Magnets and My Various Cords

[Gileotine]

Evening folks, simple one for you today.

 

I know nothing about magnets and electronics other than they muck them up when held too close. My new monitor, the a 23" Asus LCD, has a magnet on it's stand base for.. reasons. No idea why. It has a paperclip symbol that I assume lets people.. put clips on it. I dont know.

 

Anyways I have a -very- small desk, and my keyboard cable and my mouse cabled who are of the master race braided variety pass over this magnetized zone if I'm not pinning them away somewhere. 

 

The question is would a magnet eventually screw up something in these cords, or am I right as rain.

 

-Greyson

[blackadder]

No, way to weak of a field.

[Gileotine]

Thanks guys. :3

[slightlyjaded]

The reason magnet's screw up computers is because old school platter hard drive store data in the form of a magnetic/electronic field You start flipping those 1's and 0's and your going to have issues. Old CRT screens were susceptible to them as well (temporarily) If you avoid placing a magnet near your hard drive then you're fine.