Anyone lost hardware due to static electricity?

[Thegonagle]

No, not the way I think you're looking at, but my mom has lost two modems and a sound card to lightning coming through the phone line.

 

[Mem]

Nope,if you`re really worried you can always strip naked to reduce SE and stick your foot on a radiator pipe that`s grounded .

 

[buleyb]

Not personally, but some of the hardware we use at work is super sensitive, and expensive enough to worry about it. I've seen some horrible wrecks from people that got careless. Then again, this isn't run of the mill PC hardware either...

 

[chocoruacal]

I haven't lost anything to static, but I did lose a motherboard and CPU to a power surge. The fooging thing was hooked up to a surge protector at the time too

 

[snidy1]

I fried my bios chip from not wearing a wrist strap

 

[minendo]

Never. I also have never used a static band or taken any other precautions.

Hell, I have had parts sit on carpet and other surfaces for months and they still work fine.

 

[MichaelZ]

Originally posted by: minendo
Never. I also have never used a static band or taken any other precautions.

Hell, I have had parts sit on carpet and other surfaces for months and they still work fine.

kudos for the latest hardware developers. :beer: they account for our laziness and ignorance.

 

[snidy1]

Originally posted by: minendo
Never. I also have never used a static band or taken any other precautions.

Hell, I have had parts sit on carpet and other surfaces for months and they still work fine.

That was me untell I fried my Bios chip

 

[PCTweaker5]

Never have, never will. (Spits on wood)lol

 

[vshah]

nope, and i've never taken the slightest precautions....
never had a part fail on me in 18 years of life/15 years of computers
so why change with that track record ?

Vivan

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: vshah
nope, and i've never taken the slightest precautions....
never had a part fail on me in 18 years of life/15 years of computers
so why change with that track record ?

Vivan

Impressive, assembling computers at age 3.

 

[Horsepower]

Recently I was putting my PDA in the cradle, and the static discharge went through the case and I saw the arc at the bottom connector. Scary, but everything still works fine.

 

[hytek369]

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
never from handling or static electricity. i am kind of careful, but not really. i just grab the stuff normally and dont always bother to ground myself on metal. but never lost anything. i HAVE however, lost 2 systems almost entirely to power surges into my PSU.

power surges suck. i have had problems with that in the past too

 

[pandiebeer]

I'm pretty sure I killed my old motherboard that way. I was super careless though when trying to install a video card. It doesn't matter though. It was an OLD socket 7, 500Mhz, that would only accept 256MB of ram. Buh-hye! My new one I am wicked overly precautios with. I got the static wristband and everything. I also don't try hooking stuff up after having a beer or on my lap.

 

[Maximilian]

Static? whats static?? That was my line of thought a few years ago when i tried to install 128 MB of sdram into my P4 which only took rdram. Needless to say it didnt fit so i tried shoving it into the old comp and suceeded in breaking the ram and half the ram already present in my old comp luckily noone knew enough about this sorta stuff to notice

 

[Abhi]

No. So far, so good.