Vacuuming Tool?

Remove the fan from the heatsink.

I wonder if anyone has put an open case computer in a dish washer? No soap of course. :)

Isn't dust like this typical blown out with some compressed gas? I think one product is called Super Duster. D from BC

I prefer to suck the dust out of there, rather than risking pushing it deeper into the fins. (This particular box has a duct from the side of the case, where air is sucked in and *pushed* thru the fins.)

...Jim Thompson

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A paint brush........ !

That's a pain.

I think I'll construct an adapter to fit an ABS irrigation feeder tube to the vacuum, so I can reach down in narrow areas.

...Jim Thompson

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something wrong with your swap file then. did you by any chance turn it off? or are you short on Disk space?

Hardware stores around here sell different sizes of Brass tubing that you can solder. i would be concerned about using plastic tubing while sucking air and Dust through it. i've see it create static charges and if you happen to slip and touch a component on the board. well., you know the rest of the story. of course there is also static free plastics.

Not that I know of. Looks like I've left everything there as default.

Nope. Using 21GB out of 80GB available.

I never had such peculiarities until I moved "up" to WinXp Pro from Win2K. I'm sorry I ever did that.

...Jim Thompson

True. My local Ace Hardware has a large display of "craft" brass tubing of all sizes.

Which would suggest using a flexible rubber tube down to a tapered brass nozzle. That'd work.

...Jim Thompson

XP with windows explorer, Outlook, Google, LTspice, MPlab. Total commited = 230MB. (I think I've 250Mb fitted ). Only memory probs come when the obnoxious window "helper" thing decides to load itself. john

Hmm, well this box i'm currently on is a W2k and it's been nothing but smooth sailing here.

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I think WinXP is still susceptible to cumulative memory leaks. It seems like it gets bogged down (and even refuses to do some things) after it's been running for several days. Then when I try to shut it down, it hangs until I tap the power button, then it sometimes hangs again until I do the

Paul

Same experience here. I never shut down until it hangs. Then I often have to resort to the reset button approach to kill it.

Yep.

But less stable than Win2K in my experience.

The PSpice machine with Win2K Pro, AMD CPU, NEVER hangs or crashes. Only reboots needed are for program installs.

...Jim Thompson

I think the box was better in the off state than trying to use ME! :)

Jim, did you try canned air? I immobilize the fan then blow the dust out.

On an old Vaio laptop, the pads between the GPU and the CPU to the fan duct had both dried out. The result was excessive heating and system shutdowns. A shot of thermal grease, appropriately placed, solved the problem.

My new Alienware PC has a reset button! And a bios option, set by default, that makes the power button work instantly. PLUS it has a real AC-line power switch on the back.

DIE, Windows, DIE!

And it does look like XP should be rebooted often, daily or so, to reset accumulated damage. At least it comes up pretty quick, 30 seconds or so. 2K took minutes.

Have I mentioned lately that all things Microsoft are crap?

John

The WAF of that method is usually not high enough because when you blow the dust out it sails off onto other objects around you.

I'm going to Ace and buy several brass tubes, sweat them into a tapered nozzle with a small-diameter flexible rubber hose to the vacuum... in fact that suggests that automotive vacuum hose might be perfect because it won't collapse.

...Jim Thompson

Yeah, it's called an air compressor. Take the silly thing outside, and blow the dirt out. I do it to my computers every few years.

-Chuck

everything there as default.

shouldn't crash just because it runs out of physical memory, just start swapping and get painfully slow ....

I wonder what you have done to get xp so unstable? I've had no problems with it, I never shutdown my machines at work and they run for months at at time, my laptop I just hibernate and it also has uptime in months

-Lasse