HentaiPockyStick
December 7th 03, 12:34 AM
I don't think dust contribute to use of more power or corrupting data.
Though I would recommend non aerosal air cans, rather than vacuuming your
components, good chance you might vacuum small parts or jumpers.
"WC" > wrote in message
...
> The cooling fans have been running rough and louder than
> normal and my hard drive seems to be running sluggish on
> initial start up as if platter friction or something
> else. I also have been experiencing increased data
> corruption in FAT, eg. random bad clusters. My 40 GB hard
> drive currently has about 576K in bad sectors after a
> disk check and defrag operation. I opened the case and
> discovered significant dust accumulation on fans and on
> about a 1-square inch spot on back of motherboard so I
> vacuumed and cleaned this dust as best I could.
>
> ::::::
>
> Is it possible that dust on the fans was making the fans
> require more power to overcome friction causing
> additional drain on power supply which in turn was
> impairing performance of other components and thus
> resulting in data corruption? Is it also possible that
> the dust on back side of motherboard was causing subtle
> short circuits or capacitance problems and thus causing
> data corruption and impairment of other components
> including hard drive? Should I get a new hard drive or
> rely on cleaning dust(I realize I can't do anything about
> dust inside a hard drive)?
Though I would recommend non aerosal air cans, rather than vacuuming your
components, good chance you might vacuum small parts or jumpers.
"WC" > wrote in message
...
> The cooling fans have been running rough and louder than
> normal and my hard drive seems to be running sluggish on
> initial start up as if platter friction or something
> else. I also have been experiencing increased data
> corruption in FAT, eg. random bad clusters. My 40 GB hard
> drive currently has about 576K in bad sectors after a
> disk check and defrag operation. I opened the case and
> discovered significant dust accumulation on fans and on
> about a 1-square inch spot on back of motherboard so I
> vacuumed and cleaned this dust as best I could.
>
> ::::::
>
> Is it possible that dust on the fans was making the fans
> require more power to overcome friction causing
> additional drain on power supply which in turn was
> impairing performance of other components and thus
> resulting in data corruption? Is it also possible that
> the dust on back side of motherboard was causing subtle
> short circuits or capacitance problems and thus causing
> data corruption and impairment of other components
> including hard drive? Should I get a new hard drive or
> rely on cleaning dust(I realize I can't do anything about
> dust inside a hard drive)?