Static Electricity

[gts250ftw]

Hey guys (austin evans voice)

I was wondering how many of you actually lost pc components to static electricity?

i never cared about it when building a pc and it has never affected me (yet)

when i was younger i built my first pc with an msi k9 (am2 board) it turned out that it was shorting on the pc case because it DIDNT USE STANDOFFS LOL and that pc is still working today

another instance is in my second build...i built it on carpet (somtimes dragging the mobo across the carpet to me) and it worked fine

in my opinion pc parts are pretty resilient (who hasnt straightened out a pin on their amd processor with their hands) (no pushpoint pencil handy)

[helping]

I doubt you'll find anyone here

 

it's like the shark attack of PC building

 

And that's for someone not in Australia, Florida, Hawaii, or Australia. 

[Fred Castellum]

Nope never here. 

[Ruostunut kokis]

I doubt you'll find anyone here

 

it's like the shark attack of PC building

 

And that's for someone not in Australia, Florida, Hawaii, or Australia. 

Is that so terrible in Australia that you had to mention it twice? :lol:

 

On topic: Nope. Never lost anything to static electricity.

[Phllips]

Nope i think its getting less and less likely with modern parts. its like the old magnetic problem 

[Charger]

nope i have only lost parts to the failure of other parts and age but never static. I lost 3 video cards to a shuttle barebones system i bought off someone lol and a few hard drives after years of abuse and a mother board to the Capacitor plague.

[MajorChipHazard]

Nope. Never here.  

 

This one time me and my buddy wanted to take apart his old laptop just for the hell of it to see how crappy and dirty it was inside, without any care in the world if we put it back together properly and having it work again.

It was, very, crappy and dirty.  It wasn't until I was putting the screws back in that I didn't lose that I saw a shock come off of one of the screw tips onto the motherboard, then a little crackling sound.

 

I then realized I had taken the whole thing apart, twisted things around, poked things with a metal screwdriver and everything all with the battery plugged in!

 

Well, that laptop still works to this day, and we call it Frankenstein.

 

Not exactly static, but similar.

Most PC parts or even laptop parts are fairly resilient to those kinds of things.  But, you do get the odd "Oh noes! I zapped my 500$ GPU!!!" horror stories here and there.

[EmotionalSloth]

Nope, I don't tihnk it happens to a lot of people

[JR1911]

Never lost anything to static electricity, but I always do take reasonable precautions against it when I'm handling electronics.

[gts250ftw]

I guess its better to be safe than sorry. It'd be awfully sad if someone loses a component to their own carelessness.

Can components damaged from static electricity be returned if it is covered by warranty? (is there a way to determine how it was damaged?)