Dirty PCs

This is so much more common than anyone in IT ever wants to admit. When a user brings you a device saying it is messed up or you get old equipment and you're cleaning it up before taking it back to a new user. You bust out the cleaners and get to work. Sometimes you wish you had busted out a hazmat suit after what you see. 

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Track Ball Issue

Working for a mobile company a woman comes in with a Blackberry 8330 (I think that was the model...) She says the track ball is broken. So, take it out back, do remove the ball, and there is something some yucky debris under the ball.

After removing the detritus with tweezers, give it a spray, the ball went back in and everything worked great. When she comes in to pick up the phone I tell her something was under the ball.

A light clicked in her head.

Oh. Last night I threw up on my phone.

- User evanthesquirrel on Reddit

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3avy66/track_ball_issue/

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Avoid making this same mistake.

Source: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/keyboards_are_disgusting.png

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Everything on this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers/.

The dreaded nasty keyboard.

This is what happens when a smoker smokes around a pc. I have seen it be particularly bad when the pc was in a small, enclosed room. The tar, and gunk that comes off the cigarette, cigar, or what not that does not get into your lungs gets into the insides of your pc.

I could take him.

They wondered why it crapped out on them.

Warning: The pics above are some of the less disgusting ones you can find.

Feel free to surf the web for more.  You will be amazed what horrors can be found inside a computer case or even in a mouse or keyboard.