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Laptop and desktop cleaning.

Summary

A heavy build-up of dust occurs over time in most desktop and laptop computers, which can cause overheating and shortened life. This article covers the cleaning operations that are required.

Safety

Be aware of electrostatic discharge: Ground yourself
Brushes and vacuum cleaners can generate ESD
Exercise care while you work
Be aware of electrical danger: switch off or unplug
PPE: Dust can be very unpleasant

Laptop and Desktop Cleaning

The slides from Ben Skidmore's presentation on 2014-11-13 are referenced below. In due course these will be transformed into a Wiki page which will replace this page.)

Main presentation (OpenOffice Presentation format): Media:Clean_Up!_Cool_Down!_Nov_14.odp
Main presentation (PDF format): Media:Clean_Up!_Cool_Down!_Nov_14.pdf
Working with heatsinks and replacing the thermal compound (PDF format): Media:Working_with_heatsinks.pdf

External links

The video How To Apply Thermal Paste shows what happens when several methods to apply thermal past are used. It is clear that the pea method as explained by Ben in his presentation is best.
Artic Silver Application methods for applying thermal compound to Intel® CPU
Artic Silver Application methods for applying thermal compound to AMD® CPU

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-* Be aware of electrostatic discharge: '''Ground yourself'''
+::* Be aware of electrostatic discharge: '''Ground yourself'''
-* Brushes and vacuum cleaners can '''generate ESD'''
+::* Brushes and vacuum cleaners can '''generate ESD'''
-* '''Exercise care''' while you work
+::* '''Exercise care''' while you work
-* Be aware of electrical danger: '''switch off or unplug'''
+::* Be aware of electrical danger: '''switch off or unplug'''
-* '''PPE''': Dust can be very unpleasant
+::* '''PPE''': Dust can be very unpleasant
 ==Laptop and Desktop Cleaning==