Washing 12 Motherboards with WATER and Attempting to Fix them - (Can YES Fix it Pt. 1/2)
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- It has certainly been a long time since we did this, and today we answer that question of "can you wash a motherboard with water?". And I have tried washing parts in the past, but not to this scale. So with these boards coming in and having guaranteed problems, I why as well skip to the chase and wash them down and then see if can get them to work 100% again.
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If I had to get hosed, i'd want it to be a Tech YES Hosing.
Marco too easy ....
@Mike Mckay nope lol
Marco gets RAMmed.
Electronic contact cleaner, I have found works good on computer motherboards
HOLY CRAP your dads talking scared the crap out of me! I thought someone snuck up on me and then saw him fading in.
"I keep myself clean, why not keep the motherboards clean." Tech Dad the Wise
Just an idea, in the past when ive done this after the water wash ive shaken the the boards then dipped them in 90% IPA. My reasoning was it removes most of the h20, dries much faster and deters oxidation.
I'd like to be washed down with IPA, mate.
"It POSTs when the power switch is pressed on . Or else , it gets the hose again." -- Buffalo YES 😇
Underrated
@@LTXwooshie . Thank YOU .
I've been doing this for 15 years and I love when someone is there to see it. I use distilled water though, not tap water. Tap water has heavy metals, but I've wondered if matters. Apparently it does not. I had a guy run up to me from my alley saying I'm ruining my shit. But nothing has ever stopped functioning that was not already damaged.
After tap water wash it with distilled water to remove mineral deposits.
My dad taught me about washing motherboards back in the early 90s. (On an old 386/25) Been keeping em clean like that for decades now. Have many old mobos packed away in their boxes now, but they still work. Kept clean and with gentle handling, they last.
Old fashion! Back in 90`s, when I used to fix TV, VHS, Stereos, any electronic device and when they where dusty, this was the best solution to see better the problems for repairing. Thanks for bringing back those memories! You are the man!
Some pointers here.
1. Boards are cleaned in the factory with soaps and water. In fact a dishwasher and good detergent would be a very good combination. Dishes in the same machine would be acceptable but if you don't want to deal with potential issues run a cycle with straight up dishwasher detergent. This is great stuff and cleans a lot of crud up. Some formulations I have seen lately even clean up corrosion.
2. As mentioned before, keep any liquids away from components with capacitors or batteries in them. The charge if it arcs can either cause damage, or start fires if not careful depending on the solvent.
3. IMHO the older stuff is impressive if you can supplement older hardware with modern stuff, ie for storage an sata 3 SSD, and if the chipset is capable, a NVMe PCI 3 SSD. Tech though is moving at light speed it seems and as such, I expect that PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and USB4 will be coming soon to consumer platforms. AMD is pumping out some impressive parts that are beginning to challenge the leaders of 2019 and as such don't expect Intel and nVidia to sit back. In the next few years I think that we will see both massive performance increases while prices are held in check due to real competition. As such, at this point the i3 10320 from Intel for example is a 4 core, 8 thread processor and that is faster than the older 4 core, 8 thread i7 processors on the older platforms. Given this, be careful as something newer with better support may be a much better value for money than used parts.
To ensure a clean dry, I would wash the motherboards in water, as you did, then submerge them completely in Isopropyl alcohol to pull the water off. The alcohol will then more quickly dry the board completely, and pull off the contaminates from the tap water.
Hey! I also do this procedure for years, here's some tips:
1) Tap water isn't as conductive as people think it is, as long as you dry everything, you should be fine without too much residue.
2) You can use soap to help clean better, it's fine as long as you clean it off properly with water later.
3) You can use a teethbrush as an easy tool to clean it, just DONT BRUSH TOO HARD, GO GENTLY, if you go too hard you can tear SMD components off the board (ripping also their trails/pads)
4) I don't recommend spraying the board later, those sprays (such as WD-40) create a sticky coat that all it does is attract dust to it and causing it to malfunction later
I have a question can sweat damage mother board?
@@ceejay1535 How the hell did you get sweat on motherboard lmao. But seriously, it most likely will be small amount so not likely
my motherboard is working fine for 5 years with wd-40... you need a proper case with filters to prevent dust and do a good clean with IPA from time to time
@@wojciechgromek250 I work out with my mobo
5:13. Dadman with pearls of wisdom.
So Brian, I need to thank you. I had an old Gigabyte Z68 board, that I just could not get to boot. Nothing worked, been trying for months. Nothing worked. So yesterday, I took it upstairs, removed the cmos battery, and washed it under a hot shower head, with a stiff paintbrush. It's dried overnight, and right now, it's currently installing windows!!!! Who would have thought?? Fantastic. Thanks for the informative channel. Keep up the good work. Thanks again Brian.
EXTREME Tech YES Lovin WITH WATER!
Can YES fix them? Yes! YES can fix them!
@Khinh Phu hahha. I wonder if Taiwan can YES fix them as well ;)
love the techyesmusic , Synthwave for life , and the voice of your dad!
Fatality seems like a fitting name for that Asrock board seeing you have so many of them there .
that name would make me cautious of buying it .
Where you cleaned up the pins on the bios chip, you could use the same fix which gets batteries to work in old electronics. To remove the layer of corrosion give it a rub with some vinegar. I've fixed loads of items doing that, including ones where the batteries leaked.
I see this video yesterday and you give a idea regarding to take out the bios chip a clean the pins, thanks Byran I do it today!
You need ultrasonic bath to clean components spotless 😉
Its called oxidation, aluminium does not rust, but still can oxidase
about to say the same thing....
Aluminum does rust. But only the outer layer, and it actually protects the rest of the aluminum. And it doesn't turn brown orange. Oxidation... Rust..... That's just semantics.
So much work behind these videos. Thanks.
Something to keep an eye on because i had it happen when washing a board in the past but the water pressure from the sink can bend the pins back if u let the water run directly on the socket without the plastic cpu cover
My dude has Niagara Falls pouring out of his tap.
Hy Brian,
I am an electronics expert al my life and I would suggest you a couple of things
1e After washing your boards with water wat is fine please dompel them completely under in isopropanol alcohol to get rid of all the moisture and let them dry.
2e Don’t use spray for protecting the boards, there is no need for it. Your circuits are low voltage so every form of electrical resistance will lead in unpredictable behaviour because of the high current some components need. (voltage drop)
3e Check if there are no leaking capacitors by pulling one critical cap out of the board and measure it with a good quality capacitance meter.
As you know there are a lot of VRM circuits on the board for every type of device (ram. cpu, chipset, etc…), also ceramic types included. (they are truly Chinesium rip-offs)
4e Measure the voltage rails after all the vrm’s on the board with a quality scoop to check the noise level.
I think this is a first must wat is easily to do.
Good luck, I like your channel.
Honestly it really depends on what you're trying to clean. For small stuff that just needs a bit of extra shine alcohol and some qtips and paper does the job. For bigger stuff I just usually give them a wash in my bath tub. Other than that while I don't recommend this to ANYONE, I have in the past cleaned power supplies with water. That said to do so I had to open them up and discharge their capacitors. I come from an electronics background and unless you are also comfortable working with high voltages please don't attempt this.
Love these videos YES, keep it up
When I worked at a repair house, the secret element for getting most dirty electronics back and working was a simple clean ultrasonic tank. They would mix it 50:50 and barely change it.
Let’s say 99% of things worked perfectly fine after a water flush and a day to dry
The most ingenious idea I’ve ever seen was using a dyson hand dryer to speed up the drying process. Most times we just used compressed air and a heat gun
interesting
Sonic cleaners use warm distilled water solution with some detergent to clean electronics parts. So warm water and dish soap could do the job. I remember in the late 80's and early 90's, I used warm water from the tap and dish soap to clean two original IBM keyboards. And it worked fine and if you want to remove water faster after rincing. I dip the two keyboard in a bath of 90% isopropolic alcohol. This will chase the water and help after with the drying process. Can do the same for boards, wash them, dip them in 90% isopropolic alcohol and next place in the oven at a set temperature to help evaporate the alcohol for 10 to 15 minutes. Voila! You have a clean board.
Hey thanks for tips !
Haven't even finished the vid and have to say, glad to see the dad man again. Does he come up with these epic lines on the spot?
Yeah he is just 100% natural.
@@techyescity people in the USA looking for a good case with glass side panel RGB and support for 360 rad in front and 240 on top should check out the COUGAR Gemini on newegg i just recently finished a gaming pc built in one and i really like it. the front panel has a ARGB controller bulit in but is also by passable so you can sync with your motherboard instead if you prefer.
Need a Dad Man shirt
MAD MAN is back!! Dude. Mad Man is part of your brand. Keep playing bits of other tracks, but know that this song is the soul of the channel.
I have spoken.
When I saw the title of the video I was thinking is this a click bait wherever I click it lol But it wasn't.
Oh man, I tried the aussie export multi purpose spray on a family friends build yesterday, I was sceptical of how good it would come out looking, but after using it I'm a believer, this stuff is amazing!
Do you have a link? What is it exactly?
@@jgreenjeans
this is the stuff, not sure exactly what is is but it works well. www.supercheapauto.com.au/p/export-multi-purpose-spray---400g/1135.html
Mom: honey what are you doing to our dishwasher?
Me: washing my pc
Should try replacing the CMOS batteries, I have known them to be the most common post failure
Hey Bryan. I gave you an Asus P55 motherboard when I came to visit.
Maybe it's the one that you fixed. Same southbridge heatsink.
I also gave you a Gigabyte ITX board which was not in your review today.
Keep up the good work.
Peace out for now.
Cheers, Mon from Brisbane
Thanks Mon, my memory has been a bit bad as of late lol.
@Mike Mckay
I am a woman Mike.
I've been building pc's for about 15vyears.
I bought the motherboard second hand from a computer market and after a short time it wouldn't post.
Best not to insult people online Mike. It really is a bad reflection on yourself.
@@monham5041 impossible you are a woman who can plug pc parts together........
YES! I wash mine every day with my wallet's tears. It's extremely effective!!!
you should try BIOS flashing the ones with fans spinning, trough the backflash feature on most higher end boards... I have rescues quite a few this way
My 7 year old ASUS P8Z77-V has the exact same issue, if I touch the RAM in it, or just move the board, it stops POSTing and I have to play swap and try with RAM sticks for hours to get it to POST again.
This board is amazing though, it was my first PC build in 2013 and it has died 3 times so far, RMA'd twice for "fan spins for a split second and repeat without post", PSU killed it once, repaired out of warranty finally, and it still works to this day as my backup system :D
Galvanic corrosion two dissimilar metals when in presence of either water (liquid spill or humidity) and/or electricity and/or contaminants
ahhhh yes love the 80s electronic music while you work on those motheboards
I've had some success doing this in the dishwasher with no soap, just rinse program! My current htpc was dead when I found it in a dumpster, took mobo out, dishwasher then rinsed in 87% alcohol. Hung to dry 24 hours, still going strong 3 years later.
Hey thats my h97 fatal1ty motheboard. 6 years and still works fine with xeon E3-1231v3 and 750ti. Gonna buy 1660super soon.
Some things to consider as well, at Least wear rubber bands around your wrists to minimize damages done by static shock. Also, a good nice large Anti-static mat or even a Equivalent bin to protect them from just being on a Bare surface or even the floor, I really believe you may have better success rates.
Brian accidentally cuts his finger.
-Let's put some all purpose spray on it
-Injury magically disappears
I thought I was watching an episode of "They Live" for a second! 😂
Used to wash and scrub my boards in the early 2000s, toothbrush in the sockets will clean them right out. give them ample time to dry and they are good to go!
Brian.. I've been washing electronics since I was a kid back in the seventies and I design and repair them also. All you have to do after washing give a thorough drying with high heat and you are good. Say, I've been doing this before you were born
If you do this don't just let the boards sit overnight to dry. Blow them off with compressed air and focus on the surface mount components. Water can hide under them, especially stuff like the CPU socket, northbridge, and southbridge. Also blow out any connectors. Only after doing this should you let them sit overnight. It also might be safer to clean them in a bath of isopropyl alcohol, it's cheap enough to buy a couple bottles of it and a plastic container to submerse the board in from the dollar store. Then you won't have to worry about rust and they will dry out a lot faster.
This video makes me proud of my name.
It really works and works a LOT to wash motherboards by the way, the same goes with GPUs. Highly recommendend
try this bryan: soak them in the bucket with detergent overnight,and then rinse it until no detergent left on the motherboard.then dry it for good.i always use blower to blow any remains water on the slots and ports.then let it dry on the sun for about 4 hours in clear weather.trust me,hope you gonna do my trick
I’ve never considered using water myself but I have dropped gadgets in water. Shut em off then turned em on later and they worked.
Heck yes to the Dad Man remix and Tech Yes-urrection of some failed motherboards!
One idea for you on the badly bent pins is to use a micro-torch to heat them first, this will help prevent them from snapping off. Yes, it is risky but with a dead board there is no harm done.
Here in RP washing motherboards thru running water with liquid dish washing soap is quite effective. We use half an inch paint brush not toothbrush. After the rinse, we put em directly under the sun for about 30 mins. Then changing its postion every 30 mins for 3 hours. This is assuming a sunny weather. We have a ratio of 4-5 out of 10. The rest would be bios, mosfets or crystal related issues. Some needs BGA rework.
Hey Brian, YET another great one to bookmark! NOTE RE Cheap & Decent Case Ideas; Deepcool MATREXX Series Cases, can be purchased with or without ARGB. See if they're available around you? I bought one several months ago (on a lark), for my son's build, I was MORE than impressed with the materials, rigidity, stability & overall quality - compared with the Corsair (ie 100 series @ about the same $ USD), NIGHT & DAY!!! More like working with a top Series Corsair Case, feels more like 500D!
Anyway, this was my original impression, so I'm still buying them. Specifically the Matrexx 55 models, decent size and fitment. the Cougar M3xx Series are also decent, yet (imho) don't "Feel" as solid, as far as materials.
Keep up the good work!!!
See you in the next one ;)
What kind of spray do you use to coat the MB? Can I use WD40? hehe
WD-40 is okay but I always use it with high mixture of water and immediately blow dry it. It leaves an anti corrosive layer. Never had issues, but do not use that method with aging thermal pads. Gpu's need to be repasted after using WD-40.
9:50 I just had this happen to my Optiplex 9020 SFF. It was working fine and then I swapped the SATA cables because the boot drive has to be on SATA0 (learnt from your videos). I'm crushed but I'm glad I found out the reason.
edit: Just discovered the real reason. I'd pulled the boot SSD out of the PC to use in another PC to flash the BIOS to the latest version, then put the SSD back in. For some reason, pulling a RAM stick out or putting one back it would allow the PC to boot that one time, so I used that to flash the BIOS on this PC, too.
I'm commenting before watching the video. Yes you can clean any pc component with water, hose (low pressure obviously), i've done it dozens of times, just make sure to let it dry for a LONG time, like5-7 days to be sure. oh and try to get as much power of the capacitors before washing
Done this many times without any problems. Drying the boards etc at 50C in the oven with hot air to make sure all moist is gone. Repeating this over a couple of days as moist might be trapped inside the boards. Be careful with higher temps as the solderings and plastic will melt :)
Try baking the rest of the boards. back in the day i brought a gts 8800 back to life by removing everything from the card then placing it on a hotplate. I put a little ball of aluminum foil at each corner to keep the board from making direct contact with the plate.
There’s nothing wrong with using water. But I generally use right after water an alcohol bath so that evaporates asap. After Hurricane María I remember a friend that had to clean some servers with mud damage using isopropyl alcohol trays after hosing them down.
We washed and soaked our motherboard for like 1day in water and dry it by putting under sun light, it was back in 2003 or something like that. And boom it got fixed.👌🏾 Still remember those awesome days 🤩
back in the 90's when i worked for a small repair shop, sometimes we would have to clean mainboards down with dish soap and water, and were thoroughly dried in a warm oven before any work was carried out on them - if you didnt the pcb could bulge this was particularly true for some consoles and home computers of the time - dont forget pcb's are hygroscopic
So corrosion is highly alkaline, if you have crust on chips to the point of having to rub them off from being in a high humidity environment; putting the non working boards through a vinegar bath (and similarly drying) you will probably fix a few more. If you are willing to resolder, probably even more of em. Cheers.
@16:00 ... well, somewhere around that point. Another explanation... It could be a few cracked solder joints on the memory slots or under some chips, due to the board flexing (maybe too heavy cooler or video card putting pressure on the board, or the guy hitting the computer multiple times causing mechanical stress). A bit of flux and a soldering iron on the solder joints of memory slots takes 10-20 min of your time. It could also be some oxidized contacts in the slots. One trick i learned is to fold a strip of copier paper 2-3 times to get it thick enough and then slide it across the memory slot to rub the surface of the paper across the metal contacts.. the paper surface is abrasive enough to break off oxides and crap that may be on the contacts. Erasers (rubber, pink stuff on crayons) and fiberglass brushes (google it) are used on pins like the ones on DIP bios chips
You probably did it in part two, but did you try programming the bios on some of those boards? You got one asrock board working, take bios chip from that and use it with the others?
Also, for those boards that don't work, why don't you use a multimeter to see if there's some mosfets shorted or not? 10 minutes of research on RUclips will tell you how to test mosfets and regulators. A hot air gun and some flux can be enough to desolder a damaged mosfet... so you could desolder a good one from one bad board and transplant it on another to get one of two boards working (if that's the issue)
The pain of seeing those LGA sockets getting hit with the water reeeeee
Reee? Fuck off
Morgan Limes lol, you seem sensitive
Feel the pain Intel boy
YES..fatty dust and such . did it successfully numerous times on phone boards,gpu`s and pc mainboards' . And blowing dry with a air compressor , blow properly under the chips .., did several de soldering of Lan chips after lightning stroke on pc and laptops trough the lan port , installing a lan card afterwards. i had a pc to my shop where the costumer had sprayed mainboard with crc56. wow :) washed it up and worked again
I just recovered a really nice Asus M4A79 Deluxe board with hosing + BIOS reprogramming. Just a tip for anyone looking - when troubleshooting an older board with no post code debug readout - plug in a speaker into the front panel headers. That was the difference between having a working board and not for me. The beeps indicated first a bad memory stick, second - no gpu, which I then discovered to be 2 dead PCIe slots. Also, for anyone interested - I used a CH341A programmer to reprogram the BIOS.
4:04 I had a mini-heart attack!! 😱😱😱
I'm giving my nearly departed stereo the side eye right now. I swapped for it as a favour and the chance of it being an upgrade power wise if I managed to fix it. All the horizontal boards were caked in years of dust and it had what sounded like typical shorted speakers. Cleaned what I could with alcohol and a number 6 watercolour brush and it worked! It sounded awesome, the display came back to life, the buttons did what the labels actually said... for one glorious day 😅. I was gonna try and find a shop to fix it but then I remembered this video! I think it might be time for a full stripdown and hosing for my venerable Panasonic!
We actually steam cleaned circuit boards at REI. I would strip keyboards and then blast them clean at our outdoor steam station listening to the roar of the crowd at Texas Stadium in Irving long ago.
Had a nice "lesson learned" when cleaning my ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard. Make sure the CPU or socket cover is in place!!! I had some thermal paste that had gunked up around the socket edge, so I took an absorbent cleaning cloth and gently started cleaning close to the socket. Then the cat arrived and I turned for a second...then looked back to find that about a 1/2 inch square of the cloth fiber had hooked itself to the pins. Holy moly...disaster. I did not know what to do at first. I set it down as best I could and started to ponder...how the hell to separate this mess?
I got out a BIC lighter...and burned the fibers that had hooked themselves. IT WORKED! I was fast with the flame, so as not to screw up electronics or solder. It was a scary time. All is well with the board.
I know this is old ..but you can also get a heater and heat up some of the reballs on them boards..sometimes they overheat and mend together..heating them back up most of the times..does it....I used to put them in a oven a 205f for 2 hours....peace....i4i.
‘Acid build up’.... it’s called corrosion Brian 👍🏽
Dam Asrock motherboards, had several of those die on me other the years
At least 3 asrock's died on me
That's what happens when you buy AsRock boards
The newer asrock mbs are top quality, better than asus... in the x370 chipset the BEST mb is asrock, the best price quality is the asrock, and so on
Had a Asrock B350M Pro4, it was giving me constant BSOD and instability, driving me insane.
Never gonna buy Asrock again.
Never again.
MSI has the best mobos
Bryan, use your heat gun to on the metal bent pins, and use a fine tip needle to move the pin under a microscope
Before i even watch this, the 2 motherboards i have have both been through me throwing them in a sink and washing them like a dish lol. But... Only thing you have to be mindful of is some chips may hold water in or under them, so usually to combat this i usually try to either pour a lot of high percentage rubbing alcohol on those or if i have enough I'll submerge the board in rubbing alcohol, once done with all that i usually throw a hair dryer on the mobo for a while to heat those parts I'm worried about to evap the water faster. Just what i normally do though. Wouldn't have a pc if i didn't do a lot of this stuff since i rarely have money for anything so if i can't clean or fix it... Then i don't have it.
Jayztwocents sprays his graphics cards. Brian washs them in the sink.
Had to find this video to say I doused a totally dead Gigabyte Z77 motherboard today (wouldn't even power up let alone POST) with brake cleaner, let it dry and hooked it all up... Working perfectly! Would have never given this a go without you Bryan 😂
wow you lucky. I just lost 3 mobos after spraying with WD40. But other sprayed network switches are working fine.
The Phanteks Eclipse (PH-EC300PTG_BK) Steel ATX Mid Tower Tempered Glass Case, Black is a great case with ambient RGB and fans. It's very easy to build in and is only $54 us on Amazon. I'm partially paralyzed, and I just built a system in it one handed...
Spotted that Gen 1 x58 DXSO!! Same board I did that x5675 video we talked about!!👌👍Thanks for sharing those nuggets with us B!! 🙏
Might be a silly question but where do you get the motherboard display stand?
What is the brand of that multi purpose spray ? I want one :)
Me too
ff
X3 please. Or alternative brands
I want it too
"So I've just cleaned up the first six motherboards here, waiting for them to dry..." *pans over to the dryer*
my brain: oh no oh god no
Best budget case Cooler master lite 5, used it for a build and loved it.
We used to wash our TV boards at Magnavox years ago, because we could not legally dispose of the solvents we used to use. We used a dishwasher and de-ionized water.
I have done this. No soap,batteries removed b4,yes it can help clean them but that's it. Use canned air to blast them mostly dry,then Let them sit for a day in a warm room to dry out any water left in the socket,slots,etc.
For the mb's that have dual bios - maybe try swapping the bios chips in the opposite socket. Making the back-ip bios becoming the main bios and main bios the backup bios to see if that might make a difference.
Watching this in 2-22-21 on a 775 core 2 quad 2.66 w Asus P5N-D ...has been a good board so far for me using it as a desktop in an antique atx FT case with a Hd 7670 graphics . I game with some old Win 95-8 games. Love your content Bryan
that coating your getting on bios chips is created by electrolysis. this happens sometimes because of different metals in contact with each other.
I'm going to try this now. My old fm2 Mobo gave out after lightning strike,( boots up but no display),now I m stuck watching vidz on the phone which is also ancient ( Nexus 5).
One out of three is a good batting average. Inspired me to run the faucet on a 1156 board that boots but does not recognize any of the USB ports. I did not brush any of the sockets. Don't want to deal with bent pins. It's drying as I type this.
EDIT ADD WITH RESULT: Incredibly, the mobo booted after drying out. However, the pre-existing problem did not resolve.
I have some thermal paste in my socket of a mother board I dont know how to get out. I love your videos man they are always good to watch and learn stuff from you. The old man talking about the mother boards with the subliminal style messagins really cracked me up lmao, I also have an asrock mother board for an am3 chip i bought a while back, if you move the pc while its on it shuts off. If someone bumps my desk it shuts off I checked all the chords the ram and everything was plugged in i unplugged and plugged everything but the chip back in and it still did it. Im glad to see you shine some light on this mystery for me.
Turpentine oil dissolves thermal paste easily.
Just got myself rx570. Few month back I'm hesitated to buy this gpu but thanks tech yes city for making video about budget build. I'm truly satisfied with my current build.
Bryan the necromancer! Brings back PC parts from the dead!
NO! JUST NO! You don't clean motherboards with tap water! Why? It leaves potential for rust and corrosion! There is minerals in the water, that may get left over when it is dry! YOU ALWAYS use Isopropyl alcohol to clean motherboards!! ALWAYS ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL!!!
This is how I spend my Saturday night
It remind me when few years ago, i wash my old dead motherboard with detergent, after that it works flawlwssly
Seeing him washing everything just like that in the sink...
I now know how an exorcism feels like.
Hey! Dont just let them to dry up! Use compressed air (get a small compressor) and use it to displace the water from below the chips.
If you just let them to dry up the water will leave residues on the board.
True
"If it ain't broke don't fix em"
This guy: "How about breaking them intentionally before fixing em?"
Have you encountered any motherboards that had bulging/leaking capacitors? I necromanced a bunch of boards and a few video cards by soldering in new caps.
@@cdnron75 Very true. I also go by guilt by association, where if I see a bunch of caps with the same value and one of them is leaking, all of the caps with that value get replaced, because they likely came from the same production lot. After I'd pull them out, I'd test them on a capacitance meter and every one from that group would be bad, even if it wasn't visible.
Funny you should mention it, one I fixed a few days ago was also a 775.
That doesn’t happen much nowadays. Most modern boards use solid caps instead of electrolytic.
@@cdnron75 does it matter from your perception, if you use common capacitors or japan ones, high durability, or whatever they promote? Gigabyte and Asus started to use them back in s775 times. Are they really more durable? Do you solder these ones, or common ones?
I mean these: www.gigabyte.com/microsite/98/html/technology-guide-ultra-durable-1.htm
@@cdnron75 thank you, so seems they are worth it. They advertise , that they are 2.5x more durable. That means, they can hold even over 15 years in average. Had you experience to bulging even with these? Or only common ones did you see bulged.
Also, is there a way how to find out, which one board have? Except advertisement. But I'm afraid to buy any other board, than Gigabyte, because of this. I'm buying old boards from 2013-2014, because of extreme budget, eighter Ivy Bridge ofr Haswell. I'm scared to buy anything else as Ultra Durable 3 Gigabyte, with such old boards.
I often get desktops from friends that smoke, or from pet owners and the whole PC is usually very nasty inside. I've sink washed motherboards, graphics cards, fans, and cases. One added step I do to the electronics after washing is dipping them in a pan of distilled water / RO water. then I blow them out with compressed air and fan dry overnight. I never had any issues with rust or corrosion. I've even cleaned keyboards and gamepads this way. Not the ones with LCD screens. Those I just blow out with compressed air.