waiting for me in their machine..
    Blech!

  45. 2345 on May 9th, 2008 4:11 am

    FAKE

  46. yo on May 9th, 2008 4:56 am

    zo guarro!!!!!!!!!!!!

  47. antonio on May 9th, 2008 6:52 am

    jajaja doy fe hay mucha gente asi de guarra y luego se quejan de que no les funciona el ordenador jajaja

  48. lidia on May 9th, 2008 9:55 am

    my eyes cuoldn’t saw

  49. shaggyto on May 9th, 2008 10:33 am

    “¡LA PUUUUTAAA!” te iría un poquillo lento no?…
    so,What tha fuck! it may be work slowly XDD.

  50. mr clean on May 10th, 2008 4:28 am

    eres un puto cerdo como tu puta madre

  51. Nodaxy on May 10th, 2008 11:36 am

    joder el mio yo lo limpio con aire comprimido, pero el del curro que esta dentro de un taller si un día me dejan abrirlo le sacaré fotos y os aseguro que estos estan brillando¡¡¡ jajjaj

  52. qp on May 10th, 2008 3:14 pm

    whatever :D ..

  53. lloyd on May 10th, 2008 5:40 pm

    blow these machines back to hell…

  54. Marcio Lima on May 10th, 2008 11:08 pm

    man, its disgosting…

  55. MIguel on May 11th, 2008 8:14 am

    amazing photos

  56. pig on May 11th, 2008 12:13 pm

    do you live in the fucking desert?

  57. Mung Nugget on May 11th, 2008 3:35 pm

    that’s sad, but, as a tech, the critters scare me alot more. I can’t count the times I’ve seen a fried roach on the traces of a mobo or in a psu. Creeeeeeeepy vermins lurks in yon circuits. ‘Ware the inards of the mystic box, it be’s pow’rful ugly in the box. One of my customers had a snake curl up in her tower - guess it got in through open fan opening.

  58. PATXI on May 12th, 2008 1:24 am

    MECAGÜEN DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSS!!!

  59. rehtse on May 12th, 2008 8:16 am

    omg, it seems impossible to joint so much dust

  60. B@rt on May 12th, 2008 10:06 am

    it’s normal! I have the same=)))

  61. CaBe on May 13th, 2008 9:09 am

    Pc to museum :D

  62. heidi on May 15th, 2008 11:19 am

    Tampoco es para tanto, en mi ordenador han nacido ya 5 poyuelos.jaajjaj.

    Viva Málaga!

    p.d:Doy el pésame a los familiares y vecinos del Palo por la masacre que realizó ayer. Descanse en paz!

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