Blow That Computer!

Some time in the middle of 2008, we bought a couple of Alienware M7700 laptops, which for the most part have been very good.

However, towards June or July 0f 2009, mine started to make strange bleeping noises, and both the Caps Lock and Num Lock indicators would flash a few times – anywhere from two to six times, on average.

We couldn’t find any documentation that would tell us what this meant, although it didn’t look or sound healthy, so we contacted the company we bought the laptop from to ask them.

Weeks went by, and no response, but I thought, no problem, as the bleeping and flashing had stopped.

Until a week or two ago, that is.

Now, we live in a mountainous area of Arizona, where it’s permanently windy, with dust and other crap blowing around all the time, which means all of this stuff settles all over the house all of the time – especially as we have seven dogs as well to help spread it around.

So, we were looking around the laptop, to see what, if anything, we could find, and when we checked underneath, we noticed that all of the fans were more or less clogged up with dust bunnies.

I was all for ordering one of those micro-vacuum cleaners that are especially designed for computer keyboards, but we couldn’t find one that had good reviews, so in the end we bought Read more…

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