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Seth8530 · 05-27-10, 12:24 AM

just curious to see if anyone here has actually managed to fry anything inside of their pc with an esd. Im asking because one time i was tidying up some wires in my trophy rig while it was running (yea... swell idea wasnt it?) and apparently one of the wires had a bare spot or something and it arced onto the interior of the case.

So i looked up at the screen and saw that it actually froze the screen. and made the pc completely unresponsive. Luckily one hard restart later and everything was golden... So is the risk of ESD death over talked? or am i just a lucky bugger

05-27-10, 12:24 AM	#1
Seth8530 Captain Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tennessee Posts: 546 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	Has anyone here fried a pc component with electro static discharge just curious to see if anyone here has actually managed to fry anything inside of their pc with an esd. Im asking because one time i was tidying up some wires in my trophy rig while it was running (yea... swell idea wasnt it?) and apparently one of the wires had a bare spot or something and it arced onto the interior of the case. So i looked up at the screen and saw that it actually froze the screen. and made the pc completely unresponsive. Luckily one hard restart later and everything was golden... So is the risk of ESD death over talked? or am i just a lucky bugger __________________