Shocked Motherboard

Apr 4, 2006
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I think i might have shocked my motherboard. It was a very light shock. One of my friends said if there is a screw hole around it, that it might ground it. This true? Do i still have a chance?
 

Aluvus

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Apr 27, 2006
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Was it in a case, on a table, or somewhere else?

If it was a shock you could feel, then from the perspective of a mosfet it is not a light shock.

But you may well still be fine. Motherboards can handle some level of ESD, depending on where exactly the discharge hit. There's one way to be sure, of course.
 

Navid

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If you felt a zap when touching your motherboard, you could have damaged it or it could be quite fine. It all depends on the path of the current.
If you are lucky, you touched the ground plane and the charge was dumped on the ground plane, in which case the motherboard will be just fine.
 

potato28

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Originally posted by: Navid
If you felt a zap when touching your motherboard, you could have damaged it or it could be quite fine. It all depends on the path of the current.
If you are lucky, you touched the ground plane and the charge was dumped on the ground plane, in which case the motherboard will be just fine.

... or you could've fried it like an egg...