Washing 12 Motherboards with WATER and Attempting to Fix them - (Can YES Fix it Pt. 1/2) 

If I had to get hosed, i'd want it to be a Tech YES Hosing.

"I keep myself clean, why not keep the motherboards clean." Tech Dad the Wise

HOLY CRAP your dads talking scared the crap out of me! I thought someone snuck up on me and then saw him fading in.

"It POSTs when the power switch is pressed on . Or else , it gets the hose again." -- Buffalo YES 😇

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.

EXTREME Tech YES Lovin WITH WATER! Can YES fix them? Yes! YES can fix them!

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.

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.

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!!!

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 .

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

What kind of spray do you use to coat the MB? Can I use WD40? hehe

Should try replacing the CMOS batteries, I have known them to be the most common post failure

Jayztwocents sprays his graphics cards. Brian washs them in the sink.

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.

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.

5:13. Dadman with pearls of wisdom.

YES! I wash mine every day with my wallet's tears. It's extremely effective!!!

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

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?

The pain of seeing those LGA sockets getting hit with the water reeeeee

You need ultrasonic bath to clean components spotless 😉 Its called oxidation, aluminium does not rust, but still can oxidase

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

Accidentally brushed the socket motherboard completely gone.

I bought some old Render farms, i7 920, 24gb ram and a MSI X58M board plus a 250gb drive and 270watt psu for only 25$ each.

Mom: honey what are you doing to our dishwasher? Me: washing my pc

For Real? I accidentally spilt about 1 tablespoon of water on my laptop now it turns on but has a black screen and caps lock is blinking. So washing it would fix it?

‘Acid build up’.... it’s called corrosion Brian 👍🏽

I have a friend who bent his pins backwards and i asked him how he did it and he told me he did nothing x)

What is the brand of that multi purpose spray ? I want one :)

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

I'm worried about the pins as they are directly under running water. There's force pushing the pins down.

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.

Brian! What would be an American Equivalent of that multi purpose spray? Or anyone can chime in really.

Plz see if you can clean oxidisation off pc parts with piss

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!

Seeing him washing everything just like that in the sink... I now know how an exorcism feels like.

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.

16:11 Does he just said 4 LAYER PCBs?? seriously?? 4??, even the "cheap chinese" motherboards has 6 layers minimum.

love the techyesmusic , Synthwave for life , and the voice of your dad!

It remind me when few years ago, i wash my old dead motherboard with detergent, after that it works flawlwssly

Brian accidentally cuts his finger. -Let's put some all purpose spray on it -Injury magically disappears

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

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

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.

Can anyone point me to where I could buy some Heatsinks for Motherboards? I have a few Boards that have a Space to Mount a VRM Cooler & a lot of them are the same size apx 4 inches in length.

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.

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!

What is this multipurpose spray he speaks of that’s a rust prevention and non-conducting?

Ever have to copy those removable BIOS chips to wake up the zombie boards?

Tech YES, Stick em in the Oven.

Maybe you temporarily fixed it but washing it with tap water will eventually cause it to corrode because of the minerals in the water. 😂

Dam Asrock motherboards, had several of those die on me other the years

gotta love when developers name their parts accordingly... FATALITY!!! lol thats a heap of DEAD boards... i cant wait for asus's DOA series it must be amazing... Asus Dead on arrival! lol asus is becoming food stamps level of quality aren't they....

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

Please don't wash your pc components with water! Drying them up is not enough!! Watch someone more competent like Luis Rossman explaining why this is stupid, thanks. As for tech yes, I am disappointed greatly.

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.

Galvanic corrosion two dissimilar metals when in presence of either water (liquid spill or humidity) and/or electricity and/or contaminants

As a last request of getting away from LGA 775 can we have one last video where you test a good 775 build against some modern low end hardware like an Athlon 3000g or newer Pentiums? Just to see if LGA 775 still has some kind of use in 2020.

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.

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).

Bryan, use your heat gun to on the metal bent pins, and use a fine tip needle to move the pin under a microscope

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.

LOL i have a z370 that just wont post at all. i should send it to tech yes city.

Hey thats my h97 fatal1ty motheboard. 6 years and still works fine with xeon E3-1231v3 and 750ti. Gonna buy 1660super soon.

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.

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!

What multi-purpose spray do you use for this?

Cleaning with water is 100% safe if you dry it good. I use hair dryer and turn on computer parts on the next day. If you still doubt then you can soak it with medical alcohol. It will replace the water and dry even faster

you should have used soap. I did and never looked back on that broken board.

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

So much work behind these videos. Thanks.

Thats called HowToBasic But electronic edition

Suggests part 1/2. Does that mean parts 1 and 2 or is this one part 1 of 2? If so I do not see part 2 listed yet so perhaps it's not uploaded/published yet?

Hey, man, please be more careful with that water getting in the CPU socket. I had a LGA 1156 Motheboard at some point and I bent some pins by cleaning it under a hose (no high pressure). It was a pain to bend all those pins back. I never got them exactly the way they were supposed to be, but it eventually (after a bunch of back scratching) ended up working again.

Hi! Just wanted to ask, what multipurpose spray are you using, Thanks!

Even tho I know what you are doing, I still feel uneasy watching u wash those motherboards.

Great video! What song starts playing at 3:28?

The CPU socket plastic protectors can easily bend the pins when inserted incorrectly.

I think I missed a step, I put my entire PC under the tap to clean it and now it doesn't work?

Great video! Could you tell me the song name at 3:50 (during first wash) please? Thank you!

“Oxidation” I think is the word. :)

Don't become an electronics engineer...be the car wash guy...you'll repair electronics like a boss...Dude! This is wrong! Use isopropyl alcohol to clean the boards,it evaporates faster and does not oxidise the metal parts!Water,even if you dried the board,will still add a layer of oxid on the parts,causing weak contact.Many of those boards can be repaired...but not with water! You might also ruined a few of them by washing them! Remind me to never let you near my electronics!

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...

Attempted to clean an Asus Gene v motherboard recently but ended up scrapping it as i damaged the cpu socket pins 🤣

Well, after washing it with water and detergent, then proceeding to spray it with wd40 clone, it doesn't boot. The led turns on for a while. IDK why ... Now on second step of rewashing the mobo again... Still drying it out, no hair dryer, only table fan.... It didn't work... I had no idea, i tried this before and worked

Rubbish! Here is how you properly prepare your motherboard: First, gently wash the motherboard in tepid water. Then boil the motherboard in salt water for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Finally, bake the motherboard at Gas Mark 5 for 1 hour, basting with the juices every 10 minutes, until it has turned a light golden colour. Serve on a bed of seasonal veg, and smother with gravy. Voila!

a motherboard that doesn't work right usually isn't because it's dirty. sure you can wash the board, but why? just use a soft brush to wipe off the dirt. the real fix is figuring out which parts failed and fixing it. this experiment doesn't make sense, it implies that washing a motherboard somehow fixes it, it doesn't, it just makes it clean

der8auer washes motherboards in the dishwasher

I accidentally dropped a 4790 i7 on my open socket once which ripped two pins straight off. It's something you don't want to live through :(

Add some detergent...it will be shiny

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.

I thought I was watching an episode of "They Live" for a second! 😂

My daughter's laptop had syrup spilled on it, and of course some made it's way inside it. Well, fast forward a couple years to when she finally brought it to me. Syrup on the bottom of the hdd, the center hub was corroded bad. The syrup had found it's way onto one of the sticks of ram too. Hot water and a tooth brush. Used alcohol and a hair drier to get everything back to normal. (I didn't wash everything, just the affected areas) Now she powers up but I got the flashing caps lock indicating bad ram. So I pulled the 4gb stick that had the syrup and played around with the other stick in the two slots. Yup, slots are cleaned up nice and working, but the one stick is bad. The hdd is bad too. So not bad. Went from won't even turn on a light to I can run diagnostics. It'll be back up as soon as the parts get here.

Hey Bryan, where do you get your thermals pads for mobos and gpus from?

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.

Anyone know why i cant get signal from board or new card. I got new ram new psu and card. Tried everything. All fans spin. Everything gets power. Cpu dont look damaged. Old card had fried prior to this. Can motherboard be faulty?

would not recommending scrub it.....just use dish washer, longer time with water spary rather than quick wash wish scrubbing.... also recommending use distilled water.....for obvious reason

I have an old z77 asus board that drives me crazy. Some days it turns on fine. Other days I have to constantly turn the power supply off reset it and press the buttons multiple times to get it booting. I'm actually typing on it right now. Some days it takes 15 minutes to get it started. I have no clue what could be causing that problem.

You should wash them in pure alcohol