Hello all.
My friend called me a few days ago letting me know that after he cleaned up his PC with an air-duster can and a vacuum that it wouldn't turn on anymore.
Apparently he was pretty careful not to get too close with the vacuum and the air duster didn't shoot out any of its cold liquid. After a little research though I found out that his fatal mistake was probably unplugging the PSU during the cleaning and thus removing his only 'grounding'. Who would of thought unplugging the PSU from the wall plug would actually be a bad idea eh.. ? Well.. anyone that's smart I suppose
Anyway I tested his PSU on another computer and it ain't working so I'm having it replaced. I'm just wondering though how likely it is that it's only the PSU that got fried by the static ? I sure hope the rest of his components are ok but I have no way of testing those too for the time being. What are your thoughts on this ?
My friend called me a few days ago letting me know that after he cleaned up his PC with an air-duster can and a vacuum that it wouldn't turn on anymore.
Apparently he was pretty careful not to get too close with the vacuum and the air duster didn't shoot out any of its cold liquid. After a little research though I found out that his fatal mistake was probably unplugging the PSU during the cleaning and thus removing his only 'grounding'. Who would of thought unplugging the PSU from the wall plug would actually be a bad idea eh.. ? Well.. anyone that's smart I suppose
Anyway I tested his PSU on another computer and it ain't working so I'm having it replaced. I'm just wondering though how likely it is that it's only the PSU that got fried by the static ? I sure hope the rest of his components are ok but I have no way of testing those too for the time being. What are your thoughts on this ?