Client handed me a pile of dusty towers from their storage closet, three had dead PSUs full of wasp nests

I was out at this small dental office in Bakersfield last month, they said their old computers wouldn't power on. So I pull the side panel off one and there's a dried up wasp nest packed into the power supply fan area. Two more had the same thing, all sitting in a storage closet for like 4 years with the door cracked open. The smell was awful, like old wood and glue. I told the receptionist they need to seal that closet up or store their backups somewhere else. Has anyone else run into bugs in dusty old office machines?

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wesley8731d ago

Had a similar thing with ants in an old desktop once, they got into the power supply too.

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nora_barnes1d agoTop Commenter

Five hundred ants minimum in my old PC case. Used to think electronics were too hot for bugs, not anymore. @wesley873 I pulled the power supply and found a whole colony nesting in the fan housing. Fried the unit when I tried to clean it with compressed air.