Why It's Not a Good Idea to Clean the Computer With Vacuum Cleaner
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- See why it is not a good idea to use a vacuum cleaner to clean your dusty computer.
Vacuum cleaner can quickly build up static electricity, and when you put the vacuum head near the electronic component the build up of electricity can just fry small components on the motherboard.
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I usually use a can of compressed air with the PC standing on its side & then use a slightly damp cloth to collect the dust from the bottom of the case. I have also used a vacuum but used a cardboard tube as the nozzle - thinking that the static would be less than with a metal or plastic tube.
I have a mini vacuum coming from amazon in a couple hours, if i keep it plugged in and i use a grounding bracelet on tile will I be okay? I really do not want to take my pc apart
I worried about this once. I bought an anti-static wrist strap and clip it to the water pipe nearby (basement workshop). Never had a problem vacuuming any computer component. I've vacuumed off heatsink fans that had more cat hair than a cat.
So have I, with no problems. I've vacuumed T.V.s, Radios, all sorts of devices, and never had a problem. I've always thought the compressed air companies had to sell us the idea - not to use vacuum - just so they can sell canned compressed air... After all, what's the diff between "Blowing," and "Sucking" air??? Logically, It's pretty commutative. However, I would - out of caution - use a wrist strap....
@@newinformation1942 , As far as I understand it's not so much the movement of air (tough some claim that the friction of dust in the air itself can create static charge), but it's the vacuum motor and the high speed of the air pumped in tight spaces with dust and plastics nearby.
This was compressed air (if compressed in advance!) doesn't have.
But making your vacuum static-charge free seems trivial to me too.
And I wonder why not all vacuums have it integrated and connected to the ground in your wall socket (at least the models with cable that is)
Yep...anti-static wrist strap with 3 prong plug in ground is what i use. An anti-static vacuum can run upwards of $300.00. My machine shop grade wrist strap was ~$30.00
For 6 fricking years i clean my pc using a vacuum but nothing happens....
well thats nice and all dude. but on the 10th year some thing might.
@@alexoelkers2292 After 10 years you don't call it a PC anymore. Just a pile of crap :)
@@paawian haha factsss
I just did it for the first time and now textures take forever to load and loading times in general are long with a bunch of hitched that I never had before hand. I run a 2070s with a 3700x 16gb 3200mhz ram
10 years now still, the pc got in the trash for good ya'll. Cpu overheat like hell ,change the thermal paste for 4 times while quarantining last year. Got a sff now, and lesson learnt.
I dont understand people who blow air, blowing air is the worst thing you can do to your hardware because the dust is going to build up in holes and edges and it would short-circuit the electronics.
If youre afraid of the static electricity that much then ground up your pc case and use an anti static armband or if you dont have one then hold a metal or do it barefoot, been vacuuming computers for over 15 years, ive never seen or heard someone who damaged their hardware because of vacuum cleaning.
H4lf Lif3 This !
Since 2001, I"ve always used vacuum cleaner in a combination of a small, clean pencil brush. Nothing happened what so ever.
I"m doing it it to my Asus laptop at every 3 months. Runs like a charm. And no, it's impossible to vacuum electronic parts out of your motherboard. Only if you hit it and punching to do so.
I never understood this annoying practice of blowing air. Such a hazardous action for your nose, tracheea, lungs and to small spaces on motherboards and electronics.
*Blow* the air, do not vacuum. The static builds on the nozzle as all the dust and particulates rush into the vacuum.
HOW could static electricity build up?
Guys there's a reason computer stores sell compressed air and not vacuum cleaners. Don't listen to all of the anecdotal evidence given by youtube commenters here. Every time you vacuum your PC you're relying on RNG not to break it. The parts inside are VERY easily damaged by a static shock and vacuum cleaners DO produce a lot of static charge. Do a google search and you'll find people who have broken their PC's this way as well as all of the *professional PC related organisations* who warn against doing it.
-Don't listen to all of the anecdotal evidence
--Do a google search and you'll find people who
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How can it make electricity run trough my PC if the vacuum head is plastic? And why is sucking different from blowing?
Thanks for the tip but i think i'll stick with the vacuum cleaner
Sarthak Grover 🤣🤣
No
How's your pc going
@@renarsozolins7274 pretty good
@@vigilante_stark Still going?
eh, you're about half right. it's very rare for ESD to damage components, let alone for a vacuum cleaner to actually discharge on traces. you have a higher chance of it discharging on screws, the case, heatsinks, etc. Even if it hits a trace, it's still not likely to damage anything
Hey was planning to use my mini vaccum cleaner powered by USB for consoles. That's safe right for vents and ports?
@@naveenkosgi5640 yeah you should be safe :)
Where is the static generated from off the vaccum
where can i get that blower
1:08 link
Hi, please help me ... what if I have already vacuumed my laptop with a vacuum cleaner ?
I had no idea vaccuming laptop is a no-no, I thought I could remove the internal dust so I tried it. Within about a day I started having various problems when I was using my laptop ... at first my screen would behave strangely like sudden quick flashes of distortion, flashes of black screen .. and then subsequently when I wanted to switch on it would
suddenly completely off by itself after a couple of seconds of me pressing on button.
Now I suspect these problems maybe due to my act of vacuuming the vents (I did it repeatedly for a few minutes as I wanted to suck up all the internal dust) ...
Now how do I remove the static buildup and return the internal parts to the way it was ?
well you can't "remove any static buildup", if damage was done then the damage is done.
hmm interesting i always used vacuum to clean my pc ...
me too, for the last 6 years on my laptop and 9 years on desktop, used 3 different vacuums. these guys are stupid.
marble89 I know they are stupid
marble89 i killed my pc using a vacuum cleaner
sure u do. How else you gonna clean up pc? But doing so you most likely do micro damage, which is not visible by naked eye. For end user its not so big losses though, may be memory will fail, or video card, once in 20 cleanups, so its acceptable to clean up, if you can afford a new module once in a while
I've used a vacuum cleaner to clean my PC for 2 years now. No issues.
can i use vacuum cleaner to clean headset
If you're going to make a claim in the title, the video had better be evidence of that claim
And now the dust is everywhere else, and partly back on your computer. :(
Just sit on the shop vac and put one hand on the case...
What about a handheld wireless vacuum?
A vaccum is a vaccum
imagine all that dust going out in your room.
would it be safe if I blew air with a can and use a vacuum like a foot or so away to suck up some of the dust? or is that still bad?
yeah that would probably be OK. But I still wouldn't risk it as its hard to tell exactly how far out the static electricity will extend from the plastic attachment on the vacuum.
That's what i always do. So the dust you just blew away won't go back to the pc. Sometimes i use brush then vacuum to catch the dust 😉
Good luck then in removing dust particles that are trapped inside those open sockets
Just cleaned my PC with a vacuum. When I was done I turned it on and it's stuck on the Motherboard splash screen. keyboard and mouse are lit up but nothing happens when I press the keys to enter bios or setup menus. After restarting it a few times I figured out if I spam the F12 key while its starting I can enter the Bios set up screen but keyboard only seems to work for 1 second, then no response to key presses. I think I fried my PC :(
It was 3 years old so............... Time for a new PC $$$$$$$ Vacuum is RISKY
Loser lol not really tbh
So anyone who says theirs never broke is an upstanding truth-teller, but anyone who says otherwise is lying for the sake of a conspiracy to... disparage vacuum cleaners?
Jesus Christ, the stupidity of people in this video's comment section. Just astounding.
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@@neongamer721 well I'm crossing my fingers that karma and stupidity will catch up to you eventually. Yes, you have a good chance of being able to vacuum your electronics with out destroying them... does that mean its worth the risk.
God people are stupid. Just because it hasn't happened to you yet it doesn't mean it's risk free. It's like saying that you have been driving cars for years and have never been in an accident and therefore all people claiming to have been in accidents are lying.
I think vacuum cleaner killed my ram and gpu because after i stopped cleaning first gpu was damaged and then ram
Air itself doesn't create static electricity. Basic physics... Although, it is a very bad electrical conductor. The only one that can create an electri arc is you... But not the air...
Air itself doesn't create static electricity.
But fast moving air against the same spot on a piece of plastic is a whole different story.
@@VlasimoEstacimo if it doesn't touch, static damage cannot happen. it could damage the components in other ways, but that's the risk with all cleaning methods. you have to be careful, but there is complete misinformation spreading around that vaccuums are dangerous for cleaning modern pcs, while compressed air is "better".... this is just not the case compared
goddamnit now i gotta spend the next hour researching static electricity to know who's telling the truth
@@T61APL89 fr lol
I don't vacuum ever again, any electronics, it's all blown away with compress dry air, outside so I dont have to worry about the mess.
I have killed my 1st built pc by vacumming it. Sot it does create static, and keeping it plugged in while you vacuum may or may not help.
What if I vacuum clean my vacuum cleaner😏, what happens?
You will create a time paradox
It's not a good idea overall to have a PC as dirty as the PC in this example..
the fucc. i use a handheld mini vacuum lol not a fullsize
Reminds me when I told my friend explicitly to never to do that. But he defied my advice and did it anyway. "Why is my computer crashing after I cleaned it?" "Did you use the vacuum cleaner? Even after I told you not to do it. Several times." "Yes". "Ok. This is the future you chose... "
im always use vacuum cleaner to suck all the dust out with NO problem...
i am sorry but i dont want dust every where i want it cleaned not in air i breath
anikanbounty97 lol
you’re supposed to move it to a place other than where you’re using the pc ;-;
thats fine... destroy your pc with a vacuum then....
bruh u can do it outaide
@@alexoelkers2292 Then get ready to go to a hospital after breathing in fine dust
my desktop never been clean at least 6 weeks
there lot of dust
Motherboard did not get really dusty when everything else was very dusty
what language is he speaking?
English
Just use the metal pole of your vacuum to clean your pc
Vacooooom cleaner 😂
You just say its not a good idea but dont said why its not a good idea. I dont understand why its ok to blow the air but cant vacuum it. In both cases its just moving the air, its just a vetor question
I vacuumed my computer's fans today and it's working exactly the same.
It won't happen after the first try it'll take repeated attempts to do
Do not use a vacuum, you will kill mobo😤😭
I NEED HELP! So I was playing a video game and I had the sudden urge to clean my computer so I wanted to ask my dad if there were any “air cans” in my house and he said no so I thought it would be good to use a vacuum cleaner and so my computer was ON and I started to clean around the fans and the storage and when I went to get the dust by the fan by the CPU I pushed the stick into the fan ( not hard ) just to make the. Fan stop and so the fan stopped and I got the dust from behind the fan and then out the blue my computer turns off . And I tried to plug it in and retry everything. I’m really scared and I want to have my computer back... does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? Sorry I really don’t know how to clean a computer. :(
Shouldn't of left it on bud
You stoped the fan... Can break an entire system
Nobody sane would put something in a fan while its on
@@dassden9012 well clearly its a kid
@@teenwizarth9863 well the entire system isn't going to break just because he stopped the fan, the worst that would happen is the pc would start to over heat and it would throttle down to protect itself. Chances are he either damaged a component due to static electricity on the head of vacuum attachment or he simply unplugged something.
Lots of comments in here by well-meaning people who don't really know the risks. Please do a google search on "computer vacuum static" and read articles from reputable PC sources. Just grounding yourself or your computer will not help! The static builds at the entrance of the vacuum attachment, and if it's made of plastic it won't be able to discharge except by damaging components.
So... I'm wondering if you could use a METAL vacuum attachment that you hold in your hand, and make sure that you're grounded both to the PC's case and to an external ground. Seems like that would be the safest way to do it, unless you want to spend $200+ on an ESD-safe vacuum cleaner. You could probably just buy a metal tube from Lowes that fits your vacuum, and press the end of the tube together to form a narrow opening that would work for your attachment. Only a few dollars. Comments?
just touch your plastic vacuum cleaner on something metal before using... job done. exactly the same way you avoid static damage while building your PC
@@TheFlameImperishable that's not how it works. Ever take a pvc pipe and rub a cloth up and down on it to shock someone? There's your vacuum hose.
Stay with vacuum this man is very wrong
No he is not , vacuum can dmg micro pc components which u cannot see plus if u track ur PC performance it will go down gradually
Wait why is it good to clean ur pc?
So it runs faster? Or just to make it look like new
not cleaning it can cause it to over heat by trapping dust and shit into the fans
Bruh imagine this kid got a car.
Why is it good to check the dip stick and refill the engine oil?
To make the car faster? Or to make it look new?
@@blmao5150 😂😂😂
vacuuming is fine. as long as you keep the power supply plugged into the wall, via the "power cable" then the ENTIRE system is grounded therefore, STATIC DOES NOTHING.
Holy, Stop unplugging your computer, you're going to break it by walking on carpet and causing static.
@shekel bergenstein Then there is a bigger chance to damage the components
Acim 009 its meant to be a joke
Shitty Wok canneh tekkeh ordah pleeez -_-
I have done it a lot of times before and nothing happend. However since yesterdays cleaning, my laptop slowed down rapidly. I bought a cooling paste today I hope it's just cpu overheating. I am never going to do that again. I planned to refurbish the laptop and leave it for my parents to use it. If the cleaning paste won't work I am gonna buy a new cooling system and install it. If it's not going to work even after that the cpu is too old then. Because the electricity would kill it probably and not damage it.
How is your laptop now? Did it ho back to normal? Or still slow?
Huh...Just found out u are not supposed to vacuum...Been vacuuming my PC for 6 years ops LOL. -coughs in shame-
Probably will continue to do so. The chances of damage feel so negligibly small. If it does break, even better...LOL
ZDY how do vacuum it? I just wanna know so I don’t do anything stupid
@@dunchmo5619 like I said, You're not supposed to vacuum it at all.
Oh I get it now how silly of me !Pushing compressed air doesn't create static electricity - only pulling air with a vacuum does ! I should have known that particles only produce a charge if they're rubbed in a certain direction !My two cents are blowing compressed air can a) potentially introduce water particles into sensitive areas of the pc b) cause dust etc to jam in areas it shouldn't - fan bearings / heat sinks etc
c) compressed air won't budge all the grime - a mini brush will get into crevices and dislodge 99% of the gunkUse a mini vaccum kit - not what this guy is using. But be careful - using a vacuum to clean a pc for more tha 90 secs will increase your risk of lightning strike !LMFAO !
It's not the direction, it's the force. Compressed air pushes the particles with less force in a smaller area, creating less static. Vacuums are powerful by comparison.
Jesus Christ dude... With compressed air, the particles are traveling in a wide dispersal with out any object for the static electricity to continuously build on. With a vacuum, particles of dirt are continuously rubbing against each other as the enter the vacuum head and static electricity starts to build up on the plastic head attachment of the vacuum.
What "water particles" are you worried about? You do know that compressed air uses... Co2, not water right?
It is safe to vaccuum the fans