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One Reason Why My Laptop Has Been Rubbish… Dust

Yes, after some terminal-ish spluttering this morning before a cloud of dust turned me into Wile. E. Coyote, I had to strip down the Compaq laptop (again) to find out what’s gone wrong with it. While I’m sure this isn’t the only cause of the recent crashes and blue screens (and of course Ubuntu is Rock Solid, it’s only the dual-boot to XP that goes wah-wah), this has certainly not been helping. Dust. Lots of dust. So much dust that grey patch above the orange radiator is actually a block of dust and rubbish about an inch long and a