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Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
I recently obtained an upgraded video card (a PNY Nvidia 6800 GT) to put
into my aging P4P800SE mobo. The card is great but problem is that the card came from a computer that must have been used by a smoker. Its fan is "spreading" the smell around. Is there anything that can be done to safely wipe down the card? I was wondering about the old trick I learned as Red Cross volunteer where you put a wide plate filled an inch or so with white vinegar in a room with a moderate smoke smell and it seems to get rid of the smell. I was thinking about putting the card in a sealed container that also contains a cup half-filled with the white vinegar. Would the fumes be too corrosive though? Thanks in advance for any hints and advice! |
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Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
The vinegar fumes shouldn't harm the card. However, I don't think it will be
effective. If you can smell the smoke, that means there's soot, dirt and other crap trapped in the heat sink fins. Does your card's heat sink look like this? http://img36.exs.cx/img36/7984/pny6800gt.jpg Undo the 6 small screws around the perimeter of the heat sink cover (the thin plate with the mermaid picture). Then wipe through the heat sink and fan blades with isopropyl alcohol. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." " -" wrote in message ... I recently obtained an upgraded video card (a PNY Nvidia 6800 GT) to put into my aging P4P800SE mobo. The card is great but problem is that the card came from a computer that must have been used by a smoker. Its fan is "spreading" the smell around. Is there anything that can be done to safely wipe down the card? I was wondering about the old trick I learned as Red Cross volunteer where you put a wide plate filled an inch or so with white vinegar in a room with a moderate smoke smell and it seems to get rid of the smell. I was thinking about putting the card in a sealed container that also contains a cup half-filled with the white vinegar. Would the fumes be too corrosive though? Thanks in advance for any hints and advice! |
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Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
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I recently obtained an upgraded video card (a PNY Nvidia 6800 GT) to put into my aging P4P800SE mobo. The card is great but problem is that the card came from a computer that must have been used by a smoker. Its fan is "spreading" the smell around. Is there anything that can be done to safely wipe down the card? I was wondering about the old trick I learned as Red Cross volunteer where you put a wide plate filled an inch or so with white vinegar in a room with a moderate smoke smell and it seems to get rid of the smell. I was thinking about putting the card in a sealed container that also contains a cup half-filled with the white vinegar. Would the fumes be too corrosive though? Thanks in advance for any hints and advice! Better yet, pick up the habit, bowls of vinegar indeed. |
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Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
" -" schreef in bericht
... I recently obtained an upgraded video card (a PNY Nvidia 6800 GT) to put into my aging P4P800SE mobo. The card is great but problem is that the card came from a computer that must have been used by a smoker. Its fan is "spreading" the smell around. Is there anything that can be done to safely wipe down the card? I was wondering about the old trick I learned as Red Cross volunteer where you put a wide plate filled an inch or so with white vinegar in a room with a moderate smoke smell and it seems to get rid of the smell. I was thinking about putting the card in a sealed container that also contains a cup half-filled with the white vinegar. Would the fumes be too corrosive though? Thanks in advance for any hints and advice! No idea what they are called in English but I would use these sticks which You can use to clean Your ears, put some alcohol on them and go over all pieces You can reach, esp. the heatsink and the fan. Only use clean alcohol, i.e. not denaturated, because the latter might leave the stuff which is used for the denaturation. However, after some time the smell will get less and less. I used to have a cousin that smoked a lot and I have bought several things from him, getting this smell with them just like You, but when all "stench molecules" have been blown away by the fan, they are gone for good. Succes! Yours sincerely Rene P.S. I looked for a picture and it seems that it is called a "white menbo", You can see the picture on http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hite_menbo.jpg. |
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No idea what they are called in English but I would use these sticks which You can use to clean Your ears, Crab Sticks maybe................. |
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Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
On 2/23/2008 2:58 AM tpow brightened our day with:
No idea what they are called in English but I would use these sticks which You can use to clean Your ears, Crab Sticks maybe................. Q-tips is the genericized term (brand name becomes common name). Also referred to as cotton swabs. -- "Out here on the perimeter there are no stars" Steve --Inglo-- |
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Thanks - Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
Thanks for all the suggestions. FWIW, I took the fan cover off and then
soaked the wide tip of soft medium sized paint brush with a bit of alcohol and then used that to brush down all of heat sink fins/posts plus all of the fan and housing. I then let it dry for a while. Finally, I put it in a box with a bowl filled 1/8 full of white vinegar for about 2 hours. It seems to have helped. I think leaving the card in the box with vinegar overnight would have helped even more but I just wasn't sure if corrosion would be an issue. I will live with it for a while and redo it again for longer (in the box) if it continues to bother me. Thanks again. |
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Thanks - Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
" -" schreef in bericht
... Thanks for all the suggestions. FWIW, I took the fan cover off and then soaked the wide tip of soft medium sized paint brush with a bit of alcohol and then used that to brush down all of heat sink fins/posts plus all of the fan and housing. I then let it dry for a while. Finally, I put it in a box with a bowl filled 1/8 full of white vinegar for about 2 hours. It seems to have helped. I think leaving the card in the box with vinegar overnight would have helped even more but I just wasn't sure if corrosion would be an issue. I will live with it for a while and redo it again for longer (in the box) if it continues to bother me. I would not do that. Vinegar is not good for electronics, it is an acid and the fumes might indeed bring damage to Your card. Yours sincerely, Rene P.S. A soft brush is too soft, next time, use these cottons sticks, You can clean much more thoroughly with them. |
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Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
"tpow" schreef in bericht
... No idea what they are called in English but I would use these sticks which You can use to clean Your ears, Crab Sticks maybe................. Maybe You are referring to the Dutch verb "krabben" but Crab in English only means "krab", the animal and has nothing to do with krabben ;-). Thanks for thinking along anyway! Yours sincerely, Rene |
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Thanks - Getting Rid of Smoke Smell?
You'd have a hard time getting a q-tip between the heat sink fins in a
GF6800. You'd need either a brush or a comb. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Rene" wrote in message ... P.S. A soft brush is too soft, next time, use these cottons sticks, You can clean much more thoroughly with them. |
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