THIS MIGHT SAVE YOUR COMPUTERS LIFE

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i wouldn't rub any components old or new on anything..just for the fact that the percentage of them getting damaged is quiet high.

and i think there is an average quota on how much the average person carries of static electricity.

and i remember that is quiet high so its not the smartest thing to touch your components while not grounded or simply discharged.
 
A few years ago when i was building my first ever P.C. i didnt know about places like overclockers so i drove to a store near me (this stores name rhymes with craplin). At the time they had a cracking deal, an AMD3000+ Barton core and Abit M7NCD mobo for £99. I asked a young spotty youth who worked there to fetch me this cracking bundle. So, off he shuffled along the synthetic carpet, opened the glass case where they keep the displays and grabbed hold of the motherboard which was on display. "whoah", i shouted," you shouldnt grab hold of a motherboard like that". He replied "why not?" I told him that he may have just fried it. shuffling along the carpet was bad enough but i think this lad was clad from head to toe in polyester. Needless to say it was the last one in the store and after speaking to the manager he told me if it doesn't work to bring it back for a refund. I went home put my rig together and powered her up and........nothing. Of course this was the last one in the shop so the manager gave me a £20 discount voucher because i had to drive 20 miles to the next nearset craplin store. The moral of this tale is ....strap up.

*No disrespect intended to any spotty youths who may read this.
 
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Been building PC's since I was 13, never used a anti static anything. Never killed anything either. All you need to do is stand still, touch something earthed and don't shuffle your feet!
 
OMG... I'm going to run to the shop now and buy one, I'm also gonna wear a welding mask while frying sausages in case some fat spits in my eye. :p ;)
 
don't be so stupid. of course you dont need a welding mask. a british standards certified pair of safety glasses will be sufficiant for sausages.
 
Like the thread, taken to doing any work in the conservatory, wood floor no carpet and a handy radiator to touch for discharge.

Only death of parts ive had at home was when I happily used a power drill to make a hole in the wall and laid it down still spinning on the dust sheet covered system unit. Oddly hard drive didnt work when I finished...coincidence or not :)
 
dont u think

i think someone should create a sticky on what not to do to your pc.
like what can cause your PC to break

or maybe a how to build a pc thread...since we already have one for how to overclock
 
Joe42 said:
I never bother with anti static wrist straps. If i damage something due to static, i'll send it back.
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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
 
And he places the components on the floor. lol! I have never used a anti-static wrist strap, built several machines, never damaged anything. As long as the PSU is connected to the mains, but switched off. Just touch the PSU every now and then.

ha ha ha he places the CPU on the carpet. What a ****! :rolleyes:
 
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heh, when i changed my mobo and stuff from the *cough* asus vento *cough* to my p180 i just left the bits lying around on the floor :eek: nothing happend to them.
 
NachT said:
You guys serusly don't use a wrist band to discharge yourself? The components your touching will definatly be effected, they may work ok now, but give them a few months and they'l probably give in
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What rot. Are IC's organic and decompose then? Our business is electronics repair. If you zap something you either kill it, or don't.
 
squiffy said:
What rot. Are IC's organic and decompose then? Our business is electronics repair. If you zap something you either kill it, or don't.
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Q-F-T

some of the stuff in this thread is priceless, and then they laugh it up at the youtube guy lol
 
some people have the right to laugh at him....i dont know about others that are rubbing components on carpet to see if they still work

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I've rubbed a whole load of old components along the carpet before to see if they'd break.
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squiffy said:
What rot. Are IC's organic and decompose then? Our business is electronics repair. If you zap something you either kill it, or don't.
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Someone who does not know all his facts!.

Electrostatic discharge can cause a current flow that is not significant enough to cause total failure, but in use may intermittently result in gate leakage causing software malfunction or incorrect storage of information.

Next time you are flying, just consider the above.

At Lucas we ALWAYS use anti static straps due to the above scenario, if a component always immediately failed when subject to ESD, then it would be detected during testing, but it's the partially damaged scenario you don't ever want.

The same applies to PC components, so always use an anti-static wrist strap.
 
nice

im glad to see some people agreeing with me on using a anti static band.

and that video is a prime example of how not to handle components or even build a computer.

he didnt even put thermal compound on the heatsink
 
my dad built over 400 pc's (for a living) and never used antistatic stuff, waste of money, only thing u shouldnt do is touch the pins or back of a cpu etc... but rest should be fine.


But i agree putting stuff on carpet like that shouldnt be done, also he used way too much force with gfx card and cpu...
Also LOL:'' this is where it gets tricky ''
 
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