help, got superglue in the middle of the mobo..

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Dr_plague

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Building a computer and my bro dropped super glue in it, now there is a part that is covered in it about 1" wide in the middle of the mobo. it also is covering the bottom of 2 capacitors.. so....

what now? is it done for for?
or can it still be used even with the super glue?
or shall i run the risk of taking it off?

well thanks for any help on this matter
 
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Super glue is non-conductive. Actually seen an electronics engineer a term behind me wreck his project because he used Krazy Glue to hold some DIP sockets to his circuit board. The glue ran down the legs of the sockets and isolated the legs of the chips from the sockets. It took him days to figure out what was wrong. A week to rebuilt it.

Anyway back to your problem...
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I have no clue what kind of chemical reaction you might cause trying to clean it off of there.

I would suppose it isn't conductive since it has had time to set.

If you can gently pull some off with your nail without getting near the MoBo caps that would be great.

I wouldn't suggest putting metal tolls to the board, and I hope you didn't freak and smear it.

Any pics would help assess the situation.
 
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If the glue isn't conductive, don't worry about it. Call the phone number on the glue bottle and ask customer service if that glue product is conductive (electrically).

Best way I have found to clean thermal paste CPUs is to dap it with 99% rubbing alcohol. Do use other than 99% rubbing alcohol it won't evaporate. 99% rubbing alcohol can be found at most stores with pharmacies, its in the aisle in stores like Fred Meyers.

If you get a lower alcohol content of rubbing alcohol you could dry off the motherboard with a hair dryer.

Get the 99% rubbing alcohol on the glue before it dries if you want to go that route and use toothpicks to scrape off bits of glue.

Also recommend you build in a location that your brother does not have access to.
 
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http://tinypic.com/r/169jlmo/8
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here you are, no smear, i didnt know till it was dry already

 
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Super glue is non-conductive. Actually seen an electronics engineer a term behind me wreck his project because he used Krazy Glue to hold some DIP sockets to his circuit board. The glue ran down the legs of the sockets and isolated the legs of the chips from the sockets. It took him days to figure out what was wrong. A week to rebuilt it.

Anyway back to your problem. As long as it didn't get into a connector you should be fine. It can't short anything out because as I said it's non-conductive. I wouldn't try to remove it, it's pretty strong stuff and it's likely to rip up the solder mask, possibly traces if there is any underneath it, and any components its attached to especially if they are surface mount (SMD).

Next tell your brother to stay away from your computer with the super glue.
 
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thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Your not going to get that off with isopropyl alcohol.

Had a look at the picture, you should be OK. None of the components covered produce much heat. If they had been a FET or power resistor or something like that, it might have thermally isolated the component which could have cause d the component to heat up.

That's quite a puddle of glue, was he mad at you and squeezed out the whole tube out onto your motherboard.
 
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hahahaha well he was being moody XD,
So i booted it up its working fine so far without issues, if anything it would act as an insulator, good thing its my secondary pc running off of my champ of a lga775 socket ^_^
oh and as for my bro he isnt coming near my pc again pretty much. also thanks again it was quite the scare
 
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