PC case – discharging static electricity
July 31st, 2016
Few days ago after a long time on work, I decided to clean my PC after a long time, and also it was time to set up new thermal paste.
But after 13 hours you don’t think anymore, I guess I did not because I didn’t take any precaution this time.
i.e. touching anything but mostly CPU directly without using anti static wrist band is really bad idea, what to say.
Anyway.
Now my PC won’t power on completely, of course since there is leftover of static electricity.
It will just restart and restart.
I don’t want to try to power it on anymore because I can’t afford frying anything.
Maybe sth is already dead.
Now, one guy at work that knows a lot I think about PCs said that I could do the next thing.
He said, use the wire and connect it to thing that I marked on picture bellow (1st pic) and then touch your PC case, that should ground the case and static should be discharged from it, sth like that:
Now.
Does anyone know some other idea or better, solution for it I could do, does anyone know about above thing I said.
If I’m going to use above thing, do I need to use the one that is directly on the wall, or I can just use the one on the extended power cord/cable, how is it called, this one on the pic:
What kind of wire – any wire that conduct, right; not isolated or isolated one, should I wear some gloves.
But that part doesn’t shock if you touch it as I know, right.
I hope someone will be able to help me.
I’m currently on some old friend laptop and I can’t use it forever.
Thank You all.
Best Regards.
Tex
I don’t think it has anything to do with static, problem is not as big as people claim it to be, components don’t fry that easily don’t worry. Just touching a metal surface will ground you (you can touch a metal part of the case or even your PSU and then do what you’re supposed to do – you might just have actually done those before touching the CPU anyway), what your friend said also works. There are other reasons that your PC might be restarting, could be a lot of things actually, maybe CPU or RAM is badly seated, could be temps (since it sounds like you already had a problem), maybe your PSU or mobo is dying. When is the restart exactly happening? Can you enter Windows? What did you change inside the PC exactly?
Ram is at its place, didn’t touch a thing about it.
CPU – I did removed it because so I can easier remove those really tiny leftovers of previous paste, and that is the thing since I wasn’t grounded at all at that point.
What my friend said work?, I can use copper wire right, I think that is the only wire I have.
Can I do this – turn off power, connect the wire with case and that metal thing, turn the power cord on, wait a little, turn it off and remove the wire.
Or I shouldn’t worry I will be shocked.
Maybe heat a little only because of dust since it was really dusty, but I could do 2 years more without any thermal paste like I did the last time.
But I’m going to use Handbrake that will work 20 hours per day, and here days are getting hotter and hotter.
That’s why new thermal paste is at its place.
It was all working fine before cleaning.
At the beginning, you press the power on button, it tries to start, and after 20 seconds it just restarts.
When cleaning the old thermal paste did some fall onto the MB? Did some of the new paste fall into MB?
What I do is screw copper wire to stove frame/ bare metal and wrap wire tightly around wrist. Make sure you’re NOT standing on carpet as lots of static from carpet.
No and no.
I usually use anti static wrist band, but as I said, long time at work, I didn’t think anymore.
Now it is too late.
I hope that connecting the wire using the method above will work.
Static doesn’t hang around or get left over, but of course it may have affected something at the time.
Follow what Jack said regarding precautions and re seat that ram and all other plugs etc that connect to the mobo.
Another thing to try is resetting the cmos by removing the battery for a while, moving a jumper or whatever needs to be done for your motherboard..
Resetting has worked well for me after some no boot situations following work on the motherboard.
If you can get into bios you could check your temps too..
( just in case the cooler is not contacting the CPU properly )
Due to having two plugs that lined up, and a case with led lights I presumed I needed an extra power connection through the mobo, which I didnt, fryed 1 spot on my mother board, as well as 1 spot on my graphics card.. I did everything else perfect, one out load connector to wrong spot fried 2 parts, they where fixed on warranty luckily.. Id say research if you did anything wrong, it could be both parts fried or not set up correctly yet..
Tough luck I guess, I done the same thing and fried my cpu and mobo.
IF it’s static then the damage is done and he’s wrong – discharging it now won’t change a thing.
However – most modern stuff is self-protected, even the CPU will tolerate a good jolt before dying.
It’s possible, but less likely than just a bad build – poorly seated devices, miss-wired connections, etc.
To my knowledge, fried is fried If a surge of electricity already destroyed a circuit, the electricity is already gone, and there is nothing you can do (except maybe find out what is damaged, like a capacitor, and replace it) Best test each part and salvage what you can