My PC electrocutes me when ever I touch it.

[carlo_tabungar]

PC case give me shock treatments whenever I touch it, as well as the usb ports. All metal parts actually. Please help me.

[eeeee1]

make sure it is grounded

[wall03]

is it turned off?

[mail929]

Are you posting this from beyond the grave? Joking aside, make sure your motherboard is not directly touching the case at and that all wires are connected properly. It should go away if you unplug it from the wall, if not there is something really weird going on.

[TetraSky]

You have a grounding issue there.

I would suggest taking the power supply out of the PC. Does it (the case) still shock you? If yes, then maybe you added an extra standoff behind the motherboard, which is making contact with a power delivery trace or something like that. It could also be a bad cable somewhere. Unplug one by one until you find the culprit.

 

If the case isn't shocking you anymore but the PSU shroud itself still does, it means the PSU is either
a) defective or
b) you don't have grounding in your wall's power socket so there's no where for the extra current to go.

 

Regardless of the reason, it can and will damage your components if you let it happen long enough.

[Kanna]

Man glad you respawned after being eleectrocuted /s

[dizmo]

Stop touching it.

 

 

/solved

[carlo_tabungar]

25 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

make sure it is grounded

how do i do that

[carlo_tabungar]

22 minutes ago, wall03 said:

is it turned off?

yes

[Iszack]

I actually had this happen before, I installed a mobo standoff in the wrong spot and the mobo was touching the stand off, cause a grounding issue. I got lucky I did not dmg my motherboard. You may want to check into that.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, carlo_tabungar said:

how do i do that

Your outlet needs to be grounded.  Sounds like you're plugged into an outlet that doesn't have Earth ground.

 

This is a problem for PCs or anything with a switch mode PSU.

 

Even in Japan, where ground pins aren't common, the plugs have a ground wire that you can screw down to some thing metal to increase the ground potential.