ARCTIC SILVER EMERGENCY

[CreamFilling]

After the 4th successful appliance of arctic silver 3 on a set of radeon 9800 pro's that i was doing last night i happend to make a big mistake. By mistake i got a bit of arctic silver 3 on the back of my finger and then when wreasleing with the HSF clips it got spread onto the part of the video card that gets plugged into the motherboard. I cleaned it with some cue tips but i can still see lines of the arctic silver 3 between the gold wire thingys that plug into the mobo. The arctic silver 3 doesnt want to come out with the cue tips and i dont want to put water on it. How do i save this 400 doller card? I was doing this for a bunch of friends and someone is going to be very pissed if i fry their card by shorting it out. Thanks in advance!

 

[scottchen]

just some damp paper towel, should do it, or use rubbing alcohol. wet it a little bit doesn't break it, as long as u don't turn it on while it's wet.

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[Crashman]

Use rubbing alcohol. Be carefull if you have a warranty tag or something because it will make a mess of that.

I've cleaned my own video card several times with WATER, the whole thing! And put it in a warm oven to evaporate the water from under the chips! It still works fine!

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[scottchen]

Ok, I guess you didn't turn on ur oven right?

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[Crashman]

In fact I did. My oven has a "warm" setting of 180F. Turning it on for about 10 minutes at that setting gets it to around 150F, then you turn it off and stick the card in.

Basically just get it warm enough that you can barely touch the rack for a couple seconds before it hurts.

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[ice_9]

Use 91% rubbing alcohol and a q-tip, not the standard 70% alcohol, and it should dissolve most of it right off.

 

[Grub]

I prefer to use a microwave..or a blowtorch on 'low'...


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[del_35]

I happen to know a bit about PCB's and have to add that you must avoid getting water into the PCB layers. Use small amounts of water if you must and make sure it is totaly dry immediately after.
Water damaged PCB's in mbile phones is a common version.

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[Bahumut]

Unless you want a lightly toasted video card like Crashman's, stay away from water.
Like Del 35 says, you don't want to get the water into the pcb layers.
If you do, your only option is to evaporate it quickly.

Stick with alcohol.
91% is better than the 70% (less water).
Either will work though.
Alcohol will evaporate at room temp, so just let it set a while after cleaning.

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[TKS]

You should also be able to hit the small metal 'lever' that release the pins out of the plastic holder...I use a small filed down phillips screwdriver to push the release on it. That will allow you to pull out the wire and pin then you can use the alcohol (denatured ethly works good) to clean the contacts AND the plastic housing.

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