motherboard very sensitive??

Hi japboy, I ‘m sorry to know that your sister’s computer couldn’t function anymore without any reason. The technician told you that the motherboard inside the cpu was broken. Yeah, I have heard that using vacuum cleaner to clean the inner part of the cpu would damage the motherboard of it for the motherboard is quite fragile. Anyway I haven’t used vacuum cleaner to suck the dust from the inner part of the cpu except the outer part of it. Few months back my desktop couldn’t work anymore and I had to send it to get repaired. The technician of the computer shop told me that it was most probably damaged by lighting stroke. That was the second time my computer motherboard was damaged in this way. The technician advised me to disconnect the telephone line away from the modem or router for the safety of the motherboard during rainy days. Happy posting and have a nice day.

If you are not familiar with the internal workings of your computer then it's very dangerous to open up the pc and vacuum all the dust out. I don't know if you've heard this already but there's something called ESD (Electro Static Discharge). This is very damaging to the internal components particularly the processor or cpu. If you used a vacuum cleaner then chances are that damage was caused as a result of ESD. If you are going to remove the dust from inside your pc then it's best to just use a can of compressed air, this is what I use. As someone else has mentioned, there are vaccum cleaners that are especially made for computers and they don't cause ESD. It sounds like you found out the hard way! Good luck. Andrew

Never, ever, ever bring any electric equipment inside your PC unless it is specifically designed for that purpose. All it takes it one bit of static electricity to permanently fry your motherboard. That's not even going into the more obvious physical damage that can be done by a household vacuum cleaner.

It is not the problem of the motherboard.You said the red light is not flashing.It the problem of the hard disk.I think the cable of the hard disk is loose or not connected properly.If think while doing cleaning the hard disk cable must have become loose.A vaccum cleaner doesn't damage the motherboard.

As the components in the motherboard are connected with one another through a minute printed circuits, they may get broken even if we apply slightly large force with our fingers. While cleaning with vacuum cleaner or with soft cloth, there are lot of chances for the circuit connections to get damaged. Not only the mother board, most of the electronic components with PCB are likely to get damaged.Care must be taken while handling these components.

There is something wrong, I mean to say If you are using vaccume cleaner to clean it wont affect your motehrboard but it just suck all the dust on the motherboard. I think by mistaken someone has broken it. Now you should use blower on motherboard which is my own experience. it will help to clean.