Removing odors from a PC?
Okay, this is a bit different. I let my wife take one of our home PC's to school where she teaches middle school aged students because the school provided PC's are slow junk. So this year, she has been using one of my custom builds with an AMD X3-720 and Win 7. However, because of the odors of her students, e.g. smoke on clothes, pet odors, perspiration, ripe tennis shoes and all sorts of noxious scents, she has used a potpourri pot to mask the stench and had it sitting beside the PC all year. Now this PC has absorbed the potpourri scents she used to where when you turn it on, the fans belch out a floral pipe tobacco (best descriptor) smell which appears to never dissipate. I tried soaking a cloth in Febreze and laying it inside the PC case in the hope it would help. Now the PC stinks of potpourri AND Febreze. There is no fabric/filter inside the PC, just the usual metal and plastic parts; the case is steel. Any ideas on how to clear the stink from this PC? I am about ready to try the car wash or purging by fire!
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http://www.amazon.com/MOSO-MB2578-Moso-200g-Natural/dp/B004BOHV7Q/
and if you really want duct tape a thin lining of carbon filter behind your exhaust fans (be careful to monitor your temps).
Yeah...now your pc smells like nothing!
I really think that would help. You just have to be careful about the obvious things:
- Don't let the bag rest against your motherboard or on top of a wire that may cause a loose connection
- If you do put some sort of filter on the back of your exhaust fans, keep an eye on your temps to make sure they don't skyrocket
Here is a guide to rig up your own fan carbon filter:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=209154
EDIT: Should've read more than the first few comments seems you've got it pretty much worked out.