I accidentally applied to much silver thermal compound(conductive) and I ended up having it dribble down the sides. I decided it would be easier to clean my CPU if I took it out. When I pulled my CPU out of it's socket some of the... Help cleaning thermal paste off motherboardin...
Things I have tried so far 1. Starting in safe mode removing all AMD drivers restarting and installing all drivers again (Will black screen when the driver downloads again even before restarting) 2. Took the card apart again cleaned off thermal paste and put more on 3. Changing h...
ever since i got my pc (prebuilt) i never bothered to change thermal paste, and it seems i cant really avoid it anymore. watched a few videos and it seems pretty straight forward how to remove the cpu heat-sink (intel stock) on my i5-4690 unless anyone has any tips from expe...
Since it seems to have contacts instead of pins than a Q-tip or soft brush would be a good cleaning implement. Again I would be be careful and not scrub hard on the contacts. The thermal paste should come off by softly scrubbing the surface. 0 Likes Reply AMD...
It's possible that the thermal paste may have been applied too generously or unevenly, potentially causing short-circuiting. If you have extra thermal paste, carefully clean the paste off and reapply a small amount evenly on the CPU and GPU. External display test: Try connecting an ...
You can just leave that black film, because it prevents SMD elements from short with heatsink, but it also makes your life easier when you need to clean thermal paste for your chip :) ThinkPad T61, T420, T440p Moto Z Play Quick replyReply0...
We are using halogen free solder paste SAC305 type "no clean" for our circuit board assemblies. We are cleaning using an ultrasonic cleaning system with an aqueous cleaning medium specifically designed for ultrasonic cleaners. The problem is that after cleaning there is a white discoloration on ...
thermal paste went into the ryzen 1700 pins "I would be really leery of using a product that uses "cationic surfactants" to rinse the area. The reason being, cationic implies charge (positive charge) and also implies and aqueous solution. It is highly likely that the cations will be left...
We place thousands of the leadless components with center thermal pads that would be considered low clearance. All done with water-clean flux. We have been doing this for many years and I have yet to see an assembly come back for reliability or early failure caused by trapped or remaining ...
I'm currently trying to clean my pc and swap out my thermal paste however I can't figure out how to remove the fan on my cooler to unscrew everything to remove it. There are these clamps on each side and I don't know how to release them. There is also a soundcard I don't know...