THIS MIGHT SAVE YOUR COMPUTERS LIFE

The guy in the vid has funny eyebrows :D but I dont think their a hazard. The carpet isnt deep pile, I think he'll be ok

Ive heard static damage is not always absolute, it can just reduce stabilty, etc which is a pity if your overclocking.

Either way I just ground myself on the case while its turned off at the socket but plugged in. Also hold the component with two hands or two fingers along the edges and you wont contact any circuit anyway
 
Memory is the only thing that used to be really sensitive to static. Most of the expensive modules have shields on them anyway.

That guy is a bit (thumbs up icon) (sarcasm icon)
 
My housemates recently tried to kill some memory (long story) by attaching it to a PAT tester and jabbing it with the 4000v probe. After much sparking the machine still booted fine.
The only thing which eventually killed it was jamming a screwdriver onto the voltage controllers.
 
Building a PC is easy. It's like LEGO Technics!

All you have to do to stay safe is ground yourself once in a while. Now unless you're wearing your best nylon tracksuit and have occasional irresistible urges to moon walk on your carpet you wont need to discharge that often.

What was the point of the video?

SiriusB
 
As a system builder/technician for a magor PC manufacturer i build around 30+ PC`s a week. I never use a static wristband, hardly ever really have any hardware failings and when i do they just go back.


BUT !

When im at home messing with my PC i always stick the ol`wristband on and if im removing anything it always goes straight onto my anti-stat mat.

In work i can always get another piece of hardware of the shelf, at home i have to RMA. So tbh spend £8 on a wristband. Just in case.
 
daven1986 said:
wow you are an a-hole. why should companies have to pay for your retardedness? just spend the £5 and get a band. i always use one.

daven
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Lol, these companies make millions of pounds it's not going to make a difference if someone sends one component back because the company didn't shield them from static.
 
ooEy said:
As a system builder/technician for a magor PC manufacturer i build around 30+ PC`s a week. I never use a static wristband, hardly ever really have any hardware failings and when i do they just go back.
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The main reason why i would never buy a pre-built system from PC Moon. ;)
 
If I'm doing a quick swapout or installation then I just touch the side of my PC case with it still plugged in. If I'm doing a major upgrade then I work on it beside a radiator that I touch off every few minutes. I've never had a problem from static and I've been working with computers for the last 10 years.
 
what dum guy, he flashed his X800 Pro to an XL, yeah he gets more pipelines but his core runs slower :rolleyes: If he knew something about his card he could have flashed it to an XT/ or a 16 pipe Pro
 
I just put the PSU in first and connect it to the wall (leave plug turned off of course...) that way the entire case is earthed and so am I whenever I touch the case.
 
NathanE said:
I just put the PSU in first and connect it to the wall (leave plug turned off of course...) that way the entire case is earthed and so am I whenever I touch the case.
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true say
 
If you are using a wrist strap, then make sure its connected via a 1meg resister, it really isn't a great idea to be directly connected to something earthed.

Also, if you wrist strap plugs in to a power socket, be sure to plug the pc in but leave it turned off, you want to be the same potential as the PC chasis, as well as the ground itself
 
I bulit around 300 PC's 2 years back, none with any form of static protection. We have had no failures.

TBH, it used to be the case that components were very static sensative, but it not so much the case anymore. So long as you discharge yourself before hand and don't rub your feet around on the carpet, whilst being careful when you handle the components it should be fine.

Infact, what I see a lot of people do which you shouldn't is putting components on top of antistaic bags. They are antistatic on the inside, but not the outside. If you are being anal over anti static, you should move them straight to an antistatic matt.
 
I can remember back in the early days of Atari ST's I had a mate who wanted half a meg of memory installing and I told him it was very easy. He said if he opened the Atari he would break it and it transpired that he had ruined remote controls, toasters, calculators, digital watches etc just by touching them. He also never shook hands with people and that became a problem when he became the owner of an Engineering firm.
 
Adam_151 said:
If you are using a wrist strap, then make sure its connected via a 1meg resister, it really isn't a great idea to be directly connected to something earthed.
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I got an offical eighties BT static strap that I nicked off my landlord who was a telephone engineer bloke, no resistor just a strap and cable with crocodile clip
 
:) never used anti static protection, never lost anything due to static.. okay okay i know its luck of the draw but to be honest just reading through this thread there isn't exactly an abundance of people who have blown components due to static. Lol i just know somethings going to go wrong whenever I'm next inside my pc :p
 
marscay said:
wrist bands are for queers ...earth yourself and don't do any michael jackson moonwalks whilst working with your components and i think you'll come out the other end just fine :)
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So all the hundreds of thousands of people who spend their working lives assembling hundreds of computers are queers? Because they're required to use anti-static wrist bands along with other anti-static equipment as part of the job.

Nice assumption.

Myself, I've had an anti-static wristband for a while and found it no easier or harder to work with than grounding myself the traditional way. £5 ain't much to pay for an extra layer of security against static damage.
 
Captain_Slick said:
So all the hundreds of thousands of people who spend their working lives assembling hundreds of computers are queers? Because they're required to use anti-static wrist bands along with other anti-static equipment as part of the job.

Nice assumption.
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Woah, at least try and take his post seriously :rolleyes:
 
Never used one, worked on about 1000+ computer builds now, mainly with older generation hardware without on component death yet.

Yes they are a good safety tool, but if your radiator is earthed you can just discharge to an unpainted part of that before you touch anything, having your PSU plugged in but not on at the wall while touching the case does the same as a wristband, its just a case of knowing what you are doing and you can quite easily emulate its function.

If I did it for a living instead of charity work would I use one? Yes I would, if I was doing repairs on other peoples computers I would also use one. For function or appearance of being proffessional however you would have to decide.

I have never had an issue with static, and I have pushed sticks of ram around a new carpet before, five years on they still pass memtest. :p
 
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