Cleaning A2000 motherboard

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Unscrew the motherboard and remove every socketed chip, then you can soak it in normal-hot water with soap, get a stiff and soft brush and clean it in water. Let it dry for a couple of days or use hair dryer (be careful they can produce very hot air!). Hardware looks like new this way.

If there is green stuff around the battery area you need to neutralize it, there are various thoughs how to do it. Some people suggest using water combined with baking soda where the green stuff is but I have read other solutions, look up "how to clean car battery" for more inspiration reading about that.

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Believe me, I thought the same five years ago when someone claimed they cleaned their motherboard in water but it is safe, at least my A4000 motherboard still works  :-)

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You fill up a bath with hot water, add soap and scrub motherboard in it, take care not to scrub components to much. Then you dry it with a hairdryer so water disapears. Where is the danger? You expose motherboard to water for 15 minutes. More danger is a fried battery, even if you remove the battery small things will continue to eat away on the circuit board.

Off course you should not drop your Amiga PSU in the bath.

I just gave an A500 motherboard a proper wash yesterday, works like new today and motherboard is shining!

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I meant its a bit difficult to open up the PSU, I would not recommend submerging an Amiga PSU with shell and expect it to be dry in a couple of days. You also risk getting an electric shock, thats why I never play with open power supplies.

A hair dryer is very efficient, at least a proffessional one as we have here, it can dry hair (or electric equipment :-D ) almost instantly and offers both plenty of heat and plenty of air so water that sits tight under components get pushed out or dissapears into air.

Or you could use distilled water.