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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z
I've heard from many sources (some were actually reliable) that it works, but never been brave enough to try it myself.  |
I only knew it worked after I started building a fish-tank pc and misread 'mineral-oil' as 'mineral-water'. I had already submerged my motherboard with ram, fans, processor, and whatnot into 11 gallons of water. Luckily, I never applied the power, but I pulled it all, 'dabbed it dry with a clean towel, and put into cardboard box and place a layer of paper over it, then poured in 5 bags of rice and taped it up. A week later I pulled it and inspected the boards, contacts, solder points, and grounding slots and all were clean. I called my father (electrical engineer) and he said that I need to dump them again this time in distilled water as mineral water could have iron and other elements that would ruin the pc over time, if not immediate. I must have asked "really?" 10-12 times while on the phone. So, I re-filled the tank with distilled water and dropped it all in, making certain to give it time to allow any residue to break off. Then repeated the drying process I did earlier. To this day, that 486 still runs as a storage hosting using Ubuntu.