{"id":2855,"date":"2010-07-12T07:50:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2855-dusty-pc-keeps-on-keeping-on.html"},"modified":"2010-07-12T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T06:50:20","slug":"dusty-pc-keeps-on-keeping-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2855-dusty-pc-keeps-on-keeping-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Dusty PC keeps on keeping on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how well desktop PCs work even when choked by dust. This one was working fine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It is a little hard to see from the picture, but the mass of dust on the right is actually a graphics card. The graphics card has its own fan, which was so dust-choked that the the space between the blades was filled.<\/p>\n<p>Running PCs in this state is not a good idea. If your machine is not working properly or overheating, it is worth a look. If it is working fine, perhaps it is a worth a look anyway. The best way to clear it is with one of those air duster aerosols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how well desktop PCs work even when choked by dust. This one was working fine: It is a little hard to see from the picture, but the mass of dust on the right is actually a graphics card. The graphics card has its own fan, which was so dust-choked that the the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2855-dusty-pc-keeps-on-keeping-on.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dusty PC keeps on keeping on<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[349,446,710],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-dust","tag-hardware","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}