Mainboard Refurbishing. Part 1

How to repair, refurbish, clean old computer mainboards in extreme, but safe mode. First, we need to clean all ugly dust.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• diy
• mainboard
• repair
• clean
• wash
• bga
• hot
• air
• dust
• cpu
• pci
• agp
• electronics
• dimm
• motherboard
• gpu
• chipset

[littlewazz]

If you want to get them wet Just use contact cleaner. Other wise plain tap water will ruin integrated circuits because of the minerals in it. To dry a mobo do not use a heat gun 1" from the board just place it on counter to air dry for the day. Your video is bullshit

[savelkaunas]

@littlewazz nope, it works. I just forgot to enter warning text "Not to use by stupid people with dirty tap water and damaged hot air guns and no brains".

:)

[simontay1984]

you're going to end up melting the RAM and PCI slots, plastic melts at much lower temp than solder. and the capacitors are definately going to be damaged after washing and heating like that.

[savelkaunas]

@simontay1984 use proper temperature.

[expertprogrammer]

Can I give you my MacBook pro to clean t for meh?

[savelkaunas]

@expertprogrammer Currently our company use 3 apple cinema monitors (there is small review in my web), one macbook air, one another apple notebook, one imac and last week we bought MacPro (like server, with dual xeon cpu) I think we have 3 iphone (old generations). Also we have about 30 PC windows systems, and two i7 servers. And several pizza box size PC running as advanced routers. Lots of working computers.... And we recycle several metric tons of computers per week.

[TortureBot]

The bath you gave the boards didn't bother me anywhere near as much as the heat gun... I mean, come on... instead of torching the board like that, don't you think a hair dryer from a little more distance or an air compressor followed by leaving the board in a well-ventilated room would have been much less stressful on it and the components? Hot soldering irons have been known to damage traces, and you're holding a heat gun within an inch from many of the chips for extended periods of time!

[savelkaunas]

@expertprogrammer no, we do not clean crap.

[XTYNoLuck]

i've meet allot of "practical" people like this guy as an service technician, and they all end up giving up...

[jrichtman]

Actually aside from the hard drive, cleaning boards in soap and water is not uncommon most factories do this. As long as no power is going through the board it is safe, and you must let them dry completely before applying power. The hard drive on the other hand have air holes which would allow water inside and possibly take a very long time to dry completely. But if it's not for you simply clean your boards another way.

[100chuckjones]

i cant understand why you didnt show us the finished product??..it back in the case and running??why??..because this video is fake..dont ever do this.

[Wongsta16]

IT WORKS

[charger334]

sweet

[jakese7en1]

Yes, this method may clean motherboards and they may all power up and work fine afterwards. However I sure washing in tap water and force drying with a heat gun will shorten the life of the board.

If you resell these on eBay can you post back with your seller id so we can all avoid.

[mygaffer]

@ReCkLeSsErr0r As opposed to writing "good comeback"? My, you DO have a sharp wit, don't you?

[ReCkLeSsErr0r]

@mygaffer

Good comeback, kiddie.

[mygaffer]

@ReCkLeSsErr0r A clever ploy to keep me from embarrassing you further but unfortunately you have all the intelligence of a moldy mayonnaise so your plan fell through.

[Gatewayuser200]

@savelkaunas can i have the old computers your company throws out