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Had a client's old office PC start smoking during a dust clean last week
I was in their back office in Springfield, just doing a routine clean on a Dell Optiplex 7010. I pulled the side panel and hit it with the air compressor, like always. A second later, a thin white puff came from near the power supply and the whole thing shut off. I unplugged it right away and found a dust bunny had bridged two pins on the motherboard. Ever have a simple job go sideways that fast? What's your go-to move when you see smoke?
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gray1171mo ago
That dust bunny was a ticking time bomb!
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lisa_hill231mo agoMost Upvoted
Ticking time bomb" is exactly right. Reminds me of the time I found one behind my fridge that had basically turned into a weird felt pad. It had a dead bug in it and everything. The whole thing just came out in one solid, nasty piece. Felt like I was defusing something.
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leoyoung1mo ago
What made it a ticking time bomb?
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