I killed my Dell Latitude 7440 with canned air.

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  1. speedy1979

    speedy1979

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    I decided to clean my Dell Latitude 7440 by using canned air to clean out the fan and heatsink. I And now it will not even post. So i'm off to buy another motherboard on ebay.
     
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    Did you replace the motherboard? you probably just knocked of a connector somewhere. Canned air would not "kill your motherboard"...check out everything first.
     
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    Yeah I've already replaced the motherboard. The motherboard was definitely dead. Even the led error codes weren't showing up.
     
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    WOW...must have been right on the edge anyways.
     
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