Most Disgusting Computer Award

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Rusty4560

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Okay so a lady brought in her computer because it had a virus and the CD rom won't work. So I removed the virus and then opened up the case to see what might be wrong with the cd rom. This is what I found.

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I think she wins the prize for most disgusting computer EVER

needless to say I'm done looking at this computer. I just put it back together and I'm giving it back to her as is. I have no idea what that is but it looks like it's growing....
 
It is probably some sort of dust or mold. Why give it back to her? You might as well just tell her that you are charging a small clean up fee. If you give the computer back to her you have the deal with potentially losing future business to the GeekSquad.
 
I work at a school. I'm doing this to be nice. I don't charge much and I do it during the day when I should be doing something else. I just happen to be a nice guy. However I'm not that nice.
 
Yeah...that's bad, but it's nowhere near the worst I've seen. People who smoke and have pets is the ultimate in disgust. I've literally found living things in PC's before.
 
Oldie said:
Yeah...that's bad, but it's nowhere near the worst I've seen. People who smoke and have pets is the ultimate in disgust. I've literally found living things in PC's before.
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Yup, you haven't seen a disgusting case until you see one whereby the entire HSF fan has gummed up with... gunk which make you want to throw up... and the entire mainboard is covered in this film of the same... stuff. It kind of looks like the mainboard and all other surfaces have grown a layer of fur, yet the only thing which will ever clean it is extremely powerful, industrial detergents and other chemicals. Not that it'll ever erase the stench, mind you.

Always felt tempted to show the owner of the system what his/her lungs would roughly look like inside :)
 
It's why I have a high power vapor filtered air compressor. Just take it outside, and blast it.
 
I don't see any roach droppings so its far from the worst. We had a guy who brought in his computer that absolutely stunk. His response was that his cat was in heat. ughhh.. I found rat turds on the top of an old ISA video card in a 486 once. It was like 2003 or something and he got mad at me when I refused to fix his computer and told him he needed a new one. Some people make me sick.
 
It's smoke, dust, and dog hair. My girlfriend's parents' machine looked similar inside after going ~4 years since purchase without cleaning..
 
Yup... seen worse... on here, too. Too lazy to find the thread, but yah... I cant stand that stuff. I clean out my comp typically every 3-4 months since they don't get much dust at my house. When I was livin in an apt near a major street w/ windows open all the time, I had to clean it out every month, at least.
 
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