I have an old Sapphire Radeon HD 5550 in my PC which only recently started misbehaving - mostly the PC would POST beep normally but there won't be any picture, or it would just show a black screen.
After I gave my PC a good spring clean early this January, I discovered lots of roach droppings on the board of the graphics card. So I dusted it off with my air compressor. I plugged it back in, and it booted to Windows - but with corrupted graphics. There are still some poop residues left - lots of them sticking to the capacitors. I've decided to buy a new graphics card (use it mostly for Starcraft II, Diablo III, and Steam games), but while I'm still saving up for that, can anyone recommend other solutions? Alcohol and toothbrush? A warm bath in epsom salts? I ask because perhaps the residues are the only thing causing the problem, and once I get rid of them, I might just get it working properly again..??? Any refurb companies here which might be able to revive this device?
After I gave my PC a good spring clean early this January, I discovered lots of roach droppings on the board of the graphics card. So I dusted it off with my air compressor. I plugged it back in, and it booted to Windows - but with corrupted graphics. There are still some poop residues left - lots of them sticking to the capacitors. I've decided to buy a new graphics card (use it mostly for Starcraft II, Diablo III, and Steam games), but while I'm still saving up for that, can anyone recommend other solutions? Alcohol and toothbrush? A warm bath in epsom salts? I ask because perhaps the residues are the only thing causing the problem, and once I get rid of them, I might just get it working properly again..??? Any refurb companies here which might be able to revive this device?
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