thermal grease on wrong side i7

In my own stupidity i got thermal paste on the wrong side of my i7 CPU, so its on the gold plated parts. Gladly my computer didnt short but it couldnt find the CPU on startup. Any suggestions on how to clean the paste off the CPU?

In my own stupidity i got thermal paste on the wrong side of my i7 CPU, so its on the gold plated parts. Gladly my computer didnt short but it couldnt find the CPU on startup. Any suggestions on how to clean the paste off the CPU?

JasperTech

You did what?!

You might need to clean it with Alcohol .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010&Tpk=thermal%20grease%20remover

ummmm,its probably ****ed!

Try using cleaning alcohol to get it off but dont get your hopes up.

Eek, probably died.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010&Tpk=thermal%20grease%20remover

Recontrooper

Nice suggestion....I agree..... To the [TC], if you go to this link provided, and you should at least check it out, Read down a few of the reviews on this stuff. A couple of guys give some very informative info on it's use....Sorry for your miscue...:(......hope you get it corrected....

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How did you do this? Im curious.

IDK. Clean chip with alchohol. Remove all sources of power from the MB for the sake of paranoia and then apply alchohol.

OMFG. Are u serious? let me know what happened. How could you just put a thermal on pins. OMG :shock: