Clean Dust From Back of Computer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to clean dust from the back of a computer. Now if you look on the back of your computer you're going to see, at the very top of it usually, a round area and that is your power supply. There's going to be a fan right behind it and since this is constantly sucking air into the computer, you're going to see a lot of dust build up on top of the power supply. There's also several places down beneath the power supply that can build up dust. So to clean dust off of those, what you need is an air duster, just like this one and you can get this at the office stores, computer stores, you can just find this all over. Basically, you take the little straw out of the, the tape that's holding it and you just take it into the nozzle there and we're going to use this air duster and aim it into the back of our computer to blow dust out. I'm going to use my laptop here. As you can see, I have on my laptop, this little area right here, and that's actually the power supply on my laptop and it's also the use as the escape for the fan from the CPU. So dust can build up on this very easily. I will take my little air duster and I'm just going to hit it in about an angle because you want air to go in and be forced out, if you do it at an angle. So from an angle, just do real quick burst like that, when I actually blew the straw off that time. But just do real quick burst of air. You don't want to hold it down for an extended length of time because then that air will actually condense and you'll be blowing a liquid inside of there which will not be good. So just do real quick burst, just like that and if your computer is really dusty you're going to see dust flying out everywhere. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to clean dust from the back of your computer."