Cleaning computers after fire
Dan Jenkins
dan at rastech.com
Mon Dec 20 17:17:01 EST 2004
Jared Watkins wrote:
> L.B. MCCULLEY wrote:
>
>> I would second Jared's suggestion that you view the equipment exposed
>> to unknown hazards during the fire and firefighting as being on
>> borrowed time.
I concur. In addition to the concerns others have brought up regarding
cleaning components, replacing power supplies, etc., I would point out
that hard drives often have a small micropore filter on them. If it gets
clogged, the hard drives fail sooner. You may be able to clean gross
contamination off the filter, but that may not be enough to provide
adequate air flow. I have found a few drives have the filter (if one is
present) in odd locations, such as under the circuit board.
I would definitely get your data archived off ASAP. I would not trust
using the computers unattended. Thoroughly cleaned, the systems may well
run for awhile, but I would not feel comfortable relying on them myself.
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Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)
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