I admire your skills and patience, Andrew. Watching you do this is very educative and relaxing, but doing it... it's whole another story ;) I would be stressed like crazy trying this 😂😂
Very good job! The first time I ever wash electronic equipment was in the military. I was so surprised to know this could be done! You are very patient when you work and this is displayed in your results.
This is how I have done this for the last more than forty years: Take it apart mechanically as much as possibly. Wash parts in a solution that can dissolve whatever dirt is present, sometimes ordinary liquid hand soap can do the trick, other times you have to go with more aggressive solvent, basic or acid contains, but it all depend. Not all components/parts may like this treatment, some may loose their printed information, some may be permanently damage (some components can handle diesel/gasoline/acetone well, but not water!). Immediately after washing, rinse with plenty of clean water. The parts are blown off with compressed air and placed in a hot air blower oven at 50-70 degrees centigrade for at least 2-3 hours or just until the next day. Assembly/repair, test and done. The tricky part is to find what can dissolve the dirt that is present, many household cleaning solutions can often be used. Sometimes you may have to use different cleaning agents to remove different kinds of dirt on the same part, plus you may need to clean off old flux residue too with IPA there is not a one-stop solution to the cleaning.
I washed electronics with tap water (with dishwashing soap) many times and all works fine to this day. Thoroughly drying is a key to success - it takes 12-18h near heater in the winter or 48h in the summer. Don't forget to remove all soap with a lot of water. Air compressor should help even better than only washing and drying. You won't see any corrosion if there isn't any current through this time.
I have tried the same, tap water is okay as well, but it depends where do you live. To some places in the world tap water isn't clean as many claim to be, full with minerals and other things, hard water. In place where I live the tap water is good. By the way, once even I clean motherboard using nitro thinner. One guy brought asus formula ( back in a day when these were new ) covered with paint and nitro thinner has done a good job :D
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew Generally water in most of Europe is fine, of course there are still many places where is bad or something, but not that dirty like Ganges. EU puts pressure on ecofriendly life - water purification, less fumes from cars, recycling and reusing policy etc., so I am not afraid in terms of water quality. I hope people all around the world follow the example, because Europe alone can't make a huge difference... and water will be then clearer and healthier :)
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew and you mentioned nitro thinner... I know it is useful for cleaning hands from paint for fences, but I've never think about cleaning motherboards. I must try it one day! :D
Great Video. I am somewhat confused on the degreaser. Would "Simple Green" be ok. I don't know very much about kitchen degreasers. Maybe someone could reccommend a brand. Thanks for the video.
i used to was motherboards with hot tap water soap and a very soft brush..left it off to dry afterwards and looked like brand new...also working normally..
I have a Gigabyte H97-HD3 which has been in my machine for 3+ years, I want to give it a good clean and sell it as it's still a quality bit of kit for someone
@@robertcapa6668 just clean it with air buddy, and for more clean use alcohol 90% ++ worth any pice of technology, don't try washing if unsure what happened next.😊
I just washed one before I noticed this video lol 😂 except that i washed it with soap and tap water which is not recommended, and then bake it under the 38°c sun and blowing all the components that might still have water underneath such as CPU socket and PCH with compressed air for every hour. The motherboard still works and I haven't seen any issues yet.
Thanks buddy, I have a Gigabyte H97-HD3 which has been in my machine for 3+ years, I want to give it a good clean and sell it as it's still a quality bit of kit for someone, you've done a stella job on that, I hope that I can do the same....have a fun day! :D
Yes, you can wash PCBs with water - pretty much any electronic equipment you have bought for at least the last 10 years will have been put through an aqueous cleaning system and they were in use (although less common) long before that.
Hi thanks and congratulations for such nice quality videos, both in video and content!! I'd like to ask you if you recommend washing laptop's motherboard the same way. I'm asking because I've never saw you doing it. Many thanks again!
Hi bro, yes you can wash laptop motherboard in the same way, just after washing and drying leave the motherboard for at least 12-24 hrs aside for any case
You can wash anything at least once. Vinegar is great for removing tobacco residue and a lot cheaper than high test ISO. Contact cleaner would have been the best choice for that chipset thermal compound. Acetone probably would work too but I wouldn't get acetone anywhere near PC components because of all the ABS. Demineralized or distilled water is a good idea so you don't leave anything behind but it isn't for conductivity reasons because you're gonna have it 110% dry before you power it up. I cracked up laughing when you said to rinse off the demineralized water with ISO to prevent corrosion because ISO is a stronger corrosion promoter than water and is hygroscopic. Nothing is going to corrode if you let the water air dry. Use a hair dryer to speed it up or put it in an oven set to 'warm' if you are that concerned. I would make sure you have it in the middle of the oven and have a sheet of foil underneath it on a rack so it isn't getting hit directly with convected and radiated heat from the heating element or burner and pre heat the oven. 170F is as low as mine goes and that's about 76C which is safe for any component on that board. I am a certified aviation maintenance tech so corrosion and solvents are in my professional area of expertise, along with general materials science. Your OCD is showing.
To remove that kind of pink bubblegum-like thermal paste it's best to use some sort of oily solvent in my experience. I usually use wd40, but kerosene or even diesel would probably work aswell. Alcohol does work, but with oil it's a lot faster
A few years ago while I was in my internship period (I've placed in IT Department) the office had so many used PC spareparts, like motherboard, processor, monitor, some ram sticks, etc...even some good gpu (i think its an AMD and some Nvidia graphics card, but forgot which series) Then I asked my boss why they only store it, not do any cleanup, or restoration...my boss only answer 'well even If I want, we don't have spare time to do that' Imagine if all that spareparts used to build a gaming pc..atleast the employee can use it to do some gaming while resting 😅
hey Andrew! I've been your subscriber for some years now. i would love to inquire about upgrading my old Dell workstation T3500 processor (W3565) to a higher performance. Please suggest a better and faster CPU. Thank you.
Use a sewing needle to straighten pins. Strong and a smaller diameter. Use with needle nose pliers if your needle is to small to hold. But a bigger needle is best. Take care.
This is a great detailed tutorial on how to clean a motherboard the right way. However fixing bent pins is a real PITA sometimes. I have a cheap electric magnifying scope with light from Amazon that gives nice close up view of cpu socket. I always make sure not to drink too much coffee before I attempt to fix bent cpu pins lol. It is like doing brain surgery, one slip and the patient go bye bye. I have had to give up on a really nice Asrock Z390 Killer SLI board recently. It was in beautiful appearance in original box and packaging but, because a few pins were so severely bent backwards and I didn't have small enough tweezers to hold the pin down while using other tweezer to bend the pin back to place. Can you recommend what size tweezer/tool would be appropriate for this task ?
I would like to know from expert (not pc expert), which is the differences between distilled water and normal bath water, i know the second is worse because minerals can oxidize worse but oxygen is present almost the same so especially if water is hot it can oxydize metals, or the wetting is so fast it can't oxydize much?
Yes, but I have done this on simple way because most people tat will search for some solution don't have access to ultrasonic cleaner or no reason to someone buys ultrasonic cleaner for one use. This is for how to do at home in simple and cheap way
Sir can you give me this MoBo? I need it, coz I'm using MSI G31 P21TM and it's not upgradable now. My MoBo support Core2Duo and DDR2 RAM. That's why I'm asking from you. If you wish. Btw your oldest subscriber❤
I'm not sure about this motherboards, these were available with AMD and Intel 775. One series uses standard PC power supply but the other have charger. I'm not sure is this motherboard worth repair, because you can find the same factor motherboard for a cheap
Keyboards and mainboards can be cleaned in the dishwasher on a cold program without detergent. This is no joke, seriously. There are a lot of videos of this on RU-vid and I have already washed my Razer Black Widow Chroma keyboards 3 times in the dishwasher.
@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew You also need to dry them in the microwave after cleaning! :D (Please don't do that, that was a joke! But the dishwasher has always worked so far).
I would like to know from expert (not pc expert), which is the differences between distilled water and normal bath water, i know the second is worse because minerals can oxidize worse but oxygen is present almost the same so especially if water is hot it can oxydize metals, or the wetting is so fast it can't oxydize much?
