Cleaning your PC lesson 1. (CPU)

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:07

This will be the first in a series of tutorials in cleaning your pc.

In todays lesson, we will clean our cpu's and heatsinks.

Checklist:

1. Power cable plugged out.
2. Lux extra-soft handwash.
3. Drying towel.

Firstly, we will remove the heatsink from the cpu, and put it in the water.
(Remember to delute some soap into the water. Use boiling-hot water for best results.)

Now carefully lift the cpu out of its socket. (Be carefull, cpu's are very fragile.)

Now let the cpu soak in the hot water for 10 minutes, giving the soap time to work its way through the millions of transistors.

Carefully dry the cpu, taking care not to bend the pins. Also dry the heatsink.

Now reassemble and plug the power cable back in.

On newer models, the heatsink also comes with a fan. Dont worry, a fan is a magnet to dust, so a good wash will do it good.

(I can not be held responsible if you mess up you computer

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Gldm · Post by **Gldm** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:12

I find dishwashing liquids tend to work better on the tougher thermal pastes such as the adhesive kind. Toothpaste also works fairly well.

Post by **Y0da** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:16

Hehe. I dare you to show us pics of you doing that to your P4 processor.

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:19

ummmmmmm. no.

(I'm going to switch it on now!)

Gldm · Post by **Gldm** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:25

Y0da wrote:Hehe. I dare you to show us pics of you doing that to your P4 processor.

I would but I don't own a P4 and removing my laptop's Pentium M is too much hassle. If I had my desktop here I'd do it to my athlon XP, I've done it to several of those.

Though the most recent one I've done is this cyrix 233 I found lying in someone's backyard weeds. Been trying to get the system to boot again for the hell of it.

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:25

If I get to the BIOS, that means the cpu is working right?

eagerBeaver · Post by **eagerBeaver** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:27

w00t ! a p4 in water, arnet you taking it a bit too far ?

Post by **Y0da** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:31

Gldm wrote:
Y0da wrote:Hehe. I dare you to show us pics of you doing that to your P4 processor.
I would but I don't own a P4 and removing my laptop's Pentium M is too much hassle. If I had my desktop here I'd do it to my athlon XP, I've done it to several of those.

Though the most recent one I've done is this cyrix 233 I found lying in someone's backyard weeds. Been trying to get the system to boot again for the hell of it.

Ok read P4 or equivelant. Your latest PC. Capish?

Gldm · Post by **Gldm** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:32

Pff, it's fine as long as you dry everything after you're done. I've washed all sorts of solid state PC parts. Just don't try it with a hard drive, water will get in the vent hole and it'll never work right.

And yes if you get a POST screen it's a pretty good bet the CPU works. Check your temps though.

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:35

Yeah the paste is in the trash can. so theres no good 'link' between the cpu and heatsink.

daBoss · Post by **daBoss** » 24 Jan 2005, 11:49

i wont try yet!
Would love to see it though!

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 24 Jan 2005, 12:30

I prefer to keep my Athlon 64 as dry as possible

The only liquid I ever use on it is pure alcohol, when I need to clean thermal paste off it.

Post by **Y0da** » 24 Jan 2005, 12:32

My motto is 'If it aint broken don't wash it!"

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 24 Jan 2005, 12:34

Clever motto to live by...

capanno · Post by **capanno** » 24 Jan 2005, 12:46

The next lesson will be on cleaning your hard drive.

Sojourn · Post by **Sojourn** » 24 Jan 2005, 13:57

Capanno_Del_Kimakigami wrote:The next lesson will be on cleaning your hard drive.

Gawd help us all !!!!!!!!!!

ElDiablo · Post by **ElDiablo** » 24 Aug 2005, 22:51

I remeber a while ago, in the days of the Pentium III. I was bored, so I took of the heatsink of the CPU while in Quake III Arena, and about 10 seconds later the system hung... So I removed the extreamly hot cpu, and threw it in the swimming pool to cool it down, I then took it to the deep freeze and froze it for a day, after that, I wiped the ICE off and put it back in the system, and overclocked it from 600 to 800, still without a heatsink. It actually booted into windows, since it was very cold at boot time. So 37 seconds later the system hung again, and I repeated the process on last time. All-in-all, the CPU actually survived!!! I was very impressed! Allthough, I'll never try it with my AMD, cuz I removed the heatsink of an Athlon 1200Mhz and it burned out

Basipooh · Post by **Basipooh** » 24 Aug 2005, 22:54

u have way too much time and money!
lol
JJ

shlebib · Post by **shlebib** » 24 Aug 2005, 22:55

I 2nd that!

ElDiablo · Post by **ElDiablo** » 24 Aug 2005, 22:59

I will try it with a Celeron very soon, I have a 2.4Ghz overclocked to 3.2Ghz that's just lying around here, so when I'm bored again, I'll do the same process to it and see if it survives...

PS: a Geforce FX 5200 works when you wash it with water and leave it in the sun to dry for a week

Basipooh · Post by **Basipooh** » 24 Aug 2005, 23:01

way too much time on your hands dude........

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 24 Aug 2005, 23:25

Allthough, I'll never try it with my AMD, cuz I removed the heatsink of an Athlon 1200Mhz and it burned out

I once accidently didn't attach the heatsink properly when testing a client's socket A board with a Duron 1.2... the chip burned itself out in about 6 seconds! I was wondering what the funny burning smell was, until I noticed the HSF clip hadn't caught the socket edge properly!

Thankfully the board was just fine...

shlebib · Post by **shlebib** » 24 Aug 2005, 23:26

Dom wrote:
Allthough, I'll never try it with my AMD, cuz I removed the heatsink of an Athlon 1200Mhz and it burned out
I once accidently didn't attach the heatsink properly when testing a client's socket A board with a Duron 1.2... the chip burned itself out in about 6 seconds! I was wondering what the funny burning smell was, until I noticed the HSF clip hadn't caught the socket edge properly!

Thankfully the board was just fine...

If the board is fine all is well then!!!!!!!!!11w

Snowflke · Post by **Snowflke** » 24 Aug 2005, 23:31

I did the same with my AMD 64 3.2. Took the grill of and was busy cleaning it, got bored turned on PC played Quake3 for 30 minutes before my dad reminded me about the heatsink, turned the PC off instantly and put the heatsink back on. Everything still runs fine.

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 24 Aug 2005, 23:35

That's lucky! I think the current chips have got fairly good built-in heat protection... PC usually just shuts down if it hits a critical temperature.