corrosion on CPU???

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rubin

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i posted about this in the motherboard section b4 i realized about this section... but anyways

i was gonna fix my gramas ol comp and i was told that the motherboard was bad, but when i took it apart there was a lot of white grime (which i assume is corrosion) all over the top side of the chip. i cleaned it all off and it is working fine now. ill check it in a few days for more corrosion and again in a few weeks.

anyone experience something like this?
 
corrosion from what? i dont see where corrosion would come from unless someone spilled something like their drink on the comp. ask grandma about that. ;)
 
yah thats exacly what i was thinking cause its the side thats up against the heat sink

also same guy told me that i could reset the motherboard by taking out the battery then moving some lil parts around.. waiting a couple minutes n putting it back. but i did this b4 cleaning up the cpu and it didnt do anything then

the original problem was that the comp would barely run, sometimes it'd get to the loading window but mostly not even that far. this guy came to her house and checked it out, did the little battery trick and it worked fine for 2 weeks but then same problem. i talked to him on the phone n he told me it was the motherboard


whatever this white stuff was there was quite a bit of it and all the "contacts" or whatever they are at the top of the plate were covered in it
 
i just read the other post.. ^_^ well, the cossosion you mean was probably that heat strip they used to paste on the stock heatsinks :) but read in the motherboard section, there i made a bigger post :P
 
oh no, that "corrosion" was probley the thermal paste use to transfer heat from the processor to the heat sink. i know that after a while it can look kinda icky... you need to go and get some artic silver from a computer store and reapply it...
 
i agree with the last 2 posts, i took apart my old compaq and there was this "white stuff" on it, but i knew it was just thermal paste, you should be able to get most of it off with a q-tip and maybe some alchohol.

Unless you keep your comp on the beach with a salty breeze that goes in your comp :P
 
spacedude89 said:
oh no, that "corrosion" was probley the thermal paste use to transfer heat from the processor to the heat sink. i know that after a while it can look kinda icky... you need to go and get some artic silver from a computer store and reapply it...
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Exactly what I was thinking, "Oh no". You can damage the processor if you get rid of thermal paste. :eek: You might want to keep the computer off, go get some thermal paste, apply it, then use the computer.
 
spacedude89 said:
oh no, that "corrosion" was probley the thermal paste use to transfer heat from the processor to the heat sink. i know that after a while it can look kinda icky... you need to go and get some artic silver from a computer store and reapply it...
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hmmm... 23 minutes after i posted,.. someone says the same as i did :P
 
real corrosoin doesn;t need liquids, it'll corrode over time from the air, rust is what goes very fast with liquids, like water.

Many of my old Neo-Geo arcade games are like this, the game cartridges them self, the pins are corrodeg, and same with the pins on the motherboard into the cabnet.
 
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