Never cleaned the PC
May 4, 2008 - 99,634 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:
You might also enjoy reading:
![Hot photos: Monday selection [61 pics]](http://www.wackyarchives.com/includes/images/monday-selections.jpg)
Comments
121 Responses to “Never cleaned the PC”
Trackbacks
- Maoxian » links for 2008-05-05
- Thursday, May 8, 2008 | Scruw; It's Twist'd
- BagOfNothing.com » Dusty PC
- meneame.net
- El Mundo de STP » Blog Archive » Asi limpiaba, asi,asi…
- DyB Multimedia » Blog Archive » Suciedad en los ordenadores
- Perquè netejar un ordinador? | docs4beto
- Likaisia tietokoneita - Hilavitkutin.com - Uutisia tekniikasta, ilmiöistä ja hilavitkuttimista
- Vai limpar esse PC, menino! | Guanabara.INFO
- La Mugre En Nuestro Gabinete Con La Radioactividad De Los Componentes Genera Mutacion - 3DGames
- PCs que nunca se han limpiado at Funkbreaks
- Borrissol dins dels ordinadors * L’home dibuixat
- Tech Suki » Blog Archive » Never cleaned the PC
- I like to play Dirty! - The Prophecy Forums
- TudoJunto » Blog Archive » SEXTA DE LINKS
- LibraryNation » Blog Archive » How NOT to maintain your computers
- Inexistent Links 7 | Blog do Inexistent Man
- Mega saldão de links da sexta « Çabiduria’s Weblog
- ordinateur sans nettoyage
- limpieza del tarro - :: Adictos.cl :: Tu Vicio en Internet!. LA NUEVA ERA!
Got something to say?
Search:
-
Recent Posts
-
Link of the day
The 25 Funniest Web Videos
From "Star Wars Kid" to Bill O'Reilly's meltdown, a gallery of YouTube's greatest hits.
The horror, the horror….
24 hour de_dust server?
okay okay, too much counter strike.
lol
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
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.
@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.
spice
@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..
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.
Dust mite metropolis!
The poor thing
It must have cancer by now
sooooooooo satisfying to hover that all up
I found a dead frog inside my PC once.
How did you get those pics of my computer??
My old computer looked like that too…you really need to clean them out? Damn…I thought mine was self cleaning!
OMG. OMG. I wonder is this can happen to laptops. =/
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.
My eyes are bleeding
fucks sake that’s just lazy.
what the bloody hell.
Screw the canned air … go straight for the vaccuum cleaner
These are really hard images of several PC, as well has a net out!
Looks like what we used to end up with in Kuwait.
Ah just flush it out with water, It’ll be alright.
Two of those pictures are mine from computers I’ve worked on…
Why!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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….
I opened an outdated server at work the other day and it looked like ZZ Top. It looked #7 but with curly dust.
I CAN HAS DIRTEE PUTER PLORX LooL361
A good exhibition of how dust can accumulate in uncared PCs!
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)
I’ve seen computers in worse co ndition after one year running in Nevada.
This is not much of an accomplishment.
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.
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!
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
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!
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…
okey,how can i clean my pc?
Nice ! very nice !
I have one of them in my home !
visit my website : http://www.hpc.ir
I think…
too much played WoW.. Bad Game:D
orrore
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!
FAKE
zo guarro!!!!!!!!!!!!
jajaja doy fe hay mucha gente asi de guarra y luego se quejan de que no les funciona el ordenador jajaja
my eyes cuoldn’t saw
“¡LA PUUUUTAAA!” te iría un poquillo lento no?…
so,What tha fuck! it may be work slowly XDD.
eres un puto cerdo como tu puta madre
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
whatever
..
blow these machines back to hell…
man, its disgosting…
amazing photos
do you live in the fucking desert?
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.
MECAGÜEN DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSS!!!
omg, it seems impossible to joint so much dust
it’s normal! I have the same=)))
Pc to museum
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!
cool.
Hijos de puta malnacidos, eso no se le hace a un ser vivo
noo0o puede ser k horror
Wanted to reply to something nik said: If it was a paper distributor, the dust was most likely from the paper. Environments like offices and libraries, and even hospitals (places that have lots of paper laying about) usually have a big janitorial staff. The reason for this is because most of the dust comes from paper (over 80%), and if it were left to accumulate, lets just say some folks allergies would go haywire in only a few days.
wow
some of it looks rusted.
you should get a medal for doing such lol
my computer case is open and is hardly cleaned and it looks fine
As a PC Repair Tech. I’ve seen hundreds of these…
wahahaha
これはひどい
the PC’s must be cleaned ????
… ooops sorry i got to go to do … something non-related with this …. but i need some air compressed -_-
You should have showed pics when you blew out all that crap with the canned air. It must have looked like when they set off multiple charges in a strip mine.
Forensics: Manhattan PC. Worked on lots of these. It doesn’t take too long before a system looks like this. Imagine what a doctor sees on a NYC patient!
I used to live in a house full of smokers, and eventually picked up the habit myself after moving out (no surprise there)…
It always came to my mind to put some HEPA filters in front of the intakes…but I never did it.
I’ve had to repair one worse than this for my wife’s parents. They’re a really dirty couple, smoked asstons of cigarettes in their bedroom where the computer was. I found dust about 4 inches thick and cockroaches in it.
Long story short, I told them I refused to work on it and they were better off just throwing it away.
They put it back in their bedroom, where it collects dust to this day.
My PC frequently clogs with dust and I have to blow it out with a compressed air can (or blow threw a cooking syringe). Haha.
@Taylor Blue , It is self cleaning, just let it keep going and it will catch on fire and all the dust will burn away…and your house.
We get this all the time when we show our clients the inside of their computers. They are shocked and embarrassed.
Clearly this is at a minimum 3 diferent PCs, but I think it’s more like 5. The brown colored dust on the top 2 is not regular dust, it has a high iron content. You can tell because of the way that the dust has not only bee attracted to anything electrically charged in the computer, but how it’s aligned with the electric field around the capacitors. Although I can’t imagine where that dust would come from.
What is interesting to me is… You can tell the smokers from the non-smokers, by the ‘color’ of the dust! Which should be an affirmation to those that have yet to quit!
Not just for yourself, but as you can see, … this is what OTHERS around you breath!
Look at all those dead skin cells!
It’s a common sight I’ve in work everyday.
Reminds me when i open up and clean my bosses PCs
http://www.myboxpro.com
Oh dear GOD! Someone get this poor man an aircan!
this is dust we’re talking about, thats right, the same dust that is composed mostly of human skin flakes.
we are looking at powdered human, coating the inside of this pc
This is nothing, I worked at a mill in the IT department, and saw 100’s of computers in this condition or much worse. yawwwwnnnnn
I’ve told too many people, just unscrew the case a couple of times a year, blow it out, AND DON’T LET THE DARN THING SET DIRECTLY ON THE FLOOR. Hell, set it on top of the milk crate you stole from UDF! Major difference…
wtf is up with the rabbits on pic 3?
Those look like high-end/modern parts. I bet there’s something around there. I saw one one time; the computer was only 3 or 4 years old, but it was sitting on the ground and they had thick white carpeting… When AI opened it up, I couldnt even see the parts. It was like someone stuffed the thing full of cotton balls. Guess they’re lucky they had a low-end sempron. I think it would’ve ran about 40 C without a heatsink
Your lucky your computer didn’t overheat from all that dust. I wonder if it could have caught fire like dryers can.
And people wonder why there computers run like shit after a couple of months …
im a smoker but my machine looks nothing like these and i removed my side panel. i have to clean it every 3 months as well. and its usually not that bad. just some q-tips do the job.
Wow! Incredible!
Did your computer still work?
I dealt with donated computers and there are a couple that were worse than this. One was an old P1 machine that must have been around animals or something, as the front intake fan grille was matted with a mixture of what looked like dog hair and dust, at least a quarter inch thick. Another computer must have been in a machine shop or something, as it had an oily reddish-brown coating over all of its components - I originally thought the resistance coating was red!
I see everyone talking about dirty computers but no one said how you can clean the nicotine off of your heat sink. Damp paper towel with alcohol?
WHAT THE H*EL… ?!
Obviously, someone who was dumb enough to buy Dell never had the PC knowledge in the first place to crack open the case and clean it out.
Maybe this is why my computer is showing problems not because of software problems. My Ram was originally 5 gig but due to damage has been reduced to 1 gig. I used to clean my old computer but I got lazy so my current computer is bad. I used a small vacuum cleaner then with bristles.
holy sh*t! like, where does this guy live? in a sawmill?
Hrhr, the pictures are looking like taken in our server room!
Dear god, I can’t unsee it!
looks like a ghost town pc