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When my computer died, one of the first few things that I thought of was my motherboard being fried. It just wouldn’t turn on anymore suddenly. Then of course, I consulted some people, like my boss who sidelines as a computer consultant and technician and my friend Yu. I can’t remember who suggested it that my video card might have gone bad.

I do remember chatting with my boss though and he told me to try taking out the video card and see if it’s dirty or dusty and try cleaning it a little to see if it will change anything.

I took out my video card and I tried making the fan spin. It wasn’t spinning at all. So my boss told me to unscrew the fan and see if I could clean it out.

Is it still recognizable? I don’t know what you call that one, that thingie that reminds me of cities with high rise towers, that thing that functions as a heatsink maybe. Well… it was caked with dust. Literally caked. I had to poke the dust to remove it. Simple brushing wasn’t working. And the fan? Oh… a lot of work had to be done to the fan as well. I won’t even go into details.

Is there like a proper way of taking care of video cards? I know I’m not the best computer-literate person but if I did know how to take care of things, I might try to keep it in mind and prevent something like this from happening again. How do I avoid this from repeating anyway?

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