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Has anyone else killed their laptop with static electricity?

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My laptop recently died (RIP).

I shocked it previously with static electricity (I keep it upstairs and I tend to slide my feet when going upstairs) and it shut off, and then one night I shocked it again and it shut off, and it killed the CPU!

I'm just curious, has anyone else killed their tech with static electricity?

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must have had a bad shroud

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Nope the only thing pissing me off is my laptop having no "a" & "s" key + the windows 8.1/7 keeps forcing stickey keys on. urghhh

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It was plastic! (Dell m5030)

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iv done that before. It really sucks. It definitely gives you the:

"everything i touch gets ruined"

feeling dosnt it?

~Judah

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So glad that that one time I touched my monitor and it zapped it, that it didn't break it....

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Is it just a single hunk of metal or what? I've never even heard of that...

Help me I'm surrounded by morons.

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No, i have killed other stuff though.

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I fried the MOBO on my PC from static electricity. I live in Vegas where it is very dry all year, just getting out of bed every morning will leave you with a buildup of static electricity. I make a habit out of discharging that electricity before turning my computer on in the morning, but one day I forgot. My finger just barely made contact with my power button, which is grounded to my case, which is grounded to my wall outlet, but the static charge jumped and was powerful enough to briefly turn on all my fans and lights. My MOBO was dead though, but ASUS accepted it under RMA. Everything was fine though.

 

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Well I fixed it by putting the motherboard in the oven for ten minutes at 385. :D

 

http://imgur.com/a/aj2qd

well then that wasnt static electricity that killed it... that had to have been at least one solder point that was bad

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