@@SISSYPUSS Always good in Taiwan. I've done a few CPU sockets before as well. I have one with broken pins so I am gonna have a guy solder a new socket on. Wish me luck!
E-waste is a huge issue, look at where the oceanic garbage patches are at. Old PC's can be used for a variety of things, such as DVRs, FTP servers, Firewalls.. just use your imagination.
I was cleaning off a XEON on a AsRock Extreme 3 X79 motherboard, to change out the cpu. I was using a new absorbant/re-usable kitchen towel, made of compressed fibers, often used for cleaning dishes with soapy water. The towels come in a stack at the store and are about 1 square foot each in dimension. I was using one as a rag to wipe away the thick thermal paste and had it in my one hand as I took the CPU carefully out of the socket. Then I made the mistake of getting that fibrous rag close to the socket and about 1 square inch of it touched the pins...which all seemed to grab hold of those fibers. I could not pull it away without bending those pins. I really thought that I had totally trashed that motherboard. Before making the situation worse, I tried a different approach. I got out a BIC lighter and carefully burned away the fibers clinging to the pins, slowly taking the towel off. It worked like a charm. Just had to be careful not to let the flame linger. I would burn...stop...burn...stop...always being sure not to heat the pins excessively. I used compressed air to blow away the fiber residue. Voila.
I did the same a year ago - except i pulled the microfibre towel and bent about 15 pins upright, felt like screaming and crying ! But 3 hours later all straightened (ish) and it booted up, lesson learned….
Damn Doin this with a stiff paint brush really did work I was having problems with getting memory to work in triple channel on my p6t that I purchased recently Now it runs absolutely fine Got meself a xeon x5660 upto 4.2ghz ez pz
TYC is some of the most underrated tech content on YT. This video in particular was pretty great. Keep up the great work! Also, if you ever find what would be a reasonable alternative to that Australian-specific multipurpose spray, please let us know. I'd be interested in buying some but the closest thing I could find here in the States would be I guess WD40, but that's not quite the same.
Hey Tech Yes City! I've seen all your videos. Each one of them is amazing in their own way, I love the Tech-Yes-Loving in this one, You're an inspiration and I love you man.
On 10 June Hardware Unboxed had a good review on mid-range motherboards. The ASrock Z490 Phantom Gaming 4 was a complete failure. Thank you for another great video on older boards.
I want to start a petition to rename this Chanel tech yes savior! Because this guy some how always manages to bring old pc parts most people would throw away back to life!!! It's crazy!!!
My first comment on any of your videos. Anyway, Just want to say that this method works and I've learned it from you. I am infact typing on this system with a motherboard newly socket cleaned. It was a gigabyte z97x-ud5h motherboard that I bought recently as part of a faulty system. The system would boot with only 1 ram on DIMM 1 but after doing a tech yes loving treatment. It had 2 ram slots working but no dual channels. but the second slot was also very picky as it will only run 2 single rank DIMMs. Use the "thicker" american multi-purpose substance and a good paint brush i had. carefully stroked the pins and tested my DIMM. All 3 pairs of gskil and mushkin DIMMs that won't even work on any 2 slots together now work on all 4 slots. this gigabyte board was problematic as it was throwing all sorts of post codes and looping. once it finds a DIMM it doesn't like, I had to restore the main bios from the backup to just make it work (with only 1 DIMM on the primary slot). I am Long time follower of your channel on atleast one of my subs. Anyway, i've been doing some buying and selling during this "period". I haven't done this since pre-college some 20 years ago. Anyway, your channel is sort of what I used to enjoy back in the day ( the "parts hunt") . I thoroughly enjoyed you going to different countries for the parts hunt because I used to do that when I go to japan, taiwan, singapore. Anyway, I hit the subscribe button today because of a particular point you made. The parts-performance community doesn't have the fan boy zealots. I notice people who I recently sold systems to understand the "value" of the components. No "team green","team red", "team blue" just price-peformance. In fact this is how i discovered x58 platform which is thru your channel. I hated it when it came out because it was overpriced but I've leared to love it now. I discovered the value of x79 3 years ago and loved what it had to offer and I began watching youtube channels about it since then and bumped into tech yes city. Thanks again Mate!
Gotta love those Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p’s 😀. Still have my SFF in the attic. Back then I didn’t have a gaming pc or much money, so I got an old office pc from work. I upgraded the i5-2400S to a i7-2600 (non-K), changed the 2x2GB 1333MHz Elpida RAM to 2x4GB 1600MHz Kingston Value RAM and added in a Asus GTX1050ti since it did not have a graphics card, sorry gravis card 🤪 and ... gaming time on a budget 😜 Ps. Even got the 24” TN monitor it came with and the original Lenovo keyboard and mouse. The mouse wasn’t that good and I changed that for I believe a cheaper one from Razer but the usb keyboard was actually really nice for gaming 😉 Love the work and effort you put into your video’s Brian... mr. Tech Yes man 🤣
wait are you stalking me? i literally did a tech yes loving last night and for some reason my multi threaded performance tanked to now lower percentiles in benchmarks instead of on par or little ahead. Well i used crv electronics cleaner (almost like brake cleaner) on everything and thought maybe left some residue and on top of that had some thermal paste "maybe" get in there because applied too much... i tried dripping rubbing alcohol into the pins and blasting air so anything runs out the bottom. but i really want to be able to clean the pins and almost used a qtip but the hair were getting caught didnt want to catch a pin and bend straight up. low and behold you post this video today. thank you and i hope you get a chance to read this
0:02 TaiSol now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. They were the cooling fans to get back in the AMD Socket A days - high quality quiet long-lasting ball bearing fans.
I took your advise and got an old HP Z600 workstation. I love the Xeon E5620. I got a heck of a deal on a graphics card. I am trying to use only used parts for my system. So far, it is working great. Thanks for the inspiration.
Tech yes city, i have to say one honest thing . You& people like you are saviour/saviours of humanity, mother earth, future , broken parts ...etc .. because your acts help a lot to get many electronics refurbished, reused,recycled . Its good to save some from going to e-waste . For the past 2-3 years , i have been following your channel . I have to say something, you actually look like a Catholic priest. Like some saintly figure.(many ways you help others, so its graceful) . May God bless you.. expecting a reply Bryan.. 💚
Awesome video! I will try this, if a motherboard is faulty. Usually I‘m not buying faulty parts, because I had an Asus Board, which burned after turning it on lol.
The only part of the pins in a LGA socket that need cleaning (or benefit from cleaning) are the very tips, the tiny domes that actually contact the lands on the CPU. I drag a few strips of fairly heavy, alcohol wetted printer paper across them (a few with a 90° point to get into the corners), I reckon the paper is just abrasive enough to clean/polish the gold plating. This is after making sure there are no obvious contaminants such as fibres that might interfere mechanically.
A small tip when trying to straighten the CPU socket pins would be not to use a cocktail stick, because small splinters of wood can break off and get stuck in there (ask me how I know...). A good alternative is to use a very small cable tie; since they're plastic they won't fragment, and they also have a little bit of 'give' to them compared to the wood, so they can be a little more gentle.
For people that can't buy his multi purpose spray, look for Contact cleaners, they will do the same job, as the most important part is that they contain solvents which clean the PCB and evaporate quickly. Look for Heptane, or Hexane in the contents. Isopropyl alcohol works as well but it can be harmful to plastic parts.
Awesome tip! Got an X58 motherboard right now, that has problems recognizing GPUs like half of the time... Maybe that'll do the trick Let the TechYesLovin' begin
Got an Asus P6T used but it was poorly taken care of. Only one dimm slot worked. Took WD40, a rag, a data vac, a tooth brush to scrape the dimm slots and rubbing alcohol. Managed to get one more dimm slot working. But the mobo works in single channel. Saw your x58 fix video. Took a toothbrush to the pins with WD40, bent some pins back and now I have one more dimm slot working, unfortunate that I couldn't get it to work in triple channel but I got it in dual channel so I guess that's a win!
Here's what I've learned concerning WD 40. It is the best lubricant for PC fans. You can extend the lifespan of lower RPM fans in particular with WD 40. In case of PCBs, use the contact cleaner variant of WD 40.it's really great and leaves no residue. If a fan is rattling, sounds louder than normal, or spinning very slowly. Give it a spin with your hands to see if it's heavy because that's the main indication that it needs lubrication. Also, you can use old CPU fans as case fans if they're becoming loud at their maximum speeds or even as a replacement for a dead PSU fan
Thank you for mentioning CRC 5-56. It still isn't available in the 'States, but I had better luck finding an MSDS for that. I thought I'd see if I could find out what the active ingredient is, and see if there's anything close to your magic spray on the market. I think that's doubtful, but I still have some research to do. Anyway, the top ingredient in CRC 5-56 is listed as "distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated light," also known as "dearomatized kerosene." That comprises ">60%." The next two ingredients are Mineral oil and liquified petroleum gas (Butadine, which I'm guessing is the propellant) each composing 10-30% of the product. I'm guessing that the dearomatized kerosene is the thing that keeps it off our shelves. The EPA may have it banned, or at least not allowed in aerosol form. WD-40 is mostly mineral oil. In my searching, I've seen dearomatized kerosene being marketed as an alternative for mineral oil, but only on sites outside the US, and generally on a major industrial scale. I just don't think there's anything comparable on the market here. :'(
Wait! I have found several different products with similar composition to CRC 5-56 that are available in the US. Going to keep the names to myself until I've bought them and checked them out myself, because I'm just going off of some half-assed comparisons of safety data sheets. I wouldn't want to put out any information without first-hand knowledge. I will do some testing and report back
I usually go with the DataVac + Pouring alcohol combo, but this one seems way cheaper than alcohol and since I deal with a lot of PCs, like you do, I'll give it a shot for sure!
WD-40 contact cleaner is a must if you can find it in the store,i fixed crashing issues on my P5KC/Q9550/4GB RAM/RX560 4GB by just cleaning every part like you did
In the UK we have "WD-40 Contact Cleaner" which evaporates fast, leaves no residue, and is non-conductive, would recommend checking it out if it's available in Australia, great for CPU's, RAM sticks, DIMM slots etc... £6 a can here which lasts a good while if you spray it on a micro-fibre cloth then use that to clean components.
Fantastic one that, and yeah, with ya on sharing and caring... this is what it's all about. If anyone has the same problem, bang they could fix it... and with people on budgets... this is the kind of thing people need. Nice one Bryan.
I think if you just plug PWM fans into those headers on the mobo with the fan failure error, it would take care of it. Thats been my experience with OEM boards and fan errors. Good stuff as usual, man!
Thanks again for the great tips! For case cleaning I use diluted Simple Green, for sticky and gunky things, like labels and thermal paste, I use cigarette lighter fluid on a lint free cloth.
You can always use PCIE 1X to USB 3.0 adapter less than $10.... They have front header and back ports and they actually are better than the on-board USB 3.0 header of the budget boards....
Not sure if it will work on the Lenovo but you may want to try what I did to fix the fan error on a Dell. I have linked the yellow wire pin from System fan connector (the missing fan) to yellow pin from CPU fan connector and no more F1 fan error at boot . I just soldered a wire (Y split) to yellow wire from CPU header and run it to the removed fan's header on the motherboard. And presto, no more error. the yellow wire on Dell I think is the Tach/rpm. Basically I tricked the system to think the missing system fan was still spinning by using the rpm sensor on the CPU header. :)
Can't possibly agree more about the friendly nature of price/performance bargain builders vs people arguing over new stuff (often over single digit percentages lol) Tips I have, that will help with bargain builds with a small SSD + larger storage hard drive is to right click the downloads, documents, and possibly the music and videos folders in Windows File Explorer, and change the storage path to D:\Profile\Documents etc. What this does is make these folders not take up precious space on smaller SSDs, and be seamless where people don't have to remember to not accidentally fill them up with random downloads etc. Also running disk cleanup after each Win10 build update such as 1909 to 2004, etc, which will usually free up ~20GB or more.
Thanks Byran for the top tip. I have a Asus H81 motherboard that has one ram slot that works with ddr3 1600 and the second slot only works with ddr3 1333, second ram slot does not boot with ddr3 1600. After watching this video, I removed the CPU and cleaned socket pins and CPU with electric contact cleaner and that fix my problem. Second ram now boots with Ddr3 1600 memory. Thanks Tech Yes City for top tip
Pues fui el primero hoy en verlo, saludos. Comentar 2 cosas, la primera es que en España no podemos conseguir el Spray Multiuso ,pero si algo similar como el Contactcleaner o el alcohol Isopropilico. Lo segundo es que tienes una vista privilegiada para poder ver los pines doblados del socket sin ayuda de un microscopio o lupa potente.
T3500 machines are amazing used price performance. For $50 shipped i get x58 with case, cooler, fans and a 525watt silver rated 80+ power supply with a 6 pin pcie power connector. Just need a rx470 and a cheap x5670 and six 4gb sticks of ddr3 10600e . Amazing performance for the money.
I got an amazing Asus X58 board for €30 cos loads of pins were bent. 30 minutes with a magnifying glass and a safety pin and it was fixed. Then got a Xeon 6 core for €30 and overclocked it to 4.4ghz. Amazing deal
Yooo i just did that today on an old core 2 duo, and it worked!!! It was still slow tho, and I don't have any stores nearby, as I'm in a rural area currently.... Sad
@@TheRailroad99 it's a hp motherboard. I legit can't do anything, and there are no stores nearby. And ordering online is out of the question. I guess it's dead....
@@pranav1790 you can BIOS mod most OEM boards. I get my xeons from china. However if you can't order right now, that won't work of course. The 771 mod is great to give even cheap 775 boards a quad core, without investing much more than 10 bucks
@@TheRailroad99 got a free 775 system with monitor, did exactly that, but that xeon sure sucks lots of power, had to replace the psu as well. Gave it to my brother, im fuckin proud of that coz thats like really cheap, paired it with my old gtx750
Couple tricks: Ive noticed on socket 1155 that Polaris cards will post without video. In my experience you can edit the vbios to disable the efi partition of the boot table using a hex editor and get the cards to work. Its pretty quick once you know which 2 entries to change. For oem systems there are huge communities with info about front panel pinouts for the oem boards. Repinning the connectors can help you get around some of those annoying post error messages that make you press F1. Current project is an optiplex 990 recase. Theyve built in a lot of bs, but I have a date with a soldering iron so hopefully that works around it.
Bryan, love your content as always, actually, on older boards socket 1155/1156, or even Haswell 1151, when you pull out the bios chip, I love using some contact fluids, and gently cleaning the inside especially if I don't get the post screen if the board isn't busted but still has fans spinning this sometimes cures the spot, other times it has fried components have done a couple of resoldering jobs and if you're into it, it's usually the caps that leak and go bad with time...
Great video!, and thanks for explaining the direction the brush should go. Its important for people that may have not done this yet, and as you said, have nothing to lose.
Those Lenovo cases are some of my favorite oem cases. I think it's the diagonal vents and small size, looks like a little game console... now if only you could fit a nice gpu in there.
A better option for cleaning the pins is electrical contact cleaner or DeoxIT D-Series (even better). You shouldn't even need to brush the pins with the DeoxIT spray.
In the UK, holts or rapide electrical contact cleaner is the good stuff. I never got a GPU or mobo to work until i covered one in that stuff. Ebay is your friend
@@jackflash6377 Brake clean isn't that caustic, you're thinking of carb cleaner which should most certainly *not* be used on plastics or rubbers Though it should come with the caveat that you should not soak or expose plastics and rubbers in brake clean for any extended period of time. If it doesn't immediately evaporate just from ambient temperature you should quickly encourage evaporation with some compressed air.
M93p is my favorite OEM system. It has 4 slot DDR3 RAM and its PCIe x16 slot is compatible with recent GPU card. The only drawback is, it use 14 pin PSU connector rather that universal 24 pin connector. But, there is always way around. The front connector USB3 header also different from mostly aftermarket motherboard so the chance of getting USB 3.0 on the front panel of new PC chassis is very slim since I haven't found any adapter to 15 pin USB 3.0 header connector.
I got a board recently that had a bunch of dog fur and dust in the socket. I legit just took some tap and just started lightly dabbing the socket with it, worked great tbh.
recently tried my 1600 af in a msi x570 gaming edge wifi mb to see if the chip actually works with the board and well it does. but i used the stock cooler, and it popped my cpu out bent a few pins, 6 to be exact bent those back and threw the cpu back in my msi b450I gaming plus ac mb for now. will be using the x570 here soon as it has some stuff my b450 dont but for now im glad i learnt how to bend those back ! thanks!
I picked up some similiar Lenevo PC's for £20 a pop, wacked a second gen i5, 8gb ram and some semi decent gpu (not a GT card) and I sold them in new cases, with a new psu and ssd for a profit, typically made £60-80 per machine, profit wise.
i got a board that recognizes only if 1 ram is installed, both of the ram are fine and if I put either stick in any slot it works but if you put both of them it doesn't boot. So I'm gonna try this method wish me luck
To clean cpu pins, instead of using multi-purpose spray cleaner/lube, I think a better alternative would be ELECTRICAL CONTACT CLEANER! Generally it is a bit thinner than most multi-purpose spray cleaner/lube I have found and it is it's main purpose anyway... So y'all are not missing out on anything for not having the australian export multi-purpose spray or crc 556 since i'm pretty sure electrical contact cleaner is not hard to find internationaly.
Have been watching a few of your videos recently and seriously considering building my own pc from parts like you have described. However, I would like to ask how reliable and trustworthy it is buying from aliexpress? I am mostly talking about the used cpu and motherboards. I am also in the UK, would it affect any purchases? Thanks
I have found from experience that when ram is not detected that doing these 3 things will usually solve the issue unless there is physical damage to the board. or dirt or debris in the CPU socket 1st thing to try is to clean the gold contacts on the ram with q tip and rubbing alcohol 2nd clean the bottom of the CPU gold contacts the pads with a q tip and rubbing alcohol 3rd clean the ram slots them selves with rubbing alcohol and a old tooth brush i have had a 99.9999% success rate using these methods
I've used a couple M73 boards and both had a problem that resolved itself. When trying to put in 2 sticks of ram for the first time, they didn't post. I tested each stick in both channels (each stick posted in both channels) and when I put them both back in a second time, they magically posted with nothing else being done. Perhaps getting the board to post with one stick makes it so that it can post in dual channel in some cases.
Pro-tip: never flash the BIOS inside of Windows, especially on these older boards. The last thing you want to have happen is for the Windows kernel to crash while the BIOS is being flashed. Always always always flash the BIOS in a MS-DOS-bootable USB drive. If the BIOS allows it, update from within the BIOS (obviously), but if not, then always flash from within a bootable USB MS-DOS drive.
Your CPU Socket just got some Tech YES Lovin'!
@@SISSYPUSS Always good in Taiwan.
I've done a few CPU sockets before as well. I have one with broken pins so I am gonna have a guy solder a new socket on. Wish me luck!
@Shepherd Conor Yea, have been using flixzone for years myself :)
Tech Yes City is saving the environment by giving Tech Yes Lovin' to every electronics, making most use of them to reduce E-waste.
@Dalle Smalhals Old PC parts dude
E-waste is a huge issue, look at where the oceanic garbage patches are at. Old PC's can be used for a variety of things, such as DVRs, FTP servers, Firewalls.. just use your imagination.
Gotta love the honesty in the sponsored segment!
"Have you just won the lotto?"
had the same problem, just sprayed the crap out of the mobo with contact cleaner and it worked
I was cleaning off a XEON on a AsRock Extreme 3 X79 motherboard, to change out the cpu. I was using a new absorbant/re-usable kitchen towel, made of compressed fibers, often used for cleaning dishes with soapy water. The towels come in a stack at the store and are about 1 square foot each in dimension. I was using one as a rag to wipe away the thick thermal paste and had it in my one hand as I took the CPU carefully out of the socket. Then I made the mistake of getting that fibrous rag close to the socket and about 1 square inch of it touched the pins...which all seemed to grab hold of those fibers. I could not pull it away without bending those pins. I really thought that I had totally trashed that motherboard. Before making the situation worse, I tried a different approach. I got out a BIC lighter and carefully burned away the fibers clinging to the pins, slowly taking the towel off. It worked like a charm. Just had to be careful not to let the flame linger. I would burn...stop...burn...stop...always being sure not to heat the pins excessively. I used compressed air to blow away the fiber residue. Voila.
I did the same a year ago - except i pulled the microfibre towel and bent about 15 pins upright, felt like screaming and crying ! But 3 hours later all straightened (ish) and it booted up, lesson learned….
Damn
Doin this with a stiff paint brush really did work
I was having problems with getting memory to work in triple channel on my p6t that I purchased recently
Now it runs absolutely fine
Got meself a xeon x5660 upto 4.2ghz ez pz
That's pretty good for an x5660, usually it's the x5675 (better binned chip) that has an easier time hitting 4.2+ghz.
I also have a p6t deluxe. It doesnt boot/doesnt recognize ram in the first two slots. What spray did you use to clean it?
@@gammler3000i I used the same Aussie export multipurpose spray
And some random paint brush I found
Please never stop the Tech Yes City content!!!!!
I’ve actually ran into the same exact problem before with DIMM slots not operating and a good CPU pins cleaning fixed it right up!
I'm in the US, I'm no competidor, you can tell this guy just loves his tech, your getting me into flipping x58 RGB systems now. Thanks
TYC is some of the most underrated tech content on YT.
This video in particular was pretty great. Keep up the great work!
Also, if you ever find what would be a reasonable alternative to that Australian-specific multipurpose spray, please let us know. I'd be interested in buying some but the closest thing I could find here in the States would be I guess WD40, but that's not quite the same.
Hey Tech Yes City! I've seen all your videos. Each one of them is amazing in their own way, I love the Tech-Yes-Loving in this one, You're an inspiration and I love you man.
On 10 June Hardware Unboxed had a good review on mid-range motherboards. The ASrock Z490 Phantom Gaming 4 was a complete failure. Thank you for another great video on older boards.
Man, that Asrock Z490 Aqua ads was smooth AF...
I want to start a petition to rename this Chanel tech yes savior! Because this guy some how always manages to bring old pc parts most people would throw away back to life!!! It's crazy!!!
My first comment on any of your videos. Anyway, Just want to say that this method works and I've learned it from you. I am infact typing on this system with a motherboard newly socket cleaned. It was a gigabyte z97x-ud5h motherboard that I bought recently as part of a faulty system. The system would boot with only 1 ram on DIMM 1 but after doing a tech yes loving treatment. It had 2 ram slots working but no dual channels. but the second slot was also very picky as it will only run 2 single rank DIMMs. Use the "thicker" american multi-purpose substance and a good paint brush i had. carefully stroked the pins and tested my DIMM. All 3 pairs of gskil and mushkin DIMMs that won't even work on any 2 slots together now work on all 4 slots. this gigabyte board was problematic as it was throwing all sorts of post codes and looping. once it finds a DIMM it doesn't like, I had to restore the main bios from the backup to just make it work (with only 1 DIMM on the primary slot).
I am Long time follower of your channel on atleast one of my subs. Anyway, i've been doing some buying and selling during this "period". I haven't done this since pre-college some 20 years ago. Anyway, your channel is sort of what I used to enjoy back in the day ( the "parts hunt") . I thoroughly enjoyed you going to different countries for the parts hunt because I used to do that when I go to japan, taiwan, singapore. Anyway, I hit the subscribe button today because of a particular point you made. The parts-performance community doesn't have the fan boy zealots. I notice people who I recently sold systems to understand the "value" of the components. No "team green","team red", "team blue" just price-peformance. In fact this is how i discovered x58 platform which is thru your channel. I hated it when it came out because it was overpriced but I've leared to love it now. I discovered the value of x79 3 years ago and loved what it had to offer and I began watching youtube channels about it since then and bumped into tech yes city. Thanks again Mate!
Gotta love those Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p’s 😀.
Still have my SFF in the attic. Back then I didn’t have a gaming pc or much money, so I got an old office pc from work.
I upgraded the i5-2400S to a i7-2600 (non-K), changed the 2x2GB 1333MHz Elpida RAM to 2x4GB 1600MHz Kingston Value RAM and added in a Asus GTX1050ti since it did not have a graphics card, sorry gravis card 🤪
and ... gaming time on a budget 😜
Ps. Even got the 24” TN monitor it came with and the original Lenovo keyboard and mouse. The mouse wasn’t that good and I changed that for I believe a cheaper one from Razer but the usb keyboard was actually really nice for gaming 😉
Love the work and effort you put into your video’s Brian... mr. Tech Yes man 🤣
wait are you stalking me? i literally did a tech yes loving last night and for some reason my multi threaded performance tanked to now lower percentiles in benchmarks instead of on par or little ahead. Well i used crv electronics cleaner (almost like brake cleaner) on everything and thought maybe left some residue and on top of that had some thermal paste "maybe" get in there because applied too much... i tried dripping rubbing alcohol into the pins and blasting air so anything runs out the bottom. but i really want to be able to clean the pins and almost used a qtip but the hair were getting caught didnt want to catch a pin and bend straight up. low and behold you post this video today. thank you and i hope you get a chance to read this
we’d love to see a 7 pc build video all OEM’s different configurations all tested against each other to see what’s the BEST price/performance
0:02 TaiSol now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. They were the cooling fans to get back in the AMD Socket A days - high quality quiet long-lasting ball bearing fans.
I took your advise and got an old HP Z600 workstation. I love the Xeon E5620. I got a heck of a deal on a graphics card. I am trying to use only used parts for my system. So far, it is working great. Thanks for the inspiration.
Tech yes city, i have to say one honest thing . You& people like you are saviour/saviours of humanity, mother earth, future , broken parts ...etc .. because your acts help a lot to get many electronics refurbished, reused,recycled . Its good to save some from going to e-waste . For the past 2-3 years , i have been following your channel . I have to say something, you actually look like a Catholic priest. Like some saintly figure.(many ways you help others, so its graceful) . May God bless you.. expecting a reply Bryan.. 💚
Awesome video! I will try this, if a motherboard is faulty. Usually I‘m not buying faulty parts, because I had an Asus Board, which burned after turning it on lol.
Love your work man. You are the new king Midas... turning trash into gold. A big hello from the other side of the world: Portugal...
I recently managed to get hold of some CRC 556 (with PTFE) here in Germany and I have to say I am pretty amazed by the stuff.
The only part of the pins in a LGA socket that need cleaning (or benefit from cleaning) are the very tips, the tiny domes that actually contact the lands on the CPU. I drag a few strips of fairly heavy, alcohol wetted printer paper across them (a few with a 90° point to get into the corners), I reckon the paper is just abrasive enough to clean/polish the gold plating. This is after making sure there are no obvious contaminants such as fibres that might interfere mechanically.
A small tip when trying to straighten the CPU socket pins would be not to use a cocktail stick, because small splinters of wood can break off and get stuck in there (ask me how I know...). A good alternative is to use a very small cable tie; since they're plastic they won't fragment, and they also have a little bit of 'give' to them compared to the wood, so they can be a little more gentle.
For people that can't buy his multi purpose spray, look for Contact cleaners, they will do the same job, as the most important part is that they contain solvents which clean the PCB and evaporate quickly. Look for Heptane, or Hexane in the contents. Isopropyl alcohol works as well but it can be harmful to plastic parts.
The description and uses of the "multi purpose spray" matches WD-40 in the USA. Kinda wierd.
Awesome tip! Got an X58 motherboard right now, that has problems recognizing GPUs like half of the time... Maybe that'll do the trick
Let the TechYesLovin' begin
Got an Asus P6T used but it was poorly taken care of. Only one dimm slot worked. Took WD40, a rag, a data vac, a tooth brush to scrape the dimm slots and rubbing alcohol. Managed to get one more dimm slot working. But the mobo works in single channel. Saw your x58 fix video. Took a toothbrush to the pins with WD40, bent some pins back and now I have one more dimm slot working, unfortunate that I couldn't get it to work in triple channel but I got it in dual channel so I guess that's a win!
Try replacing the thermal paste on the north bridge
@@MarshallSambell did all that
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Its good to see you still there man :) All the best for you :)
Here's what I've learned concerning WD 40. It is the best lubricant for PC fans. You can extend the lifespan of lower RPM fans in particular with WD 40. In case of PCBs, use the contact cleaner variant of WD 40.it's really great and leaves no residue. If a fan is rattling, sounds louder than normal, or spinning very slowly. Give it a spin with your hands to see if it's heavy because that's the main indication that it needs lubrication. Also, you can use old CPU fans as case fans if they're becoming loud at their maximum speeds or even as a replacement for a dead PSU fan
Thank you for mentioning CRC 5-56. It still isn't available in the 'States, but I had better luck finding an MSDS for that. I thought I'd see if I could find out what the active ingredient is, and see if there's anything close to your magic spray on the market. I think that's doubtful, but I still have some research to do. Anyway, the top ingredient in CRC 5-56 is listed as "distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated light," also known as "dearomatized kerosene." That comprises ">60%." The next two ingredients are Mineral oil and liquified petroleum gas (Butadine, which I'm guessing is the propellant) each composing 10-30% of the product. I'm guessing that the dearomatized kerosene is the thing that keeps it off our shelves. The EPA may have it banned, or at least not allowed in aerosol form. WD-40 is mostly mineral oil. In my searching, I've seen dearomatized kerosene being marketed as an alternative for mineral oil, but only on sites outside the US, and generally on a major industrial scale. I just don't think there's anything comparable on the market here. :'(
Wait! I have found several different products with similar composition to CRC 5-56 that are available in the US. Going to keep the names to myself until I've bought them and checked them out myself, because I'm just going off of some half-assed comparisons of safety data sheets. I wouldn't want to put out any information without first-hand knowledge. I will do some testing and report back
Giving electronics 2nd live and saving Earth a bunch of e-waste.
TECH YES!
I usually go with the DataVac + Pouring alcohol combo, but this one seems way cheaper than alcohol and since I deal with a lot of PCs, like you do, I'll give it a shot for sure!
Oh, so you're also on YT my man ;)
@@leonardoowl4308 First time that somebody recognizes me ahaha
WD-40 contact cleaner is a must if you can find it in the store,i fixed crashing issues on my P5KC/Q9550/4GB RAM/RX560 4GB by just cleaning every part like you did
4:19 I love it when my PCIe slots get Tech YES Boinged!
In the UK we have "WD-40 Contact Cleaner" which evaporates fast, leaves no residue, and is non-conductive, would recommend checking it out if it's available in Australia, great for CPU's, RAM sticks, DIMM slots etc... £6 a can here which lasts a good while if you spray it on a micro-fibre cloth then use that to clean components.
You truly are a lovely human being, Brian.
Fantastic one that, and yeah, with ya on sharing and caring... this is what it's all about. If anyone has the same problem, bang they could fix it... and with people on budgets... this is the kind of thing people need. Nice one Bryan.
I think if you just plug PWM fans into those headers on the mobo with the fan failure error, it would take care of it. Thats been my experience with OEM boards and fan errors. Good stuff as usual, man!
Thanks again for the great tips! For case cleaning I use diluted Simple Green, for sticky and gunky things, like labels and thermal paste, I use cigarette lighter fluid on a lint free cloth.
You can always use PCIE 1X to USB 3.0 adapter less than $10.... They have front header and back ports and they actually are better than the on-board USB 3.0 header of the budget boards....
Lol your hifi stereophonic right speaker sound threw me for a loop, I said wth where is that sound coming from, lol
Not sure if it will work on the Lenovo but you may want to try what I did to fix the fan error on a Dell.
I have linked the yellow wire pin from System fan connector (the missing fan) to yellow pin from CPU fan connector and no more F1 fan error at boot . I just soldered a wire (Y split) to yellow wire from CPU header and run it to the removed fan's header on the motherboard. And presto, no more error. the yellow wire on Dell I think is the Tach/rpm. Basically I tricked the system to think the missing system fan was still spinning by using the rpm sensor on the CPU header. :)
Can't possibly agree more about the friendly nature of price/performance bargain builders vs people arguing over new stuff (often over single digit percentages lol)
Tips I have, that will help with bargain builds with a small SSD + larger storage hard drive is to right click the downloads, documents, and possibly the music and videos folders in Windows File Explorer, and change the storage path to D:\Profile\Documents etc. What this does is make these folders not take up precious space on smaller SSDs, and be seamless where people don't have to remember to not accidentally fill them up with random downloads etc. Also running disk cleanup after each Win10 build update such as 1909 to 2004, etc, which will usually free up ~20GB or more.
Thanks Byran for the top tip. I have a Asus H81 motherboard that has one ram slot that works with ddr3 1600 and the second slot only works with ddr3 1333, second ram slot does not boot with ddr3 1600. After watching this video, I removed the CPU and cleaned socket pins and CPU with electric contact cleaner and that fix my problem. Second ram now boots with Ddr3 1600 memory. Thanks Tech Yes City for top tip
Pues fui el primero hoy en verlo, saludos.
Comentar 2 cosas, la primera es que en España no podemos conseguir el Spray Multiuso ,pero si algo similar como el Contactcleaner o el alcohol Isopropilico.
Lo segundo es que tienes una vista privilegiada para poder ver los pines doblados del socket sin ayuda de un microscopio o lupa potente.
Really enjoyed the video, thanks man, cheers from America!
The most important thing is that with such tricks e-waste is kept under control. (Writing that on a 2008 ThinkPad X200 that I restored.)
Thanks for sharing all your knowledge! Love the channel!
T3500 machines are amazing used price performance. For $50 shipped i get x58 with case, cooler, fans and a 525watt silver rated 80+ power supply with a 6 pin pcie power connector. Just need a rx470 and a cheap x5670 and six 4gb sticks of ddr3 10600e . Amazing performance for the money.
16:54 and I think that that method will help many of us in the future...
So ty for sharing s2
I got an amazing Asus X58 board for €30 cos loads of pins were bent. 30 minutes with a magnifying glass and a safety pin and it was fixed. Then got a Xeon 6 core for €30 and overclocked it to 4.4ghz. Amazing deal
lol what mother board was it
Doing a bit of both, new and used, keeps continuity interesting.
It works thanks Brian just fixed a dead hp z400 mohterboard you are the best ☺👍
Tech YES: lets learn about cleaning cpu pins
Me with anxiety: **Sigh** another cursed video
uwotm8?
Yooo i just did that today on an old core 2 duo, and it worked!!! It was still slow tho, and I don't have any stores nearby, as I'm in a rural area currently.... Sad
Do the 771 mod and pop in a 5$ xeon
@Broke As FK that's a nice idea, considering it's an old hp with a 160gig hard drive
@@TheRailroad99 it's a hp motherboard. I legit can't do anything, and there are no stores nearby. And ordering online is out of the question. I guess it's dead....
@@pranav1790 you can BIOS mod most OEM boards. I get my xeons from china. However if you can't order right now, that won't work of course.
The 771 mod is great to give even cheap 775 boards a quad core, without investing much more than 10 bucks
@@TheRailroad99 got a free 775 system with monitor, did exactly that, but that xeon sure sucks lots of power, had to replace the psu as well. Gave it to my brother, im fuckin proud of that coz thats like really cheap, paired it with my old gtx750
Couple tricks:
Ive noticed on socket 1155 that Polaris cards will post without video. In my experience you can edit the vbios to disable the efi partition of the boot table using a hex editor and get the cards to work. Its pretty quick once you know which 2 entries to change.
For oem systems there are huge communities with info about front panel pinouts for the oem boards. Repinning the connectors can help you get around some of those annoying post error messages that make you press F1.
Current project is an optiplex 990 recase. Theyve built in a lot of bs, but I have a date with a soldering iron so hopefully that works around it.
M91p doesn't use Secure Boot. M92p does.
Also, M91p won't support Ivy Bridge, even with the newest BIOS.
Bryan, love your content as always, actually, on older boards socket 1155/1156, or even Haswell 1151, when you pull out the bios chip, I love using some contact fluids, and gently cleaning the inside especially if I don't get the post screen if the board isn't busted but still has fans spinning this sometimes cures the spot, other times it has fried components have done a couple of resoldering jobs and if you're into it, it's usually the caps that leak and go bad with time...
Great video!, and thanks for explaining the direction the brush should go. Its important for people that may have not done this yet, and as you said, have nothing to lose.
Sold a system today with that EXACT board; we must be on the same wavelength! Tech YES WIN!
Well done video. Nice results with the fixes of all of the mb's.
Those Lenovo cases are some of my favorite oem cases. I think it's the diagonal vents and small size, looks like a little game console... now if only you could fit a nice gpu in there.
I am disappointed we did not get to see the datavac in action once in this video... Must put that sucker to good use for us to enjoy it haha 😂
A better option for cleaning the pins is electrical contact cleaner or DeoxIT D-Series (even better). You shouldn't even need to brush the pins with the DeoxIT spray.
In the UK, holts or rapide electrical contact cleaner is the good stuff. I never got a GPU or mobo to work until i covered one in that stuff. Ebay is your friend
I use brake cleaner for cleaning out sockets
Me too. I remember Bryan doing this as well in one of his videos.
Brake cleaner is def my thing too, but this is about targetting the pin tips.
Brake cleaner can melt some plastics so use caution.
Maybe spray some brake cleaner on the brush instead?
@@jackflash6377 Brake clean isn't that caustic, you're thinking of carb cleaner which should most certainly *not* be used on plastics or rubbers
Though it should come with the caveat that you should not soak or expose plastics and rubbers in brake clean for any extended period of time. If it doesn't immediately evaporate just from ambient temperature you should quickly encourage evaporation with some compressed air.
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. Love your chnl. The best sofar on RUclips.!!!!!
my favourite tech channel.
M93p is my favorite OEM system. It has 4 slot DDR3 RAM and its PCIe x16 slot is compatible with recent GPU card. The only drawback is, it use 14 pin PSU connector rather that universal 24 pin connector. But, there is always way around. The front connector USB3 header also different from mostly aftermarket motherboard so the chance of getting USB 3.0 on the front panel of new PC chassis is very slim since I haven't found any adapter to 15 pin USB 3.0 header connector.
I love Asrock, sponsors a channel about how to not overspend on your PC, but sends them a clownshoe spinning rims board.
I got a board recently that had a bunch of dog fur and dust in the socket. I legit just took some tap and just started lightly dabbing the socket with it, worked great tbh.
recently tried my 1600 af in a msi x570 gaming edge wifi mb to see if the chip actually works with the board and well it does. but i used the stock cooler, and it popped my cpu out bent a few pins, 6 to be exact bent those back and threw the cpu back in my msi b450I gaming plus ac mb for now. will be using the x570 here soon as it has some stuff my b450 dont but for now im glad i learnt how to bend those back ! thanks!
love the meta and insights, keep them coming and thanks for sharing!
They make USB 3.0 Adapters that plug into the PCIe x4 slot that will let you plug your Front Panel USB 3 in.
Also PCIE 1x
Sometime visit India... Here local technicians are in another level. They will surely fix even some burnt boards....
Good job and thank you for these great tech fix tipps!! :-))
Question: When are you going to give us a tour of your desk setup?
your good teaching us good stuff Bryan always good thank you
Do a Collab with Linus
Title: Linus drops it again, can Yes fix it
I picked up some similiar Lenevo PC's for £20 a pop, wacked a second gen i5, 8gb ram and some semi decent gpu (not a GT card) and I sold them in new cases, with a new psu and ssd for a profit, typically made £60-80 per machine, profit wise.
i got a board that recognizes only if 1 ram is installed, both of the ram are fine and if I put either stick in any slot it works but if you put both of them it doesn't boot. So I'm gonna try this method wish me luck
yo tell me if it works, cuz i face them same issue xD
Post update when you can, please
you should use pure Isopropyl Alcohol instead of multipurpose cleaner though
@@tmzilla
ISA is the name.
Waiting. Goodluck
I wish i can find a job testing mobos or stuff as well xD Fun as hell for me
Hey Bryan I had an m91p that bluescreened alot on windows 10 for no reason besides shitty chipset drivers.
Ah, some much needed Tech Yes Lovin' 😁
Was working with a intel dq67ow and Rx 480 shit did not want to work but found a suitable bios update that's fixed it thank tech yes city
perfect suggestion on the nylon brush, but I used isopropyl alcohol.
Collect the Chipset heatsinks from dead motherboards, they're useful to have and can be quite valuable if you collect a lot of them.
I needed this video thanks sm
To clean cpu pins, instead of using multi-purpose spray cleaner/lube, I think a better alternative would be ELECTRICAL CONTACT CLEANER! Generally it is a bit thinner than most multi-purpose spray cleaner/lube I have found and it is it's main purpose anyway... So y'all are not missing out on anything for not having the australian export multi-purpose spray or crc 556 since i'm pretty sure electrical contact cleaner is not hard to find internationaly.
Keep up the great videos!
Have been watching a few of your videos recently and seriously considering building my own pc from parts like you have described. However, I would like to ask how reliable and trustworthy it is buying from aliexpress? I am mostly talking about the used cpu and motherboards. I am also in the UK, would it affect any purchases? Thanks
I have found from experience that when ram is not detected that doing these 3 things will usually solve the issue unless there is physical damage to the board. or dirt or debris in the CPU socket
1st thing to try is to clean the gold contacts on the ram with q tip and rubbing alcohol
2nd clean the bottom of the CPU gold contacts the pads with a q tip and rubbing alcohol
3rd clean the ram slots them selves with rubbing alcohol and a old tooth brush i have had a 99.9999% success rate using these methods
Anddddddddd... We return to the classic LGA vs PGA debate!
🤣.. this is why pga is superb..
I've used a couple M73 boards and both had a problem that resolved itself. When trying to put in 2 sticks of ram for the first time, they didn't post. I tested each stick in both channels (each stick posted in both channels) and when I put them both back in a second time, they magically posted with nothing else being done. Perhaps getting the board to post with one stick makes it so that it can post in dual channel in some cases.
What's the name of the spray that you use , thank you very much for the information.
Pro-tip: never flash the BIOS inside of Windows, especially on these older boards. The last thing you want to have happen is for the Windows kernel to crash while the BIOS is being flashed.
Always always always flash the BIOS in a MS-DOS-bootable USB drive.
If the BIOS allows it, update from within the BIOS (obviously), but if not, then always flash from within a bootable USB MS-DOS drive.
M91p is great, you can also put a cheap E3-1270 cpu (4c/8t) and it is great for gaming.