I found mercury??? On my pc cover? How did it go on there? where did it come from?

[zaidh99]

So I wanted to do the regular pc cleanup, opened the side panel and there is something slipped on the table it acts like mercury not 100% positive and then I look at the panel and I see a bit on it I will attach pictures 

also its worth mentioning that I noticed some small little pieces seem to be broken 

plus that my cpu temp was going high yesterday 

here is the pieces 

and the weird thing is where the thing is on the panel has a block infront of it not the motherboard

like this

which is the power supply and I think the storage disks 

 

any idea what’s happening with my pc  I am very worried something exploded lol

[Naijin]

7 minutes ago, zaidh99 said:

So I wanted to do the regular pc cleanup, opened the side panel and there is something slipped on the table it acts like mercury not 100% positive and then I look at the panel and I see a bit on it I will attach pictures 

also its worth mentioning that I noticed some small little pieces seem to be broken 

plus that my cpu temp was going high yesterday 

here is the pieces 

 

and the weird thing is where the thing is on the panel has a block infront of it not the motherboard

like this

which is the power supply and I think the storage disks 

 

any idea what’s happening with my pc  I am very worried something exploded lol

Sure it's not thermal paste?

[jaslion]

If its mercury stop touching it!

 

Anyway that looks like thermal paste/a thermal pad. Actually sorta looks like a graphene pad.

 

Pc still works fine?

[Kilrah]

-> Moved to Teoubleshooting

 

It's not mercury since it would be liquid and make beads, plus there is no way you'd find any in a consumer device nowadays. Seems just like thermal paste/pad residue.

What you could find as malleable/melty metal is gallium if the machine used "liquid metal" as TIM, not dangerous at all and doesn't look like a machine that would though.

[Arika]

is your house in the middle of the arctic?

 

 

If that was actually mercury, it would not be solid and surely wouldn't smear.

[Tan3l6]

Looks like liquid metal like Conductonaut - https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/produkte/25-conductonaut - gallium and indium mix.

But howcome it would leak - no idea.

[zaidh99]

Okay now I sound stupid, I checked my thermal paste and I forgot that I had changed the type of it, grizzy is the same color!

my bad false alarm 

probably this was left since I added the thermal paste it wouldnt make sense other wise

Thanks all, the temperature rising probably coincidence with the heat where I live increasing I gotta get myself a new cpu air cooler 
 

[zaidh99]

Again want to thank all, to answer stuff

probably during implementing it some got in the cover without me noticing

 

It is indeed thermal grizzy product 

 

the pieces not sure what they are

the temperature increase for the cpu probably caused by ambient temperature + stock fan 

 

this place is awesome thanks for always informative and fast replies everyone

[zaidh99]

Just wanted to show some cool? thing

i tried to clean it off of the table and it just kept moving and it fill down on.m the ground.

ps its a pain to clean it

[mariushm]

Get some ice cubes from the fridge and cool it down, then you can lift it up with some paper towel

 

[jaslion]

33 minutes ago, zaidh99 said:

Just wanted to show some cool? thing

i tried to clean it off of the table and it just kept moving and it fill down on.m the ground.

ps its a pain to clean it

You should REALLY check your cpu, gpu,... wherever you put that paste on because if it did indeed leak it can short your pc as it is conductive.

 

Its why I just dont recommend liquid metal at all

[zaidh99]

26 minutes ago, jaslion said:

You should REALLY check your cpu, gpu,... wherever you put that paste on because if it did indeed leak it can short your pc as it is conductive.

 

Its why I just dont recommend liquid metal at all

@jaslioni cant see any trace of it around the whole pc motherboard etc, that thermal paste was used for my cpu, do you think its possible it leaked out without it leaving any trance on any part? Its just seems so unlikely it got to the side panel 

[jaslion]

Just now, zaidh99 said:

@jaslioni cant see any trace of it around the whole pc motherboard etc, that thermal paste was used for my cpu, do you think its possible it leaked out without it leaving any trance on any part? Its just seems so unlikely it got to the side panel 

That does sound like just spillage during application

[zaidh99]

7 minutes ago, jaslion said:

That does sound like just spillage during application

Okay thanks, I will probably get a better air cooling for the cpu soon so I will check it then and j will keep an eye to the temp

thanks a lot for the input

[jaslion]

32 minutes ago, zaidh99 said:

Okay thanks, I will probably get a better air cooling for the cpu soon so I will check it then and j will keep an eye to the temp

thanks a lot for the input

Yeah dont watse more on lm. I mean the 20$ that a vial costs could've bought you a thermalright cooler that would do better than the stock ever could

[zaidh99]

UPDATE:

 

I went to the shop to get a new fan to have better CPU temperatures and while they were removing the old fan, the fan looked half destroyed they applied this thing 
 

And it spelled over the fan and ruined it, not sure when that happened but I guess recently? since the temperature reached 95C
Now with a new fan and a real thermal paste everything is running good, max temperature of 62 C
Thanks everyone for tunning in