~!~ General Cleaning Tips ~!~

[Sunnypk]

Motherboard Cleaning Tips



Motherboard is the main part of your computer that contains all hardware components. Your computer motherboard could fry, if you do not keep it clean on periodically basis. Dust is the main cause to heat up your system and heat link to hardware failure. You can save your computer maintenance cost if you clean your computer on the regular basis. This will improve the cooling and performance of the motherboard components.

•To clean your motherboard first unplugs your system power from the electrical outlet.

•Using the screwdriver remove the side covers of your computer case and put them to one side.

•Check all data and power cables connections. Inspect all motherboard PCI and AGP slots.

•Remove all add-on card of your motherboard for example RAM, modem, VGA, sound card and LAN card.

•Now blow the air around all the motherboard sides and keeping away your blower nozzle 4 to 5 inches away from main board components. You can use vacuum cleaner also for this purpose but compressed air is the better solution to clean a system.

•At the end assemble back all cards, cables and side covers of your system.

•I recommend you doing this after every three months if you want to save your system life.

[Sunnypk]

Mouse Cleaning Tips



The mouse is the most commonly used pointing device in windows environment on the personal computers. That is why mouse required extra care as compare to the other parts of the computer. You should clean your mouse when you feel the mouse is slow to move in different directions or making some strange movements.

•First disconnect your mouse from the back side of the computer.

•Now read the mouse manufacturer manual about your mouse model on how to safe and clean it.

•Open the ball cover from the back side of the mouse and wash the ball then dry it with cloth.

•Now clean dust in the inner side of the mouse specially removes the dust on the rollers with lightly dampened cotton bud. You can use the compressed air for this purpose.

•At the end dry it and Re-assemble your mouse then connect with computer.

[Sunnypk]

Laser Printer Cleaning Tips



Laser printer is the fastest, high quality and more expensive than inkjet printers and their printer quality is also higher. The print quality and printing speed of laser printers make ideal for offices and business. The printer is the most commonly used output device in office environment. That is why printer required extra care as compare to the other parts of the computer. There is no any difficulty to clean a printer if you have proper cleaning tools and methods.

•Never place your printer on the ground, always use table or shelf for this purpose.

•If you have the printer manufacturer manual, first read about on how to safe and clean it.

•Now disconnect your printer from the back side of the computer and unplug power from the electrical outlet.

•First use the compressed air to clean dust, toner powder from the outside and inner side of the printer.

•Use lightly dampened cloth or cleaning fluid to clean the body of the printer and avoid to spraying fluid near any holes on the printer.

•Use paper towel to clean the toner and brush to clean the inside of the printer.

•Always cover your printer with dust cover when you are not using it.

[Sunnypk]

Scanner Cleaning Tips



Digital scanner is a very popular input device. Its main purpose to translate images and text printed on the paper into electronic form that can be processed and stored by the computer.

•To clean the scanner first unplugs your system power from the electrical outlet.

•Always clean the glass of your scanner with any optical surface cleaning fluid.

•This process should be done after every three months if you want to save your scanner life.

[sweethuman]

Very nice. keep sharing