[gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:21 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? Use a pencil eraser instead. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. I used to use a pencil eraser to do that. It works pretty good just don't put to much pressure on it. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
Besides the fact consideration of why the contacts of the card are that dirty. A short exposure of rubbing alcohol will be okay. Dust the card off with compressed air or something similar. then use the cotton swab soaked with a little bit of the alchohol on the contacts in question On 9/12/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:21 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? Use a pencil eraser instead. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. Why don't you take out the PCI card for a couple of days, and see what happens? - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Servicios Ofrecidos: http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ Unase a los Foros GNU/Buanzo - La palabra Comunidad en su maxima expresion. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6JWBAlpOsGhXcE0RCllqAJ9k+Hrb+lZiNGyerVW17CS867tqEgCfVWdQ nKIytzxg3lGURko4UnCDPSM= =0aiA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
2007/9/12, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and clean it with the alcohol. Another thing...What do you mean by instability? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and clean it with the alcohol. Another thing...What do you mean by instability? Abnormalities in the video, and computer crashes when viewing tv. Without the card, no crashes. I have cleaned the contacts of the card (with an eraser) *and* chosen milder settings in the BIOS setup (for example, greater latency for memory) and now the card seems to work OK. I will test a little bit more. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:58:16 -0300 Ricardo Bevilacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and clean it with the alcohol. Most isopropyl , at least around here, is 70 to 90 percent alcohol. There is also some other stuff, and one of the most likely things to be there is water. While I wouldn't worry about using it co clean openly exposed contacts, make sure it is well dried and don't go applying it to sockets or wide areas of the components. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
