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HELP !!!! CPU / motherboard shortage
Hi guys, I need some proffessional's help!
You know this blue grease that is used to transfet heat from the CPU to the fan? Well, I have accidentally spilled some of it INSIDE THE CPU'S SOCKET!! and few other places in the motherboard. I haven't succeed to clean it all up, s I just replugged everything and powered on the computer. It worked for a while, but after few hours the computer didn't work anymore. I mean, I can power it on, but it won't do anything accept rotating the fans. What can I do?? Can I clean the grease to make it work? BTW: It's a P4 socket 775, the motherboard is ASUS P5S800VM. Thanks! |
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HELP !!!! CPU / motherboard shortage
Depends how much money ya got? cause if its in the zif, apart from dipping
it in a solvent (i'm not sure what would be safe nowadays), you need to chalk it up. I can't see the board, so I may be exaggerating, but from what you typed I get the feeling its a lost cause. If its in the socket then its all aver the pins and that's just a flippin mess. sorry MO. wrote in message oups.com... Hi guys, I need some proffessional's help! You know this blue grease that is used to transfet heat from the CPU to the fan? Well, I have accidentally spilled some of it INSIDE THE CPU'S SOCKET!! and few other places in the motherboard. I haven't succeed to clean it all up, s I just replugged everything and powered on the computer. It worked for a while, but after few hours the computer didn't work anymore. I mean, I can power it on, but it won't do anything accept rotating the fans. What can I do?? Can I clean the grease to make it work? BTW: It's a P4 socket 775, the motherboard is ASUS P5S800VM. Thanks! |
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HELP !!!! CPU / motherboard shortage
One time, I actually washed a floppy disk in warm soapy water. Girl had spilled coke on it, and she had a semester project she just could not lose. No way would a drive read it, so I cut the disk out of the plastic carrier, and washed it in the sink with hand soap, and rinsed it well several times, and then put it in another carrier that I had carefully cut open. Worked fine. You could try pulling the board and putting it in a tub of warm soapy water, and then rinsing the dickens out of it. Let it dry 24 hours. Maybe even use a hair dryer on it. johns |
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HELP !!!! CPU / motherboard shortage
"johns" wrote...
One time, I actually washed a floppy disk in warm soapy water. Girl had spilled coke on it, and she had a semester project she just could not lose. No way would a drive read it, so I cut the disk out of the plastic carrier, and washed it in the sink with hand soap, and rinsed it well several times, and then put it in another carrier that I had carefully cut open. Worked fine. You could try pulling the board and putting it in a tub of warm soapy water, and then rinsing the dickens out of it. Let it dry 24 hours. Maybe even use a hair dryer on it. The Navy uses an analogous system to recover avionics that are inundated with salt water, though I don't know the specific procedures/protocols.. First, douse/dunk them in fresh water; then put them in a low-temp oven to dry. For the grease, it may be necessary to use a soap/detergent at least on the contaminated areas If you can get all the visible residue out, fresh water rinse followed by a distilled water rinse may get out all the soap. Then dry thoroughly. |
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HELP !!!! CPU / motherboard shortage
"Matt" wrote in message ... wrote: Hi guys, I need some proffessional's help! You know this blue grease that is used to transfet heat from the CPU to the fan? Well, I have accidentally spilled some of it INSIDE THE CPU'S SOCKET!! and few other places in the motherboard. Maybe some kind of aerosol solvent such as carburetor cleaner. I have no idea what nasty things carb cleaner might do to a circuit board, but you could try various solvents on any broken or obsolete boards you might have lying around. O'course you want something that dissolves the grease but not any of the board's components. First find something that dissolves the grease. Think hydrocarbons. It has to be able to break down grease without leaving a conductive residue. An ideal substance would be TCE or one of it's less toxic brothers. Any electronics degreaser you buy (they do sell these things) will be something from that very toxic family of chemicals. Tri-chloro-ethylene or Di-chloro-fluoro-ethane. Not sure about the spellings. Gasoline and Naptha are also hydrocarbons. Dry cleaners use some sort of de-greasing hydrocarbon but I'm not sure what it's called. I like the carb cleaner idea. That stuff is mostly Xylene, right? Whatever you use it'll have lots of warning labels on it! The bonus of carb cleaner would be that little plastic straw it shoots out of. And the beautiful smell. That stuff has a beautiful smell. The trick is not to dissolve the board! Sounds tricky. Let us know how it works out! ~e. |
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HELP !!!! CPU / motherboard shortage
"visions of effty" wrote...
Think hydrocarbons. I like the carb cleaner idea. That stuff is mostly Xylene, right? Whatever you use it'll have lots of warning labels on it! The bonus of carb cleaner would be that little plastic straw it shoots out of. And the beautiful smell. That stuff has a beautiful smell. If you go this route, use brake cleaner instead of carb cleaner. Brake cleaner is not chlorinated, and will not attack some plastics/rubber as the carb cleaner will. My outboard motor tech told me to use the brake cleaner on my Honda carb... |
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