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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Greg Rundlett wrote: > We had a fire at the house where I work over the weekend...that's the > bad news. > > The good news is that the house didn't burn down and all the computers > seem fine (even though the vinyl blinds right above where my computers > are located are melted). There is heavy smoke damage to the entire > house, and heat at the ceiling was at least 900 degrees in some parts of > the house. > > I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with cleaning a motherboard / > PC internals after a fire. I am sure that the chemicals/acid/soot in > the smoke could cause problems over time and so the equipment should be > cleaned as thoroughly as possible. I'm running commodity desktop > systems, so it may be cheaper to just buy new ones and migrate the data > and applications. But then again, we've got at least 5 PC's to deal > with, so buying 5 new PC's, then migrating everything would be expensive > and time-consuming. This stuff may work: http://www.ecolink.com/products/prodpages/ecospray.html Sorry to hear about the fire. Hope they/you all recover. -- Linux/Open Source: Your infrastructure belongs to you, free, forever. Idealism: "Realism applied over a longer time period" http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ http://kinz.org http://www.fedoratracker.org http://www.fedorafaq.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ~ ~ ~ ~
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