Why is computer maintenance and computer cleaning necessary? This is a question many people ask when spending a large amount on their computer maintenance work?
Are you wondering why you should maintain and how to maintain? And how long is reasonable? All will be answered here!
1. What are the reasons that you need to maintain your computer periodically?
- After a long time of using the computer, due to environmental factors, weather, dust, and dust clinging to computer parts such as fan, main board, keyboard, etc. It causes loss of aesthetics as well as has many effects harmful action to components..
- When dust adheres to components plus Vietnam’s hot and humid weather, it causes short-circuits and fires, leading to component failure.
- The contacts between the parts are not good, flicker causing errors for Ram, chip, USB ports …
In cases of too much dust, the machine cannot dissipate heat or the fan cannot rotate, leading to overheating. cause sudden shutdown, fire equipment. - Small pieces of paper, staples, or anything that can fall into the computer, if not checked and cleaned in time, can also have serious consequences for your computer.
- Thermal glue, an integral part of every computer over time can dry out, if not replaced in time can lead to the death of the chipset.
- Therefore, regular and proper computer maintenance will save money if you have to repair your computer later!
2. Signs that it’s time for computer maintenance.
- The cooling fan does not rotate, which can be detected by the naked eye or by touching the laptop.
- The computer has just turned on for 5-10 minutes and automatically restarts, the temperature in the box is abnormally hot.
- Laptop is hot when in use.
- External device ports, USB are short when receiving or not.
- With mouse, keyboard, not responsive or stuck
- The computer is infected with a virus.
3. How often should a computer be maintained?
This question is also asked by many customers and we would like to answer as follows:
- Maintenance and cleaning time of laptops as well as desktops is different.
- Depends mainly on the purpose of use, the customer’s usage environment, In places with high humidity and dust such as road houses, construction sites, production workshops … average usage time About 2 months, we should carry out cleaning and maintenance of the whole machine.
- In low-altitude places, the environment is less dusty, it can take 4 months to conduct cleaning.
- With laptops, the cleaning can be divided as follows, from 2 months or more can clean fans, ventilation slots …
- From 6 months, it is necessary to replace the thermal paste, because the manufacturer’s glue is usually from 6 months to 1 year.