Thursday, June 11, 2009

Clean Your Computer Fan

Keeping your computer clean is an important step in ensuring its performance. Friendly Computers found these helpful tips on how to keep your pc’s fan dust free:

With many business and home computers, especially desktop computers, the cooling fan can get clogged up and cause some real problems for the rest of the computer. The fan keeps the computer cool and stops the desktop or laptop computer from overheating. Below are just a few tips to ensure you home computer doesn’t suffer from overheating:
• Unplug your computer and move it to a place that is safe and that has plenty of room to work. Start by using either a mini-vacuum or a specific computer vacuum cleaner to remove the dust from the air vents and the CD player. You can then remove the back part of the case and vacuum inside, making sure that you avoid small components.
• Spraying compressed air is a great way of loosening and dispersing the dust on the fan and power supply fan. It can also be used to remove dust from the grills and a pencil can be used to keep fan blades still before spraying compressed air.
• Make sure the laptop or desktop computer is in a cool area of the house or office and not directly in the sun. Restricting the air flow to the fan by having objects covering the fan will make the computer overheat and make the fan work harder.
• Vacuuming and dusting the room that you computer lives can help ensure less dust get caught in the fan. This is especially true of destop computers that sit on the floor underneath a desk.
• Once you have fully cleaned out the fan inside the computer, make sure that the dust, hair and crumbs have been cleaned off of the leads and devices leading up to the computer. This is usually overlooked but the leads and other hardware can carry with it a lot of dust and dirt.
Over time the fan can eventually die from overuse but hopefully these simple tips can be used regularly to prolong the life of the fan and the personal computer.

Source: http://www.bignews.biz/?id=803257&keys=Laptopcomputer-Cheaplaptop-Refurbishedlaptop-RefurbishedPCs