Do you use an anit-shock wristband

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oregon

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When working on a computer, do you bother with the anti-shock wristbands or do you just touch the Power supply alot?
 
As long as you ground yourself to the case via touching it then your good. Wristbands are just so you dont accidentally forget to touch and the case and discharge your static build up on circuit boards and other sensitive parts of a computer.
 
Nope. I have an old PIII that i was trying to destroy via static but it was a no go. I even used a balloon and rubbed it on the ground and then touched it to the cpu. There was a spark but it still works fine to this day.
 
oregon said:
When working on a computer, do you bother with the anti-shock wristbands or do you just touch the Power supply alot?
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If you want one, without having to buy one... Make one! Just use a naked cooper wire around your wrist and a pair of alligator clamps wires to connect that to the case, and your safe!

Or just don't forget to touch your case before your electronics, like said above. ;)
 
ive never really worried about it. I usually touch the side naturally (like for a reason other than grounding) before i touch anything else (like to position the case).
 
I have one but only used it once when building my first pc. It was so restrictive and after seeking advice decided it was ok to not use it.

Built loads of machine now without it and never had a problem. I just discharge myself before hand and make sure I'm not wearing anything that could build up static or using a surface that would.
 
If we take a ram module. You might not "fry" the module by touching it. But you can certainly damage it, and in time it might give you blue screens because some cells in it can no longer hold data
 
some time ago, i read an article where they examined such a module in an electron microscope where they could see the holes the static electricity had made
 
nyhk said:
If we take a ram module. You might not "fry" the module by touching it. But you can certainly damage it, and in time it might give you blue screens because some cells in it can no longer hold data
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Agreed... except:

If we take a ram module. You might not "fry" the module by touching it. But you can certainly damage it, and in time it might give you blue screens because some chips in it can no longer transfer data

some time ago, i read an article where they examined such a module in an electron microscope where they could see the holes the static electricity had made
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Link? I seriously doubt this...
 
You don't nessecarily have to take out an entire chip. A single chip is made of many capacitors, you can damage a few of them, and the chip may function properly for some time, until you begin to see wierd things happening.

I don't have a link for that exact article right now, but just google the subject. There are many interesting articles about it
 
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