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Mouthwash on my computer.

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btgorman

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Yes. One of my niece/nephews poored mouthash into my desktop. Luckily, it seems that it only killed my 5670 video card.

Is there a safe way to clean it off so that I can repair my video card, or even the stuff on other components? The mouthwash alcohol free kind, if that matters.
 
Are you sure you even need to? Did it leave some sort of residue behind? Given the nature of mouthwash almost being a cleaning liquid in itself, if there isn't a sticky residue left behind, etc then I'd just make sure everything is dry and go from there.
 
yes, there is sticky residue. it got onto the card's pci express area. that might be what's making it malfunction computer wise, but i'm also worried about the fans.
 
In that case I'd recommend using Simple Green (cleaner) to wash the boards where the mouthwash left the residue. I've used Simple Green on lots of motherboards and it's also what I use to clean the insides of vintage stereos.

Spray it directly onto the board in liberal amounts, set it somewhere, and let it drip off and dry.
 
There are many things out there designed for this, they state that they are plastic/electrical safe, you just spray on and it takes off all oils and stuff that shouldnt be there, it evaporates in a hurry too. other then that people use acetone and isopropyl to clean off thermal past and stuff in computers.
 
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