Last night there was a thread where that guy recommended to clean your pc with Compressed air. My computer badly needed to be cleaned, so I took note of the advice and then dragged my machine down to our local gas station, where it was no problem to borrow the compressed air gun. I then sprayed air into all the holes and inside the pc, my computer became really nice and clean as if it was just brand new. Now I have come home and I can not start my computer. I noticed that several wings was missing and my cooler seemed damage. Some of my components have lost their insulation. My PC got destroyed by using compressed air.
What should I do?
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I have used compressed air to clean my pc and nothing happened other than it getting clean. I think that you have to go slow and spray gentle so nothing breaks. I don’t know how to fix it though other than buying a new pc or send it in to a local pc store and see if they can locate the problem.
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I love cleaning my pc with compressed air, I also use some common sense and a tad of my brain.
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I think the problem here was the intensity of the compressed air used.
I used to clean my old pc, (a couple of years ago, a pentium 4 with 2.00 GHZ processor) with compressed air. But I used spray cans I bought in a PC store.
The equipment you used from the gas station it was just too strong.
No wonder some components got damaged. 
As Willzzon stated, your best decision is to take it to a PC store and ask for a advice on what needs to be repaired/replaced.
Cheers.
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Poor attempt to be funny.
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Go back to school.
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It’s like firing a rocket launcher to kill a fly…
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Inject stronger compressed air!
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Air pressure matters also how you blow air!!
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I use Compressed air all the time never happend to me something bad xD
But i clean my PC like a true perfectionist
I’ll take it apart completely component by component 
It’s very fun process
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That guy meant compressed air you can buy for use at home maybe ?
I use them and its going perfect
Yes it is i love it too
I so wanted this story to end with “after I had blown my PC 500 yards down the street after I tried to speed up the process after getting yelled at by a guy behind me wanting to put air in his tires I then saw my hands were dirty so I washed them with the 4000 psi pressure washer…”
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Buy a new computer!
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Dunno man. Some people don’t really have the required stat to be mages and might actually do something like this 
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Yeah but your a mechagnome 
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Are you serious? Those things at a gas station are meant for the wheels for cars and so forth. When people talk about cleaning computer with compressed air, they mean spray cans.
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Use cans of Air with a noozle designed for this purpose. Not an Air Compressor tool designed for filling car tyres.
It’s like seeing instructions “Use a damp cloth” and you throw it into the ocean and wonder why it’s no longer working.
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I don’t mean to laugh (if it even really happened) but how can you not notice the air current being strong enough to blow things to pieces There isnt really anything you can do, doubt it warranty applies if you still had it.
Time to spend some cash 
For PC cleaning you want the little cans with the thin nozzle thingy.
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