Could I wash motherboard?

[aikea]

Any suggestion?

 

[Crashman]

Yes, I've washed just about everything with warm water. It's a good way to get pop out of things, but you have to dry things thoroughly. I'm not certain you're up to the task of drying things...

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[emogoch]

An old co-worker of mine had some sort of alcohol-based pen brush that he would use to clean electronics. Might try looking for something like that.

 

[endyen]

For those "wingdingium" type stains, there are a numbers of electronic cleaning solvents. Just make sure it says (and does) no residue. Perform the cleaning outside the case, and outside the house (those fumes can kill).
My favorite is a brake cleaning compound called amazingly "brakeclean"

 

[dhlucke]

I know you can put your keyboard in the dishwasher, but can you do the same thing with a motherboard?

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[Crashman]

with double membrane keyboards, it's probably easier to dry a motherboard!

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[offgreen]

Just use the microwave.

 

[chubbza5]

DONT USE THE MICROWAVE!!!! I have never tried that myself, but that sounds like cooked on dust to me. I would try using a can of compressed air or something of the sort for your first time, or until someone shows you how to properly clean it. If I was you I would try on an old board first, just to get the hang of it.

 

[endyen]

I'm sure offgreen was kidding. Then again, the noise the caps make when they pop...
There is too much other metal on the board though, so that might just keep the capacitors from exploding properly.

 

[offgreen]

DONT USE THE MICROWAVE!!!! I have never tried that myself, but that sounds like cooked on dust to me. I would try using a can of compressed air or something of the sort for your first time, or until someone shows you how to properly clean it. If I was you I would try on an old board first, just to get the hang of it.

Hmm. You know I usally just clean my hard drives with magnets and then give them a good salt water bath. Then I dry em in my microwave, and I assumed that would work with mobos. I guess now that I think about it, putting sensitive electrical componets in the microwave isn't a good idea.

 

[Nights_L]

I heard a woman dried her dog with microwave... then she ran into hospital, crying that her dog is cooked..

 

[Clob]

Lol... Yeah! I 2nd the microwave idea! Only if you like fire!

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[Rob423]

what's wrong with the traditional AIR CAN...

disassemble your system and air can each part... other then alittle dust.. wtf else would be on your boards... or do i even wanna know???

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[chubbza5]

I thought you were serious in your first post. You shouldn't do that to n00bs.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

LMAO!

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[Rob423]

lol

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[endyen]

A friend spilled a large glass of wine on my favourite keyboard. I hit the power switch before a drop hit the case. The keyboard was fine after a good dismantle and soak.

 

[Rob423]

yea it's over lol... your taking it way to far... the joke died out awhile ago..

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[gomerpile]

I Know its old but I wash mine with Crown 68360 safety solvent electric motor cleaner it is the best for cleaning parts.


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[b35853]

I have a ASUS A7N8X deluxe, this board has been one of my favorites. I have
it in a machine I've used for about 5 years maybe longer. Last year the system
started hanging up and freezing sometimes crashing. I did all the usual diagnostics
Norton and reg checkers etc. Nothing seemed to help. So I took the machine over
to my dad's and used his heavy duty air compressor and blew the dust out and
that worked. All problems stopped. Well, the same thing happened this year and
did the same thing over with the NU & etc. then took it back to my dad's shop
and blew it out, this time nothing happened same old freezing and hanging. By
this time I started getting pissed off. I remembered my college professors telling
about running his motherboard through the dishwasher and it working like it was
new. So, I had my wife to get her things out of the dishwasher and give me some
Cascade to go in it. I washed it in the dishwasher and turned off the hot drying, I took
it out before it got to that point. I put it in front of a fan for 12 hours. Then back
in to the case and it works like it did when it was new. Before I put it in the dishwasher
I removed the battery the CPU and ram.