Basic System Internal PC Clean-up

Author: xilolee - Sysnative Global Moderator

Internal PC Cleanup

To clean the interior of your machine and its components (short list... If you need more information, google is your friend):

If you're not handy when handling electrical components, take it to a friend of yours who is or bring your machine to a Computer Repair Workshop (they won't do it for free, as you know...).
If you have a laptop: it could be difficult to open it. See previous point.
Unplug the machine from the mains (and remove the battery from the laptop).
"Touch bare metal of the case interior before reaching in" (I quoted Digerati, given that his English is better than mine :smile9:).
"Never, as in NEVER EVER, touch the electrical contacts of the RAM sticks" or every other contacts (I quoted Digerati).
You can use brushes, hair dryers, Compressed Air Dusters, to remove the dust (gently and carefully). It seems vacuum cleaners shouldn't be used because they could damage the electronic parts.
You shouldn't spin too much the fans: keep them blocked.
Check How to Remove & Apply Thermal Paste on CPU - YouTube (click) about thermal paste or thermal compound.
But be careful: there's the risk to bend the cpu socket pins.
Don't open the PSU! Death danger!
Don't try to open the PSU (power supply unit) to clean it: it could be dangerous given that capacitors, inside it, still hold voltage (aka potential difference, electric tension).
Thegnomesdidit said (here (click)): "a lot of PSU's i've taken apart in the past few years have a drain resistor wired in parallel to the capacitors that discharges them to safe levels within a few minutes. I would advise however, that whenever you open up any equipment that is mains powered, you assume the capacitors hold a charge".
Hence, be always very careful with it, if you open it.

From: windows 10 stuttering and crashing

Last edited: Mar 14, 2020

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