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Article #244Re: Dust in the works - who cares
From: Michael Dix
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:58
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:58
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Garry Wiegand wrote: > Does dust inside a computer make any earthly difference?** Dust could block airflow and thus let the chips heat up, in theory shortening their lives. Dust in the power supply could create paths for leakage current at the relatively high working voltages there. > > Has there ever been a computer which died of dust? Not AFAIK.
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