If I had to get hosed, i'd want it to be a Tech YES Hosing.

HOLY CRAP your dads talking scared the crap out of me! I thought someone snuck up on me and then saw him fading in.

"I keep myself clean, why not keep the motherboards clean." Tech Dad the Wise

"It POSTs when the power switch is pressed on . Or else , it gets the hose again." -- Buffalo YES 😇

Just an idea, in the past when ive done this after the water wash ive shaken the the boards then dipped them in 90% IPA. My reasoning was it removes most of the h20, dries much faster and deters oxidation.

Old fashion! Back in 90`s, when I used to fix TV, VHS, Stereos, any electronic device and when they where dusty, this was the best solution to see better the problems for repairing. Thanks for bringing back those memories! You are the man!

Some pointers here. 1. Boards are cleaned in the factory with soaps and water. In fact a dishwasher and good detergent would be a very good combination. Dishes in the same machine would be acceptable but if you don't want to deal with potential issues run a cycle with straight up dishwasher detergent. This is great stuff and cleans a lot of crud up. Some formulations I have seen lately even clean up corrosion. 2. As mentioned before, keep any liquids away from components with capacitors or batteries in them. The charge if it arcs can either cause damage, or start fires if not careful depending on the solvent. 3. IMHO the older stuff is impressive if you can supplement older hardware with modern stuff, ie for storage an sata 3 SSD, and if the chipset is capable, a NVMe PCI 3 SSD. Tech though is moving at light speed it seems and as such, I expect that PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and USB4 will be coming soon to consumer platforms. AMD is pumping out some impressive parts that are beginning to challenge the leaders of 2019 and as such don't expect Intel and nVidia to sit back. In the next few years I think that we will see both massive performance increases while prices are held in check due to real competition. As such, at this point the i3 10320 from Intel for example is a 4 core, 8 thread processor and that is faster than the older 4 core, 8 thread i7 processors on the older platforms. Given this, be careful as something newer with better support may be a much better value for money than used parts.

So Brian, I need to thank you. I had an old Gigabyte Z68 board, that I just could not get to boot. Nothing worked, been trying for months. Nothing worked. So yesterday, I took it upstairs, removed the cmos battery, and washed it under a hot shower head, with a stiff paintbrush. It's dried overnight, and right now, it's currently installing windows!!!! Who would have thought?? Fantastic. Thanks for the informative channel. Keep up the good work. Thanks again Brian.

I've been doing this for 15 years and I love when someone is there to see it. I use distilled water though, not tap water. Tap water has heavy metals, but I've wondered if matters. Apparently it does not. I had a guy run up to me from my alley saying I'm ruining my shit. But nothing has ever stopped functioning that was not already damaged.

My dad taught me about washing motherboards back in the early 90s. (On an old 386/25) Been keeping em clean like that for decades now. Have many old mobos packed away in their boxes now, but they still work. Kept clean and with gentle handling, they last.

love the techyesmusic , Synthwave for life , and the voice of your dad!

Good content man! Glad to see another can Tech Yes Fix it video on the channel again 👌🏼👍🏼 keep up the good work bro 👍🏼

So much work behind these videos. Thanks.

To ensure a clean dry, I would wash the motherboards in water, as you did, then submerge them completely in Isopropyl alcohol to pull the water off. The alcohol will then more quickly dry the board completely, and pull off the contaminates from the tap water.

Hey! I also do this procedure for years, here's some tips: 1) Tap water isn't as conductive as people think it is, as long as you dry everything, you should be fine without too much residue. 2) You can use soap to help clean better, it's fine as long as you clean it off properly with water later. 3) You can use a teethbrush as an easy tool to clean it, just DONT BRUSH TOO HARD, GO GENTLY, if you go too hard you can tear SMD components off the board (ripping also their trails/pads) 4) I don't recommend spraying the board later, those sprays (such as WD-40) create a sticky coat that all it does is attract dust to it and causing it to malfunction later

5:13. Dadman with pearls of wisdom.

I see this video yesterday and you give a idea regarding to take out the bios chip a clean the pins, thanks Byran I do it today!

Fatality seems like a fitting name for that Asrock board seeing you have so many of them there . that name would make me cautious of buying it .

Love the content mate love seeing your videos

Where you cleaned up the pins on the bios chip, you could use the same fix which gets batteries to work in old electronics. To remove the layer of corrosion give it a rub with some vinegar. I've fixed loads of items doing that, including ones where the batteries leaked.

Spotted that Gen 1 x58 DXSO!! Same board I did that x5675 video we talked about!!👌👍Thanks for sharing those nuggets with us B!! 🙏

MAD MAN is back!! Dude. Mad Man is part of your brand. Keep playing bits of other tracks, but know that this song is the soul of the channel. I have spoken.

I learn a lot of useful tips from this channel!

Something to keep an eye on because i had it happen when washing a board in the past but the water pressure from the sink can bend the pins back if u let the water run directly on the socket without the plastic cpu cover

I've had some success doing this in the dishwasher with no soap, just rinse program! My current htpc was dead when I found it in a dumpster, took mobo out, dishwasher then rinsed in 87% alcohol. Hung to dry 24 hours, still going strong 3 years later.

Haven't even finished the vid and have to say, glad to see the dad man again. Does he come up with these epic lines on the spot?

Honestly it really depends on what you're trying to clean. For small stuff that just needs a bit of extra shine alcohol and some qtips and paper does the job. For bigger stuff I just usually give them a wash in my bath tub. Other than that while I don't recommend this to ANYONE, I have in the past cleaned power supplies with water. That said to do so I had to open them up and discharge their capacitors. I come from an electronics background and unless you are also comfortable working with high voltages please don't attempt this. Love these videos YES, keep it up

Watching this in 2-22-21 on a 775 core 2 quad 2.66 w Asus P5N-D ...has been a good board so far for me using it as a desktop in an antique atx FT case with a Hd 7670 graphics . I game with some old Win 95-8 games. Love your content Bryan

Hy Brian, I am an electronics expert al my life and I would suggest you a couple of things 1e After washing your boards with water wat is fine please dompel them completely under in isopropanol alcohol to get rid of all the moisture and let them dry. 2e Don’t use spray for protecting the boards, there is no need for it. Your circuits are low voltage so every form of electrical resistance will lead in unpredictable behaviour because of the high current some components need. (voltage drop) 3e Check if there are no leaking capacitors by pulling one critical cap out of the board and measure it with a good quality capacitance meter. As you know there are a lot of VRM circuits on the board for every type of device (ram. cpu, chipset, etc…), also ceramic types included. (they are truly Chinesium rip-offs) 4e Measure the voltage rails after all the vrm’s on the board with a quality scoop to check the noise level. I think this is a first must wat is easily to do. Good luck, I like your channel.

Love it ! getting down to the nitty gritty!

Oh man, I tried the aussie export multi purpose spray on a family friends build yesterday, I was sceptical of how good it would come out looking, but after using it I'm a believer, this stuff is amazing!

Hey hey Brian, happy new year! Long time viewer and love the yes tech channel. I got a suggestion for a video. Ryzen 3000G vs an older CPU in a similar spec’ed system. Just to see if it’s worth while getting an upgrade to it or stick with a price/perf PC?

My 7 year old ASUS P8Z77-V has the exact same issue, if I touch the RAM in it, or just move the board, it stops POSTing and I have to play swap and try with RAM sticks for hours to get it to POST again. This board is amazing though, it was my first PC build in 2013 and it has died 3 times so far, RMA'd twice for "fan spins for a split second and repeat without post", PSU killed it once, repaired out of warranty finally, and it still works to this day as my backup system :D

Might be a silly question but where do you get the motherboard display stand?

EXTREME Tech YES Lovin WITH WATER! Can YES fix them? Yes! YES can fix them!

This video makes me proud of my name. It really works and works a LOT to wash motherboards by the way, the same goes with GPUs. Highly recommendend

Good work bud, nice content.

Love the content. Keep up the good work! As fast as a good, cheap pc case goes I recently found and purchased a rosewill spectra x blue mid tower case with four fans already installed for only 34.99!!! I kick myself for not buying a second one. I'm currently building inside it and its awesome! It has room for either a 360mm rad in the front (I'm installing the thermaltake C360 DDC in the front of my case) or a 240mm rad on top (although I'd pair it with a MOBO that's at least a little shorter than the asrock X570 steel legend wifi that I'm installing...or if go with low profile ram you can still put a ATX MOBO in it) It's an incredible value if you can find it at the 34.99 USD I paid. It currently costs the regular 69.99 USD price but I'm hoping to continue to watch thre price on it and the second it drops back down to 34.99 I'm buying at least one or 2 more to do more builds!

Hi! Just wanted to ask, what multipurpose spray are you using, Thanks!

Sonic cleaners use warm distilled water solution with some detergent to clean electronics parts. So warm water and dish soap could do the job. I remember in the late 80's and early 90's, I used warm water from the tap and dish soap to clean two original IBM keyboards. And it worked fine and if you want to remove water faster after rincing. I dip the two keyboard in a bath of 90% isopropolic alcohol. This will chase the water and help after with the drying process. Can do the same for boards, wash them, dip them in 90% isopropolic alcohol and next place in the oven at a set temperature to help evaporate the alcohol for 10 to 15 minutes. Voila! You have a clean board.

For the mb's that have dual bios - maybe try swapping the bios chips in the opposite socket. Making the back-ip bios becoming the main bios and main bios the backup bios to see if that might make a difference.

I recently bought a x399 board which was used in LN2 overclocking and it was so covered in vaseline that i had to use some mild soap. Worked perfectly afterwards.

Hey thats my h97 fatal1ty motheboard. 6 years and still works fine with xeon E3-1231v3 and 750ti. Gonna buy 1660super soon.

This really looks fun to do....I wish I had a load of old boards and components to play with to do this lol...anwyay congrats with the water washing

I have some thermal paste in my socket of a mother board I dont know how to get out. I love your videos man they are always good to watch and learn stuff from you. The old man talking about the mother boards with the subliminal style messagins really cracked me up lmao, I also have an asrock mother board for an am3 chip i bought a while back, if you move the pc while its on it shuts off. If someone bumps my desk it shuts off I checked all the chords the ram and everything was plugged in i unplugged and plugged everything but the chip back in and it still did it. Im glad to see you shine some light on this mystery for me.

When I thought I can't do nothing more to bring MB to life, this video was recommended to me. Will try this method :)

Some things to consider as well, at Least wear rubber bands around your wrists to minimize damages done by static shock. Also, a good nice large Anti-static mat or even a Equivalent bin to protect them from just being on a Bare surface or even the floor, I really believe you may have better success rates.

I'm commenting before watching the video. Yes you can clean any pc component with water, hose (low pressure obviously), i've done it dozens of times, just make sure to let it dry for a LONG time, like5-7 days to be sure. oh and try to get as much power of the capacitors before washing

I'm giving my nearly departed stereo the side eye right now. I swapped for it as a favour and the chance of it being an upgrade power wise if I managed to fix it. All the horizontal boards were caked in years of dust and it had what sounded like typical shorted speakers. Cleaned what I could with alcohol and a number 6 watercolour brush and it worked! It sounded awesome, the display came back to life, the buttons did what the labels actually said... for one glorious day 😅. I was gonna try and find a shop to fix it but then I remembered this video! I think it might be time for a full stripdown and hosing for my venerable Panasonic!

Here in RP washing motherboards thru running water with liquid dish washing soap is quite effective. We use half an inch paint brush not toothbrush. After the rinse, we put em directly under the sun for about 30 mins. Then changing its postion every 30 mins for 3 hours. This is assuming a sunny weather. We have a ratio of 4-5 out of 10. The rest would be bios, mosfets or crystal related issues. Some needs BGA rework.

im soo glad to see dad man again its been a while hope hes doing gr8

ahhhh yes love the 80s electronic music while you work on those motheboards

amazing video as always

Loved the music it had sucha velvet acid christ thing going on with it, i hope you continue with it brother. seriously amazing

Just got myself rx570. Few month back I'm hesitated to buy this gpu but thanks tech yes city for making video about budget build. I'm truly satisfied with my current build.

you should try BIOS flashing the ones with fans spinning, trough the backflash feature on most higher end boards... I have rescues quite a few this way

Hey Bryan, where do you get your thermals pads for mobos and gpus from?

Another great video Bryan! I like the nzxt h500 series for a good case if I'm adding rgb myself, otherwise I go with DIYPC cases which are typically under $60 USD.

Had a nice "lesson learned" when cleaning my ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard. Make sure the CPU or socket cover is in place!!! I had some thermal paste that had gunked up around the socket edge, so I took an absorbent cleaning cloth and gently started cleaning close to the socket. Then the cat arrived and I turned for a second...then looked back to find that about a 1/2 inch square of the cloth fiber had hooked itself to the pins. Holy moly...disaster. I did not know what to do at first. I set it down as best I could and started to ponder...how the hell to separate this mess? I got out a BIC lighter...and burned the fibers that had hooked themselves. IT WORKED! I was fast with the flame, so as not to screw up electronics or solder. It was a scary time. All is well with the board.

One idea for you on the badly bent pins is to use a micro-torch to heat them first, this will help prevent them from snapping off. Yes, it is risky but with a dead board there is no harm done.

Hey Bryan. I gave you an Asus P55 motherboard when I came to visit. Maybe it's the one that you fixed. Same southbridge heatsink. I also gave you a Gigabyte ITX board which was not in your review today. Keep up the good work. Peace out for now. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane

Brian.. I've been washing electronics since I was a kid back in the seventies and I design and repair them also. All you have to do after washing give a thorough drying with high heat and you are good. Say, I've been doing this before you were born

Used to wash and scrub my boards in the early 2000s, toothbrush in the sockets will clean them right out. give them ample time to dry and they are good to go!

We washed and soaked our motherboard for like 1day in water and dry it by putting under sun light, it was back in 2003 or something like that. And boom it got fixed.👌🏾 Still remember those awesome days 🤩

When I saw the title of the video I was thinking is this a click bait wherever I click it lol But it wasn't.

Had to find this video to say I doused a totally dead Gigabyte Z77 motherboard today (wouldn't even power up let alone POST) with brake cleaner, let it dry and hooked it all up... Working perfectly! Would have never given this a go without you Bryan 😂

We used to wash our TV boards at Magnavox years ago, because we could not legally dispose of the solvents we used to use. We used a dishwasher and de-ionized water.

Heck yes to the Dad Man remix and Tech Yes-urrection of some failed motherboards!

Bryan.If you get a motherboard that doesn't work and you get it to work again.Do you run intensive quality control programs?Like Aida64/prime95 heaven benchmark etc before flipping it?And what's the return rate?

Well, I just tried the All purpose spray from SupercheapAuto on some old pc's, and it's amazing! I trued wd40 in the past but these are not the same composition. Thanks Brian, Tech Yes lovin' is spreading!

Love the mixing of Dad in. Golddddd

Feeling fresh just watching this.

@Tech YES City hey i have a Question, i have a Motherboard whose previos owner was a smoker, and the Board is pretty yellow, the PCI slots where white before. what can i do to get them white again? sorry for my english, its not my main language =)

Hey, man, please be more careful with that water getting in the CPU socket. I had a LGA 1156 Motheboard at some point and I bent some pins by cleaning it under a hose (no high pressure). It was a pain to bend all those pins back. I never got them exactly the way they were supposed to be, but it eventually (after a bunch of back scratching) ended up working again.

Should try replacing the CMOS batteries, I have known them to be the most common post failure

I wouldn't mind a 10 hours video of Tech YES Loving™ with some retro wave tunes.

@16:00 ... well, somewhere around that point. Another explanation... It could be a few cracked solder joints on the memory slots or under some chips, due to the board flexing (maybe too heavy cooler or video card putting pressure on the board, or the guy hitting the computer multiple times causing mechanical stress). A bit of flux and a soldering iron on the solder joints of memory slots takes 10-20 min of your time. It could also be some oxidized contacts in the slots. One trick i learned is to fold a strip of copier paper 2-3 times to get it thick enough and then slide it across the memory slot to rub the surface of the paper across the metal contacts.. the paper surface is abrasive enough to break off oxides and crap that may be on the contacts. Erasers (rubber, pink stuff on crayons) and fiberglass brushes (google it) are used on pins like the ones on DIP bios chips You probably did it in part two, but did you try programming the bios on some of those boards? You got one asrock board working, take bios chip from that and use it with the others? Also, for those boards that don't work, why don't you use a multimeter to see if there's some mosfets shorted or not? 10 minutes of research on KZfaq will tell you how to test mosfets and regulators. A hot air gun and some flux can be enough to desolder a damaged mosfet... so you could desolder a good one from one bad board and transplant it on another to get one of two boards working (if that's the issue)

Hm..i was wondering....that multipurpose spray..is it ok to put it over naked chipset? When you want to put thermal paste on it..is it ok? Does it not matter that the chip ia not completely degreased and cleaned?

My recommendation for a good budget RGB case with a clear side panel as well as great cooling and easy to work in would be the Cooler Master H500

I'm going to try this now. My old fm2 Mobo gave out after lightning strike,( boots up but no display),now I m stuck watching vidz on the phone which is also ancient ( Nexus 5).

Best budget case Cooler master lite 5, used it for a build and loved it.

Done this many times without any problems. Drying the boards etc at 50C in the oven with hot air to make sure all moist is gone. Repeating this over a couple of days as moist might be trapped inside the boards. Be careful with higher temps as the solderings and plastic will melt :)

I thought I was watching an episode of "They Live" for a second! 😂

This is how I spend my Saturday night

What are the contents of the multi purpose spray and where can I get it? I have a dead 1151 socket motherboard and would like to try my luck with water cleaning.

In the US, DIYPC is the go to off NewEgg not any case in specific as they frequently go out of stock, but they've all got Tempered Glass at ~$40 with great build quality and looks, HIGHLY recommended.

I’ve never considered using water myself but I have dropped gadgets in water. Shut em off then turned em on later and they worked.

Hi. Can you tell us what kind of liquid are you using for washing boards and what kind of multipurpose spray ? Thanks.

You need ultrasonic bath to clean components spotless 😉 Its called oxidation, aluminium does not rust, but still can oxidase

Hey Brian, YET another great one to bookmark! NOTE RE Cheap & Decent Case Ideas; Deepcool MATREXX Series Cases, can be purchased with or without ARGB. See if they're available around you? I bought one several months ago (on a lark), for my son's build, I was MORE than impressed with the materials, rigidity, stability & overall quality - compared with the Corsair (ie 100 series @ about the same $ USD), NIGHT & DAY!!! More like working with a top Series Corsair Case, feels more like 500D! Anyway, this was my original impression, so I'm still buying them. Specifically the Matrexx 55 models, decent size and fitment. the Cougar M3xx Series are also decent, yet (imho) don't "Feel" as solid, as far as materials. Keep up the good work!!! See you in the next one ;)

9:50 I just had this happen to my Optiplex 9020 SFF. It was working fine and then I swapped the SATA cables because the boot drive has to be on SATA0 (learnt from your videos). I'm crushed but I'm glad I found out the reason. edit: Just discovered the real reason. I'd pulled the boot SSD out of the PC to use in another PC to flash the BIOS to the latest version, then put the SSD back in. For some reason, pulling a RAM stick out or putting one back it would allow the PC to boot that one time, so I used that to flash the BIOS on this PC, too.

DAMN THOSE MOBO ARE SHINING, SO SATISFYING TO WATCH

We actually steam cleaned circuit boards at REI. I would strip keyboards and then blast them clean at our outdoor steam station listening to the roar of the crowd at Texas Stadium in Irving long ago.

I have seen you use that multipurpose spray. What spray is that exactly that provide protection to the motherboard circuit?

Bryan the necromancer! Brings back PC parts from the dead!

Tech yes has taught me greatness doesn't happen overnight

18:00 For some scenarios _(but not all as it won't work in other scenarios),_ it is possible to anneal such a pin with an ESD safe soldering iron tip by cooling the plastic around it first, then heating the pin in question with a hot-air-gun _(before the soldering iron, momentarily)_ and using a thermocouple to keep the temperature stable. Create a small heatshield _(e.g. a glued-ring of trimmed-headless matchsticks or card coated in fire-retardant)_ around the pin _(restricting convection current of the air)_ to localise its heat dissipation, and so an extra thermocouple _(e.g. via 2 multimeters)_ on the outside will show the difference in temperature compared to inside. Use a heat camera if you can, and helping-hands clamp. Be prepared though that reflowing an entire socket _(such as that which is salvaged from another mboard)_ might be the only way to solve such MBoard woes, if at all. If however, you have annealed the pin successfully, you could have a better chance of bending it back into shape without it snapping. A slow cooling should anneal it. Good luck! This info should help you but don't bork your mobo, guys! Still, if you repair a $50 Mobo for $5, it might be worth it. This comment does not constitute medical advice. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love.

Hey hi, what you think if I add non conducting grease into the socket before clean

i had this old pc stored in the shed from a flood. it did turn on but after about 2 days of use it decided to not work. i washed it and made sure it dried before use. doesnt post anymore. do you think there will be any chance of revival?

18:20 I have broken pins EXACTLY like that, it was when I delidded my 8700k and TRIED to use Liquid Electric Tape adhesive to put the IHS bck on. I let it cure in my Rockit 88 for 32 hours, and carefully lifted it out of the tray by the IHS, nd once I opened my socket, the IHS came unglued and slipped put of my fingers and landed corner directly onto 5 pins, bent them so bad that They BROKE with very careful rebending to try to fix them. As a result, I have an extra ASRock Z370 Fatal1ty Gaming K6 that is missing 2 pins an will not boot. It is very pretty on my wall at least!