o_o someone never cleans the inside of case.. how did they not smell the warm exhaust blowing out the smell of rotting rodent? I imagine that machine blows out pretty warm air, anyway, with all the dust in there.
In the early 90s I was a PC tech for a Manufacturing company. They called me about a PC that had stopped working and when I opened it up I found rodent droppings covering the motherboard. The weird thing was the droppings had metallic pieces and were shorting out the board. I disassembled the PC and cleaned the insides and motherboard the best I could using a safe spray, I then reassembled and replaced the dust shields that someone had removed (which is how I suspect the rodent got in) and surprisingly the PC worked.
wow… thats disgusting…
o_o someone never cleans the inside of case.. how did they not smell the warm exhaust blowing out the smell of rotting rodent? I imagine that machine blows out pretty warm air, anyway, with all the dust in there.
In the early 90s I was a PC tech for a Manufacturing company. They called me about a PC that had stopped working and when I opened it up I found rodent droppings covering the motherboard. The weird thing was the droppings had metallic pieces and were shorting out the board. I disassembled the PC and cleaned the insides and motherboard the best I could using a safe spray, I then reassembled and replaced the dust shields that someone had removed (which is how I suspect the rodent got in) and surprisingly the PC worked.
Rodents seem to LOVE cable insulation. And if that happens to be wrapped around some not-so-tasty, occasionally painful metal wires, they don’t care.