![]() ![]() The 'pastry brush resuscitation trick' saves my partner's computers from the scrapheap over the years, when she was a 3-pack a day smoker. Removal of that one dustball 'fixed' the flakey RAM issue in that computer. A huge dustball in one computer sitting between the DRAM chips (hiding under an IDE disk cable) had me stumped for hours until I stripped the computer down to parts, and then the cause revealed itself. Over the years, I've had many 'flakey systems' restored to working well, by 'cleaning' the motherboard with a pastry brush (a soft brush that won't 'scrape off' components) to remove dust. Flakey RAM, (run the MEMTEST64 utility overnight to check that), or a dodgy power supply (don't know how to check that), or even a motherboard problem.
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