CPU Cleaning Emergency?

[ATI]

hello all

i have cleaned my hsf and cpu with these products.

http://www.arcticsilver.com/images_v2/arcticlean/arcticlean_big.jpg

the amd 4400 while i was cleaning it both cleaning fluids slghtly gone down where the pins are, i have tried to dry them and left it outside to evobrate would it be fine do you guys think?


many thanks

 

[Justintime]

Yes, use a blow dryer for a minute or so if you're worried.

 

[ATI]

ohhh damn i dont have one i,m afraid

its been out for a while, do you think its safe if the cleaning fluid goes near the pins?

any other suggestions

 

[Justintime]

it'll be fine mate Don't worry about it, just give it time to dry if you can't get some heat on it. Try it in the morning, it'll be well dry, even an hour or so it'll be dry so it might be fine now. Liquids don't usually damage electronics when they're off and they wash pcbs etc.. with deionized water etc.. little cleaning fluid won't kill your chip.

 

[ATI]

cheers for that

have u had anything similar?

 

[Justintime]

I dropped an opteron 165 cpu in rubbing alcohol once, dropped a K6 in a glass of coke one time years ago too, bit of drying they worked fine after.

 

[sativa]

Done exactly the same mate, several times - these cpu's are very robust, don't worry!

 

[Durzel]

I dropped an opteron 165 cpu in rubbing alcohol once, dropped a K6 in a glass of coke one time years ago too, bit of drying they worked fine after.

I'll see you, and I'll raise you.

I've left a graphics card immersed in isopropyl (heatsink/fan removed) overnight to displace water residue that had gotten onto it. Dried within a few seconds of me taking it out, and worked perfectly afterwards.

 

[Angilion]

I think I can beat that.

Some while ago, I had a PC using an overclocked K6-2. I had one of those old tower cases where the entire outer case came off, rather than side panels. I was running it with the outer case off, because I'd been messing with jumper settings and hadn't bothered putting it back on.

Then I spilt about half a pint of fizzy lemonade over it. While it was on. It crashed rather quickly, while I was rushing to the wall socket to cut the power.

I stripped it down. The motherboard, memory and cards were drenched. The CPU socket was bubbling with fizzy lemonade.

Well, it was probably well fried, so I decided I had nothing to lose by washing it with tapwater in the kitchen sink (which was rather foolish, given that tapwater certainly isn't deionised or pure).

I left it overnight to dry, put it back together and it worked just fine.

 

[ATI]

thanks a lot guys

well let u know if i,m as lucky as you?