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Originally Posted by FIREWALL
I didn't notice anyone else ask.
But, have you been wearing a ground strap or a least been grounded to case during the assembly ?
God I hope so.
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I can happily report that I tried one back in 1993 as a fasion statement (actually, was helping out a PC builder at the time for the day) - for about 2 minutes, before I ripped it off! Before and since then, I have never owned a ground strap and have yet to fry a PC component - in all the 10's of thousands of components I have touched (used to be in the PC biz for a while way back when), nor any of the 20+ PC's I have owned over the years.
Don't get me wrong, its good prevention against not thinking about grounding yourself out before touching things (simply touch the case of the PC you are working on, or if it is external components, work on top of an anti-static bag), but not neccesary after it becomes common practice to automatically grounding yourself prior to working.
Though possible, I think it would actually be hard to really fry a component with static electricity.
-S